Crime & Safety
League City Police To Release Names Of 2 Killing Fields Victims
The bodies of two women found in an area of Calder Road have been known as Jane and Janet Doe, but police will reveal their names on Monday.
LEAGUE CITY, TX — The bodies of two young women recovered from an area notoriously known as the “Texas Killing Fields” have been positively identified, the League City Police Department announced on Thursday.
Officials with the League City Police plan to hold a news conference on Monday to reveal the identities of the woman, who for decades were known as Jane and Janet Doe.
Police said they learned the identities of the women as a result of recent scientific advancements in the field of forensic DNA analysis.
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The bodies of both young women were recovered from a grassy 25-acre stretch land near Interstate 45, in Galveston County bordering the Calder Oil Field known as the Killing Fields.
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Since 1983, police have recovered the bodies of four young women, including the bodies of Jane and Janet Doe.
The bodies of the first two victims found were identified long ago. The first victim was 25-year-old Heide Villareal Fye, a local waitress who left her parents League City home in October 1983 to hitchhike to Houston to see her boyfriend. She never got there, and the police found her body six months later in a clearing on Calder Road
The second victim, 16-year-old Laura Lynn Miller, disappeared Sept. 10, 1984, outside a convenience store in League City. Witnesses last saw Miller using a payphone outside the store. Her body was found in the same area as Frye’s in February 1986.
Laura’s father, Tim Miller went on to become an advocate of parents of missing children and founded Texas EquuSearch.
The body of Jane Doe was found along a stretch near Calder Road on Feb. 2, 1986, next to Laura Miller’s body.
The body of Janet Doe, the last victim recovered from the Calder Road Killing Fields, was recovered on Sept. 8, 1991.
No one has ever been charged or convicted for any of these murders, and police have never said if the crimes were related.
League City Police announced in December that they were working on new leads based on DNA and forensic evidence using phenotyping, which helped predict the victim's features, as well as their height, weight, and their origin.
The press conference will take place at 10 a.m. Monday.
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