The body of a murdered woman was discovered in the San Felipe Cemetery this morning.
“We have a ‘Jane Doe,’ and we are working the crime scene at this time,” Val Verde County Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez told the 830 Times at the scene shortly after noon today.
Martinez said he has requested the assistance of the Texas Department of Public Safety Texas Rangers.
“Since it’s a Jane Doe, we’re trying to limit the information going out, but we need to get a message out somehow in case somebody’s missing a family member, to help us identify this individual and allow us to move forward with our investigation,” the sheriff said.
Martinez said VVSO Sgt. Yesenia Flores was dispatched to the San Felipe Cemetery off Brodbent Avenue about 9 a.m. after the sheriff’s office was notified about the body.
The sheriff’s office patrol deputies secured the crime scene, while sheriffs office investigators began their work examining the area around the body.
The body was discovered lying along a road just inside the cemetery’s southwestern perimeter.
Martinez said the body had clear signs of foul play, but declined to go into detail in what those were.
Martinez said the body will be transported to the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office in San Antonio for an autopsy to determine the official cause and manner of death.
Martinez estimated the woman “was in her middle to late 20s, early 30s at most.”
Martinez also said at the moment it appears “ there’s a chance the crime might have occurred here.”
