{"id":115281,"date":"2026-01-08T08:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115281\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T08:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:04:21","slug":"officials-trying-to-identify-man-found-dead-in-houston-bayou-on-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115281\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials trying to identify man found dead in Houston bayou on Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rnp4i4mif796l9oh.jpg\" alt=\"Body found in Buffalo Bayou on Christmas Eve\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Authorities are asking for the public\u2019s help to identify a man whose body was found in Houston\u2019s Buffalo Bayou on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences released a description of the man and photos of his tattoos, in hopes someone can help identify him.<\/p>\n<p> Man found dead in Buffalo Bayou  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Officials say the man was found in Buffalo Bayou, near Memorial Drive and Wall Street, on Dec. 24.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">He didn\u2019t have any identification on him.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The man\u2019s cause and manner of death have not yet been determined.<\/p>\n<p> New information released <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2025-12-24-4959-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">On Wednesday, HCIFS released information they hope can lead to someone identifying him.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Description:<\/p>\n<p> 5\u20198&#8243; tall154 poundsUnknown raceDark brown hair with some gray at temples and along his front hairline; long and curly with matted sections that are lighter brownBrown eyesFull beard and mustache that are dark brown and curly <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Tattoos:<\/p>\n<p> capital letters across the back of his fingers on both hands appearing to read &#8220;HARD LIFE&#8221;a dove design on the back of his right hand Help identify him <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">If you can help identify the man, you are asked to call the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences at their main number (832)927-5000 or their forensic investigations department at (832)927-5001.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from the Harris County Institute of Forensic Science and NAMUS.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Authorities are asking for the public\u2019s help to identify a man whose body was found in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-115281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}