Mystery of mom, 31, found dead floating in trash can after ‘someone put a hit on her’ with chilling final words revealed
THE body of a mom found floating in a trash can continues to baffle authorities - after she told her family that somebody "put a hit out on her."
There have been no arrests in the death of 31-year-old Shelby Vercher as officials are still trying to determine exactly how the mom-of-three died.
Police in Houston have not said if foul play was involved - but her father is certain that someone murdered his daughter.
David Vercher, who also goes by the name Coy, said his daughter’s body was found in a sealed off trash can inside Buffalo Bayou on Tuesday night.
He said that he met Shelby that morning at a park to catch up and get coffee, something they did very often.
“She told me, ‘Daddy, someone put a hit out on me,’” David Vercher told ABC affiliate
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It was one of the last conversations he had with his daughter, hours before she was found in the bayou, however, Shelby wouldn’t say who she thought was trying to kill her.
“'No, daddy, it will be OK'... apparently, it won't be OK," the heartbroken dad said of their final exchange.
"Apparently, she was telling me the truth. Someone did put out a hit on her," her devastated father continued. "I intend to find out who."
He described how first responders came across the container floating with his daughter inside.
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"My daughter may be a lot of things, but she wasn't trash," he said.
The day the father and daughter met at the park, Shelby said she had to run some errands.
“She said, “Daddy, I gotta go over here and get my mail,’” said David.
“‘I’m going to get my stuff, and I’m going to West Oaks Hospital, then to Santa Maria.’ She never made it.”
Shelby, a mother of three, had moved back to the Houston area after previously living in Tennessee, according to her father.
“[She] would do anything in the world for anybody. There was nothing selfish about her. Nothing,” said David.
My daughter may be a lot of things, but she wasn't trash..
David 'Coy' Vercher
“She was trying to get her life together, but it got cut short.”
Her father hopes that someone will speak up if they have any information about Shelby’s death.
“Somebody needs to pay for his,” he said.
A was created by Shelby’s father for her final expenses.
“I would like her to be buried with our family in East Texas but I am on a fixed income and it is beyond my means,” David wrote in the description.
The fundraiser has a goal of $7,500.
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"I pray that you and your grandsons will always have the love and voice of your daughter and their mom within," one well-wisher wrote.
"And that a time will come when every time each of you think about her it is with immense love and joy knowing she remains with you all."
