Police still don't know how a woman ended up in a cardboard box last weekend near an Irving landfill, but the first person to find the woman is describing the bizarre scene to NBC 5.
A community service worker said he had just arrived at the landfill Saturday morning when he saw a large box and tried to pick it up and move it.
That’s when he discovered there was a woman inside, alive.
“I lifted the box a little and saw a woman and immediately dropped the box. I then gathered my bearings and opened the box a little more and asked ‘Are you OK? Hello, are you OK?’” said the worker, who did not want to be identified.
The woman moaned.
“I asked again, ‘Do you need help?' She moaned like she said no,” he added.
The worker rushed to the landfill office and told the folks there to call 911. An ambulance arrived minutes later.
“She was half-dressed with scuff marks on her knees, and she didn't have any shoes on,” the worker said.
Just a couple of hours before the Saturday morning discovery, a missing persons report was filed in Dallas.
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The woman had last been seen at a Dallas nightclub Friday night with a girlfriend. According to the report, she was intoxicated.
The friend went to get the car, leaving the victim with a man they had just met. When the friend returned, the woman was gone, only to be discovered hours later at the landfill.
Police have little clues to go on right now. They took the woman to get examined for sexual assault. Early exams did not show signs of rape, but results are still pending.
