HOUSTON – Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a woman’s death after her body was found in a field in northwest Houston.
Investigators said the body was found lying on a utility easement shortly after noon Wednesday near the corner of Wycliffe and Mayfield.
A neighborhood gardener tells KPRC he was weeding a rose bush near the easement when he noticed a foul smell. Luke Rios said when he looked nearby he spotted the body.
"At first I thought it was a doll, you know like a doll, the one they put in the store. But then I realized it was a human, I mean a person,” said Rios.
Lujan said the body appears to be that of an African-American woman in her early 20s. Given the state of decomposition, Lujan said it is unknown how the woman died or whether she died in the neighborhood or was brought to the spot where she was found.
“We have not been able to identify her. There is a state of decomposition which makes us believe she may have been here for 24 to 48 hours,” said Robert Lujan, an investigator with the Houston Police Department.
An autopsy will be performed to try to determine the woman’s identity and how she died.