Houston Police investigators are awaiting the results of a forensic examination of a badly-burned body found in a ditch early this morning to see if it is the body of missing 12-year-old Jonathan Foster.
Foster was last seen Friday afternoon around 2 p.m. near his home on Houston’s near northside.
The body was found by a passerby in a culvert along the 1500 block of Schilder in northeast Houston around 9:30 a.m. today.
The body was believed to be that of a child about 3-feet tall, but was so badly burned the gender could not be immediately determined. The area around the body was not burned, leading to the theory the victim was burned elsewhere and dumped in the ditch.
The body was taken to the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office for identification. Meanwhile, the search for Foster is continuing.
Earlier today, police said the boy’s mother had received a “mysterious” phone call about the time the boy was last seen, but did not reveal the nature of the phone call.
On Friday, Foster was staying with a babysitter near North Shepherd and 43rd Street when he left to go to his family’s nearby apartment to get some video games. That was the last time he was seen.
Authorities issued an Amber Alert for Foster just after 6 p.m. Monday.
HPD homicide investigators were called in to assist in the questioning of possible witnesses.
Detectives seized a computer from Foster’s home in an effort to determine if the boy had been in contact with anyone online prior to his disappearance.
When last seen, Foster was wearing a tan-colored T-shirt with the images of a guitar and musical notes on it, blue jeans and black and white tennis shoes with a red stripe. He also had a gray zip-up hoodie style jacket.
Foster is a Caucasian male, 4-feet 8-inches to 5-feet tall, weighing about 100 pounds. He has reddish or light brown hair and blue eyes. He was also described as having a noticeable overbite and a scar on his left foot.
The boy sometimes goes by the nickname “JP.”
Texas Equusearch has been combing the area with volunteers on foot and ATVs, searching for signs of the boy.
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