144 - The Texas Killing Fields

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Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Since 1971, well over thirty women have disappeared along a fifty mile-long patch of I-45 between Houston and Galveston. Some refer to this stretch of the Gulf Freeway as a highway to Hell, and to the marshy land around it as "The Texas Fields." Initially, the press only referred to one twenty-five acre patch of land in League City, an abandoned oil field, as the Texas Killing Field after the remains of two women were found in early 1986 on the same day. And both bodies were found near where a third body had been uncovered in 1984. And then more bodies turned up on and around this old oil field. Who killed these women? And what does today's tale have to do with Matthew McConaughey? Find out on today’s true crime smorgasbord mystery edition of Timesuck! Thanks for allowing us to donate $2400 this month the National Alliance to End Homelessness:https://endhomelessness.org/ Yip, yip, yaw! Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: (full calendar at dancummins.tv) July 26-27 Cincinnati, OH West Liberty Funnybone CLICK HERE for tix! August 1-3 Charlotte, NC The Comedy Zone CLICK HERE for tix! August 4 Richmond, VA The Funny Bone CLICK HERE for tix! August 9-10 Orlando, FL The Improv CLICK HERE for tix! *** LIVE TIMESUCK *** Orlando, FL The Improve CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by the following sponsors: Quip: Get your first refill pack free at getquip.com/TIMESUCK Robinhood. Download the Robinhood app and start investing! Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/TQ5vCGph1BQ Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're almost 5000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	Since 1971, over 30 women have disappeared along a 50 mile stretch of I-45 between Houston and
0:06.6	Galveston. Causing some to refer to this little patch of South Texas interstate, officially known
0:12.1	as the Goal Freeway as the Highway to Hell. XDA agent Dawn Farron, the man who wrote the screenplay
0:18.8	for the 2011 film, loosely based on a few of these murders, Texas Killing Fields. Farron told reporters
0:24.9	for a CBS 48 hours mystery investigation into the crimes that there even used to be a sign on a
0:29.6	bridge as you drove into the Killing Fields area that read, you are now entering the cruel world.
0:35.3	He also said that the land around this lonely stretch of asphalt is just a perfect place for killing
0:40.0	somebody and then getting away with it. In addition to the women whose bodies have been found many
0:44.8	additional women, believed to have also been murdered, have gone missing from the area since the 70s.
0:49.8	National interests in these murders began when between 1983 and 1991 four female corpses were
0:55.7	all found on the same 25 acre patch of land that sits in the heart of all these killing
1:00.5	disappearances. The undeveloped land the bodies were found on an old league city Texas oil field
1:06.4	is located about a mile from interstate 45. It borders the Calder oil field. These acres of
1:11.9	brush and marshland are hidden behind the little magnolia creek Baptist Church on Calder Drive and
1:16.0	league city. In outer southern suburb of Houston, there only had 10,000 people in it in 1970,
1:21.7	but has exploded to a population of over 100,000 now. And the press began referring to these
1:26.8	25 acres as the Texas Killing Field. Singular in early 1986 when police found the remains of two
1:32.8	missing women on the same day February 2nd. The first body, which for decades was known as an
1:39.1	unidentifiable Jane Doe, just recently identified this past April through genealogy testing as Audrey
1:45.3	Cook a 30 year old mechanic the second body belonged to a 16 year old local clear creek high school
1:51.5	sophomore Laura Lynn Miller. And Audrey's remains are found just 50 yards from where the body of a 23
1:56.8	year old cocktail waitress heady five had been found two years before in 1984 after a dog carried
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