Back in 2018 the death of Corbin Odell Johnson, 18, was being investigated as a murder, police reported. He was reported missing to the Sheriff’s Office on July 13, 2018. Exactly one year later, the 18-year-old’s skeletal remains were discovered in a wooded area of Northwest Jacksonville wrapped up and buried off Utsey Road, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. The case was being investigated as a homicide.
The remains were found Thursday in a wooded area of Utsey Drive, the Sheriff’s Office said. A man was clearing land in the area when he made the discovery.
News reporter, News4Jax spoke to Johnson’s parents in July, and they said the teenager disappeared sometime after a job interview.
“It’s not normal for Corbin,” Milissa Jackson, Johnson’s mother, said in July. “Corbin is going to text me. He’s going to FaceTime me. He’s going to call me.”
Johnson’s father said he dropped his son off for a job interview with UPS. According to the police report, another man dropped the teen off at his mother’s Northside home later in the evening. Johnson’s mother told police that evening was the last time she saw her son, and she did not know whom he was with when he let home.
The Sheriff’s Office noted in its missing persons report that Johnson had never been reported missing before. Johnson’s mother, Milissa Morman-Jackson, also posted many memories of her son over the past year, including one a few weeks ago saying her life changed when he was reported missing. The family had a memorial for him at Riverside’s Memorial Park. No cause of death has been released so far by police or how the remains were identified so quickly.
