The O’Jays speak out on Frank Little Jr.’s remains being identified nearly 40 years later: ‘A very sad story’

Authorities used DNA and genealogical research to identify the remains of Frank “Frankie” Little Jr., which were found in a garbage bag in a wooded area behind a business in Twinsburg in 1982, said Summit County Medical Examiner Lisa Kohler.

"Frankie was a guitarist and songwriter in the very early O'Jays," original lead singers Eddie Levert and Walter Williams told Fox News on Wednesday. "He was sentimental, loving and passionate."

"He came with us when we first ventured out of Cleveland and traveled to Los Angeles, but he also was in love with a woman in Cleveland who he missed so much that he soon returned to Cleveland after a short amount of time," they shared. "That was in the mid-1960s, and we had not heard from him after then.  Although this is a tragic ending, we wish his family and friends closure to what appears to be a very sad story."