{"id":17176,"date":"2025-10-23T09:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/17176\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T09:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:07:20","slug":"womans-decomposing-body-found-in-decatur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/17176\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman&#8217;s decomposing body found in Decatur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7a7f0b5b-b678d13a-generic-crime-scene-tape.jpg\" alt=\"7a7f0b5b-b678d13a-generic-crime-scene-tape.jpg\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article   <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">DECATUR, Texas &#8211; A rancher found the badly decomposed body of a woman not far from Decatur High School on Monday.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Decatur police said they got a call around 10:30 a.m. from a rancher who had been looking for lost livestock in the area. He reported finding the body.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police said the body, which appeared to be female, was badly decomposed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">It was taken to the Southwest Institute of Forensic Science in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">At this point, police do not believe the woman had any connection to the high school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">They also don\u2019t suspect foul play.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The woman had no identification on her.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">It\u2019s not clear who she was, how she died, or how long she\u2019d been there.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Forensic investigators will try to answer some of those questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from the Decatur Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/wise-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wise County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DECATUR, Texas &#8211; A rancher found the badly decomposed body of a woman not far from Decatur&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,104,103,223,216,393,13468],"class_list":{"0":"post-17176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-wise-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17176","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=17176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}