{"id":353253,"date":"2026-06-28T04:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T04:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353253\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T04:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T04:53:15","slug":"2-men-found-dead-in-houston-inside-vehicle-bought-at-an-auction-in-the-rio-grande-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353253\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men found dead in Houston inside vehicle bought at an auction in the Rio Grande Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two men were found dead inside a vehicle at an auto body shop in north Harris County on Saturday morning, ABC\u2019s Houston affiliate KTRK-TV said.<\/a><\/p>\n

Authorities responded to the 13600 block of Reeveston Road after employees at the body shop smelled a foul odor and discovered the bodies.<\/p>\n

Detectives said the vehicle arrived at the body shop on Friday afternoon via a tow truck and was purchased at an auction in the Rio Grande Valley, the Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed to Channel 5 News.<\/p>\n

KTRK-TV reported<\/a> that deputies suspect the bodies had been decomposing for more than 24 hours before they were discovered.<\/p>\n

The victims were identified as Jose Andres Joaquin Modesto, 29, and 39-year-old Omar Silbino Santizo Ramirez.<\/p>\n

The new owner of the vehicle had sent it to the body shop for repair, as it was wrecked and could not be driven, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were found dead inside a vehicle at an auto body shop in north Harris County on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[125752,125749,56,58,57,125748,125753,125751,125750,125754,125755],"class_list":["post-353253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-decomposing-bodies-in-car","tag-harris-county-sheriff-office-investigation","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-vehicle-bodies-found","tag-ktrk-tv-houston-crime","tag-reeveston-road-body-shop-deaths","tag-rio-grande-valley-auto-auction","tag-texas-towed-vehicle-mystery","tag-wrecked-car-auction-investigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353253","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=353253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}