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“Right now it’s classified as a suspicious death,” said Gonzales County Sheriff Glen Sachtleben.
A Texas Department of Transportation mowing crew found the body on Farm-to-Market Road 466 near Williams Creek about 2 p.m. Friday.
“It has been there for quite some time,” the sheriff said. “Right now anything about an identity, even whether it’s male or female, would be an assumption.”
The body has been sent to the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office. A forensic anthropologist is expected to reassemble the body to help determine an identity, the sheriff said.
“We don’t have any local missing persons,” Sachtleben said. “We are in the process of running missing persons checks from the area.”
Cost is about six miles west of Gonzales on state Highway 97. It has the distinction of being the town closest to where the first shot of the Texas Revolution was fired in October 1835.