Sex doll mistaken for woman's body in wooded area near east Aldine when foul play suspected

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A death investigation quickly came to an end after a dead woman was reportedly found in a wooded area in northeast Harris County Wednesday afternoon. Two hours after notifying the public, investigators said it turned out to be a sex doll.

The Harris County Sheriff's Office said they received a call at 2:53 p.m. Deputies were dispatched to the 5800 block of Brunswick Street, where they reportedly found a woman's body.

The caller told deputies he saw a partially open bag in the woods, poked at it, and thought it was a body. When deputies arrived at the scene, they saw what appeared to be a human in the bag and suspected foul play. The sheriff's office said at that point, they were required to wait for homicide detectives and Crime Scene Investigation to arrive before continuing to investigate.

When investigators arrived at the scene, detectives opened the bag and discovered what looked like a woman's body, full size, anatomically correct, with pliable skin.

They told Eyewitness News that they noticed there was no foul smell coming from the body and called the medical examiner's office.

The medical examiner determined over a video call that it could not be a human based on the lack of decomposition. It is unclear exactly how long it took authorities to inspect the "body" before concluding that it was a woman, but it was made of silicone.

Deputies told ABC13 they cleared the scene and didn't take the sex doll with them. Video from ABC13 crews captured the fake body that appeared to be disfigured and wearing undergarments.

"False call on this one- upon closer inspection, not a body," Sheriff Ed Gonzalez tweeted about an hour after his initial post.