GUILTY TX - Jubal Alexander, 24, found decapitated, Angleton, 27 April 2016

[Everyday Grace]

His Facebook shows no friends.

Working hard but had no money?
What sort of debts did he have?
Truck payment, phone payment
etc.

Works at a chemical plant. Did things ever go missing? Chemicals...etc...

When did anyone know he was missing? Maybe he has a history of absences from work. FB says he was engaged. Tough to marry a man who lives in a truck. (But then, do we know that for sure?)

Needed fingerprints to identify him. Makes sense. Someone could have exchanged DL with him and or truck registration if there was one. You need a positive ID.

Does Texas fingerprint people before getting a DL or is it just one fingerprint that goes on the license? LE would need a fingerprint examiner to compare the prints.

How was the beheading done?
Was he dead before he was beheaded. Any other damages to the body? Did it appear there was a struggle? Was the beheading done in the truck?

Was the place where he was found a normal place for him to go to? Did others know about this place?

Posts to FB were interesting. Especially the one with Jeff Daniels on the greatness of America. Seems rather timely. Don't know what movie that was from, however.

Lots of unanswered questions.

JMO

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The "greatest in the world" bit is from the HBO series "The Newsroom."

 

[SurfieTX]

On Facebook, you can set your preferences to show your friends' list to friends only. This is why you see no friends listed. I have mine locked up like that. The only thing a random person can see on mine is the background and profile picture. That's it. Everything else (friends list, photos, posts, etc.) are for friends only (and not friends of friends, which you can do that too).

 

[KaylaraOwl]

My little brother works on the railroad as a line man about 2 hours north of us. He will sometimes sleep in his car after a shift because he's exhausted and it's not safe to drive like that. Maybe he was sleeping in his car because of something like that?

 

[watcher9]

This place seemed to be secluded. Nowhere near the coastline. I wouldn't think there would be any criminal like activities to witness.
Didn't even think about him not being killed in the truck. A lot of blood unless he was killed earlier, brought back to the truck and then beheaded? Did he go with someone else and leave his truck? Did someone else drive his truck back to this place? I wonder if there was blood in the back of the truck?
I wish we had an update.

 

[Razz]

On Facebook, you can set your preferences to show your friends' list to friends only. This is why you see no friends listed. I have mine locked up like that. The only thing a random person can see on mine is the background and profile picture. That's it. Everything else (friends list, photos, posts, etc.) are for friends only (and not friends of friends, which you can do that too).

So, if I were to go to your FB, would it say "No Friends"? I saw that on someone's FB and thought, how sad.

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[Razz]

The requirement for fingerprints is a single index finger.

There was a 13-month period of time from 1-2014 to 2-2015 when a full set was collected for folks getting a new license, a renewal, or a state identification card.





http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/...fingerprints-drivers-license-applicants.html/

Hmmmm....I wonder what they said to the people who balked about having both hands printed.
I would have balked.

And why do they need a single digit print? Are they planning/or do they now use that as a swipe identification?

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[Everyday Grace]

My little brother works on the railroad as a line man about 2 hours north of us. He will sometimes sleep in his car after a shift because he's exhausted and it's not safe to drive like that. Maybe he was sleeping in his car because of something like that?

Something like that.

My understanding is that he did not want to spend money on a place to stay in Brazoria County between his long shifts.

My guess is that it was too far (approx.130 miles) with too much Houston traffic in between Brazoria County and Port Arthur to make that "commute" between every long shift.

Maybe something like: Work, eat, sleep, eat, work. Repeat as necessary.

I'm figuring there may have been shower facilities where he worked or maybe he was close enough to a truck stop with shower facilities.

 

[sherbetjello]

So, we can assume that if Jubai hasn't been heard from since the 27th of April that it's possible he and his girlfriend had broken up? I am finding the 27th of April - 3rd of May to be a big issue if the girlfriend was still in the picture. For me, that means a missing persons report should have been filed on the 28th or 29th. Also, no one where he worked noticed he was missing and filed a report? I guess work isn't as big of a deal as a girlfriend would be, but as you can see this time frame, these five days, really bug me for some reason.

 

[Everyday Grace]

http://www.arklatexhomepage.com/new...was-found-in-truck-originally-from-east-texas

A man whose headless body was found inside a vehicle in Brazoria County is originally from the East Texas area.

Alexander, who attended Sabine High School, had moved to Port Arthur and worked as a pipefitter at a south East Texas refinery.

Okay, a refinery. That sorta narrows it down.

Sabine High School has a Gladewater address, but it is said to be in the unicorporated town of Liberty City. It is located in Gregg County in East Texas.

A candlelight vigil will be held Saturday, May 21, at 26794 FM 2004 in Angleton to honor Alexander's passing.

The article also provides a link to a Go Fund Me account.

 

[Everyday Grace]

Alexander's father, who is also named Jubal Alexander, is from the Kilgore area and owns a business there. Monday, Alexander issued a plea to help find his son's killer.

http://www.newswest9.com/story/31994601/port-arthur-man-found-decapitated-has-east-texas-ties

 

[Lilibet]

This article states that his body was found April 27. That's what the thread title says too. But all other articles say he was last seen the morning of April 27 and found the evening of May 3. So is there a gap between last seen and found dead or not?

Jubal's father says that his son received an extra check that would have enabled him to stay in a hotel, but he chose to save it. Instead, he slept during the day under an underpass next to an RV park. He had been staying there a couple of weeks while he often worked 12 hour days, 7 days a week.

I wonder if anyone in the RV park heard anything or were questioned, assuming they weren't long gone. Was he using RV park facilities? If Jubal slept during the day, did this murder happen during the day? That seems strange.

http://www.newschannel10.com/story/...elief-over-sons-decapitation-near-port-arthur

 

[Everyday Grace]

Date of discovery. Unnngh.

For now, I'm tentatively sticking with the May 3 discovery date as originally stated in the May 13 reports; they appear to have come from the Brazoria County Sheriff's Department via a press release:

Press release from the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office:

On 05/03/2016, at approximately 6:00 pm, Brazoria County Sheriff's Deputies responded to the Austin Bayou Boat ramp on FM 2004.

http://kfdm.com/news/local/port-arthur-mans-headless-body-found-in-brazoria-county

I am putting a mental asterisk on that information because of the April 27 discovery date reported by Longview-Tyler television station, KLTV.

http://m.kltv.com/kltv/db/330566/content/9f2FWhSM

The RV park near the boat ramp/overpass is On the Bayou RV Park:

http://www.onthebayourv.com/

The Brazosport Facts newspaper (based in Clute in Brazoria County) says the deceased Jubal Alexander was working as a contractor at the INEOS Chocolate Bayou facility.

ALVIN — Police have been unable to determine what happened to a 24-year-old INEOS contract employee after finding his headless body.

http://thefacts.com/news/article_f497fe4c-7a2c-53f1-88e3-f2c6ec2904b3.html

(Subscription only, but if you look quickly you can read where it specifies the Chocolate Bayou facility.)

That facility is approximately 10 miles from On the Bayou RV Park where Alexander was likely using shower and other facilities. Appears to be a very convenient location to the plant.

I recalculated distance from Port Arthur to the INEOS plant: approximately 123 miles/2.x hour trip that avoids the center of Houston.

Still a minimum 4.x hour round trip if one were to commute and still more or less through part of the greater metropolitan Houston traffic.

I also want to make note that one of the original May 13 reports provided a somewhat specific time frame for the "last seen" on April 27 information:

Alexander was last seen in the city of Angleton on April 27 in the morning hours.

http://m.panews.com/2016/05/13/pa-mans-headless-body-found-in-brazoria-county/

I think I will take a "wait and see" attitude as to accuracy of any time line information at this point.

 

[watcher9]

Date of discovery. Unnngh.

For now, I'm tentatively sticking with the May 3 discovery date as originally stated in the May 13 reports; they appear to have come from the Brazoria County Sheriff's Department via a press release:



http://kfdm.com/news/local/port-arthur-mans-headless-body-found-in-brazoria-county

I am putting a mental asterisk on that information because of the April 27 discovery date reported by Longview-Tyler television station, KLTV.

http://m.kltv.com/kltv/db/330566/content/9f2FWhSM

The RV park near the boat ramp/overpass is On the Bayou RV Park:

http://www.onthebayourv.com/

The Brazosport Facts newspaper (based in Clute in Brazoria County) says the deceased Jubal Alexander was working as a contractor at the INEOS Chocolate Bayou facility.



http://thefacts.com/news/article_f497fe4c-7a2c-53f1-88e3-f2c6ec2904b3.html

(Subscription only, but if you look quickly you can read where it specifies the Chocolate Bayou facility.)

That facility is approximately 10 miles from On the Bayou RV Park where Alexander was likely using shower and other facilities. Appears to be a very convenient location to the plant.

I recalculated distance from Port Arthur to the INEOS plant: approximately 123 miles/2.x hour trip that avoids the center of Houston.

Still a minimum 4.x hour round trip if one were to commute and still more or less through part of the greater metropolitan Houston traffic.

I also want to make note that one of the original May 13 reports provided a somewhat specific time frame for the "last seen" on April 27 information:



http://m.panews.com/2016/05/13/pa-mans-headless-body-found-in-brazoria-county/

I think I will take a "wait and see" attitude as to accuracy of any time line information at this point.

Wow! That was a bunch of info you found. Thank you for digging around and posting.

 

[Lilibet]

Date of discovery. Unnngh.

For now, I'm tentatively sticking with the May 3 discovery date as originally stated in the May 13 reports; they appear to have come from the Brazoria County Sheriff's Department via a press release:

http://kfdm.com/news/local/port-arthur-mans-headless-body-found-in-brazoria-county

I am putting a mental asterisk on that information because of the April 27 discovery date reported by Longview-Tyler television station, KLTV.

http://m.kltv.com/kltv/db/330566/content/9f2FWhSM

The RV park near the boat ramp/overpass is On the Bayou RV Park:

http://www.onthebayourv.com/

The Brazosport Facts newspaper (based in Clute in Brazoria County) says the deceased Jubal Alexander was working as a contractor at the INEOS Chocolate Bayou facility.

http://thefacts.com/news/article_f497fe4c-7a2c-53f1-88e3-f2c6ec2904b3.html

(Subscription only, but if you look quickly you can read where it specifies the Chocolate Bayou facility.)

That facility is approximately 10 miles from On the Bayou RV Park where Alexander was likely using shower and other facilities. Appears to be a very convenient location to the plant.

I recalculated distance from Port Arthur to the INEOS plant: approximately 123 miles/2.x hour trip that avoids the center of Houston.

Still a minimum 4.x hour round trip if one were to commute and still more or less through part of the greater metropolitan Houston traffic.

I also want to make note that one of the original May 13 reports provided a somewhat specific time frame for the "last seen" on April 27 information:

http://m.panews.com/2016/05/13/pa-mans-headless-body-found-in-brazoria-county/

I think I will take a "wait and see" attitude as to accuracy of any time line information at this point.

Thanks for your excellent analysis. I'm inclined to think May 3 is the accurate date too, but April 27 in the one article got my attention and is a head scratcher, as is the date on the thread.

I think Jubal probably showered at work after his shift, but after wondering if the On the Bayou RV Park could be where Jubal showered, etc. I looked it up. I've stayed in a lot of RV parks in about eight years of full-time RVing back in the day. This appears to be a well run facility, and I doubt they would knowingly allow a guy living out of his truck to bathe or use the restroom there daily. There is a restroom in the main office, so I suppose he might get by with that occasionally. However, if he had a friend staying there, he could have used the shower in their RV without a problem. They do rent spaces on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, so there could be some workers living there. But if a friend lived there, wouldn't the friend miss him before May 3? Or perhaps the hypothetical friend thought he had gone home for a few days.

http://www.onthebayourv.com/rules--regulations.html

I'm sure LE is also checking to see if any fellow workers living at the RV park could have had it in for Jubal.

 

[Lilibet]

Here is a FB page for the INEOS Chocolate Bayou facility where Jubal worked. Employees post here, raving about the money. There seems to be a lot of camaraderie. The place has a gym, so there would be showers. I didn't see any posts by or about Jubal.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/INEOS-Chocolate-Bayou/108770512515021

 

[Everyday Grace]

Thanks for your excellent analysis. I'm inclined to think May 3 is the accurate date too, but April 27 in the one article got my attention and is a head scratcher, as is the date on the thread.

I think Jubal probably showered at work after his shift, but after wondering if the On the Bayou RV Park could be where Jubal showered, etc. I looked it up. I've stayed in a lot of RV parks in about eight years of full-time RVing back in the day. This appears to be a well run facility, and I doubt they would knowingly allow a guy living out of his truck to bathe or use the restroom there daily. There is a restroom in the main office, so I suppose he might get by with that occasionally. However, if he had a friend staying there, he could have used the shower in their RV without a problem. They do rent spaces on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, so there could be some workers living there. But if a friend lived there, wouldn't the friend miss him before May 3? Or perhaps the hypothetical friend thought he had gone home for a few days.

http://www.onthebayourv.com/rules--regulations.html

I'm sure LE is also checking to see if any fellow workers living at the RV park could have had it in for Jubal.

I've stayed in RV parks where they will permit people not renting a space to use their showers for a small price.

I think it's possible that other contractors at the plant could have been staying at that RV park. It does look like a nice park and it is close to the plant. I haven't looked around the area to see what other RV parks are close by, but I suspect there are probably others considering the petrochemical industry and the wildlife refuges.

I think it's also a possibility that the plant had locker room facilities with showers.

I get the impression from some of what his father has said that maybe his son hadn't been working at this location for very long. Not sure about that, though.

As you said, we're still left not knowing when his absence/disappearance was noted by coworkers and/or friends.

There's a photo on some of the news reports of his pickup parked under the FM 2004 overpass. Going by the maps, the boat ramp is located on the west bank of the bayou, whereas the RV park is located on the east side.

The bayou "looks" to be navigable down to the bays off the Gulf of Mexico. Likely is is also navigable in the other direction, but who knows how far. I'm not a boat person so I wouldn't know where to look to determine that information with any certainty.

The May 13 reports indicate that the search for his head included searching in the water.

I suppose it would be possible for the assailant(s) to have arrived/departed by boat.

The "why" of a deliberate decapitation seems almost beyond comprension, much less the "how," the "where," and the "who."

The "when" would almost have to be during daylight hours if it occurred between his shifts, or at least an abduction during daylight if for some inconceivable reason he was killed elsewhere and his body and possibly his truck were returned to that spot.

Incomprehensible and inconceivable to consider.

Deliberately so, or an act by a totally crazed mind?

 

[Everyday Grace]

FWIW, I was able to capture this from the Brazosport paper:

The sheriff's office did not publicly release any information prior to Thursday [May 12] because of the ongoing investigation and sensitive nature of the case, [BCSO Captain] Kincheloe said.

The article also says they found no tools that were possible used, no alcohol or drugs, and no money "in or around" the vehicle.

They said he had no criminal background and nothing in his history.

I beg to differ on that last point.

Can't go there within TOS, but it's there. Not anything I can see that he has done, but who he is.

 

[watcher9]

FWIW, I was able to capture this from the Brazosport paper:



The article also says they found no tools that were possible used, no alcohol or drugs, and no money "in or around" the vehicle.

They said he had no criminal background and nothing in his history.

I beg to differ on that last point.

Can't go there within TOS, but it's there. Not anything I can see that he has done, but who he is.

You would think he would have some money to eat?
Maybe there was some money he had been saving and it was taken when he was killed?
It would be interesting to know when his pay day was and if his paycheck was automatically deposited or did he cash it?
Maybe someone was watching while he did his transaction? Could it be on video?

 

[Everyday Grace]

You would think he would have some money to eat?
Maybe there was some money he had been saving and it was taken when he was killed?
It would be interesting to know when his pay day was and if his paycheck was automatically deposited or did he cash it?
Maybe someone was watching while he did his transaction? Could it be on video?

Robbery would seem a possibility.

There's this said to be attributed to his family:

The family also says their son wasn't robbed. They say Jubal's wallet was found inside his truck with cash inside along with his guitar.

http://abc13.com/news/exclusive-father-speaks-of-son-who-was-found-decapitated/1336907/

Conflicting information.

Dunno. Robbery back on the table.

 

[Razz]

Robbery would seem a possibility.

There's this said to be attributed to his family:



http://abc13.com/news/exclusive-father-speaks-of-son-who-was-found-decapitated/1336907/

Conflicting information.

Dunno. Robbery back on the table.

Do I have this right? He was living in his truck in Angleton, TX, under the bridge on FM 2004. The INEOS Chocolate Bayou Factory is nearby Angleton. His girlfriend lived in Port Arthur about 135 miles away.

If working 7 days a week, 12 hour days it would make sense to stay nearby. But why below the underpass and practically on the water. The ramp probably provided shade and some respite from all the rain. And privacy?

Who was the last to see him in Angleton on April 27, on a Wednesday in the morning and where.

About a week later on May 3, Jabal was discovered by a fisherman in his truck under the bridge. Jabal's body (sans head) was lying on the front seat. The police finally reported it on May 13 because "of the sensitivity of the case." Sensitive because of the brutality of the murder or do they suspect other things.
I wonder if Angleton is known for drugs and if so, what kind?

Did they say how long the body
had been.....deceased?

Money was in his wallet. How much and when was pay day?

One of the reasons they may take the head is so he can't be identified. Or readily identified.
Maybe to give the killer(s) more time to get away? A boat could be likely and the head dropped somewhere in the river away from where he was discovered.

They should be able to tell if he was deceased before the removal of the head. What was "the cut" like? Clean, professional? Was it by ax, wire or knife?

The reporting is very uneven. I hope we get more details soon.





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