This year's figure matches the 24 bodies Houston Police Chief Noe Diaz said were recovered from bayous last year. The Chronicle has requested but not received 10 years of related data from the medical examiner.
Who are the victims?
The county medical examiner has identified all but one of the 24 bodies confirmed to have been found in area bayous this year.
Here are their names and ages, if available and the date their bodies were found:
Douglas Swearingen, 44 — Death reported Jan. 11
Carl Newton, 24 — Feb. 14
Rodolfo Salas Sosa, 56 — March 22
Anthony Azua, 33 — March 30
Juan Garcia Loredo, 69 — March 31
Kenneth Jones, 34 — May 7
George Grays, 54 — May 9
Culcois Racius, 39 — May 9
Anthony Curry, 35 — May 17
Shannon Davis, 14 — May 30
Ernest Armstrong, 62 — June 9
Salome Garza, age unknown — June 11
Brent Brown, 28 — June 12
Raymond Hatten, 30 — July 7
Latrecia Amos, 57 — Aug. 21
Jamal Alexander, 31 — Aug. 27
Jade McKissic, 20 — Sept. 15
Rodney Chatman, 43 — Sept. 15
Seth Hansen, 34 — Sept. 16
Arnulfo Alvarado, 63 — Sept. 18
Michael Rice, 67 — Sept. 20
Michaela Miller, age unknown — Sept. 26
The Chronicle is not identifying a suicide victim found in a bayou.
Of the 22 people for whom the medical examiner has provided data, 13 were Black, five were white and three Hispanic. Nineteen were men and three were women.