Zoe Hastings was 18
PD: Teen Found Dead In Car Hanging Off Embankment Was Murdered
UPDATED | October 12, 2015 5:57 PM
October 12, 2015 1:00 PM
Police say it was just before 8:30 a.m. when they received a call about a car crashed into a creek in the 11700 block of Dixfield Drive. When officers arrived they found an 18-year-old deceased. But investigators don’t believe it was the crash that killed her, officials say the teen died as a result of “homicidal violence”.
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Zoe Hastings’ family are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Lake Highlands. She was on the way there, a family friend said, when she disappeared.
The teen’s home, the church, and the creek where she was found are located within a mile of each other.
Dallas teen who vanished on drive to church found slain next to crashed minivan
BY Nicole Hensley
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Tuesday, October 13, 2015, 9:00 AM
A Dallas teen who vanished overnight died of “obvious homicidal violence” authorities said after finding her body next to her wrecked minivan in a creek close to home.
A man emerged from the creek bed Monday morning around 8:30 a.m. to flag down a driver to the tragic scene — only to disappear, a witness recounted.
"This young man waved us down and said a girl needed our help,” Joe N told KDFW-TV of finding the woman's body. "She was on the white rock bed and when I saw the pool of blood ... and the color of her skin, I could tell she had died."