Overview
- HPD identified the partially burned Gulf Freeway victim as 33-year-old Yvonne Lopez, whose body was found on July 29 and whose cause of death is pending an autopsy.
- Utility workers discovered a decomposing woman under the North Freeway at Crosstimbers and investigators said the medical examiner must determine her age and race.
- Officers confirmed a body in a retention pond outside Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital and deployed dive teams and homicide detectives to the scene.
- Police say the recoveries are the subject of separate active investigations with no confirmed suspects or motives and they are asking the public to contact HPD Homicide or Crime Stoppers with tips or video.
- The spread of scenes across freeways, underpasses, ponds and bayous and the advanced state of some remains are complicating scene processing and delaying identification and cause-of-death determinations.