{"id":404390,"date":"2026-08-12T09:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404390\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:24:28","slug":"investigation-underway-after-body-found-along-north-eldridge-pkwy-houston-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404390\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway after body found along North Eldridge Pkwy, Houston police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KTRK logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-ktrk.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, August 11, 2026 4:33PM<\/p>\n<p>Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Houston police said they are waiting on autopsy results for a man who was found dead on the west side Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to the Houston Police Department, someone spotted the victim&#8217;s body in a grassy area by the south bank of the Addicks Reservoir near the North Eldridge bridge, a little after 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators said the body was in an advanced state of decomposition and there were no obvious signs of trauma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim&#8217;s identity and cause of death are pending verification by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, August 11, 2026 4:33PM Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[141628,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-404390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-141628","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404390","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=404390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}