"Killing Field" in League City, Texas- Calder Rd Cold Cases

Shelly Eads – August 31, 1983 – 20 years old; a man in his 30’s was reported to have been following her after leaving a local bar; her nude body was discovered in a field at NASA Road 1 and Elm Street. She had been strangled, beaten and sexually assaulted.

Heidi Villerial Fye - Age 23, Caucasian, brunette. First victim found in the "Killing Fields." 23 year old Heidi Villarreal Fye was a cocktail waitress, last seen on October 10, 1983. Her remains were found after a dog carried her skull to a nearby house on April 4, 1984. She had vanished six months earlier after walking from the home of her parents to use the phone at a nearby convenience store. The medical examiner noted Fye had broken ribs and had been beaten with a club. She may have died from blunt force trauma to her head.

STILL UNSOLVED.

Sandra Ramber - Age 14, Caucasian, brunette, brown eyes. Disappeared on October 26, 1983 form her house in Santa Fe, Texas, a small town close to League City and Friendswood. The case has been determined to be foul play and she is still a missing person. Her father reported her missing after he found the doors unlocked. Biscuits were cooking in the kitchen; her new coat and her purse were where she left them. She had just completed modeling school and wanted to become a model. STILL UNSOLVED.

Michelle Doherty Thomas - Age 17, Caucasian, brunette. Still missing, she was last seen leaving her Alta Loma home to meet friends on October 5, 1985. Law enforcement has not determined whether this case is linked to the disappearances of Richerson and Cain.

STILL UNSOLVED.

Jane Doe – Brazoria County – Hispanic or black female, possibly of mixed race; 18-26 years old. 5’0” to 5’6” at 100 pounds. The victim was discovered on December 16, 1985 in Brazoria County, Texas. Estimated Date of Death is November 1, 1984; Cause of Death: Gunshot wound to the head. The victim was located approximately 50 yards east of the intersection of County Road 59 and County Road 94 in Brazoria County. STILL UNSOLVED.

Jane Doe - Age ?, Caucasian, brunette. Second victim found in the "Killing Fields." February 2, 1986 four boys riding dirt bikes smelled a foul odor. They located the skeletal remains of a still unidentified female and called the police. Dubbed "Jane Doe" she had died six weeks to six months before being found, she had been shot in the back. She perhaps had been shot to death by a 22 caliber weapon. Part of a bullet was found with the cadaver at the medical examiner's office. (Ruined as evidence) The autopsy also revealed healed fractures of the ribs. She is described as being about 25 years old, being between 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall. Weighing about 140 to 160 pounds, with light reddish brown shoulder length hair and had a distinct gap between her upper front teeth. She was about fifty yards from where Fye had been found.

While investigating the scene the police found yet another body the same day.

STILL UNSOLVED.

Missing Since: September 29, 1983 from Davenport, Iowa
Located on October 8, 1983 in Amarillo, Potter County, Texas. The victim was discovered in a culvert 17 miles north of Amarillo, Texas in Potter County on US 287. Cause of death was homicide. The victim died as a result of asphyxiation by strangulation. Estimated Date of Death: 24 - 30 hours prior to discovery

Estimated age: 16 - 30 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 5'6" - 5'8"; 100 - 125 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: She had reddish/brown hair and blue eyes. She wore blue-tinted contact lenses. The victim had a small birthmark or blemish on her left forearm and an extra nipple under right breast. Both of her ears were pierced twice.
Clothing: She was discovered wearing Britannica blue jeans, size 5; a white bra; pink panties with Thursday stitched in red; and white cotton socks. Her shirt and shoes were not found, Holmes said.
Jewelry: She was wearing three rings on her fingers: a gold diamond friendship ring; a man's gold wedding band with tape on back; and a gold ring with a garnet stone and a diamond chip on the side.

No known links to serial killers of the time such as the notorious Henry Lee Lucas. Lucas, who stalked American highways for several years, confessed to hundreds of murders but was in jail when Jane Doe was murdered.

No tie to Benjamin Boyle, the truck driver executed in 1997 for the October 1985 strangulation death of Gail Lenore Smith, 20, and linked to cases in California and Colorado. Smith was found near the Canadian River bridge.

http://helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?t=11167

The rugged, scrubby hills north of Amarillo had earned an infamous reputation by 1983. Between 1974 and the discovery of Jane Doe, the area yielded six murder victims, with each case ending in arrests and convictions.

Laura Lynn Miller - Age 16, Caucasian, brunette. Third victim found in the "Killing Fields." A Clear Creek High School sophomore. She was missing shortly after the Miller's moved to League City, on September 1, 1984. Their phone wasn't working yet, so she had been talking to her boyfriend on a payphone. At the very same convenience store where Fye was last seen. She insisted that her mother let her finish her call and she was old enough to walk home. She never arrived and the police implied to her father that she was a run away. Tim Miller had found out about Heidi Fye's murder and wanted the police check the same area for his daughter. Miller was victimized twice, by the killer and by the system. The same day as Jane Doe's body, the police while looking for clues stumbled upon Miller's remains on February 2, 1986 she was shot in the head. She was only a mere twenty yards from Jane Doe.

Rebecca Beard – 30, Missing since March 2, 1986, when she failed to return home from a nightclub in Galveston. Authorities searched the field for days recently after a man pleaded guilty to Rebecca Beard's murder and said he had buried her body there. The search was suspended without finding Beard's remains. Police were led to the rice field in southern Brazoria County by Paul Gayland Taylor after he pleaded guilty to murdering Beard. His admission was part of a plea bargain in which he agreed to take investigators to the site where he said he had dug a shallow grave.

Taylor, 38, was sentenced to life in prison for the murder. He also was sentenced to 25 years for solicitation of capital murder for trying to hire someone to kill a witness who was to testify in the murder case. RESOLVED.

Eilenne Schatelowitz, 22, whose body was found March 26, 1986 in a League City drainage ditch. Schatelowitz, 22, of Santa Fe, a mother of three who was separated from her husband, was last seen the night of March 25 after leaving a Dickinson convenience store where she worked.

Larry Wayne Herrington, 21, and Jonathan Bradford Bristow, 20, both of Dickinson, were jailed in April 1986 when they were stopped by police in Shawnee, Okla., for driving a van which belonged to Schatelowitz. The body of the victim was found March 26 in a ditch off FM 1266 near Houston Gulf Airport in east League City. She last had been seen the night of March 25 after leaving a Dickinson convenience store where she worked. The suspects are accused of strangling Schatelowitz, dumping her body in the ditch and taking her van after she agreed to give them a ride.

Police Detective Rex Fancher said there appears to be no connection between the Schatelowitz case and the deaths of two other young women whose bodies were found in the League City Killing Fields.

**Similar to other cases** RESOLVED

http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1986_230455/pair-charged-in-woman-s-murder.html

Elizabeth Pfeifer, 20 - April 12, 1986 disappeared from Katy, TX.
Race:White
Sex: Female DOB:12/10/1965
Age Missing: 20 Height: 5 ft. 2 in.
Weight: 110 lb.
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Last Seen: 4/12/1986
Area Last Seen: Katy (Harris County).
Miscellaneous Notes: Ms. Pfeifer has a tattoo on her left shoulder of a red rose with the name "Dave" printed under it. She has shoulder length hair and was last seen wearing a white pullover blouse with lavender sleeves and blue jeans.

Headless Woman - Age ?. April, 1986 police recover a headless body from a garbage bag in a state park in Galveston, the body remains unidentified. STILL UNSOLVED.

State Highway 124 Bridge over Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, High Island, Texas

Unidentified White Female - Located skeletal remains on May 31, 1986 in Chambers County, Texas; Estimated Date of Death: 1 - 2 months. 30 - 45 years old; 4'11 - 5'1"; 110 - 115 lbs. May be mixed race. Auburn, collar-length hair (with some grey); gray eyes. Both ears pierced twice. The victim was located beside SH 87, circa 2.3 miles east of Highway 124, near High Island, TX.

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Got it! Great information and I hope you will post it here! I think it is very relevent to this case. Great sleuthing!

SPECIAL THANKS TO IKOIHIL FOR GETTING ALL THE PICTURES OUT HERE FOR US!

If anyone has pictures for the girls please feel free to post them. Lets jog some memories! Start sleuthing and get some answers!

Shelley Kathleen Sikes - Age 19, Caucasian, brunette, brown eyes. The University of Texas student who was home for the summer, was last seen just before midnight May 24, 1986. She left her summer job at Gaido's restaurant for her Texas City home but never made it.

Her car was found on I-45's northbound feeder road, just north of the Causeway. In the deep mud just north of the Santa Fe overpass, the car was blood spattered and the driver's window smashed. Her body was never recovered, but Bayview resident John Robert King and El Lago resident Gerald Peter Zwarst later were convicted of aggravated kidnapping, the most severe charge prosecutors could pursue without a body, in the case.

RESOLVED.

Laurie Lee Tremblay – Age 15. One of Anthony Allen Shore's strangulation victims, killed September 26, 1986. She was last seen alive walking from her family's apartment to the bus stop, her body was later found behind a restaurant. Shore once reportedly lived in League City, the Galveston city where the infamous "Killing Fields" are located. Where 4 other victims have been discovered between 1983 and 1991.

Link to Anthony Shore's confession is below:
http://skcentral.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=5236

Erica Ann Garcia - Age 14, Hispanic, brunette. June 7, 1987 she disappeared from a teen club in Houston. Found behind nearby vacant building, she had been strangled to death.

STILL UNSOLVED.

The bodies and the Unsolved cases just keep piling on. Those listed are only a partial listing. There are more to come as we go through more records and make verifications.

There was more than one serial killer involved and someone got away with murder! Actually, several someones got away with murder.

Thoughts and opinions are welcome here!

30 Years of murders and the locals weren't aware of the danger. Can you imagine! How many of these young women and girls would be alive today if someone had let this be known!

Why was it such a secret? Who had something to hide?