HOUSTON – There are many unsolved killings in the Houston area, and many of the victims have not been identified.
The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences is exhuming 25 of nearly 400 bodies without names to try again to identify them.
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In 1981, two nude bodies, torn to pieces, were found two blocks apart along Wallisville Road in an area known as Lovers' Lane.
Investigators said it appeared that one of the victims had been gagged and the other had been tied up.
The victims, a man and a woman appeared to be about 25 years old and 5 feet 6 inches tall with brown hair. The man was white the woman may have been Native American.
Investigators said it is not clear how or why they were killed.
Detectives said they do not know if the man and woman knew each other.
The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences has several victims it is trying to identify.
A Hispanic man between the ages of 25 and 35 was found stabbed to death at 6500 Rusk on Jan. 18th, 2009. Investigators said the man was last seen leaving the El Cassanova Bar at 7036 Harrisburg. He was about 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighed 166 pounds. When his body was discovered, he was wearing a blue Paco Jeans brand short-sleeved shirt with orange and white horizontal stripes, Old Navy jeans and Gortex brand orange and grey colored athletic shoes.
A Hispanic man between the ages of 30 and 50 was found shot to death at 20400 Townsend in Humble on Feb. 15, 2009. At the time he was found he was wearing Levis brand jeans and a gray T-shirt bearing the words "Winners Train, Losers Complain." He was also wearing Adidas tennis shoes and was carrying a brown wallet, two black combs, a blue bandana and a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. He also has two crowns bearing the letters "A" and "E" on his two upper front teeth. He was 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighed 154 pounds. He also had multiple tattoos including a picture of Jesus on his left chest and the Virgin Mary on his right upper back.
A Hispanic man between the ages of 40 to 70 was found on Aug. 22, 2007, at 2500 S. Dairy Ashford. Police said the man was selling Houston Chronicle newspapers and was the victim of a hit-and-run driver. He was 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighed 138 pounds. People in the area knew him by the name "Rafael," but investigators do not know if this was his actual name. He was wearing blue denim pants with a brown belt with a white metal buckle.