Plenty of questions, but still few answers about a body found in the backyard of a home in Mobile Tuesday.
The body was discovered in the 2400 Block of Vaughan Drive North.
Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson said, "It appears we got a grave in the backyard here."
Police said they got a call about 8 am of a body buried at the home.
Tyson said, "The Mobile Police Department, with some assistance, is excavating a body in the backyard here."
Mobile Police Deputy Chief James Barber said, "It's a slow painstaking process, so that's what we're doIng now before they can completely excavate the area."
Police said the excavation turned up human remains.
Tyson said, "We're treating it as a homicide. We believe that it is a homicide. We do have a person of interest under our control."
For much of the day, people in the neighborhood were wondering what investigators were doing.
Pamela Vise said, "We've seen them with their cases and their stuff out there, pulling out stuff from their bags and everything. Pretty much all we see is the hole dug. They got about a six or seven foot hole dug back there."
Other people in the neighborhood said a man and woman live at the home.
Joe McCord said, "I knew both these people who live here. They were always nice, always."
Tyson said authorities are not releasing the identity of the person who's body was found until relatives are notified.
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