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Fact Sheet of Missing Girls Along I-45 S
1971-1997
Numbers next to Girls Names are "Keys" to Map where Girls disappeared From.
Brenda Jones, , age 14 (#2)
Disappeared 7/1/91 while walking to Galveston Hosp to visit an aunt. Her body was found next day, floating in Galveston Bay a short distance away. She had a slip stuffed in her mouth and she died of a head wound. Closest Hwy from disappearance is I-45 S. Closest highway to where body was found is Seawolf Parkway, near I-45 S.
Allison Craven -, age 12 (#4)
Disappeared 11/9/71 from her Apt. near I-45 S. Mother went to run errands and returned in 1 hr. Three months later a nearby field yielded bones from an arm and two hands, along with some teeth. Then Feb 25, 1972 her skeleton, missing the same bones, was found in a Pearland field. Body found 5-10 miles from where last seen. Closest major highway where disappeared in I-45 S. Closest major highway where body found is I-45 S.
Maria Johnson- age 15 (#5)
Disappeared 11/15/71 with a girlfriend, Debbie Ackerman, from Galveston Mall. Death caused by shot to head. Bound hand and foot and partially clad. Body found 10 miles north of where disappeared, floating in Turner's Bayou in Texas City. Closest major highway from disappearance I-45 S. Closest major highway where found is I-45 S, Hwy 3.
Debbie Ackerman, age 15 (#6)
Disappeared 11/15/71 with a girlfriend, Maria Johnson, from Galveston Mall. Death caused by shot to head. Bound hand and foot and partially clad. Body found 10 miles north of where disappeared, floating in Turner's Bayou in Texas City. Closest major highway from disappearance I-45 S. Closest major highway where found is I-45 S, Hwy 3.
Kimberly Pitchford, age 16 (#7)
Disappeared 1/3/73 after attending a driving school in Pasadena,.Tx. She was supposed to call home for ride but never did. Two days later, her body was found in a ditch near Angleton about 30 miles south of where she was last seen. She had been strangled. A comment by her uncle, Ray Pitchford, said recent info., about a possible serial killer known to have attended the school about the same time. Closest major highway from disappearance I-45 S. Closest major highway where body found Hwy 288 S.
Brooks Bracewell, age 12 (#8)
Disappeared 9/6/74 from Convenience Store, along with girlfriend, Georgia Geer, after skipping school. Bodies found near water. Closest major highway from disappearance I-45 S. Unknown at this time where bodies found.
Georgia Geer, age 14 (#9)
Disappeared 9/6/74 from Convenience Store, along with girlfriend, Brooks Bracewell, after skipping school. Bodies found near water. Closest major highway from disappearance I-45 S. Unknown at this time where bodies found.
Sandra Ramber, age 14 (#24)
Disappeared 1983 form home in Sante Fe, a town just off I-45 S near Friendswood, League City. Door was open at home, biscuits were cooking and her purse and new coat where still there. Her body has never been found.
Heidi Villareal Fye, age 23 (#10) See Footnote (2) regarding Det. Grant of League City Police Dept.
Slight built women, looked more like teen. Disappeared 10/1/83 near I-45 S at Convenience Store, located at Hobbs Rd and West Main, where she used phone in League City. Same Convenience Store where one year later on 9/1/84, Laura Miller disappeared from. Both Fye and Miller's bodies found April 4, 1984.in same field in League City, Texas approx. 1-3 miles from where they disappeared. Fye's body found with broken ribs and may have been beaten to death. Closest major highway from disappearance I-45 S. Closest major highway where body found I-45 S.
Laura Miller, age 16 (#11) See Footnote #2
Disappeared 9/1/84 from same Convenience Store , located at Hobbs Rd and West Main, that Heidi Viallareal Fye disappeared from one year earlier in League City. Body found in field in League, City, approx 1-3 miles from where she was last seen. Death by shot to head. Body found Feb 3, 1986 by children riding dirt bikes. Closest major highway from disappearance I-45 S. Closest major highway where body found I-45 S.
Jane Doe, age (#25) See Footnote #2 Artist picture and facts at www.lcpd.com/jane.htm
Found Feb, 3, 1986 . Estimated death occurred Aug-Dec 1985. in same field in League City, Texas as Laura Miller and Heidi Villareal Fye were found. Jane Doe was shot in back. Closes Hwy is I-45 S. Might have disappeared form Convenience Store. But unknown at this time.
Janet Doe #2, age (#26) See Footnote #2. Artist picture and facts at www.lcpd.com/janet.htm
Found Sept 8, 1991 Estimated death occurred May-Oct 1991.in same field in League City, Texas as Laura Miller, Heidi Villareal Fye, Jane Doe were found. Janet Doe was beaten and possibility strangled. Closest Hwy is I-45 S. Might have disappeared form Convenience Store. But unknown at this time.
Rene Richerson, age 22 (#12)
Disappeared 10/7/88 from Casa Del Mar Condominiums, in Galveston, Texas. where she was working night shift as auditor. Last seen about 6 AM in office. In room above office, an assistant auditor was sleeping and was awaken to the sound of a woman's scream, a door slamming, another scream and a car driving away. Scratch marks were found on door of office and one shoe found in parking lot. Body never found. Closest Hwy is I-45 S.
Lynette Bibbs, age 14 (#16)
Disappeared 2/1/96 with girlfriend Tamara Fisher, both black girls from Houston Night Club and then motel. Bodies were found off a dirt road. Bibbs was partially clad and shot twice in the head and once in the thigh, while Fisher, fully clothed, was shot once in the back of the head. Closest highway were bodies found Hwy 10 E and Hwy 35 S.
Tamara Fisher, age 15 (#17)
Disappeared 2/1/96 with girlfriend Lynette Bibbs, both black girls from Houston Night Club and then motel. Bodies were found Feb 3, 1996 near Cleveland in Liberty County., off a dirt road. Bibbs was partially clad and shot twice in the head and once in the thigh, while Fisher, fully clothed, was shot once in the back of the head. Closest highway were bodies found Hwy 10 E and Hwy 35 S.
Krystal Baker, age 13 (#18)
Disappeared 3/5/96 from Convenience Store in Texas City using phone. Stopped at store in hopes of a ride to friends house in Bayou Vista a short distance from there. Two fisherman found her body, which had been strangled, beaten and sexually assaulted a few hours later under the I-10 Bridge over the Trinity River in Chambers County. The body was found approx. 25-30 miles north of where last seen. Closest highway from where last seen is I-45 S, and Hwy 3 and Hwy 146 which goes along Bay toward where body was found. The friends house would be west of where she was last seen just off I-45S and parallel to where she was last seen, in opposite direction. Death cause by poss. Ligature Strangulation.
13 Yr. Old Abducted, escapes, age 13 *See Footnote *
Abducted 3/11/96 while walking near Miramar Shopping Center in Seabrook, TX. at gunpoint. Girl says she jumped out of car in La Porte, TX. An officer driving by saw girl fall out of moving green Ford Ranger Truck. Suspect is 34-45, 6 ft to 6'2" with graying black hair and beard. The truck was never seen again.
Laura Smither, age 12 (#19)
Disappeared 4/3/97 while jogging within 1 mile of home in Friendswood, Texas. Body found nude except for one sock, was discovered two weeks later in a retention pond in Pasadena, Texas approx. 5 miles from last seen. Her head was dismembered. Closes Hwy from where last seen I-45 S. Closes highway were body found Hwy I-45 S. A dark colored pickup was observed in same area as where last seen and composite sketch of person in truck. See attached… "Laura Smither Sheet".
Jessica Cain, age 17 (#23)
Last seen 8/17/97 at Bennigans Restaurant off I-45 S with friends about 2AM. Her truck found not far from cut off to home on I-45 S just north of Galveston Bridge at approx. 4 AM by parents. Body never found. Witnesses driving along this route at approx. 2:30AM, remembers seeing a tan ford truck with cut out at tailgate parked behind Cain's car. This truck was described as similar to ones used by "lay-down" wreckers. The truck had amber lights on top of cab and a tool box. (Note: Crime Search talked to local Wrecker Company. They feel that the truck may "not" be a wrecker at all. With tool box there would not be enough room for wrecker type rigging. They suggested the truck might be used for short hauling of livestock or pulling trailer where warning lights are needed. Also they suggested that amber lights can be used by emergency personnel like volunteer firemen, etc.)
**Footnote: Seabrook Girl
This is Newspaper account:
"Officials probe teen abduction--- Police are seeking a man who abducted a 13 yr old girl at gunpoint last month (March 1996) as she was walking home from Shopping Center. The girl told police she jumped out of his truck in 200 block of East Fairmont in La Porte, Texas. A town several miles from Seabrook. A police officer happening to drive by the truck witnessed the girl falling out of the truck. He said she was sitting on lap of person as he approached and then jumped away and apparently out the passenger door. The truck is a late mode Ford Ranger, green with suspect as 35-45, 6 ft or 6'2", with graying black hair and beard. The truck was never seen before or after this incident.
Footnote #2
Detective Morton Grant, of the League City Police Department at 281-338-4173 is heading this investigation. Any information concerning these cases should be given to him.