(WHAS11) -- Police may have new evidence in the case against Gregory O'Bryan.
O'Bryan is accused of murdering a Sullivan University student, 18-year-old Andrew Compton, in October of 2010.
Back in November of that year, dozens of police cadets and homicide detectives combed through debris in a Southern Indiana landfill looking for Compton's body.
Until Friday, the public believed that searching was fruitless.
But prosecutors announced that they were able to collect three samples of flesh, which they hope could possibly be from Andrew Compton's corpse.
Gregory O'Bryan appeared to smirk as he entered the courtroom Friday for the latest in what have become routine hearings in his upcoming murder trial.
But the hearing turned out to contain a big surprise.
Prosecutors announced evidence is being rushed now to the state crime lab.
“Three pieces of what we suspect is some type of flesh, collected from the landfill,” is how Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Tom Van De Rostyne described it.
Speculation is that the flesh potentially belonged to Andrew Compton.
“It's been a while since they actually searched the landfill,” O’Bryan’s attorney, Michael Ferraraccio said. “So presumably, they've had this information for some time. This is just the first that we've heard of it.”
From the first days of the investigation, O'Bryan admitted Andrew Compton had died, but he told police in a recorded interview it was an accident, that occurred after the two drank, used drugs and had rough sex.
“It was like kind of a strange position or something on that couch,” O’Bryan said during the interview. “And he was so small. And I looked up and he was dead.”
O'Bryan said he had sex with Compton’s Corpse and slept with it.
He then admitted putting the body in a television box, then took it to a dumpster behind Our Lady of Peace mental hospital.
He later led detectives to the spot.
The Commonwealth's Attorney's Office recently received the results of DNA tests, which could help them determine if the flesh belonged to Compton.
Prosecutors would at least have part of a body...and Compton's family might have a little more closure.
