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The police uncovered the skeleton of Henry Hank Frantz, who had been missing for four years in the same backyard treehouse, only a few days after witnessing his father Henry Frantz’s death by drowning while scuba diving in Hawaii.

A Tragic Coincidence

Henry Frantz served as a 74-year-old, well-known member of the Atlanta Pipe Band. Henry Hank Frantz died in a scuba diving accident near Maui coasts on March 10, according to an Instagram announcement from the band released on March 14. Since 197,0 Frantz built the band from its beginnings, it has earned a distinguished status in the piping world. No one from the Maui Police Department has stated the origin of the scuba diving mishap that resulted in death.

Family members who visited Frantz’s house in Decatur, Georgia, uncovered unexpected information after his passing. Family members discovered human remains in a treehouse that existed in the backyard only six days after Frantz’s death occurred on March 16. Official DNA analysis around that time confirmed that the recovered human remains belonged to Henry Hank Frant,z who disappeared four years earlier when he was 32 years old.

The Missing Person Mystery

Local reports stated that Hank Frantz disappeared in 2021, but the Decatur Police Department maintained no official record of his disappearance. The department’s representative disclosed that Hank never received reporting for missing person status, while the Department of Justice National Missing and Unidentified Persons System showed no trace of his case.

The Dekalb County Medical Examiner’s Office,e through director Beoncia M. Loveless, continues to investigate both the death cause and the time when the death occurred. Forensic evidence was potentially available from the tissue that survived with the remains, although most were bones.

Unanswered Questions

This revelation produces numerous remaining unanswered pieces of information. How did treehouse resident Hank Frantz come to be found in the structure? The authorities never traditionally reported his disappearance. Officials need to determine if his end was an accidental death or the result of criminal activity. The investigation continues because law enforcement aims to identify the facts supporting or disproving any potential wrongdoing in this tragic chain of events.

The Decatur community stands shocked by this peculiar misfortune, which saw the father and the son pass away close to one another in a brief period. Investigators continue their work to rebuild the circumstance while the late Frantz family members suffer bereavement over their premature deaths.