Texas EquuSearch volunteers and the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office had the grim task of recovering a vehicle and body from the Trinity River south of the FM 787 bridge in Romayor on Sunday. The body is believed to be 48-year-old Jennifer Ann Scott-Perkins of Houston.
Scott-Perkins disappeared on Jan. 2 not long after she left a friend’s house in Shepherd. The last known location of the missing woman was FM 787 in Romayor and is based on where her cell phone pinged on radio towers before falling silent.
The vehicle, a gray Chrysler 200, was located by sonar during a search on Jan. 27, but at the time the Trinity River was high from flooding rains, so the search was called off until conditioned improved. On Sunday, Feb. 17, crews returned, launching their boat from Horseshoe Lake Estates north of FM 787.
An hour into the search Sunday, sonar relocated and secured the vehicle. Santa Fe, Texas-based diver Mark Jansen braved the frigid and murky water to verify the vehicle was the make and model of the missing woman. Inside the vehicle, he found the body of a woman believed to be Scott-Perkins.
Around 5 p.m., the vehicle was pulled to shore by a wrecker truck where Pct. 5 Justice of the Peace Wade Brown was standing by to make the pronouncement of death before her body was taken from the scene by Pace-Stancil Funeral Home.
Authorities believe the body is Scott-Perkins and that she intentionally drove into the river; however, an autopsy may provide more clues and a positive identification.
A sheet obscures the remains of a body found in a Chrysler 200 that was pulled from the Trinity River at Romayor on Sunday. The body is believed to be a missing Houston woman, Jennifer Ann Scott-Perkins. 
Dozens of vehicles lined FM 787 and the bank leading to the Trinity River at the FM 787 bridge on Sunday where a recovery was made of a vehicle and body belonging to a missing Houston woman, Jennifer Ann Scott-Perkins. 
Houston Police Department Homicide Detective Gordon Sullivan (left) talks to Tim Miller with Texas EquuSearch on Sunday as the car of a missing Houston woman, Jennifer Ann Scott-Perkins, was pulled from the Trinity River in Romayor. Inside the vehicle, law enforcement found a body believed to be Scott-Perkins. 
A Texas EquuSearch member named Paulie recovers a purse believed to belong to Jennifer Ann Scott-Perkins. The missing Houston woman’s car was recovered from the Trinity River on Sunday near Romayor. Inside the car authorities found a body believed to be the missing woman. 
Liberty County Pct. 5 Justice of the Peace Wade Brown stands alongside a representative of Pace-Stancil Funeral Home as a vehicle and body are pulled from the Trinity River at Romayor. Pictured next to them is Game Warden Lauren Iles and in the background is Liberty County Sheriff’s Detective Steve Rasberry and Deputy Chance Maddox. 
Divers ready equipment to aid in the search for a missing Houston woman, Jennifer Ann Scott-Perkins. 
Authorities discuss the best way to recover a vehicle and body that were submerged about 30 feet into the Trinity River south of the FM 787 in Romayor. 
Search teams had to traverse the steep banks of the Trinity River to reach a boat that was launched Sunday in Horseshoe Lake Estates. The boat was used to help recover the body and vehicle belonging to a missing Houston woman, Jennifer Ann Scott-Perkins. 
Santa Fe, Texas-based diver Mark Jensen spent a couple of hours in the cold Trinity River water on Sunday. Jensen helped confirm the vehicle belonged to a missing Houston woman, Jennifer Ann Scott-Perkins, and then tied cables to the vehicle so it could be recovered. 
A piece of the car belonging to a missing Houston woman floats downstream where it was recovered by Chief Rick Hall with Cape Area Fire Department and a volunteer with the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. 
The vehicle of a missing Houston woman emerges from the murky Trinity River south of the FM 787 bridge near Romayor. Inside the vehicle, police found a body believed to be Jennifer Ann Scott-Perkins. 
The vehicle of a missing Houston woman, Jennifer Ann Scott-Perkins, was upside down in the Trinity River and silted in when it was found by recovery crews. 
A Chrysler 200 was recovered from the Trinity River on FM 787 in Romayor on Sunday. Before recovery crews could get the vehicle up the steep bank, they first had to move a tree that had washed ashore during recent flooding. 
Sonar equipment operated by Team Watters located the vehicle of a missing Houston woman several weeks ago, but at the time the river was high so the recovery was postponed until Sunday, Feb. 17. 
Tim Miller (second from the right) came out to aid in the recovery of a missing Houston woman on Sunday in Liberty County. Her vehicle was found south of the FM 787 Trinity River Bridge. Inside the vehicle, authorities found a body believed to be the missing woman, Jennifer Ann Scott-Perkins. Overseeing the operation for the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office were Detective Steve Rasberry (left) and Capt. Ken DeFoor (right). 
Rescue crews located the vehicle of a missing Houston woman, Jennifer Ann Scott-Perkins, on Sunday in the Trinity River just south of the FM 787 bridge in Romayor.
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