Body Found in Home in Killeen, Police Investigating - kcentv.com - KCEN HD - Waco, Temple, and Killeen

UPDATE (KCEN) -- The woman who was found deceased in a burned home in Killeen yesterday his been identified as 56-year-old Robin Ann Hetherington.

The cause of her death is still being investigated.

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A normal neighborhood patrol leads to the discovery of a woman's body in Killeen. The home she was found in was burned and now police are wondering when that fire actually took place.

Taft Street in Killeen is a quiet one. So quiet that Gabriel Gonzales heard a home alarm from three houses away. "I looked up that way where I thought I heard the sound coming from and I didn't see anything going," he said. 

But police officers patrolling the neighborhood heard the alarm too.

"It led them to this residence here and that's where they got off their vehicles to determine what was going on," said Ofelia Miramontez, of KPD Public Affairs.

Inside the home at 2709 Taft Street police found that it had been burned. You can see the windows are still covered with black smoke.

They also found a white woman in her mid-fifties lying in the kitchen, she was pronounced dead at 8:00 a.m.

Garbriel says the victim matches the description of the woman who lives in the home, "most of the time you know I hardly ever seen her," he said.

"A old lady stayed there. She's was a pretty nice old lady and I only talked to her one time about last year or something, cut her grass about one time," said Michael Raddick, another neighbor on Taft Street.

But what worries Gabriel is that no one noticed there was fire on Taft Street, though he had his suspicions over the weekend.

"Sunday," Gabriel said. "Sunday morning, that's when I noticed I thought I smelled smoke, and I asked my neighbor then across the street if he saw any fire or anything because you could smell something burning."

Police are still investigating this incident and at this time they say they do not know the cause of the fire or the death of the woman.

The victim's identity has not yet been confirmed.

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(KCEN) -- Around 7 o'clock this morning, Killeen police officers were making their routine patrol in the 2800 block of Taft.

As they were patrolling, they heard an alarm going off at a house at 2709 Taft St..

They responded and saw through the window that there had been a fire in the home, which was already put out.

Police then discovered a woman's body in the kitchen. The woman has only been identified as a white female in her mid 50s and her body has been sent for an autopsy.

There are no details about the deceased person or the circumstances surrounding this, but police are investigating.

We will post more information as it becomes available.