Every day for the past 27 years, Becky Sager Guess prayed about the whereabouts of her 30-year-old brother, who vanished after making a withdrawal from a northwest Harris County bank on June 7, 1984. <\/p>\n
She feared for her brother, George \"Bud\" Sager Jr., but says police refused to investigate his disappearance as a missing persons case. Sager's pickup was discovered abandoned at a Conroe shopping center on July 3, but no clues were found in the truck, Guess said. <\/p>\n
\"It was devastating to me,\" said Guess, of Warren, Ark. \"I didn't know what to do or where to go.\" <\/p>\n
So she and other family members waited. <\/p>\n
Guess finally got some answers in November after Thomas Duroy, a Montgomery County cold case squad detective, learned through DNA tests that a skull discovered in Walker County in 1989 was that of her brother, a former Harris County employee. <\/p>\n
Guess had contacted Duroy after seeing a cable news program about cold case investigations. <\/p>\n
\"I just couldn't give up,\" said Guess, 60. \"He was my little brother. I loved him.\" <\/p>\n
Duroy said he was intrigued by the unique circumstances of the case. <\/p>\n
Someone collecting cans discovered the skull along Interstate 45 on Dec. 18, 1989, and reported it, he said. <\/p>\n
Inside the skull was a note. It said the skull was found in the woods but that the author could not get involved. Police have a scanned copy of the note, but haven't determined who wrote it. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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