End of the mystery: they had been looking for him for months but their 18 dogs had eaten

A Texas man, whose whereabouts are unknown for months, has been eaten by his own dogs, authorities said.

Medico-legal experts reported Tuesday that DNA tests revealed that bone fragments recovered from animal excrement belonged to Freddie Mack, 57, according to the Johnson County Sheriff's Office.

The 18 bastard dogs have apparently completely devoured Mack's body, including his clothes and hair, and he only has fragments of bone 5 to 12 centimeters long, said officer Aaron Pitts.

"Never, but never, neither we nor the people we talked to, we had heard that a human being had been devoured entirely," Pitts said. The badociated press. "The bones were completely broken and eaten."

Mack was suffering from serious health problems and it is unclear if his dogs killed him or ate him after his death.

"In any case, it's a bit grotesque and we offer our condolences to the Freddie Mack family," said Adam King, sheriff of Johnson County, in a statement.

In May, a family member announced the disappearance of his home near Venus, a community of less than 4,000 people located about 50 km southwest of Dallas, claiming that his family had no longer had a home. of his news since mid-April.

Aggressive dogs prevented the family from entering Mack's property and they also posed a problem to the police, who ended up having a glimpse of the use of a "distraction method" to keep the animals remotely, police said. .

The agents could not locate Mack and, after several days of searching, the investigators returned to examine the property in detail. In tall grbad, they found dog feces containing leftover hair, clothes and bone.

The largest fragments were sent to the Human Remains Identification Center at the University of North Texas, and it was finally determined that they were Mack's thanks to a DNA family badysis.

Pitt said that two of the dogs had been killed by the platoon, 13 others had been slaughtered for "aggression" and three others had been delivered to the adoption.

The officer maintained that Mack kept his dogs well fed and nurtured. The only other time Mack was involved in the police, was in 2017, when he called the hospital authorities to ask if anyone could go and see how they behaved. their animals, Pitts said.

"This man loved his animals," said the officer.

* AP