The family of an Arizona man who disappeared last month in Texas is awaiting the results of an autopsy that will determine whether a body found Saturday is him.
Debra Belin said her brother, Jason Belin, 23, of White Cone, Ariz., last was seen Jan. 24 at the Jaguars Club in Odessa after he and his friends were kicked out of the gentleman’s club following an altercation in the parking lot. She filed a missing persons report with the Ector County Sheriff’s Office the next day after she and her family learned he never returned to the motel where he was staying with friends.
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Authorities searched for a week while family members put up fliers and reached out to local media, she said. On Saturday, the Texas Department of Public Safety’s dive team pulled a body from a pond near the club.
Belin said the body won’t be identified until the autopsy is complete, but the body matches the description her family gave police. Until the results come in, she and her family are left only with questions.
She said there are “no words” to describe the emotions she and her family are feeling.
“They recovered the body but there’s still no closure. There’s still no closure because we don’t know,” Belin said. “Hopefully something comes back from the autopsy so that we will know what happened that night. … Why was he there? Why? That’s the main question: Why? Now we just have to sit and wait and see.”
Belin said the details from the night he disappeared are sketchy. The club supposedly has video cameras out front but they weren’t working that night, she said.
The Ector County Sheriff’s Office did not return a call seeking information.
According to local media reports, the sheriff’s office has not confirmed whether the body pulled from the pond about two blocks south of East Loop 338 on Cargo Road is indeed Jason Belin. The body has been sent to Tarrant County for the autopsy.
Jason Belin, a member of the Navajo Nation, went to Big Springs, Texas with a group of friends for a job working on power lines, Debra Belin said. He had turned 23 at the end of December.
She said her brother was “awesome” and “the most loveable person ever.”
“He was sweet, he was always laughing, he helped everybody. He had great athletic skills,” she said. “He touched everybody’s hearts, he really did. He left an imprint on everybody’s hearts. He would never do anything to hurt anybody, he would never leave anybody behind. He was never a selfish person.”
Belin said her family has set up a bank account at Wells Fargo where people can donate to help cover the cost of flying his body back to Arizona and funeral expenses. People can go to any Wells Fargo location and donate money to the Jason Belin Missing Person Fund.
She urged anyone with information on what happened to her brother to contact the Ector County Sheriff’s Office or call their local authorities.
