Buffalo Bayou

Surprisingly, that wasn't the only odd place Eric visited in the days after Maria's disappearance.

His cellphone location data indicated that he spent a significant amount of time near the Buffalo Bayou, a river that runs through the city of Houston.

And if you know Houston, you know that that's bad news.

According to the KPRC, from 2015 to 2025, 59 bodies were found in the Buffalo Bayou.

It's garnered a reputation as a dumping grounds, especially in the last few months and years.

The fact that Eric wasn't known to spend time there and suddenly spent ample time there after Maria's disappearance led police to believe that he had used it just for that, dumping a body.

I hope you might be able to say a few words about the following.

I li- at that point in my life, I lived about three miles from Baker Dam east and lived about a mile and a quarter south of Buffalo Bayou.

Okay.

So the experience, my experience of Harvey may have been different than the experience in Atascocita.

Mm-hmm.

And I was wondering if you could talk about when you have a county the size of Harris County and even your fire department, the different types of emergencies that you're gonna have because people on my side of town may have had it a little bit different than the people behind Baker Dam, certainly downstream, down Buffalo Bayou, uh, Brays Bayou, any of those.

But you have your own set of issues on E- in East Harris County.

Yes.

Floating.

I've got this route along Buffalo Bayou.

And there's a light at the bottom of the hill.

And every single time I hit that curb cut.

And then of course, Fridays are Friday nights at the Coliseum where we talk about Houston wrestling on Friday nights, mostly, uh, And this time, we are in the middle of 1970, September of 1970.

Last week, we talked about the shift to the Fondy Rec Center, which is a couple of miles east of the Sam Houston Coliseum, still along the Buffalo Bayou and the Katy Highway, but just on the other side, essentially, downtown.

And why they did it and how it worked out and what kind of cards they had.

And as you guys know, two weeks ago, if you read it, we were talking about the Dory Funk Jr. Wahoo McDaniel series from 1970, which is about to peak at the end of September 1970.

Everybody else is down there mashing the pedals like a caveman, and I'm up here, oh, engaged, floating.

I've got this route along Buffalo Bayou, and there's a light at the bottom of the hill, and every single time I hit that curb cut, ooh.

That's fine.

That's just my body adapting.

Everybody else is down there mashing the pedals like a caveman, and I'm up here, oh, engaged, floating.

I've got this route along Buffalo Bayou, and there's a light at the bottom of the hill, and every single time I hit that curb cut, ooh.

That's fine.

That's just my body adapting.

And the place was utterly devastated, flooded, and crazy.

I almost drowned in the Buffalo Bayou trying to be a rescue guy.

It almost cost me my life.

It was pretty crazy.

He got on a plane, came down to help.

He and I were swimming through a water treatment facility looking for people to rescue.

And then we almost drowned in the Buffalo Bayou in the process.

It was kind of gross, to be honest.