CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A body was found Monday in a Corpus Christi water well near where a college student went missing in March.
Caleb Harris hasn't been seen since March 4, when he was last seen leaving an apartment complex near the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi campus.
"At about 12:56 Monday morning, March 4, Caleb, one of his roommates, and a mutual friend go out in the parking lot to walk the dog," Corpus Christi Police Department Assistant Chief Todd Green said. "He triggered a doorbell camera on a nearby apartment."
Corpus Christi authorities, however, said they haven't linked Harris to the body that was found in the well. They said the body had no obvious signs of foul play and they're trying to figure out how it got there, since, according to our sister station KIII, the wastewater station was locked when an employee made the discovery earlier this week. They said that means someone would have had to have a key to get into where the wet well is located.
According to KIII, the medical examiner's office wasn't able to identify the remains due to the advanced state of decomposition they were in. They also couldn't determine a manner of death. The remains were sent to another lab for DNA testing.
The search for Caleb Harris
KHOU 11 Reporter Matt Dougherty reported on Harris' disappearance in late May. At the time, law enforcement officials said they believed foul play was involved.
Green has been with the police department for almost 40 years. He said he knew something was seriously wrong from when Caleb went missing.
For months, thousands of volunteers and law enforcement officers have searched for the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi junior whose disappearance still cannot be explained.
"It’s just hard," Caleb’s father, Randy Harris, said during an interview with Dougherty in May. "It’s a parent’s worst nightmare for sure."
He's spent countless days and nights looking for his only son. Every week, he goes to Corpus Christi, sometimes searching with his brother-in-law and father-in-law, other times doing it on his own.
Randy Harris meets with detectives on each weekly trip, often returning home to the Hill Country without any new information.
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"We know that they’re doing their investigation and there’s things that they just can’t tell us," Harris said. "We would love to know more. Do we have suspects? Do we have any information? And we just don’t have that yet."
According to Green, there is information detectives have not made public out of concern its release could hinder the investigation.
"We don’t have any one single piece of evidence that points to what happened to him," Green said. "We have evidence, that when you put it all together, that suggests that there was potentially some foul play involved."
He said the team of local, state and federal authorities continues to meet on Caleb’s case at least twice weekly. In addition to the hundreds of warrants and preservation requests they continue to submit and the dozens of interviews they’re conducting, Green said police are still following up on tips from the public.