12 Shocking Murder Cases In Texas Killing Fields

Colette Wilson, a 13-year-old girl, was the first victim of the I-45 Killer found in the killing fields. She went missing from her bus stop in June 1971. Her remains surfaced five months later. She died from a gunshot wound to the head.A gunshot wound hit the head..

Finding Collette's body started decades of terrible discoveries on that desolate highway stretch.

In 1971, these two outdoorsy girls disappeared while hitchhiking. Edward Harold Bell, a convicted sex offender and murderer, claims he killed them after they were found in the killing fields.Debbie and Maria were killed. (along with many of the other girls found in the fields), but he claims he was "brainwashed" into committing the crimes.

Letters from a Huntsville maximum-security cell, seventeen years after the crime, show Bell describing the killing: "I was 'Brainwashed' into killing Deby (sic) Ackerman and Maria Johnson in November 1971."

He then describes how he shot them and where their bodies were found.

Georgia and Brooks vanished from a school bus stop in 1974. Their classmates heard them planning to skip school that day. These two girls, aged 14 and 12, became victims of some of the most brutal violence in the killing fields.

Their bodies were found.Two years passed., police saw they had been bludgeoned to death before shooting them.

Krystal Baker was only thirteen years old at the time.She was beaten, raped, and strangled to death.before tossing her out on the side of the road in South Texas.

Police needed 26 years to connect Kevin Edison Smith, the killer, to Baker using DNA samples. The samples matched stains on the dress and underwear Krystal wore the day her body was found.

In February 1996, Lynette Bibbs and Tamara Fisher were discovered.They were discovered.This happened just days after they had been left in a rural lot.They were left in a rural lot.. The murders of Lynette Bibbs and Tamara Fisher remain unsolved.

Heidi Villarreal Fye, a 23-year-old cocktail server, disappeared in late 1983. People thought she was missing for months. A dog carried her skull to a nearby house on April 4, 1984.

The medical examiner for her case made a note.Fye broke ribs.She was possibly beaten to death.

While jogging through Friendswood, TX, Laura Smither disappeared in the suburban area. She vanished from the road in front of her home before breakfast.Laura Smither was twelve years old.Just over two weeks later, a father and son found Smither's body by the road after a walk. They found what they thought was an animal's body in a pool of water.She was found in a pool of water..

A suspect was arrested, but no one ever faced formal charges for Laura's murder.

After a long shift at Gaido’s restaurant along the Galveston Seawall in 1986, Shelley Sikes was run off the road by John Robert King, who drank all day. Sikes's car was found the next morning on Interstate 45, but her body never surfaced.

King confessed to the crime from a motel in El Paso. Police found no body.Police could not formally charge him with murder.Shelley Sikes appears in the list '12 Shocking Murder Cases In Texas Killing Fields'.

In 1988, Richerson vanished. She was allegedly abducted from the Casa Del Mar Condominiums parking lot where she managed the night shift. Another worker heard a woman scream and a car door slam shut while Richerson worked. One of her shoes was found in the lot, but Richerson never appeared again.

Her remains never surfaced.Her disappearance remains unsolved.

After two years searching forSuzanne Bowers is a 12-year-old.Bowers' skeletal remains surfaced in a field near Alta Loma, TX. Suzanne Bowers went missing in 1977. Authorities stated her death cause was unknown, but she had skull fractures that looked like gunshot wounds.

At her disappearance, Bowers walked to her grandmother's house to get her swimsuit.

In 1997, 17-year-old Jessica Cain vanished from Anahuac, TX. Two decades passed, and her disappearance seemed unsolved. Then, in 2016, William Reece, a convicted kidnapper and accused murderer, came forward. He led investigators to a field on E. Orem Road near Hobby Airport, claiming he buried Cain's body there.

After a long dig, authorities confirmed they found what was leftof Cain's remains.Jessica Cain's remains are mentioned.

Laura Miller disappeared from League City in September 1984. She took a quick trip to a convenience store to use a payphone.Laura Miller was presumed missing.until seven years later. Police found her body while searching for clues about a Jane Doe whose remains were found near Miller's body.

The body's decay means the cause of death is still unknown.