A 61-year-old Bacliff man is facing charges for his alleged connection with two murders that are part of a decades-old case in the Houston area.
On Wednesday morning, a crowd of people wearing yellow T-shirts branded with “Texas EquuSearch” filed into the Galveston County Courthouse. At the front of the group was Tim Miller, the father of Laura Miller, whose body was found in the “Texas Killing Fields” area during the 1980s.
The group was there to hear Galveston County District Attorney Kenneth Cusick announce that 61-year-old James Elmore from Bacliff is facing criminal charges for his alleged connection with two murders that are part of a decades-old case.
The indictments are part of a renewed effort to hold accountable those responsible for the notoriously unsolved deaths of around 30 women, whose bodies were found in an area referred to as the Texas Killing Fields — near the intersection of Calder Road and Ervin Street in League City, which is located between Houston and Galveston. Between 1984 and 1991 in particular, four women’s bodies were found and identified as Heidi Fye-Villareal, Audrey Cook, Donna Prudhomme and Laura Miller…