IRVING, Texas, March 23 (UPI) -- The body to which police were led by Robert W. Harris, an alleged mass killer, was identified Thursday as belonging to a woman who had been missing since last November.
Harris, who allegedly shot and killed five fellow workers at an Irving car wash Monday, helped police find the badly decomposed body of Sandra Gaye Scott along Highway 183 on Wednesday in the southwest part of the city.
The Dallas County Medical Examiner said the woman died "from homicidal violence," but would not release any more details on the cause of death.
Harris, 28, had been questioned last year about the disappearance of Scott in same area of the city as the Mi-T-Fine Car Wash, but he was released because detectives did not have enough evidence to arrest him at the time, police spokesman David Tull said.
Scott vanished Nov. 19, 1999 after last being seen at a service station. Her pickup truck was found Dec. 3 near her home, but all of her property was inside the vehicle, except for her keys.
Harris has admitted to police and his brother that he killed his fellow workers after going back to the car wash and getting into an argument about his firing a few days earlier, according to an interview the brother, William Harris, gave to The Dallas Morning News.
Police will not confirm that Harris has provided a confession.
Robert Harris was fired March 17 at the car wash after his arrest earlier in that week on an indecent exposure charge. He was released Sunday on $500 bail.
A sixth employee who was wounded in the shooting remains in critical condition at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas.
Harris allegedly shot an assistant manager and five other workers when they arrived for work about 7:30 a.m. Monday. He fled when he was interrupted by another arriving employee who then called police, officers said.
Harris has several past arrests and was sentenced to an eight-year prison term for a 1991 burglary, according to police.
