{"id":105958,"date":"2025-07-30T22:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/105958\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T22:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:36:14","slug":"bexar-county-medical-examiners-office-seeks-help-to-identify-man-found-in-san-antonio-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/105958\/","title":{"rendered":"Bexar County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office seeks help to identify man found in San Antonio River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The office estimates the man was between 35 and 65 years old and was approximately 6 feet, 1 inch tall <\/p>\n<p>Renderings of an unidentified male. (Bexar County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office) (Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 The Bexar County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office is asking for public assistance to identify a man whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2024\/11\/11\/kayaker-finds-body-floating-on-san-antonio-river-on-south-side\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2024\/11\/11\/kayaker-finds-body-floating-on-san-antonio-river-on-south-side\/\">body was found<\/a> in the San Antonio River last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On Nov. 11, 2024, San Antonio police said a kayaker discovered the body in the 1900 block of Probandt Street. The body was in an advanced state of decomposition, police said at the time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The medical examiner\u2019s office believes the man between 35 and 65 years old and was approximately 6 feet, 1 inch tall. They said he was either white or Hispanic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The unidentified man had several tattoos, including \u201cRafael\u201d across his back, a cross with the initials \u201cR.O.\u201d on his shoulder and \u201cMARI\u201d on his forearm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Anyone who may recognize the man or have relevant information in connection with his death is asked to contact the investigative section of the Bexar County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office at (210)-335-4011. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>More related coverage of this story on KSAT: <\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorSpencer Heath headshot<a class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__LinkBase-sc-1fnzlkn-9 eUojqd gMnWPT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/SH48BVPOEQ23109VBCZTHV\/\" title=\"View Spencer Heath&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spencer Heath<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 gnunoy bOlrXa\">Spencer Heath is a Digital Journalist at KSAT. Spencer graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied Radio-Television-Film. He\u2019s worked as a journalist in San Antonio since June of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the newsroom, he enjoys watching movies and spending time with family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The office estimates the man was between 35 and 65 years old and was approximately 6 feet, 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":105959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7288,28190,7202,7203,7725,13561,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-105958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bexar-county","10":"tag-bexar-county-medical-examiners-office","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-sanantonio","13":"tag-sapd","14":"tag-south-side","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114944578996452648","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}