Human remains discovered in a 40-foot well near where a Texas A&M student went missing in March show “no obvious signs of homicide,” Corpus Christi Police said Wednesday.
Detectives are trying to determine how body parts discovered by Texas City Water employees on Monday afternoon wound up in the wastewater lift station — and if they belong to missing 21-year-old Caleb Harris.
Authorities have so far been unable to identify the remains “due to the advanced state of decomposition.” They’ve been sent to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification for DNA analysis.
The identification process could take up to six weeks, according to San Antonio’s NBC affiliate.
Harris, a student at 21-year-old at Texas A&M–Corpus Christi, is believed to have last been heard from on March 4 around 3 a.m. when he placed an Uber Eats order and then took a friend’s dog on a walk, according to the Beaumont Enterprise.
During that stroll, he reportedly sent several Snapchat videos to family and friends, one of which appeared to show a small bridge over a drainage ditch near his off-campus apartment, roughly a mile from Monday’s gruesome discovery.
His Uber Eats order was reportedly dropped off around 3:20 p.m. and left outside his apartment, per his request. Harris’ roommate said he found the order near their front door the following day, but couldn’t account for Harris.
His keys and wallet had been left behind in the apartment, and his truck was in the parking lot, Harris’ father said.
Police claim they scoured the area to no avail in the weeks that followed, according to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
