Concrete-encased body parts found at home

CORTEZ, Colorado (AP) -- Dismembered body parts encased in concrete buckets were found at a missing man's home, and his 20-year-old son was arrested on suspicion of murder, the sheriff said Thursday.

The remains were found in three places, including the family home of Jack Berry, 42, who relatives said had been missing for a few months.

Sheriff Gerald Wallace said a CT scan done at a hospital found the body parts in the buckets. Investigators were awaiting tests to determine whether the dismembered body was Berry's.

"It's not like your normal homicide, where you have a body lying there and you can identify him," he said. "There were some body parts in two buckets of concrete."

Investigators did not say where the other buckets were found.

Wallace said parts of the body were still missing. Investigators were searching in a rural county about 250 southwest of Denver with the help of a dog trained to find cadavers.

Berry's son, Jeremiah Raymond Berry, is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail, Wallace said.

The investigation began Monday after the Arizona Department of Public Safety relayed a missing-person report about Jack Berry to Colorado officials. It was not immediately clear who originated the report and why it came from Arizona.

Jeremiah Berry was identified first as a person of interest and then as a suspect after investigators interviewed him Tuesday, Wallace said. It wasn't known whether Berry had an attorney.

The sheriff said the younger Berry helped investigators with the search. E-mail to a friend

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