LEAGUE CITY, Texas – Police and search crews are at a scene in League City in connection to the “Texas Killing Fields” cases.
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‘Texas Killing Fields’: League City search scene
What we know:
Texas EquuSearch members, League City Police, and other police agencies are searching near Magnolia Creek Baptist Church on Calder Drive.
EquuSearch founder Tim Miller tells FOX 26 that the latest arrestee in these cases, James Dolphs Elmore Jr., claimed there was a body at the scene. Miller says, “So far, everything [Elmore’s] said became true.”
Elmore allegedly brought Miller to that same location multiple times in the last few years before he was arrested.
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Authorities search Bacliff home of ‘Texas Killing Fields’ suspect James Dolphs Elmore Jr.
Authorities searched the Bacliff home of James Dolphs Elmore Jr. on Thursday morning. He is charged in connection to the deaths of two “Texas Killing Fields” victims.
What we don’t know:
Miller did not state which victim they’re searching for in order not to jeopardize the investigation.
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‘Texas Killing Fields’
The backstory:
The “Texas Killing Fields” refers to a stretch of the I-45 corridor between the southeast side of Houston and Galveston where the bodies of at least 30 women have been recovered over the decades.
They are not all linked to one killer.
The Galveston County District Attorney’s Office says they are making a renewed effort, along with local enforcement, to bring justice to the murderers responsible for the women’s deaths.
Latest arrest:
The district attorney’s office announced Elmore’s indictment in April 2026, about four decades after the “Killing Fields” murders.
He was indicted for tampering with evidence and manslaughter for the deaths of 30-year-old Audrey Lee Cook and 16-year-old Laura Miller, the daughter of the Texas EquuSearch founder.
Between 1984 and 1991, the bodies of Cook, Miller, Heidi Fye and Donna Gonsoulin Prudhomme were discovered in a Leage City field near Calder Road.
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