{"id":477837,"date":"2026-10-27T04:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477837\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T04:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:46:12","slug":"lawn-crew-finds-skeletal-remains-in-west-harris-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477837\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawn crew finds skeletal remains in west Harris County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Skeletal remains are being investigated after they were found by Beltway 8 in west Harris County on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> Skeletal remains found near West Beltway 8 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The remains were reported at about 12:30 p.m. Saturday in an area by the southbound side of the beltway, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/4477+W+Sam+Houston+Pkwy+N,+Houston,+TX+77041\/@29.8391512,-95.5702923,15.71z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640dab5beb1a393:0x5eebb89bb2b494d0!8m2!3d29.835716!4d-95.565371!16s%2Fg%2F11dzn6xhy8?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MTAyMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">just north of Clay Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cityofhouston.news\/investigation-into-skeletal-remains-found-at-4477-west-sam-houston-parkway-north\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Police say<\/a> a lawn crew in the area reported the remains. Officers responded to the call and found what they believe to be skeletal remains.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The identity of the remains and the cause of the death are being investigated by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Anyone with information can call the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600.<\/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\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Skeletal remains are being investigated after they were found by Beltway 8 in west Harris County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[405,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-477837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-harris-county","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\/477837","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=477837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}