The mother of a Navy veteran is seeking answers after her son's body was discovered in his Texas apartment where officials said he had been dead for 3 years.
By April 2017, when she could not reach him on his birthday, she said she knew something was wrong. Voicemail messages to his phone went unanswered, she said.
"They asked how old my son was and I told them and they said, 'You can't make a missing person report for a grown up,'" she said.She said she knew that was untrue so she traveled from her home in Shreveport, Louisiana, to Dallas and visited both police departments multiple times. Stevens, who lives on a fixed income, said she then tried unsuccessfully to convince her family members to pool money to hire a private investigator who could inquire with the State Department when her son's passport was last used and to look into his financial activity.
Stevens said she traveled last week to Dallas to visit the medical examiner's office. She said she asked the medical examiner how long her son had been dead. When he told her three years, she said her knees gave way.The medical examiner's office said a cause of death is not yet known and an autopsy with toxicology results can take up to 90 days.
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