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Killing Fields Trilogy /// Part 2 /// 133

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🗓️ 14 August 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

There is a large plot of land about a mile from interstate 45 in south Texas called the Killing Field. This spot along with the stretch of I-45 that runs from Houston to Galveston have claimed many victims and held many secrets. Since 1971 homicides of girls and young women have occurred here at an alarming rate. There have been over thirty murders and several women who have vanished. This story will span three different Texas Counties. Twelve different law enforcement agencies worked these cases. Join us as we take a trip to one of our favorite states to discuss one of America's most notorious serial cases.

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This is True Crime Garage, and this is the Killing Filled's trilogy.

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Part 2. The 1980s. The 1970s were nothing less than tragic for the Galveston area, as the

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dead bodies and number of missing girls just kept adding up. There wasn't a rest in a conviction,

1:19.0

yet the murders continued. But still there was hope. As the 1970s were drawing to a close,

1:26.0

the murders and the finding of bodies seemed to be tapering off. Susanne Bowers was the last of far too

1:33.0

many victims of the 70s, and she was last seen in 1977. The murder cases had gone cold,

1:39.0

and the Killing Fills were silent, but they weren't empty. The 1980s were upon us, time for a fresh start,

1:48.0

time for a new beginning. October 1983. Heidi Fey was 23 years old. She left her parents house to go see her

1:58.0

boyfriend. She didn't have a ride, so she chose to hitchhike, which would prove to be a fatal mistake.

2:04.0

Almost a year later, another young lady from League City, Texas would go missing. This time at 16-year-old Laura Miller.

2:12.0

Some of my witness reports say Laura may have been last spotted at the same convenience store where Heidi was last seen.

2:19.0

Next was 19-year-old Shelley Sykes, whose blue pinto was found abandoned on I-45 in May of 1986.

2:28.0

Susanne Renee Richardson from Galveston was last seen on October 7, 1988. Combine these with the bodies of two Jane Doves,

2:39.0

both found in the Killing Field, both unclaimed and unidentified. The fields were not silent anymore.

2:47.0

Many nights, Laura Miller's father Tim would go to the Killing Fields, sitting alone in the dark,

2:53.0

listening to the whispers in the wind, and waiting for his daughter's killer. Some nights he cried,

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some he yelled and screamed, and once in a while he slept.

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The victims of the Killing Fields refused to be quiet, and one by one they were located. These are their stores.

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In October of 1983, 25-year-old Heidi Fye, she along with her six-year-old daughter were staying at her parents' house for a while.

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On the evening of October 7, Heidi's father and a friend were watching a baseball game.

3:53.0

She told her father that she was going to go into town to see her boyfriend. She thought that she could hitch a ride from someone at a nearby convenience store.

4:02.0

So she walked down to the store, located on the corner of Hobbes Road in West Main Street. This is quite near I-45.

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