SAN ANTONIO – UPDATE: The woman found in far west Bexar County was identified by the medical examiner as 49-year-old Holly Beth Wiley.
A chilling discovery has left resident in a far west Bexar County neighborhood stunned and worried. A young man who was walking his dog Monday afternoon found a woman's body in the 13000 block of Palatine Hill.
That led to the strangest and scariest phone call one mother has ever received.
"I was actually at work and my son called me. He said, 'Mom, I think there's a dead body.'"
Lisa didn't want to give her last name or show her face on camera but she told KSAT when she heard her son's words and panicked tone, she immediately called 911.
Her son, Collin, said he found the body on the edge of a dried-up creek bed tucked in a wooded area that runs behind the neighborhood.
"There's some old beaten paths back there where people walk," Lisa said. "I came home, Collin walked me out there. I didn't cross the creek bed but I could see her laying there."
When Bexar County sheriff's deputies showed up, they told Collin and Lisa they were right. The woman was dead. Investigators believe she was in her late 20s or early 30s, and it didn't seem as if her body had been out there for a long time.
Many people in the community are now worried about walking through the wooded trail.
"Both my boys they walk the dogs back there," Lisa said. "This is a nice neighborhood. It's peaceful and beautiful and that's why we moved here. This is not a violent area."
The medical examiner has to identify the woman and determine how she died.
"I hope it was health related and not violence related. I really pray for the families involved," Lisa said.
One mother is hurting for another, somewhere out there, who will soon receive unimaginable news.
A spokesperson from the Bexar County Sheriff's Office said there are several missing people reported in that west Bexar County area, and investigators are going through those cases to see if this matches any of them.