HOUSTON – Human remains found in 2020 have been identified as a Houston-area teen who had been missing for six years after being a victim of human trafficking, according to Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Office.<\/p>\n
Human remains identified <\/p>\n
Kristen Galvan was 15 when she was last seen on Jan. 2, 2020.<\/p>\n
On Jan. 29 the same year, the Missouri City Police Department found unidentified human remains. According to the AG’s Office, an autopsy and examination revealed it was a homicide victim and a female between 13 and 18-years-old.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The police department reached out to the Attorney General’s Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit for assistance.<\/p>\n
After thorough investigation and forensics work, the remains were positively identified as Kristen Galvan.<\/p>\n
What they’re saying:<\/p>\n
“I launched my Cold Case and Missing Persons\u00a0Unit\u00a0to secure justice for victims\u00a0and to\u00a0provide closure to families whose lives have been forever changed by violent crime,” said Attorney General Paxton. “Right now,\u00a0I ask every Texan to join me in praying for Kristen Galvan\u2019s family\u00a0during this unimaginably\u00a0difficult time.\u00a0My office\u00a0will continue to\u00a0work\u00a0on cases with\u00a0agencies and law enforcement\u00a0across\u00a0the state on\u00a0behalf of innocent victims and their loved ones.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
What you can do:<\/p>\n
Anyone with information on Galvan’s disappearance and death is asked to contact the OAG Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit at coldcaseunit@oag.texas.gov<\/a>. Anonymous tips are welcome.<\/p>\n Kristen Galvan missing since 2020 <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n FOX 26 did a “The Missing” segment on Galvan’s disappearance.<\/a><\/p>\n The Source: Information gathered by a press release from Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Office and previous FOX 26 reports.<\/p>\n Missing Persons<\/a>Houston<\/a>Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – Human remains found in 2020 have been identified as a Houston-area teen who had been missing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,2474,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-389234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-missing-persons","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389234","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=389234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}