{"id":403477,"date":"2026-08-11T11:56:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403477\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:56:33","slug":"houston-police-department-investigating-after-womans-body-found-near-north-freeway-and-crosstimbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403477\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Police Department investigating after woman&#8217;s body found near North Freeway and Crosstimbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brianna Willis Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/16217723_Brianna-Willis-bio-160x200.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, August 11, 2026 12:23AM<\/p>\n<p>A woman&#8217;s body has been found near the North Freeway and Crosstimbers Road, according to the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; An investigation is underway Monday afternoon after utility workers found a woman&#8217;s decomposing body near the North Freeway at Crosstimbers Road, according to the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to HPD at the scene, the workers were performing regular maintenance under the underpass when they discovered the remains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers say it took the crew some time to realize what they found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators say the woman&#8217;s body was decomposing, and it&#8217;s unclear how long she may have been dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">HPD added that because of the state of the remains, they need the medical examiner to determine the woman&#8217;s age and race.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, August 11, 2026 12:23AM A woman&#8217;s body has been found near the North Freeway and Crosstimbers Road,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[141378,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-403477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-141378","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403477","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=403477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}