Overview
- Search teams discovered an unidentified woman on the banks of the Guadalupe River near the 700 block of Rusk Lane around 6 p.m. on Tuesday, June 2, while carrying out a planned search for Juliet Elizabeth Watson.
- Officials sent the recovered remains to the Comal County Medical Examiner for an autopsy and formal identification and have not confirmed the person’s identity.
- The New Braunfels Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division is leading an active investigation and is awaiting forensic results before releasing information about cause or manner of death.
- Local police and fire personnel worked together with Texas Search and Rescue and the New Braunfels Community Emergency Response Team in multiple coordinated searches of the river area after Watson was reported missing on May 26.
- Watson, 59, is a former New Braunfels city council member and the medical examiner’s findings will determine whether investigators proceed with missing-person protocols or criminal case actions that could change the focus of the inquiry.