Where Is Clyde Hedrick Now? Is William Reece Still In Jail? Who Was The Killer In Texas Killing Fiel

May 2024 · 4 minute read

Texas Killing Fields Netflix

"Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields" is the 3rd installment in Netflix's true-documentary series, Crime Scene, following from "The Times Square Killer" and "The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel."

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The Texas Killing Fields digs the unsolved murders of 4 young women, whose remains were found along the interstate corridor that connects Houston and the Galveston beach town, called "The Texas Killing Fields." More than thirty female bodies were found between 1971 and 2006 in that area. The victims are found to be between 12 and 25 years old.

Where Is Clyde Hedrick Now?

Clyde Hedrick was first charged with “abuse of a corpse” in connection with the death of Ellen Beason, and this first put him on Tim Miller’s radar as a likely suspect in the death of Laura Miller.  A suspect, Clyde Hedrick, was released in 2021 on parole, despite telling “jailhouse informants” he is responsible for many murders. Scroll down to know about The Texas Killing Fields Killer

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Who Was The Killer In Texas Killing Fields?

In the 1970s, many girls and young women disappeared from southern Texas near I-45. Many of their bodies were discovered in a remote land called "the Texas Killing Fields." 

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Netflix's "Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields," released on November 29, revisits the mystery through the lens of many victims and their families, as well as the alleged killers.

Is William Reece Still In Jail?

Reece, 63, will remain in jail for life, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The man is located at Polunsky in Texas, over an hour's drive north of where the killings happened.

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In 2021, Reece was given the death penalty for the Oklahoma killing of Tiffany Johnston. Her murder also took place in 1997. On Reece's Texas sentencing, officials revealed to KPRC 2 that they would "work out the details of when he may be sent back to Oklahoma."

William Reece Texas Killing Fields

The case of another man connected to the Texas Killing Fields, Reece, ended conclusively. The docuseries tells a woman's story, Sandra Sapaugh, who got kidnapped in 1997 by Reece but later managed to escape. Sandra's account resulted in Reece's arrest, a kidnapping conviction with a sentence of sixty years, and a suspicion that the man might have been involved in many unsolved murders in the region. Reportedly in 2016, in the hope of avoiding the death penalty for a separate murder, Reece helped authorities discover the bodies of Jessica Cain and Kelli Ann Cox, who were missing from 1997.

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Where Are The Texas Killing Fields?

The "Killing Fields" is actually a term that is used to describe a 25-acre space of an abandoned oil field in League City, Texas. The region got its name after four young women's bodies were discovered there between 1984 and 1991.

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The Texas Killing Fields Victims

Here are The Texas Killing Fields Victims.

S.No.

Name

1

Colette Wilson (found in 1971)

2

Gloria Gonzales (found in 1971)

3

Rhonda Johnson (disappeared in 1971)

4

Sharon Shaw (disappeared in 1971)

5

Kimberly Rae Pitchford (disappeared in 1973)

6

Brooks Bracewell (disappeared in 1974)

7

Georgia Geer (disappeared in 1974)

8

Suzanne Bowers (disappeared in 1977)

9

Michelle Garvey (disappeared in 1982)

10

Laura Smither (killed in 1997)

11

Kelli Ann Cox (killed in 1997)

12

Jessica Cain (killed in 1997)

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