{"id":388802,"date":"2026-07-28T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388802\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:30:09","slug":"two-suspects-arrested-after-plastic-wrapped-body-found-during-search-for-missing-man-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388802\/","title":{"rendered":"Two suspects arrested after plastic wrapped body found during search for missing man"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO – Two suspects have been arrested in connection with a plastic-wrapped body being found while deputies responded to a call for a missing person.<\/p>\n

According to a statement from the Bexar County Sheriff\u2019s Office, deputies were dispatched July 26, 2026, at about 4:24 p.m. to the 700 block of Fort Leonard for a missing person report after a caller said her friend was missing. Deputies contacted the caller, Margaret Brown, 30, and the homeowner who was present said she last saw the missing person at about 2 a.m. earlier that morning, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

During a search of the residence, a man arrived and was identified as Christopher Henson, 29, Brown\u2019s husband, the statement said.<\/p>\n

Deputies then conducted a further search and found the alleged missing person in a vacant room\u2019s closet, inside a clear plastic bag, the sheriff\u2019s office said. The man \u201cexhibited multiple lacerations covering his body,\u201d according to the statement. Investigators identified a crime scene inside the home and found evidence indicating Brown and Henson were attempting to clean the scene before deputies arrived, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

Brown and Henson were taken into custody for tampering with evidence, according to the sheriff\u2019s office. The investigation remains ongoing, and positive identification of the victim and next-of-kin notification are pending.<\/p>\n

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In previous reporting Sunday evening, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said deputies responded around 7:30 p.m. to an address near the corner of Fort Leonard and Yturria Ranch. Salazar said deputies were dispatched \u201cabout 4 o\u2019clock this afternoon\u201d for a report of a missing person and were met by two young women \u2014 one who lives in the home and another who lives elsewhere \u2014 who reported that a 30-year-old man who lives at the house was missing.<\/p>\n

Salazar said the initial information given to the deputy was that the man had experienced what was described as a \u201cnight terror\u201d and then left the residence, or they believed he left at some point. As deputies began taking information for a missing-person report, Salazar said they conducted a cursory sweep of the home and the deputy began finding evidence of blood inside. The deputy continued searching and found a body in a bedroom closet, Salazar said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point, it\u2019s too early to tell if the body that was found is that indeed of the 30-year-old man that was that they were attempting to report missing,\u201d Salazar said Sunday, adding it was also too early to determine definitively whether it is a homicide. Still, he said the circumstances are \u201chighly suspicious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salazar said the body \u201cwas wrapped in plastic,\u201d and investigators believe it is unlikely someone would harm themselves and then wrap themselves in plastic \u201cas tightly as what we\u2019ve found here.\u201d He said investigators were waiting for the medical examiner to determine the cause and manner of death, but \u201cwe\u2019re operating under the presence that it\u2019s most likely going to be a homicide case.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salazar also said there was evidence of trauma and evidence that someone tried to clean up what investigators were treating as a crime scene. \u201cI suffice it to say, it was more most likely a violent violent attack on this on whomever this this decedent is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Salazar said three people \u2014 \u201ctwo females and a male\u201d \u2014 were detained and expected to be questioned. He said investigators planned to execute a search warrant at the home where the body was found, as well as at another home in the area later in the evening, adding that two of the detained people live at the second residence and investigators believe evidence related to what happened at the first home may be located there.<\/p>\n

Salazar described the missing man as a 30-year-old white male \u201cfrom out of state,\u201d and said the person investigators believed the body may be was a tenant at the home, while the woman who lives there was described as a friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – Two suspects have been arrested in connection with a plastic-wrapped body being found while deputies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-388802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388802","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=388802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}