Pregnant Woman Found Dead
By: Gary P. Carroll
and Greg Mefford
Herald Zeitung
CANYON LAKE--Comal County law enforcement officers are trying to determine
the identity of a pregnant woman whose nude body was found here Thursday.
The dark-haired woman, estimated to be approximately
19 to 25 years of age, was discovered at about 11:05 a.m. on north Cranes Mill Road, according to Detective Sgt. David
Ott of the Comal County Sheriff's Office.
A county road crew dumping brush in the area found the body "laying up
about 50 or 75 feet from the roadway",
Ott said.
The woman was tied up and a rope was found around her neck, Ott said.
The body was transported by Zoeller's Funeral Home to the Travis County
Medical Examiner's Office for an autopsy.
Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace Howard "Curly" Smith said Friday the autopsy
report revealed the cause of death as strangulation, but that the woman was tied up after her death.
Smith also said the autopsy revealed that the woman was three months pregnant.
Officials aren't certain how long the body had been at the site because
of recent rains, but Chief Deputy Elwood Hoherz said investigators don't believe the homicide occurred at the scene. "It
looked like overnight, but it probably had been within 48 hours," Ott said.
Ott said officials had no suspects in the case Thursday afternoon.
"At this point, we are still looking for the identity," Ott said.
Hoherz said officials were alerting other law enforcement departments of
the details of the case.
"We've got an all-points teletype out to all departments to see if they've
got a missing person. And we're taking fingerprints to see if she's been handled before," Hoherz said.
A special request will be made to the FBI for assistance in speeding up
the identification process, Hoherz said.
"We don't have a lot to go on," Hoherz said.
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