Human skeletal remains that were recovered from a vacant lot in Texas have been positively identified as a 42-year-old mother-of-five who had gone missing in August 2016.
The Liberty County Sheriff's Office said that the some of the remains were initially unearthed by a property owner on August 28, 2016.
Following a two-day search, police were able to recover 85 per cent of the body, which was then sent to the Jefferson County Medical Examiner's Office for analysis.
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Closure and questions: Esmeralda Pargas-Nunez (left and right), 42, went missing in Houston, Texas, on August, 3, 2016. Her skeletal remains were found three weeks later, but the positive identification has only recently been announced by police
Resting place: The woman's body was discovered on August 28, 2016, on this vacant property in north Liberty County, Texas
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ShareDNA testing has now confirmed that the remains belonged to Esmeralda Pargas-Nunez, 42, of Houston. No cause of death has been released.
Family friend Flavio Salinas previously told Channel 2 News that Pargas-Nunez worked as the Snow Flake Donut & Deli shop on Interstate 45 at Gulf Bank Road.
On August 3, 2016, the single mother-of-five was supposed to meet up with a woman she met through work at a Houston park. The female acquaintance later said Pargas-Nunez never made it.
Police were able to recover Pargas-Nunez’s abandoned blue-green 2011 GMC Arcadia SUV, which was found in Spring, Texas. It was locked, and the keys and cell phone were missing.
Loved ones said the single mother-of-five was supposed to meet up with a woman she had met through work at a Houston park but never showed up
As of Tuesday afternoon, no arrests have been made in connection to Pargas-Nunez's disappearance and death.
As KTRK first reported, on the eve of the first anniversary of her disappearance last summer, one of Pargas-Nunez’s five daughters wrote a post on the Missing Pieces Network's Facebook page.
It read: ‘It still hurts as if it was just yesterday. I still wish this was all a dream. We don't lose faith that one day my mom will return back and we will be a family again.’
A cash reward is being offered to anyone with information on the case.
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