HUMAN REMAINS BELIEVED TO BE MISSING MAN FOUND IN MCCALLA

The Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office says they’ve found what they believe are the remains of a Northport man missing since September.

Morris David Watson Jr., 59, was reported missing Sept. 23 by family members who said they’d not seen nor heard from him since Sept. 9.

The people last seen with Watson were his former stepdaughter Annie Lynn Weir, 33, and her boyfriend Donnie Lee McCutcheon, 31.

The Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said they learned Weir and McCutcheon had been seen in Chattanooga, Tennessee, driving Watson’s truck shortly after Watson went missing.

Investigators said they got an arrest warrant for McCutcheon, and he and Weir were located in Flintstone, Georgia, on Wednesday and taken into custody. Weir agreed to return to Tuscaloosa with investigators, and McCutcheon was being held in the Walker County, Georgia, jail pending an extradition hearing until he waived it this morning. McCutcheon is now being brought to Tuscaloosa.

Weir was charged with receiving stolen property and was put in the Tuscaloosa County Jail on a $30,000 bond.

Late Wednesday evening investigators said they found human remains in a concrete dump site off Calhoun Road in the McCalla area. Investigators said this discovery was based off information uncovered Wednesday. The remains were transported to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences for autopsy and identification.

Investigators said they believe he died by gunshot, and have obtained a murder warrant for McCutcheon.