Families left with questions after two more bodies found in Houston bayous<\/a><\/p>\nThis incident marks the 34th body recovered from bayous across Houston in 2025, nearly reaching last year\u2019s total of 35. There have been three bodies recovered in bayous just this week.<\/p>\n
Jesse Bellow lives nearby and heard the helicopter flying over his neighborhood.<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t expect a body to be recovered at the Bayou on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s incredibly sad,\u201d said Bellow. \u201cThere\u2019s the sensationalized side of a serial killer which people purport as a possibility, but it could also be the incompetence of our leaders in taking care of the lowest members of our society who are still human and deserve respect.”<\/p>\n
KPRC 2 has looked at data from the Harris County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office and saw that there have been nearly 200 bodies found in the Bayou since 2017.<\/p>\n
Nearly 40 percent of the bodies have undetermined causes of death.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, we spoke to forensic criminologist Dr. Elizabeth Gilmore of the University of Houston, who explained an undetermined ruling does not mean investigators failed to do their jobs. Instead, it reflects the limits of the evidence available.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat that means is that the pathologist has done as thorough as an examination as they possibly can,\u201d Dr. Gilmore said. \u201cAnd what they have decided is that they cannot attribute what the manner of death would be\u2026 there\u2019s just not enough information for the doctor to say this is what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
But for families, it means unanswered questions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think anybody ever prepares you to lose somebody that\u2019s that close to you,\u201d said Lauren Freeman, whose cousin Kenneth Cutting Jr. was discovered at the Buffalo Bayou last year. \u201cI\u2019ve lost a lot of people in my lifetime, and losing a mother who has cancer is way different than losing a 22-year-old kid that disappeared and nobody knows what happened to him.”<\/p>\n
There have been 12 bodies recovered from Buffalo Bayou in 2025.<\/p>\n
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