The Houston woman who found the body of a 12-year-old girl in an area creek spoke with FOX 26 about the 'horrifying, scary' discovery.
FOX 26 spoke with the woman who reported finding a dead body in a Houston creek. Billie Jean Jackson called the police after she discovered what she first thought was a mannequin, but it turned out to be the body of a 12-year-old girl.Jackson, visibly shaken by the incident, expressed her shock and fear. "It was horrifying, scary. You don't expect this in a small town," Jackson said. "It scared me as a mother and grandmother.
"I slowed down when I thought it was a mannequin and did a U-turn and came back and when I turned back around and realized it was actually a person I instantly called 911," Jackson said.Authorities stated that the girl left her home without her parents knowing the previous night. "The mother last saw her daughter at 10 p.m. when she put her baby to bed, and sometime between 10 and midnight, she left," Houston Mayor John Whitmire said.
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