Human remains discovered in creepy abandoned New Hampshire shed belong to ‘fugitive of the week’ sex offender: officials

The skeletal stays found in a creepy shed throughout from a New Hampshire state jail had been recognized as a wished intercourse offender, in line with officers and stories. 

Harmony Police obtained an nameless tip on April 21 that there was a skeleton within the ramshackle construction throughout from the jail. Officers responded and found the bones later realized to be Michael Schilz, 59.

“The physique of the deceased topic appeared to have been throughout the shed for an prolonged time period,” Harmony Police stated in a information launch.

It’s unclear when Schliz died or how lengthy his physique was within the seemingly deserted constructing. He had by no means been reported as a lacking particular person to Harmony Police, Deputy Chief Barrett Moulton advised the Harmony Monitor.

The bones had been delivered to Harmony Hospital and an post-mortem was carried out. On Monday, the stays had been recognized as Schilz, a homeless man and as soon as the New Hampshire Division of Corrections’ “Fugitive of the Week” in 2023 for violating his parole.

Within the 2023 posting, the Division of Corrections featured an image of a balding, bearded Schilz, carrying a clean expression.

The state intercourse offender registry lists the useless man, who was convicted in 2005 of aggravated felonious sexual assault on a minor, as dwelling unhoused in Harmony, in line with the Harmony Monitor.

Officers haven’t but recognized a reason behind dying.

The shed the place his stays had been found resembles one thing out of a Stephen King novel, each by its haunted seems and its darkish historical past. It sits dealing with North State Road surrounded by brambles and leafless timber. An outdated, crooked basketball hoop is mounted above the entryway close to a black-and-yellow “Warning: No trespassing” signal. The again faces onto a murky pond with splotches of algae. 

In 2005, the property the place the shed sits was the positioning of a deadly arson. The homicide by arson had been a chilly case till police made an arrest some 13 years later in 2018. Aside from the spooky shed, the property has been largely empty since, in line with the Harmony Monitor.

Staff at a therapeutic massage parlor subsequent to the property stated they couldn’t consider it after they heard concerning the discovery.

“We’re simply shocked and stunned,” an worker advised WMTW 8.