THE mystery of a woman’s dead body found floating in a trash can continues after her family believes someone has “hit” her.
No arrests have been made in the death of 31-year-old Shelby Vercher as officials are still trying to figure out how she died.
Houston police won’t say if malicious intent was involved, but her father is sure someone killed his daughter.
David Vercher, also known as Coy, said his daughter’s body was found in a closed garbage can in Buffalo Bayou.
He added that he met Shelby in a park Tuesday morning to catch up and get coffee, something they did quite often.
“She said to me, ‘Daddy, someone made fun of me’,” David Vercher told ABC 13.
It was one of the last conversations he had with his daughter, hours before she was found in the bayou, but Shelby wouldn’t say who she thought was trying to kill her.
“No, Daddy, it’s going to be okay… apparently it’s not going to be okay. Apparently she told me the truth. Someone hit her. I plan to find out who,’ said David.
“[First responders] found this container floating with my daughter in it. My daughter may be a lot, but she wasn’t garbage.”
The day father and daughter met at the park, Shelby told her to run some errands.
“She said, ‘Daddy, I have to come here to get my mail,'” David said. “I’m going to get my things, and I’m going to West Oaks Hospital and then to Santa Maria.” She never made it.”
Shelby, a mother of three, had returned to the Houston area, according to her father, after previously living in Tennessee.
“[She] would do anything in the world for anyone. There was nothing selfish about her. Nothing,’ said David.
“She tried to get her life back on track, but it was cut short.”
Her father hopes someone will say something when they have information about Shelby’s death.
“Someone has to pay on his behalf,” he said.
A GoFundMe was created by Shelby’s father for her latest releases.
“I would like her to be buried with our family in East Texas, but I have a steady income and it is beyond my means,” David wrote in the description.
The fundraiser has a goal of $7,500.