{"id":799780,"date":"2026-05-16T04:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/799780\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T04:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:32:21","slug":"family-demands-answers-after-womans-body-found-in-strangers-apartment-hpd-reopens-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/799780\/","title":{"rendered":"Family demands answers after woman\u2019s body found in stranger\u2019s apartment, HPD reopens case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 A Houston family is speaking out months after discovering their loved one\u2019s body was found inside a stranger\u2019s apartment \u2014 and KPRC 2 News has learned the case, which was previously closed, is now back under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Houston Police say 34-year-old Brittany Gamble was found dead inside an apartment in November. The family was told last month the case was closed and no crime was found. But just before 5 p.m. Thursday, HPD confirmed to KPRC 2 News reporter Corley Peel that the investigation is open and that detectives are reviewing information and evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Corley spoke with Gamble\u2019s sister, Rebekah Falke, who says disturbing videos allegedly documented by the man before and after Gamble\u2019s death raise serious questions about what happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cIt was just so disturbing and it\u2019s a nightmare,\u201d Falke said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to Falke, Gamble was admitted to St. Joseph\u2019s Medical Center in downtown Houston on November 17 for altered mental status. She suffered from Type 1 diabetes and epilepsy. Falke says Gamble was released from the hospital without family members being notified.<\/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 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The family reported Gamble missing. Roughly 10 days later, they learned the medical examiner already had her body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThey suspected that she had possibly been dead for multiple days prior to the discovery of her body,\u201d Falke said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Desperate for answers, family members searched a Metro-related Facebook page and found what they believe is a critical clue, a Facebook Live video of a man filming Gamble at a Metro station after she left the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cIt just so happened to be that when she ended up on the Facebook page, this man had Facebook Live\u2019d Brittany at the Metro station,\u201d Falke said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">In the video, Gamble can be heard saying, \u201cGet home\u2026 need to get some water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Falke says that was the last video of her sister alive. Other videos on the man\u2019s page, the family says, appear to show Gamble after her death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe watched like a four-hour video where he is literally laying beside her body on this air mattress, sleeping beside my sister\u2019s deceased body,\u201d Falke said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The family also noticed a ball of Gamble\u2019s hair placed near a Bible inside the apartment. They said her face was gray and lifeless. The man was heard making disturbing comments and even seen changing Gamble\u2019s clothes, according to Falke. She said the man eventually called 911 and Gamble\u2019s body was removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The autopsy results were listed as undetermined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The man has not been arrested and has not been named as a suspect. The family was devastated when HPD told them last month the case was closed. Falke says she turned to social media to raise awareness and soon after, the case was reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI feel like getting her story out there and making sure that this never happens to other people, that\u2019s our biggest goal,\u201d Falke said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Houston Police have not named the man or identified him publicly as a suspect at this time. KPRC 2 News will continue to follow this story.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 A Houston family is speaking out months after discovering their loved one\u2019s body was found inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":799781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[195774,19292,4345,5429,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-799780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-brittany-gamble","9":"tag-death-investigation","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-police-department","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116582386745898075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799780","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=799780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}