Episode 2 of The Texas Killing Fields drops next Wednesday. What questions do you have for Robert Arnold and The Evidence Room team before the next episode?
Hello there. If you read the comments, there is a lot of hate toward this police department for not allowing the fbi to help. Can you shed some light on why that is? I mean, you are a news organization, tell these people what we both know already. Please tell people what the ramifications (and consequences) of allowing the fbi into your city/town/county are? Please tell them why those consequences are so bad that the city would rather a murder to go unsolved for years and years, instead of letting the fbi help. I'm sure many people would find it fascinating just how many strings come with the fbi "helping" your town. Thanks in advance.
You deleted my question? You openly ask people to ask you questions, and when I do you delete it? Would you like to give a reason for deleting it, or just flat out self censorship of the press? Maybe big baby Don Don is right about you. You're all fake news.
I watched the Netflix doc and I will never forget Mr. Miller's comment: I hate the path that God has led me on. He founded Texas EquiSearch after his daughter Laura was found. I don't blame him though at the same time, he and his organization have provided so many families with hope and closure. Thank you Mr. Miller, Laura would be so proud of you and with the way you've honored her memory
AMEN to that!!!!! WHAT A MAN, & even BETTER a FATHER!!!! How BLESSED she was to have a father as good as him!!! A TRUE ANGEL walking amongst us. God bless him all the days of his life. 🙏🙏🙏
OMG a journalist that sat in a chair & listened. more importantly let the victims family members talk & didn't make it about him. Appreciate it Great Job
The whole production was really top-notch and professional! So nice to see these sad cases handled respectfully and not melodramatically or over the top. Bless all those involved in creating the doc, and bless the victims and their families 🌹❤️
The family members in this documentary are just beautiful, amazing souls. Tim Miller's eyes tell of his decades long pain. What a gentle man. It's true monsters live in the dark, not knowing for years & years what happened to your loved one, has got to be a special kind of torture. I really felt Dianne's pain around this struggle & trying not to show her children how much she had struggled. Elegant lady. Despite the dark subject matter, I found this video very wholesome & well put together, thanks very much for uploading ❤
Disgusting! I’m from Dallas, tx and the sheer ineptitude of the League City police department, not to mention, the complete disregard for the safety and welfare of its citizens is humiliating and shameful to me as a lifelong Texan! I understand that people sometimes place themselves in dangerous situations through some of the life choices they make but that doesn’t excuse a police force from taking responsibility for their endured safety, especially if you have multiple people missing. You could potentially have a serial killer on your hands, which they did but what is their excuse for not even filing a missing persons report on a teenager! A child! I would have went to the media, posted fliers and protested the police department’s lack of action! They can’t stop you from doing these things. It’s revolting and there’s no excuse for it!
well I can tell you this it was someone in law inforcement or close to it. They didn't want anything to do with the killing field murders cause they most likely knew whom it was.
This video is extremely well done. Thank you for all the hard work in researching and putting it together. I love how you shared the backstory on each of the victims. It was beautiful yet so much more heartbreaking. Each one touched my heart. ❤ Each one had family and friends and were missed....are still missed. They are important. Thank you again.
Texas Equusearch. Tim Miller didn’t just make lemonade from lemons, but added little vodka, garnishing, fancy straw and little umbrella on it. They have helped so many frantic families, Lauras (and the other girls) legacy is nothing short of amazing!
Private citizens call call the FBI...especially with law enforcement refusing to put a missing person report and telling them to not call media or put fliers out. Basically, LE said "just forget she ever existed and move on"
how incredibly sad. I can't imagine the level of hopelessness and depression that gripped these poor families. The police absolutely failed them in spectacular fashion.
This has to be the worst excuse for a police department I’ve ever heard of! The idiot detective that claimed Laura ran away because she had just moved to town, lied to her father about the other girl and told him not to talk to the other family then didn’t even file a missing person report after multiple visits from her father makes me sick! She was 16 and had invited her BF over for the evening not to mention was last seen at the same damn pay phone as the first girl and he thinks she ran away?!?! Sees nothing suspicious?!?! He has to be the absolute dumbest detective to wear a badge! Then the department refuses FBI help because they want to solve it themselves? They didn’t care enough to even file a report and have made 0 progress in 40yrs. It’s beyond time for them to admit they’re incompetent and accept any and all help they can get. I hope if anyone does have info that they take it to the FBI rather than those clowns.
Worst PD in all of Tx and absolutely nothing will happen to those in charge, as they collect their pension, I'm sure. Tax payers there should be disgusted 😠
Only people in high places get protected. Beat cops are expendable and have no real power. Detectives, mayor, Sherrif, politicians and judges or billionaire (oil money) have the influence
As an avid true crime content consumer, I am constantly struck at the sheer misogyny of the past. Women and girls were valued so little at times, especially if they didn't fit a certain mold. The arrogance and attitude of that cop about Laura Miller--"she just turned 16 and that's when kids run away"--is beyond horrible. He just didn't care about her life.
At this point it has to be a police officer the way the department handled the situation. Its like they know something or is protecting someone. I work in Clearlake near League City... I can imagine how desolate it was back then.... I'm banking on a previous cop.... I think a crazy local would have been found by now.
Pretty sure they found the killer and it wasn't a cop. William Lewis Reece is the only suspect convicted of more than one murder in the Texas Killing Fields. Reece was convicted of the following murders: Laura Smither: Reece confessed to Friendswood Police in 2016 that he murdered Smither. (I lived in Friendswood when this happened in San Joaquin which is about a mile from Moore Road where she was taken from) Jessica Lee Cain: Reece confessed to killing Cain. Kelli Ann Cox: Reece confessed to killing Cox. Tiffany Johnston: Reece was convicted of Johnston's murder in 2021 and sentenced to death. Sandra Sapaugh: Reece was convicted of kidnapping and attempting to murder Sapaugh in 1998.
Or an oil billionaire, politician, or could be LE, sheriff, detective etc..I don't think it's a regular cop....those are expendable...its someone with a lot of power
The entire time of watching this I was thinking to myself.. it’s probably a police officer or an officer knows something of the someone…(most likely related to an officer) they knew something.
It can happen. Here in uk we had a cop during lockdown stop van telling her shs waz violating covid rules and abducted and graped and murdered a woman. The cop dept knee gor yeara rhere was an issue with the perv cop. He had been stalkibg this young woman. Wrnt oyt of area rented a small van to abduct her in. Used his police badge to ptove he was police. Tge policr depts this cop wotked at all kept sweeping it under the carpet. The reports about this perv cop.
That's what iam thinking . Smells of Incompetence or cover up of some kind. Kind of like the gilgo beach fiasco. Where in that case, the whole police force basically was corrupt. Enable the serial killer to go on for decades
@@Scorpio200 the fact they were so adamant about not using genetic genealogy and then not even a former member of the force not wanting to comment screams “cover up” and/or “killer was involved in law enforcement or was an officer”
Just the worst police responses. It really makes you wonder if it's laziness, incompetence, or some form of culpability; like they know there's a cop involved. It just sickens me how, especially back then, cops would write off a disappearance of a young woman as just a runaway, and leave it at that.
Telling Mr Miller to do nothing & just wait seems very suspicious to me. Sounds like they were protecting someone, one of their own perhaps? In those days such a thought would never have entered my mind. Now i'm older & wiser.
I just feel like if they really looked into it, they could figure it out. Now if the perp turns out to be someone in law enforcement or an elected official, it will probably go unsolved... that's the only way I can figure this one
The police telling a family to not to look for their missing kid, no posters, no media.. just forget she even existed and move on. Something isn’t right here, highly sus ‘advice’. I mean something bit more than just not caring about violence against women, claiming obvious murders as suicides and young girls as runaways type of a bias.
League City PD is apparently the WORST PD EVVERRRRR to exist, jfc. 😠💩 Annnd......there'll be zero accountability on the side of the worat PD in Tx. Excellent 🙄
The first one, the pretty blonde. What I want to know is why would she say if anything ever happens to me go to the league city, Police, she has friends there.That sounds real suspicious.What was she involved in or who did she know that she was worried that something would happen to her?That eventually ended up happening🤔🤔🤔
@johnscanlon2598 Yes, or she was dating someone on the police force possibly. Either reason police wanted to distance themselves cuz they know something.
My heart 💕 goes out to each and every parent that list their child, sister, mother. My thought on this is was just laziness on the cops, 30 and 40 yrs to find someone that's right under their nose is ridiculous.
@@celticwarrior777 I mean was it just me or didn't every disappearance start at that store parking lot I kinda think it might have even been a local cop to they didn't want outside help for the longest time seems really fishy to me
The 'Good ol' Boys' club strikes again. The detectives and everyone else there could have had these women identified long before they were but they wanted the glory. They didn't want to work with the FBI because it would deaden the chance of them winning the pissin' contest they initiated. How sad. I hope that Chief that retired (and wouldn't talk) is embarrassed and humiliated and ashamed. As well as the cops/detectives. My condolences to all of the families that had to suffer through their ineptitude.
This just absolutely hurt my heart for the the victims and I include the family members as victims as well and I was born and raised in Texas and still live in Texas have known about the killing fields history but to watch these family members speak about their loved ones and all the pain of not knowing and then the pain and anguish once they were identified just broke my heart for them and as I watch I wonder if the killer ever thought about the pain he caused especially to the children left behind. My prayers to all of the loved ones of every victim.
i wouldn't trust league city with anything. if those who stymied every attempt at gettin g these victims & their families an iota of the respect & 100% attention to these cases are still there, i'd have a fit until they were removed from every aspect of it. they trashed them from the moment they were first approached. they owe these families a lifetime of apologies, & a settlement from their own personal income. they did not earn it. identifying the victims is just the next step to finding their killers. i love tim miller. his daughter is so proud of him i'm sure. she will greet him so warmly when he leaves this earth & joins her.
The local police department refusing help with higher technology because (in a nutshell) of pride? And what is their excuse for not taking missing young women seriously, saying they're runaways, what's wrong with the cops in Texas, one thing for sure don't go missing in League City the Law enforcement wont go looking for you.
No one person leaves home without taking some clothes suitcase something or something to take care of themselves whoever says,"They don't want to be found"..? somethings Fishy. Don't believe them..
The cops weren't worth a drop of piss during a drought at the same time three women being interviewed couldn't have been more self consumed and therefore nor much assistance.
Scary just to know the killer was never caught. God saw him and has caught him, so his punishment awaits him upon earthly death. I’m so sorry for what these families have been through. If the killer were smart, he’d turn himself in, repent for the murders, and ask God and people to forgive him. It’s a fearful thing to come under the Wrath of God! It wouldn’t surprise me to know that he probably lived close by the Killing Field as that’s what most serial killers do. Look at the East Side Rapist / Murderer of California ( I lived there during that time and fear was real! …they caught him decades later! Never give up hope. This demon will be punished one way or another for what he’s done!
killerS- I grew up in LC, there is plenty of evidence, if not only the passage of time to indicate that there were likely more than one of them. Terrifying.
Put some respect on this show I had no ideal it was back despite watching channel 2 everyday and this show should have it's own playlist on this channel.
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That police department, League City, sounds like it was terrible, back then. I hope it's changed, but saying "no" to help from another agency when they are offering help, tells me it has not. My late brother and sis in law knew the sheriffs dept in Starke, Florida were not going to be helpful, when she found my 30 year old nephew dead on his living room floor, all his bedding had been taken. They didn't even take fingerprints.
MAN LEAGUE CITY PD REALLLY DROPPED THE BALL, ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. VERY SAD. MY HEART GOES OUT TO THE VICTIM'S FAMILIES, ESPECIALLY TIM MILLER AND HIS WIFE
I live on Calder. It's strange knowing bad things happened where we live. Calder...It's now got a round-about and looks nothing like it used to look like which I'm sure you know already. Housing developments have taken up the old oilfields in case anyone is wondering.
I can't imagine the demon that did this to these poor girls. And why? Why would anyone do this? Why would you hurt innocent people? I just don't understand why God would create such an evil person? I suppose that we aren't allowed to know the answers to certain things?
I have done so much research on this! It irritated me the FBI contacted me and said they can't give me any info bc it's an open case. I beg them to get with the times and let interner slueths give it a try. They have had like 30 years to figure it out. I have so many connections with potential killers to victims. Sorry. I get so wound up about this ❤
I am soooo damn sorry for the disgusting treatment you and your daughter received or should I say DIDNT receive from the authorities … That is just pure negligence and a lack of protocol ! … who knows had they taken this seriously right from the start what might have been ! … I have heard this kind of thing so many times in true crime stories the wait 48 hrs and then get back to us if she hasn’t returned by then … and that’s bad enough but to make you wait weeks !! … That’s just unacceptable and should be grounds for a law suit honestly … I’ve also seen through true crime that different detachments react differently some get on it immediately and others are very lackadaisical/lazy with regards to missing persons .. even children ! … I think the onus is on us the person reporting the missing person to stand firm and not leave until they take you seriously… WE KNOW OUR CHILDREN … They like to put all people in one category making it seem they are all just irresponsible teens young adults etc when we know damnwell that is NOT at all the behaviour of our child and they need to HEAR that and get on it immediately ! … Sorry for the rant but I am just so sick of hearing this same story over and over when I’m done cases it could save lives ! … I’m sorry for your loss I can only imagine .. Not sure I could go on .. I have thanked God many times for keeping my children safe from these evil beings .. It’s just heartbreaking 🙏🏼🇨🇦
The pain is forever felt when a loved one is murdered its the parents, grandparents, siblings, aubt, uncles cousins on both maternal and paternal sides
As someone born & raised in Galveston county, I'm deeply ashamed of how the LC police detectives treated these families, especially Heidi & Laura's dads. They didn't care one iota how much pain, sorrow, worry, stress & absolute heartbreak they were going through, like a never-ending nightmare you can't wake up from. They blew Heidi's case off because she worked at a bar, and Laura, well, they didn't even bother to type up a report for her because she was a runaway according to....themselves. These men determined on their very own that these girls weren't worthy of their precious time, which probably only consisted of a morning run to Shipley Donuts and an afternoon warming their desk seats. Last time I checked, both girls qualified as HUMAN BEINGS and these men of the LCPD had a dang obligation to help these families! I'm not ever one to critique police, because we have way too much of that in America, especially nowadays, but damn. Where was their humanity? They should've been IMMEDIATELY fired or at least reassigned to something easy, like being a meter maid! They ignored the very oath they swore to uphold, not to mention losing critical evidence! The blockheads at the ME's office were just as culpable! Now, don't get me started on that rodent Clyde Hedrick. Part of me almost thinks he was moonlighting as a paid informant along with his other nocturnal activities as a predator! He got away with way too much in a short span of time, all under the noses of those do-nothings at the police station & the medical examiner's office! To put the icing on the cake, there really isn't anything anyone can do any more because they lost the evidence! I shake my head in utter disbelief!
Did the League City police chief Gary Ratliff go to Sam Rayburn high school in Pasadena? I’m wondering why he refused to talk about this investigation.
In the season four intro there appears to be trial footage from the murder of Genesis Cornejo. Was the episode that was made private about the Genesis Cornejo case and did anyone see it before it was made private?
Mr. Miller u did everything to protect your daughter: it's the perps' fault NT YOURS. I dn't know u but I cn tell how much u loved Laura and u look like and intelligent man. We also had a loved One killed in our family AND NOBODY PAID FOR THAT MURDER. Our loved ones that died r Always helping US and r with US. This Is what I feel.
It was bad enough how the Police reacted to Heidi being reported missing but failing to even create a missing report for Laura, a young girl with a serious medical condition, who should have walked home after phoning her boyfriend to make arrangements for that evening, is truly inexcusable 🤬 It's even worse that the father of this missing girl immediately pointed out the possible link to Heidi's murder, begging them to check out the deposition site, only to be told it was an isolated case, while defaming Heidi, & not to bother her parents!!!! 🤬 Apparently it didn't occur to the idiot officer what an impact ot could make for Heidi's parents if they were able to find & convict Heidi's murderer while searching for Laura? Heck, why bother, better to spend their time more productively sat on their backsides, drinking bad coffee & picking their noses. I really hope Mr Miller sued them, & put that money into Equisearch; maybe a dent in their bank account would make them react differrently in the future. Having to find out from reading the newspaper that 2 bodies had been found then gonto the station themselves to ask if one could be their daughter.... Unimaginable doesn't come close. If you saw it on a TV show or read it in a book, no one would believe it Why do American Police react like this to missing people, assuming all kids are run aways or making families wait 48 hours before allowing them to file a mossing person's report, when the first 48 hours after a serious crime are so very important to an investigation? Where did Officer Dibble think Laura had run away to, having been dropped off at the gas station purely to make a phone call, with nothing with her except what she was wearing, especially when the boyfriend could have told them what time the call ended & the plans they'd made for the evening, no soubt also being able to provide an alibi of where he'd been in the interim, to prove Laura hadn't run off with him, & habing only just moved into the area, who else was she going to know who could pick her up & whisk her away so quickly???
That PD is so useless they didn't even secure the crime scene when rhe girls were found! They didn't make missing person reports, nothing. They certainly didn't search anywhere else. Tits on a bull is more useful than that PD
I have never heard someone's family speak so disparagingly of a dead "loved one" as Audrey's Aunt. You sure could hear the pride in her voice when she said, "her deddy said he'd send a plane ticket". Okay, Deddy. I guess when they found her body, you finally got your way? Did you buy her a plane ticket home? Right, Lady. I'm SURE you looked for her. 🙄 Love would have kept her home. Man. That lady got me HOT
The REAL unfortunate part of this story has been completely missed. The FIB doesn't come empty handed, and when they "offer to help," there are many strings attached. Obviously this small town's sheriff was aware of that and wanted the FIB to stay far away from his town. To be completely honest, when you understand what you're dealing with when the FIB gets involved, I can't blame him.
Episode 2 of The Texas Killing Fields drops next Wednesday. What questions do you have for Robert Arnold and The Evidence Room team before the next episode?
Thank you, a voice for the victims. Part 2 next Wednesday.
Hello there. If you read the comments, there is a lot of hate toward this police department for not allowing the fbi to help. Can you shed some light on why that is? I mean, you are a news organization, tell these people what we both know already. Please tell people what the ramifications (and consequences) of allowing the fbi into your city/town/county are? Please tell them why those consequences are so bad that the city would rather a murder to go unsolved for years and years, instead of letting the fbi help. I'm sure many people would find it fascinating just how many strings come with the fbi "helping" your town.
Thanks in advance.
🌮 or 🍕?
You deleted my question? You openly ask people to ask you questions, and when I do you delete it? Would you like to give a reason for deleting it, or just flat out self censorship of the press?
Maybe big baby Don Don is right about you. You're all fake news.
thank you I have been following this case for a long time /god bless all the families
I watched the Netflix doc and I will never forget Mr. Miller's comment: I hate the path that God has led me on. He founded Texas EquiSearch after his daughter Laura was found. I don't blame him though at the same time, he and his organization have provided so many families with hope and closure. Thank you Mr. Miller, Laura would be so proud of you and with the way you've honored her memory
Mr Tim Miller is incredible and an angel walking among us!
AMEN to that!!!!! WHAT A MAN, & even BETTER a FATHER!!!! How BLESSED she was to have a father as good as him!!! A TRUE ANGEL walking amongst us.
God bless him all the days of his life. 🙏🙏🙏
A true Angel wouldn't hate the path God put him on, but would accept God's plan and be thankful God chose him!🙏💜💯
@@faythnhim3863Your comment is unkind.
Give it a rest@@faythnhim3863
OMG a journalist that sat in a chair & listened. more importantly let the victims family members talk & didn't make it about him. Appreciate it Great Job
Robert Arnold is a pro!
The whole production was really top-notch and professional! So nice to see these sad cases handled respectfully and not melodramatically or over the top.
Bless all those involved in creating the doc, and bless the victims and their families 🌹❤️
I’m glad the local law enforcement got called out by that FBI. Too many times they are the reason cases turn cold.
Look what happened to the Candymans victims. Too many kids and teenagers disappearing from the heights yet not one of them put two and two together.
I'm thinking it might be a cop. Old boys stick together.
Maybe that's why they declined the testing offer@@maryjanerod7226
They're the reason the girls were killed. Definitely a cop.
Someone needs to call out the FBI.
The family members in this documentary are just beautiful, amazing souls. Tim Miller's eyes tell of his decades long pain. What a gentle man. It's true monsters live in the dark, not knowing for years & years what happened to your loved one, has got to be a special kind of torture. I really felt Dianne's pain around this struggle & trying not to show her children how much she had struggled. Elegant lady. Despite the dark subject matter, I found this video very wholesome & well put together, thanks very much for uploading ❤
Thank you for the kind words and for watching. Part two streams live tonight on www.click2houston.com/topic/The_Evidence_Room/
Disgusting! I’m from Dallas, tx and the sheer ineptitude of the League City police department, not to mention, the complete disregard for the safety and welfare of its citizens is humiliating and shameful to me as a lifelong Texan! I understand that people sometimes place themselves in dangerous situations through some of the life choices they make but that doesn’t excuse a police force from taking responsibility for their endured safety, especially if you have multiple people missing. You could potentially have a serial killer on your hands, which they did but what is their excuse for not even filing a missing persons report on a teenager! A child! I would have went to the media, posted fliers and protested the police department’s lack of action! They can’t stop you from doing these things. It’s revolting and there’s no excuse for it!
0: Is it tge defund Stand Down as majority requested? IS someone being protected?
@@ElizzzaB what?
Well said😮
@@ElizzzaB
Yeah! People don't need to be policed!!!
Cops are the most corrupt people there are!!
I hope that answers your questions
@@ElizzzaB???
well I can tell you this it was someone in law inforcement or close to it. They didn't want anything to do with the killing field murders cause they most likely knew whom it was.
What other dumb things can you tell us hoss?
This is so horrible, Im crying here....the cops are in on this, something is very, very wrong here!!!! No accountability, no nothing!
How would the police expect Laura to call if the house phone wasn't connected until after she was gone? Makes no sense.
This video is extremely well done. Thank you for all the hard work in researching and putting it together. I love how you shared the backstory on each of the victims. It was beautiful yet so much more heartbreaking. Each one touched my heart. ❤ Each one had family and friends and were missed....are still missed. They are important.
Thank you again.
Thank you for watching. The team has covered these cases for years so we wanted to do it right.
@@KPRC2Click2Houston your team is outstanding!
❤ that's Tim Miller the second one that talked about was his daughter that's why he started the Texas search team ❤
Texas Equusearch. Tim Miller didn’t just make lemonade from lemons, but added little vodka, garnishing, fancy straw and little umbrella on it. They have helped so many frantic families, Lauras (and the other girls) legacy is nothing short of amazing!
Mr Tim Miller is an angel walking among us!
he seems like an fantastic man.
Dickison
Saying law enforcement were morons, would be an understatement.
A person prone to seizures is not going to "run away" without their meds - JFC .
I don't think she would run away anyway because she was too young to make her doctors appointment and get/pay for her medicine
The only good that came from this tragedy is Equasearch god bless Tim Miller and all the family's impacted by this❤
Best Texas killing fields documentary I've seen and I've watched most. Need episode 2 today❤
Part 2 of The Killing Fields streams live tonight at 6:30pm Central! www.click2houston.com/topic/The_Evidence_Room/
Private citizens call call the FBI...especially with law enforcement refusing to put a missing person report and telling them to not call media or put fliers out. Basically, LE said "just forget she ever existed and move on"
how incredibly sad. I can't imagine the level of hopelessness and depression that gripped these poor families. The police absolutely failed them in spectacular fashion.
This has to be the worst excuse for a police department I’ve ever heard of! The idiot detective that claimed Laura ran away because she had just moved to town, lied to her father about the other girl and told him not to talk to the other family then didn’t even file a missing person report after multiple visits from her father makes me sick! She was 16 and had invited her BF over for the evening not to mention was last seen at the same damn pay phone as the first girl and he thinks she ran away?!?! Sees nothing suspicious?!?! He has to be the absolute dumbest detective to wear a badge!
Then the department refuses FBI help because they want to solve it themselves? They didn’t care enough to even file a report and have made 0 progress in 40yrs. It’s beyond time for them to admit they’re incompetent and accept any and all help they can get. I hope if anyone does have info that they take it to the FBI rather than those clowns.
Worst PD in all of Tx and absolutely nothing will happen to those in charge, as they collect their pension, I'm sure. Tax payers there should be disgusted 😠
Only people in high places get protected. Beat cops are expendable and have no real power. Detectives, mayor, Sherrif, politicians and judges or billionaire (oil money) have the influence
Let's also remember the bodies piling up around 'Lady Bird' Lake that authorities continually deny are connected. Seems law enforcement NEVER learns.
As an avid true crime content consumer, I am constantly struck at the sheer misogyny of the past. Women and girls were valued so little at times, especially if they didn't fit a certain mold. The arrogance and attitude of that cop about Laura Miller--"she just turned 16 and that's when kids run away"--is beyond horrible. He just didn't care about her life.
Theres stil that mysigny and in uk too
At this point it has to be a police officer the way the department handled the situation. Its like they know something or is protecting someone. I work in Clearlake near League City... I can imagine how desolate it was back then.... I'm banking on a previous cop.... I think a crazy local would have been found by now.
Pretty sure they found the killer and it wasn't a cop. William Lewis Reece is the only suspect convicted of more than one murder in the Texas Killing Fields. Reece was convicted of the following murders:
Laura Smither: Reece confessed to Friendswood Police in 2016 that he murdered Smither. (I lived in Friendswood when this happened in San Joaquin which is about a mile from Moore Road where she was taken from)
Jessica Lee Cain: Reece confessed to killing Cain.
Kelli Ann Cox: Reece confessed to killing Cox.
Tiffany Johnston: Reece was convicted of Johnston's murder in 2021 and sentenced to death.
Sandra Sapaugh: Reece was convicted of kidnapping and attempting to murder Sapaugh in 1998.
@@dickfitswell3437wow omg
Or an oil billionaire, politician, or could be LE, sheriff, detective etc..I don't think it's a regular cop....those are expendable...its someone with a lot of power
The music in this one is immersive. Enjoyed the production
That PD declined the FBI's offer of forensic genealogy for one reason only: they didn't want to be seen for their ineptitude.
The entire time of watching this I was thinking to myself.. it’s probably a police officer or an officer knows something of the someone…(most likely related to an officer) they knew something.
I was thinking the same thing while watching this! I wonder if any of the law enforcement officers...(or their family members) were ever investigated?
It can happen. Here in uk we had a cop during lockdown stop van telling her shs waz violating covid rules and abducted and graped and murdered a woman. The cop dept knee gor yeara rhere was an issue with the perv cop. He had been stalkibg this young woman. Wrnt oyt of area rented a small van to abduct her in. Used his police badge to ptove he was police. Tge policr depts this cop wotked at all kept sweeping it under the carpet. The reports about this perv cop.
Cop serial killer for sure.
That's what iam thinking . Smells of Incompetence or cover up of some kind. Kind of like the gilgo beach fiasco. Where in that case, the whole police force basically was corrupt. Enable the serial killer to go on for decades
@@Scorpio200 the fact they were so adamant about not using genetic genealogy and then not even a former member of the force not wanting to comment screams “cover up” and/or “killer was involved in law enforcement or was an officer”
@@endergamer7483 yessssss bingo....
Probably not as uncommon as people would think, that and ra@ists. Not the majority, but some. Positions of power enbolden preditors
@@endergamer7483or politician or very wealthy and powerful..
Just the worst police responses. It really makes you wonder if it's laziness, incompetence, or some form of culpability; like they know there's a cop involved. It just sickens me how, especially back then, cops would write off a disappearance of a young woman as just a runaway, and leave it at that.
that police department all should be in jail! What a bunch of A______s!!!!
Telling Mr Miller to do nothing & just wait seems very suspicious to me. Sounds like they were protecting someone, one of their own perhaps? In those days such a thought would never have entered my mind. Now i'm older & wiser.
Someone very powerful, LE doesn't cover up for regular cops.. they cover up for rich and powerful.
I just feel like if they really looked into it, they could figure it out. Now if the perp turns out to be someone in law enforcement or an elected official, it will probably go unsolved... that's the only way I can figure this one
The police telling a family to not to look for their missing kid, no posters, no media.. just forget she even existed and move on. Something isn’t right here, highly sus ‘advice’. I mean something bit more than just not caring about violence against women, claiming obvious murders as suicides and young girls as runaways type of a bias.
@@janemiettinen5176 and why not? Cover up?
Seems like forever been waiting for a new "Evidence Room" 😊
We're glad to be back! We got delayed with all of the Houston storm coverage, but we'll make up for it this season. Thanks for watching!
League City PD is apparently the WORST PD EVVERRRRR to exist, jfc. 😠💩
Annnd......there'll be zero accountability on the side of the worat PD in Tx. Excellent 🙄
The first one, the pretty blonde. What I want to know is why would she say if anything ever happens to me go to the league city, Police, she has friends there.That sounds real suspicious.What was she involved in or who did she know that she was worried that something would happen to her?That eventually ended up happening🤔🤔🤔
Obviously a CI
@johnscanlon2598 Yes, or she was dating someone on the police force possibly. Either reason police wanted to distance themselves cuz they know something.
She thought she had friends there. But they killed her.
I know these cases from other YT Channel's :( , BUT this here, is the best documentation I'v ever seen 👏👍
Thank you for watching!
My heart 💕 goes out to each and every parent that list their child, sister, mother. My thought on this is was just laziness on the cops, 30 and 40 yrs to find someone that's right under their nose is ridiculous.
Since League City weren't interested in discovering the identity of Jane & Janet i'd say they weren't interested in finding the killer.
Dang that makes people sound like they are in it when they try to discourage people from looking for their family 😢😢😢😢😢
Seems like all these cases start at that damn pay phone some maniac stakes out
Ya?sounds like someone was stalkibg that store watching for girls and women
@@celticwarrior777 I mean was it just me or didn't every disappearance start at that store parking lot I kinda think it might have even been a local cop to they didn't want outside help for the longest time seems really fishy to me
@@jberry19822 of them did, yes
The 'Good ol' Boys' club strikes again.
The detectives and everyone else there could have had these women identified long before they were but they wanted the glory. They didn't want to work with the FBI because it would deaden the chance of them winning the pissin' contest they initiated. How sad. I hope that Chief that retired (and wouldn't talk) is embarrassed and humiliated and ashamed. As well as the cops/detectives.
My condolences to all of the families that had to suffer through their ineptitude.
Lot of these sheriffs have ego and are very terroritorial
Mr Millar hes the founder of Texas Aquasearch. God bless him h e turned his grief, into helping other families who have missing people❤❤
This just absolutely hurt my heart for the the victims and I include the family members as victims as well and I was born and raised in Texas and still live in Texas have known about the killing fields history but to watch these family members speak about their loved ones and all the pain of not knowing and then the pain and anguish once they were identified just broke my heart for them and as I watch I wonder if the killer ever thought about the pain he caused especially to the children left behind. My prayers to all of the loved ones of every victim.
@@Christophercolumbo1970 Thank you!☺️
i wouldn't trust league city with anything. if those who stymied every attempt at gettin g these victims & their families an iota of the respect & 100% attention to these cases are still there, i'd have a fit until they were removed from every aspect of it. they trashed them from the moment they were first approached. they owe these families a lifetime of apologies, & a settlement from their own personal income. they did not earn it. identifying the victims is just the next step to finding their killers. i love tim miller. his daughter is so proud of him i'm sure. she will greet him so warmly when he leaves this earth & joins her.
The local police department refusing help with higher technology because (in a nutshell) of pride? And what is their excuse for not taking missing young women seriously, saying they're runaways, what's wrong with the cops in Texas, one thing for sure don't go missing in League City the Law enforcement wont go looking for you.
How could Laura call a number she didn't know? They didn't have a phone when she disappeared.
Call information and get the number. The operator could directly connect you.
This first girl was absolutely stunning. So so sad. I pray all the girls families get answers.
No one person leaves home without taking some clothes suitcase something or something to take care of themselves whoever says,"They don't want to be found"..? somethings Fishy.
Don't believe them..
Was wondering if yall was going to put more episodes out?
Im still waiting on the railcart or box car killer.
We're working on it! Thanks for watching.
Wohoo, new season is here! And it starts with mr Miller too, mad respect.
Just too sad and disturbing
This is beautifully done. Im impressed. Thanks for not forgetting the victims or their families.
Evidence room kicks ass
For sure !
I bet it was a cop or multiple cops who were responsible and that's why they really don't want to investigate it.
obviously, the cops in league City knew what happened to Heidi.
Jesus, second story was rough. Thay all were but damn.
League City dropped the ball big time. Which is about 90 miles away from us.
The sweet woman who was "Aunt Diane" suffered awfully.
Those "good old boys" in League City, were jealous of, threatened by, the F.B.I. all those years ago.
Future Magas.
She broke my heart😢
@@zariballard 🫶🫶🫶
Very difficult crimes to solve. Sadly no cameras, no phones and many transient workers back then. Still think these cases can be solved though.
Hopefully the family will get answers. Morgan Nick's case finally solved from 1995
Thank you for this intense compilation.
Wtf..is worng wth a police department that would Deny help put the egos down for God's sake. And solve some cases by any means possible😢
They're covering up.
The cops weren't worth a drop of piss during a drought at the same time three women being interviewed couldn't have been more self consumed and therefore nor much assistance.
Scary just to know the killer was never caught. God saw him and has caught him, so his punishment awaits him upon earthly death. I’m so sorry for what these families have been through. If the killer were smart, he’d turn himself in, repent for the murders, and ask God and people to forgive him. It’s a fearful thing to come under the Wrath of God! It wouldn’t surprise me to know that he probably lived close by the Killing Field as that’s what most serial killers do. Look at the East Side Rapist / Murderer of California ( I lived there during that time and fear was real! …they caught him decades later! Never give up hope. This demon will be punished one way or another for what he’s done!
killerS- I grew up in LC, there is plenty of evidence, if not only the passage of time to indicate that there were likely more than one of them. Terrifying.
Put some respect on this show I had no ideal it was back despite watching channel 2 everyday and this show should have it's own playlist on this channel.
We have our own RUclips Playlist! Watch all 37 episodes of The Evidence Room here: ruclips.net/p/PLEhVl49rMiN_x9gXrgw4mNSm4_36EFXK3&si=aTfBudSEvYUFUpZk
That police department, League City, sounds like it was terrible, back then. I hope it's changed, but saying "no" to help from another agency when they are offering help, tells me it has not.
My late brother and sis in law knew the sheriffs dept in Starke, Florida were not going to be helpful, when she found my 30 year old nephew dead on his living room floor, all his bedding had been taken. They didn't even take fingerprints.
Wow
@@AnnacolleenEtters isn’t it horrific? I’m so sorry for your tragic losses🫶🙏
MAN LEAGUE CITY PD REALLLY DROPPED THE BALL, ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. VERY SAD. MY HEART GOES OUT TO THE VICTIM'S FAMILIES, ESPECIALLY TIM MILLER AND HIS WIFE
I live right down 517 from where this happened
I live on Calder. It's strange knowing bad things happened where we live. Calder...It's now got a round-about and looks nothing like it used to look like which I'm sure you know already. Housing developments have taken up the old oilfields in case anyone is wondering.
League City PD - WHY???
I bet you could insert a few more commercials to make this really informative.
episode One They said Laura Miller was at a payphone at the corner of 517 and Hobbs Rd. It was actually at the corner of 518 and Hobbs Rd.
There are so many ads during this video. It is ridiculous.
I can't imagine the demon that did this to these poor girls. And why? Why would anyone do this? Why would you hurt innocent people? I just don't understand why God would create such an evil person? I suppose that we aren't allowed to know the answers to certain things?
Oycopaths tgeres mny everywhere they are evil they dobt care they take lives
I have done so much research on this! It irritated me the FBI contacted me and said they can't give me any info bc it's an open case. I beg them to get with the times and let interner slueths give it a try. They have had like 30 years to figure it out. I have so many connections with potential killers to victims.
Sorry. I get so wound up about this ❤
@@AuntLALA Thank you for all your passion 🙏🫶😇
Superb documentary!!
I am soooo damn sorry for the disgusting treatment you and your daughter received or should I say DIDNT receive from the authorities … That is just pure negligence and a lack of protocol ! … who knows had they taken this seriously right from the start what might have been ! … I have heard this kind of thing so many times in true crime stories the wait 48 hrs and then get back to us if she hasn’t returned by then … and that’s bad enough but to make you wait weeks !! … That’s just unacceptable and should be grounds for a law suit honestly … I’ve also seen through true crime that different detachments react differently some get on it immediately and others are very lackadaisical/lazy with regards to missing persons .. even children ! … I think the onus is on us the person reporting the missing person to stand firm and not leave until they take you seriously… WE KNOW OUR CHILDREN … They like to put all people in one category making it seem they are all just irresponsible teens young adults etc when we know damnwell that is NOT at all the behaviour of our child and they need to HEAR that and get on it immediately ! … Sorry for the rant but I am just so sick of hearing this same story over and over when I’m done cases it could save lives ! … I’m sorry for your loss I can only imagine .. Not sure I could go on .. I have thanked God many times for keeping my children safe from these evil beings .. It’s just heartbreaking 🙏🏼🇨🇦
Thank you very much🫶
The eastex/ Jensen area was no good back in 85 especially friendly rd and still is no good
Disgusting investigation. Heartbreaking for the victims & families.
Did Heide and Laura go to the same convenience store?
Yes and used the same phone! 😮
I have a feeling it’s someone who worked there or stalked girls there.
The pain is forever felt when a loved one is murdered its the parents, grandparents, siblings, aubt, uncles cousins on both maternal and paternal sides
As someone born & raised in Galveston county, I'm deeply ashamed of how the LC police detectives treated these families, especially Heidi & Laura's dads. They didn't care one iota how much pain, sorrow, worry, stress & absolute heartbreak they were going through, like a never-ending nightmare you can't wake up from. They blew Heidi's case off because she worked at a bar, and Laura, well, they didn't even bother to type up a report for her because she was a runaway according to....themselves. These men determined on their very own that these girls weren't worthy of their precious time, which probably only consisted of a morning run to Shipley Donuts and an afternoon warming their desk seats. Last time I checked, both girls qualified as HUMAN BEINGS and these men of the LCPD had a dang obligation to help these families! I'm not ever one to critique police, because we have way too much of that in America, especially nowadays, but damn. Where was their humanity? They should've been IMMEDIATELY fired or at least reassigned to something easy, like being a meter maid! They ignored the very oath they swore to uphold, not to mention losing critical evidence! The blockheads at the ME's office were just as culpable! Now, don't get me started on that rodent Clyde Hedrick. Part of me almost thinks he was moonlighting as a paid informant along with his other nocturnal activities as a predator! He got away with way too much in a short span of time, all under the noses of those do-nothings at the police station & the medical examiner's office! To put the icing on the cake, there really isn't anything anyone can do any more because they lost the evidence! I shake my head in utter disbelief!
😁 Can't wait till part 2 is uploaded 🎉 🤪🎊❣️
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I'm 😢😢😢😢crying. 13:05
I would've called the fbi n wouldn't wait on those lazy cops in league city.
Corrupt not lazy
Did the League City police chief Gary Ratliff go to Sam Rayburn high school in Pasadena? I’m wondering why he refused to talk about this investigation.
The killer obviously lived in the area and stopped by '91. Did he die or move?
So its in court this october 2024 wow the baby durvived then
Very interesting
The music is too loud & annoying.
Why don’t you MUTE it and put on CC? That way you can just read the program, but.. ya know… you have to read.
In the season four intro there appears to be trial footage from the murder of Genesis Cornejo. Was the episode that was made private about the Genesis Cornejo case and did anyone see it before it was made private?
We haven't covered the Genesis Cornejo case, but we did cover Corriann Cervantes' murder. ruclips.net/video/7gd8pcYKwbg/видео.html
Made it finally 😊😢 0:16
I have to assume that text, which isn't narrated, is of little importance to the story.
So annoying.
This is why we have law suits for those missing without life needing medicine that police ignore and do not even fill out a report.
I cant help but notice that the space center is near there, has anyone considered an employee there?
Imagine asking investigators to investigate. What a preposterous expectation.
Mr. Miller u did everything to protect your daughter: it's the perps' fault NT YOURS. I dn't know u but I cn tell how much u loved Laura and u look like and intelligent man. We also had a loved One killed in our family AND NOBODY PAID FOR THAT MURDER. Our loved ones that died r Always helping US and r with US. This Is what I feel.
Patriarchy is no system under which to organize a society. Grew up in TX. RESENT THE HELL out of the good old boy.
Every time I drive down Calder I think about what happened there.
Useless comes to mind
That’s being generous
It was bad enough how the Police reacted to Heidi being reported missing but failing to even create a missing report for Laura, a young girl with a serious medical condition, who should have walked home after phoning her boyfriend to make arrangements for that evening, is truly inexcusable 🤬 It's even worse that the father of this missing girl immediately pointed out the possible link to Heidi's murder, begging them to check out the deposition site, only to be told it was an isolated case, while defaming Heidi, & not to bother her parents!!!! 🤬 Apparently it didn't occur to the idiot officer what an impact ot could make for Heidi's parents if they were able to find & convict Heidi's murderer while searching for Laura? Heck, why bother, better to spend their time more productively sat on their backsides, drinking bad coffee & picking their noses. I really hope Mr Miller sued them, & put that money into Equisearch; maybe a dent in their bank account would make them react differrently in the future. Having to find out from reading the newspaper that 2 bodies had been found then gonto the station themselves to ask if one could be their daughter.... Unimaginable doesn't come close. If you saw it on a TV show or read it in a book, no one would believe it
Why do American Police react like this to missing people, assuming all kids are run aways or making families wait 48 hours before allowing them to file a mossing person's report, when the first 48 hours after a serious crime are so very important to an investigation? Where did Officer Dibble think Laura had run away to, having been dropped off at the gas station purely to make a phone call, with nothing with her except what she was wearing, especially when the boyfriend could have told them what time the call ended & the plans they'd made for the evening, no soubt also being able to provide an alibi of where he'd been in the interim, to prove Laura hadn't run off with him, & habing only just moved into the area, who else was she going to know who could pick her up & whisk her away so quickly???
What about the car rental or other places she worked have they been searched
That PD is so useless they didn't even secure the crime scene when rhe girls were found! They didn't make missing person reports, nothing. They certainly didn't search anywhere else. Tits on a bull is more useful than that PD
The incompetence of the League City police department is a joke!
Is there another documentary on this without the horrible music in the background?
@@SharpTac There’s a Netflix series 2022. They did a good job as well.
I have never heard someone's family speak so disparagingly of a dead "loved one" as Audrey's Aunt.
You sure could hear the pride in her voice when she said, "her deddy said he'd send a plane ticket".
Okay, Deddy. I guess when they found her body, you finally got your way? Did you buy her a plane ticket home?
Right, Lady. I'm SURE you looked for her. 🙄
Love would have kept her home.
Man. That lady got me HOT
Letting the info out there might help solve it. She sounded matter of fact to me, not putting her down.
The REAL unfortunate part of this story has been completely missed. The FIB doesn't come empty handed, and when they "offer to help," there are many strings attached. Obviously this small town's sheriff was aware of that and wanted the FIB to stay far away from his town. To be completely honest, when you understand what you're dealing with when the FIB gets involved, I can't blame him.
Do tell??? Like what kind of strings just curious 🤔 I'd think help would have been appreciated not dismissed. 😮
How hard is it to spell FBI correctly? It's literally 3 letters.
@@jenadams1002 When they lie (and cheat, and steal) as much as they do, it's FIB. Roger that?
@@jenadams1002it's on purpose. FIB as in liars.
@@jenadams1002 😅
How many total missing girls and women during that year era in that area?
Your a strong man sir God bless