The remains of a child found in a Texas bayou last week have been confirmed by a medical examiner as belonging to 2-year-old Nadia Lee, who had been missing since October, according to a medical examiner.
The human remains were discovered in Vince Bayou in Pasadena, Texas, by the Houston Police Department on March 20.
On Sunday, the local medical examiner’s office positively identified the body as that of Nadia Lee, reported the station KTRK.
The child’s cause and manner of death have not been disclosed as of Monday.
The toddler was last seen alive on the evening of Oct. 16. Her father, 26-year-old Jyron Lee, has since been charged with two counts of capital murder for allegedly killing his daughter, Nadia, and wife, Nancy Reed.
Police believe the man choked his wife and mom-of-six to death during an argument about her disciplinary methods inside a hotel room on the night of Oct. 18.
Lee allegedly claimed he put Reed in a chokehold because he thought she was choking one of their daughters.
When the woman became unconscious, the husband summoned police and was arrested.
During the investigation into the 22-year-old woman’s death, detectives learned that the couple’s 2-year-old daughter was last seen near Lee’s apartment in Pasadena two days earlier.
Lee claimed that Nadia vanished while he took out the trash, according to the authorities.
When cops searched the suspect’s apartment in the 300 block of South Richey Road, they discovered “a small child’s mattress on the closet floor with what appeared to be blood near the headboard,” stated court records cited by the station KPRC.
Lee was charged in his daughter’s death in December.
He remains jailed on $1.85 million bond.
Lee and Reed’s five surviving children are now in the custody of Child Protective Services.
