HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Lake Houston is home for Roger Randall. For 33 years, he’s taught disabled children and adults how to water ski and boat with his company, Texas Adaptive Aquatics. Roger is proud of this lake and the people who use it.

“We get them out of their wheelchairs, get out and have fun on the water,” Roger says as he unties the special boat with wide railings that allows people using wheelchairs to roll aboard. “Obviously, we like to keep the lake clean.”

Which is why Roger hosts a massive volunteer clean-up every year: the annual trash bash. Close to 300 adults and children come out to bag up garbage that’s drifted along the shore or tangled among debris in the rocks.

On March 24, 2018, they were doing exactly that when a woman and her daughter made a horrific discovery.

“We found her right here,” Roger says, one hand pointing to the shallow rock shore along the FM 1960 bridge, his other hand still on the helm. Our boat inches closer to the shore. “It was just a black trash bag.”

It was heavy – so heavy, the woman couldn’t lift it with her tongs she had used all morning to pick up trash. As she went to open the bag she saw the hair.

Inside the bag was a woman’s head.

“She freaked,” says Roger. “She was like, I’m out of here. She was traumatized. Jump on the boat and said take me back.”

“There was no physical evidence or nothing as far as clothing or anything like that that could help identify her,” says Houston police detective Richard Rodriguez. “According to…