Family holds walk 40 years after Houston-area woman vanished

Four decades after Rebecca “Becky” Beard disappeared from Freeport, her family is still searching.

Beard was 22 years old when she vanished on March 1, 1986. Official records from the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) still list her as a long-term missing person from Freeport, Texas. In 1995, Paul Taylor was prosecuted in connection with Beard’s disappearance. After the trial began, Taylor pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison by Judge J. Ray Gayle, according to The Facts.

Beard’s remains have never been located, according to the NamUs database…

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