On January 4th, rangers were contacted by the Del Rio Police Department concerning the case of a missing young woman. Police detectives had met with the missing woman?s common law husband and were treating him as a prime suspect in the disappearance. The man took the detectives to the Diablo East viewpoint area within the park and told them that he had come to the area because he felt this was where his wife was located. Rangers and detectives conducted a shoreline search by boat that day but did not find anything of consequence to the case. On January 6th, rangers were contacted by the detectives, who requested a more extensive search in the lake area. A briefing was held later that day with agents and officers from the Del Rio Police Department, Val Verde County Sheriff?s Department, FBI, Border Patrol, ICE, Texas Department of Public Safety, and the National Park Service. Early that afternoon, Border Patrol agents and a Del Rio detective were searching from a boat near the end of Spur Road 454 and discovered a body in the water believed to be that of the missing woman. The body and evidence were recovered by the Val Verde Sheriff?s Department. The body was sent to the Bexar County medical examiner?s office for an autopsy and was positively identified as the body of the missing woman. The death was ruled a homicide. The National Park Service is assisting in the investigation.
