Autopsy: No ID or Cause of Death Returned on Cherokee Co. Body

RUSK � Investigators are still working to determine the identity of a decomposed body found in Cherokee County after a preliminary autopsy failed to yield any answers. According to Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office Captain John Raffield, the apparent female sent to Tyler for autopsy could not be identified. He also stated the cause of death was not determined. According to KETK, Raffield said the body will now be moved to the University of North Texas anthropology department for forensic testing. Officials will attempt to link the body to a missing Angelina County woman, 33-year-old Sheila Ann Morton. She was last seen in Huntington on June 2.

Meanwhile, deputies in Cherokee County are working to pin down when mowers and tractors spraying herbicide were definitively in the area of the body. The decomposed body was found by a TxDOT mowing crew at around 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday near the city of Wells off Highway 69 and County Road 2620. Authorities said the median where she was discovered was last mowed sometime in June.