[texas booster]

On July 25, 2025, a detective from the Redding Police Department contacted the decedent’s son, who explained that after many years without contact, a private investigator was hired to search for Velma. When the private investigator was unable to provide proof of life after 2003-2004 the family assumed she had passed away, and she was later declared legally deceased.

She was missing a long time before declared legally deceased. Born in 1936? Hope that it doesn't happen to me.

[Chewbarkah]

I’m glad Velma Lee’s remains have been identified, but unless I missed something the case is far from solved. She didn’t bury herself by an irrigation canal. “Solved” means determining who, what, when, why, how, etc.