Hmmm, no Sugar Landers here on FR? I thought we had a lot of 'em. Well, OK. There may be bad news on Ashton Glover. Her truck has been found, for one thing, but police have not released any further details on that.
Also, a female body has been found in a shallow gave near Oil Field Road and Thompson in Ft. Bend County. The Ft Bend sheriff's office is working on the ID now. Law enforcement has notified those at the search headquarters with TX EquuSearch of the possibility these discoveries are connected to Ashton's disappearance.
This was just on local TV news - I'll look for a story online.
Construction Workers Discover Woman's Body Buried South Of Sugar Land
by Bob Dunn, Jul 10, 2006, 03 00 pm
Construction workers discovered a body early Monday afternoon at a site just off of Oilfield Road in an unincorporated area south of Sugar Land.
Fort Bend County Sheriff Milton Wright said it appears the body is that of a female, and had been buried for about two days.
That roughly coincides with the length of time 16-year-old Ashton Glover of Sugar Land has been missing. However, the body hadn’t even been unearthed as of mid Monday afternoon, let alone identified, Wright said.
“The odds are it probably is” Glover, the sheriff said. “But we don’t know that.” He noted that there are “not many” people known to be missing in the area.
Glover was last seen at Friday night at University and Commonwealth boulevards in Sugar Land, “seen leaving with an unknown male in a white Toyota pickup truck,” according to information from search and rescue organization Texas EquuSearch.
Sheriff’s investigators are carefully excavating a shallow grave at a construction site about a third of a mile south of Oilfield Road on Thompson Ferry Road, and probably will not be able to completely unearth the body until this evening, sheriff’s deputies on the scene said.
Wright spoke about the discovery while standing in front of barricades and police tape preventing the public from entering Thompson Ferry from Oilfield Road. The body was found at a site where workers were laying utility lines for future residential development.
The sheriff said heavy rain in the night softened ground over a piece of heavy construction equipment, which sunk into the ground enough to unearth a portion of the body. Construction workers called the sheriff’s department upon making the discovery.
Shortly after Sheriff Wright left the crime scene, a group of Glover’s relatives tried in vain to gain access to the body.
“I just need to know if it’s her or if it’s not,” said Mark Stokes, Glover’s stepfather. “And if we should call off the search or not.”
Stokes said he had purchased a maroon 2004 Ford Ranger pickup truck for Glover, and put it in her mother’s name. That truck, which bears with license plate number 02G-NZ1, also is missing.
Wright said he had information that a vehicle had been recovered in Sugar Land, but had no further details. Sugar Land police were unable to confirm it.