HOUSTON – A man has been charged in connection to a missing woman whose remains were later found near Space Center Houston.<\/p>\n
Angela Diaz update: Man charged with murder <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
Houston Police shared on Thursday that 39-year-old Justin Scarbrough<\/a> has been charged with murder and tampering with evidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n The charges are tied to the death of 22-year-old Angela Marisol Diaz<\/a>.<\/p>\n Scarbrough is already in Harris County custody for unrelated charges. Records confirm bond has been denied for his new charges.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Diaz’s cause of death remains undetermined.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Angela Marisol Diaz was reported missing in Summer 2024<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Her family said her boyfriend claimed to last see her at a motel along the Gulf Freeway. He allegedly told them that she was supposed to meet a man at the location.<\/p>\n Her family told FOX 26 that her phone pinged her to be near a wooded area along I-10.<\/p>\n PREVIOUS REPORT: Angela Diaz missing<\/a><\/p>\n In March 2025<\/a>, human remains were found in a wooded area near Space Center Houston. The remains were identified as Diaz in September<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another suspect pleads guilty <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Since Diaz’s remains were found, another man has pleaded guilty to sex-trafficking her.<\/p>\n Krystephor Karvon Brown was charged<\/a> the year that Angela Diaz went missing, but not for her disappearance.<\/p>\n During an undercover trafficking operation in 2024, officers detained Diaz at a hotel and identified Brown as driving her there and “to all of her sex dates and waits outside.”<\/p>\n Diaz was reported missing days after the bust.<\/p>\n According to court records, Brown pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution in mid-February.\u00a0<\/p>\n He has been sentenced to six years of “Deferred Adjudication Community Supervision,” which is a form of probation, according to Turner Garrison Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this report comes from Houston Police, previous FOX 26 reports, Harris County District Clerk records, and Turner Garrison Law.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Houston<\/a>Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – A man has been charged in connection to a missing woman whose remains were later found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-204418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204418","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=204418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}