JARRELL (November 15, 2011)—Williamson County investigators Tuesday identified a 18-year-old woman whose body was found along a rural road off Interstate 35 south of Jarrell as Tynesia Brown of Bedford and announced that a reward of as much as $5,000 is offered for information leading to an arrest or indictment.

An area rancher found Brown’s body Monday morning along Williamson County Road 370.

She had been shot to death and investigators think she was killed elsewhere and that her body was dumped in Williamson County.

She may have been traveling with a man and a woman in a silver sedan, authorities said, and the three may have stopped a truck stops and hotels along Interstate 35.

It’s possible she was killed in a hotel room, authorities said.

Investigators were asking Interstate 35 hotel workers to contact local police if they find “the appearance of a crime scene or a significant amount of blood in a room.”

Brown’s mother last saw her daughter on Friday in the family’s home in Bedford.

Investigators are asking anyone with information about Brown or the two people with whom she may have been traveling to contact the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office at (I512) 943-1300, Williamson County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-253-7867 or North Texas Crime Stoppers 1-877-373-TIPS (8477).