Fort Worth Police discovered a body in the Cedar Ridge Nature Preserve on January 31 while searching the area for a 31-year-old missing person, Jocelyn Nunez.
Nunez was reported missing on January 30. Police located her vehicle the next day in a neighborhood on Grady Niblo Road, in the area of the nature preserve. Police later discovered the unidentified body in a wooded area about two miles from where Nunez’s car was found.
Nunez, a kindergarten teacher at International Leadership of Texas in Arlington, was last seen on Friday, January 28. According to police, her last known location was her home in southeast Fort Worth, close to U.S. 287 and East Maddox Avenue in the 1600 block of Belzise Terrace.
Her family stated that she often hikes at the Cedar Ridge Nature Preserve, which is about twenty-five miles away from her home, where she was last seen. According to the family, Nunez had planned to go hiking on Friday. They say she was recorded leaving her home for the hike on her Ring camera, but she never returned.
No more information has been released on the missing person case of Jocelyn Nunez or the identity of the body that was found. According to the report, Nunez is 5-foot-1 with black hair and brown eyes, and weighs 120 pounds.
Representatives from the school where Nunez is employed stated, “Our thoughts and prayers are with Ms. Nunez and her loved ones. We are supporting the investigation in any way that we can, and we hope she is quickly located and reunited with her loved ones, safe and healthy.”
