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0 Share Newsweek is a Trust Project member See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The remains of two people were found in the backyard of a missing mother and father's home, while their adult son has fled the country and is considered a suspect in the investigation, Arizona police said.
Officers were called to a home in Litchfield Park to conduct a welfare check for three people—a husband, wife and their son Matthew Flores, 27—on Tuesday, the Avondale Police Department said.
Officers found the house empty during the welfare check, but found evidence suggesting foul play, Avondale officer Daniel Benavidez said at a news conference on Thursday.
Benavidez said Flores is now considered a suspect in what remains a missing persons investigation.
Benavidez said Flores fled the country, but declined to provide any further details about him or his whereabouts. "I can't give you specifics on where to look in the world. All I can say is he fled the country," he said.
The remains that were found in the backyard have yet to be identified, he said.
Asked about the evidence of foul play at the home, he said: ”What I can say that we identified is a large amount of blood, and we also identified what we believed is evidence in an attempt to conceal that blood.”
Newsweek contacted the Avondale Police Department via an email sent outside regular office hours on Friday.
Police discovered the bodies buried in the backyard of the home on Thursday. They were in a state of decomposition and have not been identified, Benavidez said. He said the names of the missing couple are not being released at the family’s request.
Local resident Alec Rogers told Fox 10 that he heard a disturbance in the area of the home on Tuesday morning.
"There was a little bit of yelling and I don't know exactly who from," he said.
Rogers added: “The dad there, we see him every once in a while, he's very, very friendly but we don't talk too much just whenever we see him, we say hello.”
Anyone with information about Flores or his whereabouts is asked to contact the Avondale Police Department at 623-333-7001.
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