Crews renovating a west side Detroit home made a grim discovery Monday afternoon: remains buried behind a house. They are now looking at missing person reports to try to match the remains to a person.

DETROIT – The investigation into the human remains found buried in the yard of a vacant rental home on Detroit’s west side continues. The shocking discovery was made Monday at a home on the corner of Woodingham and St. Martins.

Police said human remains were discovered Monday at a home on Detroit's west side. A construction crew was working at the home in the 19700 block of Woodingham Drive, near Outer Drive, just off Livernois, at about 1 p.m. when they found what they believed to be partially buried, partially decomposed human remains in the backyard.

Human remains were found on Detroit’s west side on Monday afternoon, police said. Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson came face to face at the 2025 Golden Globes when Diesel took the stage to present the prize for cinematic and box office achievement to “Wicked.