From the 1970s into the 1990s, around 35 slain women were found among a 25-acre stretch of land between Houston and Galveston in what became known as the Texas Killing Fields. The search for culprits spanned decades — and eventually revealed that two serial killers had allegedly committed the crimes independently of each other. The true-crime limited series Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields reveals how the suspected killers evaded capture for years and tells the stories of the many victims whose lives they cut short. Viewers take heed, as this series contains disturbing descriptions of sexual violence.
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields is available to stream Nov. 29.
Watch the Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields trailer below.
In April 1984, a dog carried what his owner thought was a ball out of a field along Calder Road between Houston and Galveston. It was a human skull. This was the first body found in what became known as the Texas Killing Fields. Two years later, another body was discovered in the same field, then a third. Victims Laura Miller, Heidi Fye, Laura Smither, Kelli Ann Cox, Jessica Cain, Donna Gonsoulin Prudhomme, Audrey Lee Cook and reportedly up to two dozen other women and girls between 12 to 25 years old were killed and disposed of along this route by 1991. Despite the investigation narrowing in on two main suspects, many of the murders are still unsolved.
The homicides depicted in Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields took place in Texas along I-45.
For those interested in lesser-known true-crime stories, the predecessors of Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields include the anthology’s first installment, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel and its follow-up, Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer.
