{"id":115357,"date":"2026-01-08T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115357\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:28:51","slug":"body-reportedly-found-in-houstons-buffalo-bayou-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115357\/","title":{"rendered":"Body reportedly found in Houston\u2019s Buffalo Bayou \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/buffalobayouflooding.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-492840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/buffalobayouflooding.jpg\" alt=\"Buffalo Bayou flooding Hurricane Beryl\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1688\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Smith<\/p>\n<p>High water in Buffalo Bayou after Hurricane Beryl. The view is looking from the Shepherd Drive overpass over Allen Parkway.<\/p>\n<p>A body was located in Houston&#8217;s Buffalo Bayou Tuesday afternoon, according to the Houston Police Department. <\/p>\n<p>HPD said a call came in at approximately 2 p.m. for a possible dead body in the area of 1019 Commerce St. A Houston Fire Department spokesperson said they received a call for a &#8220;water rescue.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, HPD said the body of an adult male was located and the investigation was ongoing. HPD said it had established a media staging on the south side of Buffalo Bayou, but did not provide any additional information as of Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first reported body recovered in the Houston bayous in 2026. In 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/houston\/2025\/12\/22\/539446\/houston-bayou-bodies-2025-police-serial-killer-conspiracy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a total of 33 bodies<\/a> were recovered from bayous in the Houston area throughout the year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Smith High water in Buffalo Bayou after Hurricane Beryl. The view is looking from the Shepherd Drive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8226,56,7189,58,57,2543,66,223,672],"class_list":["post-115357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-buffalo-bayou","tag-houston","tag-houston-fire-department","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-police-department","tag-local","tag-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115357","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=115357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}