{"id":97556,"date":"2025-12-22T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/97556\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:26:07","slug":"two-bodies-found-near-houston-bayous-within-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/97556\/","title":{"rendered":"Two bodies found near Houston bayous within hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">As Houston police investigated a bayou where a body was found Monday morning, officers were soon called to a second scene involving another body near a different bayou.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Police responded around 9:35 a.m. to a report of a \u201cperson down\u201d at 5969 Old Spanish Trail. The caller said someone was lying face down on rocks near a body of water and was unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The body was recovered from the bank of the bayou, not from the water itself. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">An autopsy will determine the person\u2019s identity and cause of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Shortly after police responded to this incident, they received a call about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/22\/two-bodies-found-near-houston-bayous-within-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/22\/two-bodies-found-near-houston-bayous-within-hours\/\">second body discovered<\/a> near another bayou.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">So far in 2025, at least 33 bodies have been found in Harris County bayous, <a href=\"https:\/\/ifs.harriscountytx.gov\/Portals\/IFS\/Documents\/Bayou_Deaths_Fact_Sheet_12102025.pdf?ver=yf-erwBTquimk6Tx8XauMQ%3d%3d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/ifs.harriscountytx.gov\/Portals\/IFS\/Documents\/Bayou_Deaths_Fact_Sheet_12102025.pdf?ver=yf-erwBTquimk6Tx8XauMQ%3d%3d\">according to records<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Since 2017, a total of 190 people have been found dead in Houston\u2019s bayous, according to records obtained by KPRC 2. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Nearly 40% of those deaths remain classified as \u201cundetermined,\u201d meaning investigators could not confirm whether they were the result of an accident, suicide, or homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Contact KPRC 2 News about Houston bayou deaths<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">KPRC 2 News is digging into the unsolved deaths in the Houston bayous. We are looking to hear from people who may have lost a loved one in the bayous. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf0reW7X7KBqTjpG9MOAOUmKCT4Srb-P-CobViAphmB5qjPuA\/viewform?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=106575438292319769747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf0reW7X7KBqTjpG9MOAOUmKCT4Srb-P-CobViAphmB5qjPuA\/viewform?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=106575438292319769747\">Fill out this short form<\/a> to send us your comments and contact information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">We are hoping to share your stories and find answers for families and the community. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Houston police investigated a bayou where a body was found Monday morning, officers were soon called to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,44912,58,57,251],"class_list":["post-97556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-bayou","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97556","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=97556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}