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<\/p>\nInvestigators estimate the woman was between 55 and 75 years old when she died. More than two decades later, she remains unidentified.<\/p>\n
HOUSTON \u2014 She had graying brown hair, pierced ears and a 12-inch scar across her abdomen.<\/p>\n
But investigators still don’t know her name.<\/p>\n
More than 23 years after a woman’s remains were found floating in Buffalo Bayou in Houston, she remains unidentified.<\/p>\n
\nWho was the woman found in Buffalo Bayou? <\/p>\n
The woman was found around 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 3, 2002, in Buffalo Bayou near 5303 Navigation Boulevard, according to information from the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences.<\/p>\n
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Investigators estimated she had died one to two weeks before she was found. Her cause of death remains unknown.<\/p>\n
The woman was believed to be between 55 and 75 years old and between 5 feet, 1 inch and 5 feet, 6 inches tall. She had short, graying brown hair and pierced ears.<\/p>\n
Several physical characteristics could potentially help someone recognize her.<\/p>\n
She had a 12-inch abdominal scar from a cholecystectomy, or gallbladder surgery. Investigators also found evidence of healed fractures to several ribs on her left side and a healed fracture of her right hand. She had no teeth and may have worn dentures.<\/p>\n
The woman was not found with clothing, but she was wearing a man’s Timex watch.<\/p>\n
Her lower body had been severed. Case information notes that she may have come into contact with boat traffic and possibly been struck by a propeller, but her cause of death remains undetermined.<\/p>\n
Forensic artist Lois Gibson created a reconstruction showing what the woman may have looked like during her life.<\/p>\n
Investigators have DNA available for comparison, but more than two decades after she was found, no identification has been made.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about a possible match is asked to call the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences at 832-927-5000 and select option 1.<\/p>\n
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Tens of thousands of people go missing every year across the United States, and there are organizations and law enforcement agencies that work to bring them home to loved ones.<\/p>\n The first thing you should do when a loved one goes missing is alert your local law enforcement agencies. Provide a photo and key details, including when and where they were last seen.<\/p>\n The Texas Center for the Missing<\/a> is an organization with Houston roots that works to educate loved ones and authorities on finding the lost. Click here\u00a0<\/a>to file a report with them.<\/p>\n The nonprofit has resources for families of missing children or endangered adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators estimate the woman was between 55 and 75 years old when she died. More than two decades…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-424689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424689","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=424689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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