BENTON – Human remains suspected to be of a missing man were discovered in Benton Wednesday, police said.
At 12:45 p.m. Franklin County detectives responded to a rural Benton location and located human remains suspected to belong to that of Joshua Brock, 34, police said.
The autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death and to confirm the identity is scheduled.
Brock went missing on Oct. 9, police said.
He was last seen at the Dollar General store on the west side of West Frankfort, police said.
Brock is described as white, 5 feet, 11 inches tall, 260 pounds. He has brown hair and blue eyes.
He was wearing dark-colored cargo shorts, a red, blue and white button-down shirt and red tennis shoes, police said.
It is believed he was riding a gold, ten-speed bicycle with curled style handlebars, police said.
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Anyone with information concerning Brock is urged to contact the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office at 618-438-4841.
Tips can be made over the phone, in-person or anonymously.
The investigation into the remains and Brock’s disappearance is ongoing.
Photos: The Marion mall through the years
The Oasis drive-in movie theater is scheduled to open on Friday, Oct. 30 in the parking lot of the Marion mall.
Balloons and a band celebrate the grand opening of the mall in Marion in 1991.
Balloons, a band and a large crowd celebrate the opening of what was then called the Illinois Centre Mall on Oct. 3, 1991.
A show choir performs during the grand opening of the Marion mall in October of 1991.
The Lettermen perform during what The Southern's archives dub the "opening gala" at the Illinois Centre Mall in Marion in October of 1991.
Dignitaries and the press visit the then-under-construction Illinois Centre Mall in Marion in 1991. The mall opened later that year, in October.
Clay Dixon of Pinckneyville pulls lighting wire inside the Illinois Centre Mall for the mall's fountain, ahead of the mall's grand opening in October of 1991.
The inside of the Illinois Centre Mall in Marion is seen on Sept. 5, 1991, about a month before the mall opened to the public.
A sign advertises the amenities for the Illinois Centre mall in Marion in 1990 as the structure can be seen rising in the background. The mall opened to the public in October of 1991.
Rollie Brave, then the manager of the Target in Marion, which served as an anchor store for the Illinois Centre Mall, is pictured outside the store on Sept. 28, 1991, a few days before the mall officially opened to the public.
Sam Rossi, a former manager of the Marion mall, is pictured inside the brand-new building days before it opened, on Sept. 29, 1991.
The parking lot of the Illinois Centre mall is shown in 1991 during the early days of its operation in Marion.
A concept drawing of the Illinois Centre Mall was provided to the newspaper in 1989, two years before the mall opened.
A conceptual drawing of the outside of the Illinois Center Mall in Marion, as seen from above, was provided to the newspaper in 1989, two years before the mall opened to the public.
An overhead blueprint of the Illinois Centre mall is seen prior to its construction in a concept drawing provided to the newspaper in 1989, two years before the mall opened.
Entrances to the Illinois Centre mall begin to take shape during construction in a photo taken Nov. 19, 1990, 28 years ago today. The mall opened to the public in 1991.
Construction crews work on the Illinois Centre mall in a photo taken on Aug. 26, 1990, a little more than a year before the mall opened to the public.
A view of construction work during the building of the Illinois Centre mall in Marion.
An artist's conception of the mall in Marion is shown.
Shoppers rushed through the doors into the new Dillard's store at the Illinois Centre Mall in Marion on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 1991, following ribbon-cutting ceremonies there.
Marion mayor Bob Butler (second from right) greets attendees at the mall's opening in 1991.
Bill Bruner, then the manager of the Sears store in the Marion mall, poses inside the store on Sept. 29, 1991, just days before the Illinois Centre Mall opened to the public. The Sears in Marion closed earlier this year. The Marion mall announced it also will close by the end of 2018.
Chuck Johnson, former manager of now-shuttered Phar-Mor store in Illinois Centre Mall, is pictured outside his store on Sept. 29, 1991, days before the mall opened to the public.
Santa Claus' area is seen in the then-newly opened Illinois Centre Mall in Marion in 1991.
A talking bear display is pictured during the early days of the Illinois Centre in Marion.
The exterior of the mall in Marion is pictured in July of 2018, just months before the mall was set to close down.
The Illinois Star Centre Mall in Marion is shown behind some weeds sprouting in the parking lot on May 26, 2017.
The interior of the Illinois Starr Centre Mall in Marion is pictured in February of 2011.
Workers from Morthland College in West Frankfort packed up contents in 2016 from the Ken Gray Presidential Museum at Illinois Star Centre Mall in Marion. The museum, run by Gray’s widow, the Rev. Margaret ‘Toedy’ Holley-Gray, closed for good in January of that year. Holley-Gray donated the contents to the college for preservation.
Brenda Cody pauses while cleaning out The Country Porch, a store in the Illinois Centre mall in Marion, that she closed in March of 2015 after 15 years in business.
Brenda Cody packs up items in The Country Porch store on Thursday, March 7, 2015, at the Illinois Centre mall in Marion. Cody closed the store after 15 years in business.
Shoppers enter the Illinois Centre mall in Marion in March of 2015.
A darkened corridor at the Marion Mall is seen in a Dec. 14, 2018 photo.
An abandoned food stall is pictured inside the shuttered Illinois Star Centre Mall in December of 2018.
Kimberly Borders of Marion feeds a small tiger some milk at the Illinois Centre Mall in December of 2007. The notorious Joe Exotic brought his tigers to the Marion mall twice, once in 2007, and once in 2009.
Ottie Potts from Vienna looks through the offerings at Joe's Records at the Illinois Star Centre Mall in Marion in September.
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