{"id":284046,"date":"2026-05-08T06:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/284046\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:53:19","slug":"missing-woman-last-seen-in-sf-found-dead-in-texas-after-53-years-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/284046\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing woman last seen in SF found dead in Texas after 53 years \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, San Francisco police closed the case of a missing woman who was last seen in the city in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Police said 27-year-old Cheryl Lanier was last seen in 1973 in San Francisco, and her initial missing person\u2019s report was filed in 2010. For years, the department\u2019s Missing Person Unit worked on the case, but it remained open and unsolved.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2025, police said they received a tip out of Harris County in Houston, Texas, advising that a deceased \u201cJane Doe\u201d could be Lanier. After a DNA analysis, police determined the \u201cJane Doe\u201d was Lanier and closed the case after 53 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, San Francisco police closed the case of a missing woman who was last seen in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9970,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-284046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-san-francisco","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284046","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=284046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}