The body found inside a submerged SUV in Texas on Tuesday has been positively identified as a mother of three who went missing last month, investigators said. The Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the body as Erica Hernandez on Wednesday, a day after dive teams pulled her vehicle out from the bottom of a retention pond near Reflection Bay in Pearland, Pearland police said. VEHICLE OF MISSING TEXAS MOM ERICA HERNANDEZ PULLED FROM POND, BODY FOUND INSIDE, POLICE SAYHernandez, 40, was last seen the morning of April 18 when she left a friend’s house in the 6000 block of Benning Drive in Houston. Investigators believed the SUV was submerged for an extended period of time, likely since the night Hernandez disappeared. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPHernandez’s family gathered at the pond where she was found in the hours after her body was identified, KHOU-TV reported.

Source: Fox News May 13, 2021 13:52 UTC