BELL COUNTY, Texas (FOX 44) – The Bell County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public for information in connection with an April 2023 homicide case involving an Austin woman.
The Bell County Sheriff’s Office was originally called to the 1300 block of Berger Road, near Lower Troy Road, just north of Temple in rural Bell County on April 21, 2023. This was where a citizen located Tiera Strand’s body. She had been identified as missing out of Austin. Bell County Justice of the Peace Larry Wilkey pronounced the death and ordered an autopsy to be performed by the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas.
An equivocal death investigation was started, and the Sheriff’s Office was assisted by the Texas Rangers, the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Austin Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Army-Criminal Investigations Division, the United States Navy Criminal Investigations Services, and the United States Department of Justice-Regional Organized Crime Information Center.
The Sheriff’s Office says this investigation determined that on April 15, 2023, and into the early morning hours of April 16, 2023, Tiera was out with friends on 6th Street in Austin. Tiera was separated from her friends just before 2 a.m. Video surveillance and body-worn camera footage were obtained from the Austin Police Department…