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Houston Refuses Search For Missing Persons

Submerged Vehicles May Contain Secrets

The city of Houston refuses to pull vehicles that may contain missing persons out of the hundreds of miles of bayous surrounding the city.

Tim Miller, founder of a non-profit seach organization called Texas Equusearch, which has helped find hundreds of missing people, both dead and living that the police have been unable to find, wants Houston to remove vehicles located in bayous as a possible solucion to some of the cold missing persons case files.  There are over 130 targets which contain vehicles and possibly contain bodies, according to sonar experts from Equusearch.

The City of Houston says it is simply too expensive to pull all the vehicles out of the bayous.  When it comes to a missing family member, though, that is a hard argument to make with the families.  If even one of those vehicles contains a person who is missing, most families feel the cost is warranted.  There is also a significant environmental benefit to pulling vehicles loaded with toxic materials out of major waterways.

Texas Equusearch uses high technology to accomplish what police often cannot, the return of a loved one.  The organization has used sonar to locate missing people in high profile cases.  Miller's organization recently attacked the Federal Aviation Administration for it's over-regulation of drones which have been effective in finding missing people.  Ralph Baird headed the equusearch portion of a private search for the historic schooner Nina after extensive delays by New Zealand turned the potential search grid into the milkey way.

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Are Missing People In Houston Bayous?

Tim Miller, founder of Texas Eqqusearch, says there may be missing people in vehicles at the bottom of Houston Bayous.  The theory makes a lot sense.  

Miller says there are at least 127 known vehicles sitting at the bottom of the bayous.  Miller and his organization, including sonar expert Ralph Baird, have found many vehicles the city of Houston is not aware of.  While some of the vehicles may have been pushed into the bayous as a prank or a way to get rid of an unwanted clunker, certainly, not all of the vehicles qualify as pranks.

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Unfortunately, not all Houston officials are in agreement about removing the vehicles to determine whether they contain a missing person.  Houston Police Chief, Charles McClellend, says he doubts any of the 127 vehicles contains a body.

Presumably, most of the vehicles, if not all of them, contain hazardous material including oil, gasoline, acid and other chemicals which are unfriendly to the environment.  But removing the vehicles could be unfriendly to the City's pocketbook if the estimate of $500,000 to remove the vehicles proves true.  

Of course, there is the human toll which should not be forgotten.  Recovering the remains of a missing person is part of the natural grieving process.  Until the vehicles are recovered, some people will always see the bayous as a holding the secret to the disappearance of a loved one.  At that point, money should not be a consideration.

Texas Equusearch is a private, non-profit, organization which has used high technology to find people the police and military have been unable to locate.  The majority of the people Equusearch finds are alive.

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