Detectives with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Homicide Unit are conducting a homicide investigation after someone’s skeleton was found in a wooded area in Charlotte, NC. On March 28, 2021, at approximately 10:36 a.m. the skeletal remains of a human body was discovered in a wooded area near Friendship Village Place in west Charlotte. This case is being investigated as a homicide.
Homicide detectives are working with the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner’s Office to identify the victim.
Click here to see how another human skeleton was found near Interstate 77 in 2019.
34-year-old Davida Safer was found dead between alleys in uptown Charlotte, NC.
Otis Watson, 60, was found dead behind a shopping center in a wooded area in 2019.
Sam Davis, 26, was found dead at Croft Community Elementary School in a wooded area.
Vatsla Watkins’, 39, dead body was found floating in Lake Wylie after she went missing.
