{"id":303443,"date":"2026-05-21T20:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/303443\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T20:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:20:10","slug":"missing-elderly-woman-found-dead-at-enchanted-rock-state-natural-area-texas-parks-wildlife-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/303443\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing elderly woman found dead at Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, Texas Parks &#038; Wildlife says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\">Fredericksburg, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; <\/a> An 81-year-old woman reported missing at Enchanted Rock State Natural Area was found Wednesday morning and pronounced dead, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">TPWD said the woman became lost on the park\u2019s Loop Trail around 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 19. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Search efforts continued into the night but were cut short after dark when significant storms moved into the area, making conditions unsafe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crews returned to continue the search Wednesday morning. TPWD said the woman was located around 9:30 a.m. and pronounced dead by the Justice of the Peace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Texas State Park Police will take the lead on the investigation, TPWD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Multiple agencies assisted with the search, including Texas Game Wardens, Willow City Volunteer Fire and Rescue, Fredericksburg Fire\/EMS, Llano County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Gillespie County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Hamilton County EMS.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fredericksburg, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; An 81-year-old woman reported missing at Enchanted Rock State Natural Area was found Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[110002,110003,110001,110004,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-303443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-dog-killed-at-dog-park","tag-dog-park-shooting","tag-man-fatally-shoots-dog","tag-shot-dog-that-got-into-fight-with-his-dog","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303443","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=303443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}