A woman who disappeared when Hurricane Harvey flooded the city has been linked to the human remains found by crews cleaning up a backyard in southeast Houston.
Miranda Rodriguez, a woman who disappeared before Hurricane Harvey, was identified as the skeleton found burned in a Houston BBQ pit, police say.The burned skeletal remains found in a backyard BBQ pit last July have been identified as belonging to Miranda Rodriguez.
Rodriguez, 24, was reported missing in August 2017. Her family last heard from her right before Hurricane Harvey flooded the city, and ABC13 was with her parents as they searched for her in the days following the storm. On July 12, 2022, a man hired to clean up the backyard at a home on Peach Creek Drive in southeast Houston found the bones, described as a full skeleton, in a built-in BBQ pit. Investigators said the bones had been burned.SEE MORE:The identification took almost a year. Houston police confirm that over the weekend, they notified Rodriguez's father.The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences lists both cause and manner of death as "undetermined.
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