Confirmed or suspected victims, listed chronologically : •
Colette Anise Wilson, 13, disappeared from the Alvin Bus Stop on County Road 99 and
State Highway 6 in
Alvin, Texas, after she was dropped off by her band director on June 17, 1971. Her body was found five months later on November 26, 1971, near the
Addicks Reservoir, just from the location where the body of Gloria Gonzales was discovered four months later. •
Brenda Kaye Jones, 14, was last seen while walking to Galveston hospital, close to
I-45 on her way to visit her aunt on July 1, 1971, in
Galveston, Texas. Her body was found on July 2, 1971, floating in nearby
Galveston Bay near
Pelican Island, close to the Seawolf Parkway and near I-45. disappeared in
Harris County, Texas, on the afternoon of August 4, 1971. Both were last seen walking along Seawall Boulevard in Galveston near a local beach. On January 3, 1972, two boys fishing in
Clear Lake discovered a human skull floating in the water, which they had initially believed to be a sports ball. Six weeks later, searchers discovered the rest of the body, along with that of another girl, in a
marsh near the lake. According to a
coroner's inquest filed on February 17, 1972, the skull found in the lake was determined via
dental records to have belonged to Shaw. Additionally, a
crucifix found wrapped around the
jawbone of the skull was identified by Shaw's mother to have belonged to her daughter. The other body found in the marsh was positively identified as Johnson. •
Allison Anne Craven, 12, was reported missing by her mother on November 9, 1971, when she returned to their apartment in
Houston, Texas near I-45 after completing shopping errands for one hour. Three months later police found Craven's partial remains in a nearby field, two hands along with bones from an arm and some teeth. On February 25, 1972, the rest of her skeleton was found in a
Pearland, Texas field, also near I-45 and from where she was last seen. •
Kimberly Raye Pitchford, 16, was last seen at
Dobie High School in
Houston, Texas while she was there for a driving test on January 3, 1973. Her body was found by two teenaged boys two days later in a ditch in
Angleton, Texas around noon on County Road 65 in Brazoria County on January 5, 1973. In 1976, partial skeletal remains belonging to Bracewell were found by police in a
culvert in
Alvin, Texas, nearby the pair's last known location, but were not connected to Bracewell and Geer at the time, and were only identified as Bracewell after a new detective took over the case in 1981. were found on January 12, 1981, in northern
Harris County in a boggy, wooded area just north of the Houston city limits. A civilian's dog let to wander into the woods returned to its owner with a decomposing human arm. Search parties prompted by the dog's discovery subsequently found the heavily decomposed bodies of the Clouse couple near Wallisville Road. Despite significant decomposition, it was determined that both were victims of
homicide. Tina had been
strangled, and Harold had been
bound and gagged before being
beaten to death. In 2021,
forensic genealogists positively identified Dean and Tina, and in 2022, their daughter Holly Marie was located alive in
Oklahoma. •
Michelle Angela Garvey, 15, went missing from
New London, Connecticut, presumably after running away from home, on June 1, 1982, at the age of 14. Garvey's body was found on July 1, 1982, in
Baytown, Texas, one month after she went missing. The
cause of death of the victim was determined to be strangulation. There was evidence that Garvey had been sexually assaulted. Her body was found wearing brown clothing, including a long-sleeved, button-down shirt with a distinct horse
embroidery on the breast pocket. The body was disposed of in a field after she died, possibly hours after her murder. She was buried near two other unidentified murder victims found in 1981 who were identified in 2021 as
Dean and Tina Clouse. Garvey was identified in January 2014, through the efforts of the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Harris County Police Department, who had contacted her family and obtained samples of their
DNA for testing in August 2013. •
Susan Lee Eads, 20, was a cocktail waitress who left her family home in
Harris County at around 4:30 p.m. on August 30, 1983, to her workplace. The following day, a motorist discovered her body a few miles from her home. Found naked, she had bruises on her back and face. Susan had been strangled to death with the bodysuit she was wearing, which had been used as a
tourniquet. Her car was found parked adjacent to the vacant lot where she was found. An autopsy determined that she had been
sexually assaulted. Eads was last seen at a local club with a white man wearing a cowboy hat. Her mother received phone calls from an unidentified man who claimed to have photos of her daughter. He referred to himself as "Bill", and said that he lived in
Houston, Texas. A DNA profile extracted from Eads' body was matched to Arthur Raymond Davis Jr., a
Vietnam War veteran and a boat captain. He died on January 16, 1984, after a single-vehicle accident. •
Heidi Marie Villarreal-Fye, 25, was a cocktail waitress last seen on October 10, 1983, at a convenience store located off of West Main Street and Hobbs in
League City, Texas. On April 4, 1984, Villarreal-Fye's remains were discovered after a dog brought her skull to a nearby house in Calder Field on the 3000 block of Calder Road near
League City, Texas. •
Laura Lynn Miller, 16, a sophomore at Clear Creek Highschool in League City, Texas. She has just moved to League City, Texas and was musically gifted. She had suffered from debilitating seizures that affected her career in choir. She was last seen on September 10, 1984, at the same convenience store Villarreal-Fye was last seen at a year earlier in
League City, Texas, using a payphone to call her boyfriend. It took police 17 months but her remains were found on February 2, 1986, 60 ft away from where police had found Villarreal-Fye the year before. The medical examiner was unable to determine the cause of death at that time, but upon the exhumation of her remains in 2012, it was ruled that she had suffered several severe skull fractures. She left to meet with friends at a nearby nightclub located on Galveston Island later that evening. Acquaintances claimed they had stopped at a convenience store on the way to the nightclub, and Michelle had gotten into a vehicle with two men. She has not been seen since. Authorities believe that she may have been abducted and murdered. •
Audrey Lee Cook, 30, She was identified in April 2019 along with Donna Prudhomme by
Family Tree DNA using
genetic genealogy. •
Shelley Kathleen Sikes, 19, was last seen leaving her job as a waitress at Gaido's Seafood Restaurant on the beachfront in
Galveston, Texas, just prior to 12:00 a.m. on May 24, 1986. Her car was found the next day, stuck in mud, blood-stained, and abandoned on the side of an I-45 access road, south of the Galveston causeway. The driver's side window had been broken, and bloodstains were discovered on the door and on the driver's seat. Sikes' body has never been found, but John Robert King •
Suzanne Rene Richerson, 22, was employed as a night clerk at Casa Del Mar Condominiums on Seawall Boulevard in
Galveston, Texas. She was last seen at work at 6:00 a.m. on October 7, 1988, by resort security guards, and shortly afterward another employee who was sleeping in the room above Richerson's office heard a loud female scream. The witness claimed to have then heard a car door slam shut accompanied by another scream and the sound of a car speeding away from the parking lot. A guest arrived at Richerson's office to check out at around 6:30 a.m. and discovered the desk abandoned. •
Donna Marie Prudhomme, 34, was last seen in July 1991 in
Nassau Bay, Texas. On September 8, 1991, a local resident came across her badly decomposed body in a field beside Calder Road. A medical examination concluded that she had died at least six weeks prior, yet a cause of death could not be determined. She was identified in April 2019 along with Audrey Cook by
Family Tree DNA with the use of
genetic genealogy. •
Krystal Jean Baker, 13, was last seen near I-45 on March 5, 1996, in
Texas City leaving her grandmother's home for a convenience store to use the phone after an argument. Krystal was last seen using a phone at a local convenience store to ask her friend if she could stay with her. Two hours later, her body was found. She had been raped, strangled, and dumped over the
I-10 bridge above the
Trinity River. Baker's great aunt was
Marilyn Monroe. Kevin Edison Smith was convicted of capital murder in her death in 2012 and sentenced to life in prison. In 2019, Governor
Greg Abbott signed into law the Krystal Jean Baker Act, which permits the collection of DNA from individuals arrested for certain felonies, prior to conviction. •
Laura Smither, 12, was last seen in
Friendswood, Texas jogging down her home street on April 3, 1997, after telling her mother she was going on a 20-minute run. Seventeen days later, on April 20, 1997, her body was found in a retention pond in
Pasadena, Texas. In 1998, her parents established the
Laura Recovery Center, a
non-profit organization that aids the search for and recovery of kidnapping victims. •
Kelli Ann Cox, was last seen at the Bennigan's restaurant near
Baybrook Mall in
Clear Lake, Texas dining with friends at around 1:30 a.m. She was reported missing on August 17, 1997, when her father found her truck abandoned along I-45. On March 18, 2016, Jessica's remains were finally found in a field off of East Orem Road, next to
Hobby Airport. Suspected serial killer, William Lewis Reece, directed investigators to search the area where her remains were found. Reece was convicted of the murders of Smither, Cox and Cain in June 2022. was visiting relatives in
Texas and had mapped out a route between
League City and
Corpus Christi, Texas and planned to drive along
I-35. She departed at approximately 5:00 a.m. on July 12, 2001, from her son's residence near League City. Tot was last seen driving her 1995
Lincoln Continental along Highway 35. •
Sara Ann Lewis Trusty, 23, was last seen during the evening hours of the day in
Algoa, Texas near her church riding her bicycle at around 11 p.m. on July 12, 2002. Her body was discovered on July 28, 2002, in a dike in
Texas City in a nearby reservoir by fishermen. •
Terressa Lynn Vanegas, 16, was last seen in
Dickinson, Texas walking near the Green Caye Subdivision on October 31, 2006. Three days later, her body was found strangled, raped, and with her hair cut off in a field across from Dickinson High School. ==Suspects==