FrayedKnot
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Over the past 40 years, one desolate strip of land in South Texas has become synonymous with the disappearance and murder of young women and girls. This area has a mysterious and terrifying history, and once you ask “What are the Texas Killing Fields?” you will immediately wish that you didn’t know the answer.
The bone-chilling name given to this rugged 25-mile piece of land bordering the Calder oil field and League City is something out of a real-life horror story. Four bodies have been found within its limits, about a mile from the I-45.
The Texas Killing Fields are part of a 50-mile stretch that runs along Interstate 45, between Houston and the Island city of Galveston, Texas, dubbed the “highway to hell.” There have been 30 bodies found in this haunted place since the early ‘70s.
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The murders began in June 1971, when 13-year-old Colette Wilson went missing after getting off at a bus stop after school. She was found in the Killing Fields some five months later, dead from a gunshot wound to the head.
Throughout the '70s the murders of adolescent and teenage girls continued, all dead from a gunshot wound, all found in and around the Killing Fields.
The fragmented police from the neighboring small towns thought the rampage to be the work of a serial killer. Suspects came forward, but the police lacked the evidence to link them to the murders.
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The pile of unsolved cases grew through the '80s and '90s. Some bodies were found, some women simply went missing, cars abandoned nearby, never to be seen again. The murders and mysterious disappearances continued through 2006, when suddenly an eerie quiet descended on the wasteland.
https://www.bustle.com/articles/185...fields-this-mystery-will-keep-you-up-at-night
[doublepost=1516543281,1516542241][/doublepost]True-life horror story
Author examines three decades of murder along I-45 and the Texas killing fields
Weeks of storms soaked the tree-rimmed clearing in League City, carving puddles several inches deep. Yet Kathryn Caseyventured into the muck on a recent afternoon, braced against the rain and cold with a black raincoat and umbrella.
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This area off Calder Drive is known as the "Texas killing fields," part of a swampy stretch along busy Interstate 45 where more than 20 girls and women died mysteriously during three decades. The Houston Chronicle and Galveston's Daily News ran full-page charts with maps and photos of the female victims, mostly teenagers, who were strangled, shot or savagely beaten.
These charts haunted Casey, a true crime and mystery writer who moved to the Houston area in 1981. She spent three years researching these murders for her new book, "Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields."
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/ent...ry-of-Texas-killing-6034054.php#photo-7424979
[doublepost=1516545517][/doublepost]1970's Victims
Colette Wilson - Age 13, Caucasian. She was dopped off by Band Leader at a bus stop in Alvin on June 17, 1971. She disappeared, then her nude body was found close to I-10 and highway 6. Near Addicks Reservoir in west Houston, some 35 to 40 miles from where last seen 5 months earlier. She had been killed by a gunshot to head and her band instrument was never located. The remains of Colette Willson were found within 35 yards from where the body of 19 year old Gloria Gonzales was later discovered
Brenda Jones - Age 14, brunette. Disappeared while walking to Galveston hospital, close to I-45 to visit an aunt on July 11, 1971. Her body was found the next day floating in nearby Galveston Bay, close to the Seawolf Parkway and near I-45. She had a slip crammed in her mouth and had died of a head wound.
Rhonda "Renee" Johnson- Age 14. Disappeared with best friend Sharon Shaw on August 4, 1971. Last seen on Galveston's Seawall Blvd.
Sharon Shaw- Age 14. Disappeared with best friend Renee Johnson on August 4, 1971. The girls were last seen on Galveston's Seawall Blvd.
Gloria Gonzales - Age 19, brunette. She disappeared on October 28, 1971 near her home in Houston. Her body was found near Addick's Reservoir in west Houston, within 35 yards from where the body of Colette Wilson had been discovered months earlier. She died from blunt force trauma to the head.
Alison Craven - Age 12, Caucasian. Her mother returned home from after running errands for 1 hour on November 9th 1971. Her daughter was missing from their apartment near I-45. Police later found partial remains in a nearby field, two hands along with bones from an arm and some teeth. On Feb 25, 1972 the rest of her skeleton was found in a Pearland field, also near I-45 and 5 to10 miles from where she was last seen.
Debbie Ackerman - Age 15, Caucasian, brunette. Ball High School students Debbie Ackerman and Maria Johnson both from Galveston, they went to shop for gifts at a Galveston mall. Both disappeared on November 11, 1971 and they were found dead two days later. 10 miles north of where they disappeared, close to I-45 and Highway 3. They were in Turner's Bayou in Texas City where fishermen saw them floating, both girls were shot twice before being dumped in the water. Their hands and feet bound and both were only partially clothed.
Maria Johnson - Age 15, Caucasian, brunette. Ball High School students Debbie Ackerman and Maria Johnson both from Galveston, they went to shop for gifts at a Galveston mall. Both disappeared on November 11, 1971 and they were found dead two days later. 10 miles north of where they disappeared, close to I-45 and Highway 3. Their bodies were in Turner's Bayou in Texas City where fishermen saw them floating, both girls were shot twice before being dumped in the water. Their hands and feet bound and both were only partially clothed.
Kimberly Pitchford - Age 16, Caucasian. Last seen at a driving school in Pasadena near I-45 on January 3, 1973. She was supposed to call home for ride but the call never came. Her strangled cadaver was found two days later in a ditch near Angleton near the 288 highway, about 30 miles south of where she was last seen. Her uncle Ray Pitchford, said a possible serial killer was known to have attended the school about the same time. However, nothing has ever come of his statement and the authorities still deem the case unsolved.
Georgia Geer - Age 14, Caucasian, brunette. Brooks Bracewell and Georgia Geer had skipped school on September 6, 1974. Both disappeared from a convenience store in Dickinson, close to I-45. Both had been beaten to death and found were found in an Alvin Swamp.
Brooks Bracewell - Age 12, Caucasian, brunette. Brooks Bracewell and Georgia Geer had skipped school on September 6, 1974. Both disappeared from a convenience store in Dickinson, close to I-45. Both had been beaten to death and found were found in an Alvin Swamp.
Suzanne Bowers- Age 12. Left her grandparents' home in Galveston on May 21, 1977, in order to get a swimsuit from her home. She never arrived.
From:
http://psu-sk.tripod.com/frames/i45-victims.html
With slight editing by me
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