Houston, TX (KTRK) – Lake Houston is the home of Roger Randall. For 33 years, he has taught disabled youth and adults waterskiing and rowing with his company, Texas Adaptive Aquatics. Roger is probably very happy with the lake and the people who use it.
“We get them out of their wheelchairs and we go out and have fun on the water,” Roger said, securing the boat to a large fender so people in wheelchairs can roll on the boat. “Obviously, we prefer to keep the lake clear.”
That’s why every year Roger hosts a big marketing campaign for volunteer cleaning: The Annual Trash Celebration. Nearly 300 adults and children came to pick up trash suitcases that could be washed by the sea or tangled in particles in the rocks.
On March 24, 2018, a woman and her daughter had been doing this when they made a surprising discovery.
“That’s where we found it,” Roger said, pointing with one hand to the shallow rocky shore next to the 1960 FM bridge, but with the other on her head. We rode a few inches closer to shore. “It was just a black trash bag.”
It was so heavy – so heavy that the lady couldn’t lift it with the tongs she’d been picking up all morning. When she went to open the bag, she noticed the hair.
The bag contained the head of a woman.
“I used to be blown away,” Roger said. “She was like, ‘I’m right here. She’s in shock. Jump on the boat and he or she mentions saving me again.
“There was no physical evidence or clothing or anything that would help identify her,” said Houston Police Detective Richard Rodriguez. “In response to the autopsy report, Pinnacle was hacked. It was a cartel approach. … I’m not saying it’s what it is, but it’s certainly what you would expect from a cartel.”
The police drew a sketch of the lady. She has dyed dark red hair, tattooed eyeliner, and presumably brown eyes.
Three months later, forensic investigators uncovered another factor: She had a distinct set of spherical or winged teeth on her high and posterior sides, which they thought would be observed by anyone who knew her. She is believed to be between the ages of 20 and 45 and appears to have been killed every week before she was found.
There’s a brand new sketch of a human head in a trash bag near Lake Houston.
Investigators thought they would be inundated with calls. However, only some advice has been received. One caller said he noticed a person in a blue pickup truck on the bridge and dumped what looked like a garbage bag on a rock earlier this week. The advice is just not aimed at overseas.
“There’s someone missing a spouse, a mom, a sister, a daughter — someone’s missing, and now we have to find out who she is. After that, now we have to find out who did it,” Roger said.
case he is think about it. Rodriguez told witnesses that scientists at the Houston-area laboratory had only extracted a piece of DNA from the teeth of many of the mysterious women. Her genetic profile has been created and is now in the hands of genetic genealogists who are looking for her family tree. Hope to get to know this lady and discover her family in less than 12 months.
The woman is believed to be one of the 270,000 unsolved murders in the United States. About 20,700 of these are in Texas in response to Common’s Workplace for Texas Legal Professionals. Now, a brand new bipartisan piece of legislation sponsored by 4 Texas representatives gives families of cold case victims the right to demand that {that a}like one’s case is officially reopened. However, there are some technical issues to be aware of. The Fed should somehow focus on this cold case to ensure it is revisited. Some local investigators worry that they will send all the calls.
“We have no assets,” Rodriguez said. “We don’t have the funds. We don’t have the manpower to go through every case on a case-by-case basis.”
Rodriguez said his investigators had been overwhelmed by the freezing conditions, and the evidence was solid. He worries that because of this new legislation, they will have to take time out of these situations to assess the situation and do the paperwork. Often, federal and homegrown detectives work one after the other in cold case investigations.
“When you can give me some cash so I can do a (DNA) test so I can get the results instead of being like, hey, that’s what we’re going to do, it’s just a piece of legislation that doesn’t have valid teeth… We’ll see,” Rodriguez said. .
We have communicated these special considerations from local authorities to some of the relevant politicians who are writing and incorporating draft legislation on the rights of victims of intentional murder of families. None of the lawmakers responded to these considerations.
Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA-15), who sponsored the preliminary invoice, sent us a press release that mentioned in part: “Many murders in our country remain unsolved, battering families and communities… States will abide by congressional leadership to remain optimistic and intersecting laws. Just like solving an increasing number of murders statewide and not solved every year.”
“This law will help determine the general interest of federal legislative enforcement agencies on decades-old cold case record data and apply the latest expertise and investigative requirements,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who co-sponsored the invoice. ) mentioned in the press release.
This legislation may worry you if someone you love has gone missing or was killed in the past three years and the case remains unsolved. Over the next 12 months, law enforcement companies should create a system that allows you to submit federal cold cases to someone you like for evaluation. Investigators have six months to look into the matter before deciding whether to reopen the case.
So far, there is no information on the value of arranging the software program, or who pays for it.
For this mysterious woman, the FBI and HPD are working together on her case. Her family was unaware of her tragic end. They probably didn’t even know she was dead. However, Roger says she owns it – and can keep paying.
“We’ll find out sooner or later,” he said. “I got her drawing on my computer. I see it day in and day out. We have to know who she is. We have to start there.”
We have repeatedly reached out to Congresswomen Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18) and Sylvia Garcia (D-TX-29), who also co-sponsor the invoice, but were unable to find time for an interview Scheduling conflict. There were no comments for this story.
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