{"id":391221,"date":"2026-07-29T22:57:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/391221\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T22:57:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:57:37","slug":"body-found-partially-burned-near-houstons-sim-bayou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/391221\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found partially burned near Houston&#8217;s Sim Bayou"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; An investigation is underway after a female was found dead and partially burned Wednesday near Sims Bayou in southeast Houston.<\/p>\n<p>   Body found near Sims Bayou <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police responded to a 911 call at about 9 a.m. Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/8100+Gulf+Fwy,+Houston,+TX+77017\/@29.6830159,-95.277653,15.46z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640962982ceb831:0x879594ee2c009050!8m2!3d29.6826476!4d-95.2753856!16s%2Fg%2F11csn14yjd?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDcyNy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">near I-45 and Dixie Drive<\/a>. A crew was reportedly cutting grass in the area when they found a female&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials say the body is believed to be a Black female with a star tattoo on one of her hands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities also determined that the body had been partially burned.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4ca06340-gulf.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The deceased female has not been identified at this time, and her cause and manner of death are under investigation.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Anyone with information can call one of the following agencies:<\/p>\n<p> HPD Homicide Division: 713-308-3600Crime Stoppers: 713-222-TIPS (8477) <\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Houston Police<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; An investigation is underway after a female was found dead and partially burned Wednesday near Sims&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-391221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391221","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=391221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}