Authorities have not identified the remains or established any connection to the Texas State University student who vanished in December 2020.
LULING, TX — Skeletal remains found outside Luling are being examined by authorities nearly six years after Texas State University student Jason Landry disappeared following a crash on a rural Caldwell County road.
The Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office said the remains were found in the 1400 block of Biggs Road. Authorities are conducting additional examination to determine whether an identification can be made and whether the remains have any connection to a known missing-person case. Officials had not publicly identified the remains or linked them to Landry as of Saturday.
The discovery has renewed attention on Landry’s disappearance because Biggs Road is near Salt Flat Road, where his crashed and abandoned vehicle was found in December 2020. Landry was 21 when he disappeared while driving from San Marcos toward his family’s home in Missouri City for the holidays.
Landry left his apartment in San Marcos on the night of Dec. 13, 2020. Investigators later determined through digital and cell phone information that he traveled south through communities between San Marcos and Luling. The Texas Attorney General’s Office said his phone last connected to the Waze navigation application at 11:26 p.m. in Luling.
Investigators concluded that Landry continued along Austin Street and eventually reached the area around 2300 Salt Flat Road, where his vehicle was involved in what authorities described as a single-car crash. His abandoned Nissan Altima was found shortly after midnight on Dec. 14. Landry was nowhere at the scene.
Search teams began working in the area soon after the vehicle was discovered. Texas Search and Rescue said its response included search-and-rescue dogs trained to find living people and detect human remains, mounted teams, drones, ground-search specialists, sonar, water-search resources and aircraft. Those efforts did not locate Landry.
The case later drew additional state involvement. In February 2022, the Caldwell County District Attorney’s Office and sheriff’s office asked the Texas Attorney General’s Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit to investigate. The attorney general’s office said its review included witness interviews, digital forensics, accident reconstruction work and a geofence search warrant covering the area near the crash site.
In a 2022 update, the attorney general’s office said the available evidence supported the earlier conclusion that Landry had been involved in a single-car accident and that investigators had found no evidence another vehicle was involved. The office also said investigators found nothing on his social media, phone or other electronic devices indicating that he planned to meet someone in Luling. Searches of the surrounding area continued to produce no confirmed explanation for what happened after the crash.
The newly discovered remains do not by themselves resolve Landry’s case. Authorities are working to determine whether the remains can be identified and whether they are associated with any missing person. Until that examination is completed, officials have not established a connection between the discovery on Biggs Road and Landry’s disappearance.
Author note: Last updated September 19, 2026.