COD: Beating or Blunt Force Trauma

These victims "Cause of Death" was listed as Beaten to Death.

Georgia Geer - Age 14, Caucasian, brunette. Georgia Geer skipped school on September 6, 1974 and disappeared from a convenience store in Dickinson, close to I-45. Both her and Bracewell had been beaten to death and found were found in an Alvin Swamp.

BELL'S SUPPOSED VICTIM; STILL UNSOLVED.

Brooks Bracewell - Age 12, Caucasian, brunette. Brooks Bracewell skipped school on September 6, 1974 and disappeared from a convenience store in Dickinson, close to I-45. Both her and Geer had been beaten to death and found were found in an Alvin Swamp.

BELL'S SUPPOSED VICTIM; STILL UNSOLVED.

23 year old Heidi Villarreal Fye was a cocktail waitress, last seen on October 10th 1983.

Her remains were found in the League City, TX Killing Fields on Calder Rd. 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. Fye and Miller disappeared from the same convenience store at Hobbs & W Main in League City, Texas. Also the very same duplication of arrangement of the cadavers, laying on their backs nude with their arms crossed over their chest.

http://psu-sk.tripod.com/frames/i45-calder.html

1991 Case # 9111100217
Murder of Beverly Sue Demler

November 10, 1991 – FM 1488, ½ mile west of I-45, Conroe, Texas
SYNOPSIS: On November 10, 1991, a citizen who was engaged in
hunting discovered human skeletal remains on a wooded piece of
property along FM 1488 approx. ½ mile west of I-45 in Conroe, Texas.
MCSO Deputies responded and collected additional skeletal remains.
Expert examination revealed that the subject had died from blunt force
trauma to the head. In 2001, Texas DPS Special Crimes linked the
remains to those of Beverly Sue Demler (34 yoa), who had been
reported missing by her husband on March 20, 1990, in Harris County,
Texas. Demler was positively identified by dental records.


http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/identified1.html

Montgomery County Sheriff's Office Cold Cases

The Doe Network: Case File 103UFTX



Unidentified White/Hispanic Female

Located on October 18, 1990 in Houston, Harris County, Texas.
Estimated Date of Death: May have been in the water three to four weeks.
Cause of Death: Beaten to death
Decomposed Remains
Case History
The victim was located in a drainage ditch at 9700 Beechnut in Houston, Texas on October 18, 1990 by children playing.
In 2008 Prosecutors charged Terrence Tyrone Johnson with the murder. Johnson, who is serving a life sentence for another murder, confessed to the homicide after undergoing a religious experience.
Police suspect the woman's name may have been Cassandra and that she lived in the area.

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/103uftx.html

Bridgette Gearen, 28 - Murdered in Crystal Beach, TX 07/15/2007

Gearen was invited to spend the weekend with four couples and their children at a rented beach house near the intersection of Redfish Road and Crystal Beach Road. The group decided to go out for a late night ride on the beach around midnight. Gearen left her daughter behind when she walked out of the house a few minutes before her friends.

By the time her friends followed her outside, within minutes, she was gone.

The friends called law enforcement a few hours later, but the body had already been discovered by the campers about an hour before, about 100 yards from the beach house where she was staying.

Gearen’s death was ruled a homicide caused by manual strangulation and blunt force trauma. She was also the victim of sexual assault.





http://galvestondailynews.com/blog/lines/bridgette-gearen-killing/

http://orangeleader.com/x1048544189/Still-on-the-search

[ame="http://crimeshots.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9624"]Bridgette Gearen unsolved after 2 years - Crimeshots© True Crime Forums[/ame]

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...ve-yet-to-be-solved-1698543.php#photo-1220758

http://www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=46824

http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/n...st-Texas-cold-cases-1717608.php#photo-1249673

http://houstonist.com/2007/07/17/searching_for_c.php

http://www.khou.com/news/crime/Crystal-Beach-slaying-unsolved-3-years-afterward-98502254.html

http://galvestondailynews.com/announcements/photos/kellum,Amanda-11-13-06.jpg
(11/10/06 - KTRK/LA MARQUE, TX) (KTRK) -- A woman's body was discovered in La Marque Friday morning.

Amanda Nicole Kellum 27 - found murdered 11/10/2006

La Marque police are investigating the death of a woman who has been identified as Amanda Nicole Kellum, 27. Kellum's nude body was found in Omega Bay near the Gulf Freeway and Highway 146 by two fishermen. The victim was apparently stabbed and may have been strangled as well. A dive team was called out to search the bay for more evidence.

The Galveston County Chief Medical Examiner later deemed her cause of death to be beating and multiple stabbings.
http://www.newspaperarchive.com/SiteMap/FreePdfPreview.aspx?img=112898516


Investigators in La Marque asked Friday for anyone with information about the apparent homicide of Amanda Nicole Kellum, 27, to call police at 409-938-9269. People with information can also call La Marque Crime Stoppers, 409-938-8477. Crime Stoppers pays rewards of up to $1,000 for information leading to arrests and convictions in major crimes.



http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Woman-s-body-found-near-I-45-1893184.php

http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=5770940486c2f7db

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=4749525

http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=8209b0e7792f890c

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...nd-dead-along-Gulf-Freeway-feeder-1523141.php