TEXAS KILLING FIELDS: REAL STORY OF THE I-45 KILLER

I-45 from Houston to Galveston, Texas is the bloodiest stretch of highway in America. Now, a new movie called Texas Killing Fields is in theaters. However, here are the basics on the murders that have haunted the area for decades. Just 50 miles long, over the past 38 years nearly 40 women and young girls have been murdered or vanished along this highway.

Their bodies have been dumped in fields, parks and the many bodies

SERIAL KILLER ED BELLS COPS TO UNSOLVED TEXAS SLAYS

DOES A killer have a conscience? That's what Edward Harold Bell wants us to believe. Now serving a 70-year sentence for murdering a Houston-area Marine vet in 1978, Bell has come forward asking for immunity and ready to plead on the murders of as many as 11 young girls in the Houston-Galveston area in the early to mid 1970s. Among the suspect victims are, Sharon Shaw, pictured left, and Rhonda Johnson, right. According to the Houston Chronicle six different agencies: the Harris County Sheriff's, the Pasadena PD, the Galveston PD, the Galveston County Sheriff's, the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office and

20 YRS. LATER SEEK KILLER OF TEXAS COP ROXYANN ALLEE

HOUSTON homicide detectives are turning up the heat on two killers who viciously murdered a Harris County Sheriff's Deputy in 1Harris County991. Deputy Roxyann Allee was abducted as she walked to her car in the parking lot of Greenspoint Mall about 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 30, 1991. Witnesses saw two men force the veteran officer into her van which was later found charred. Her badge, identity card and blood were in the debris, but her gun and purse were missing. Allee's body was later found and she had been shot numerous times. Her attackers were described as

DID SERIAL SLAYER KILL CHRISTINE MORTON, OTHERS?

DETECTIVES IN Austin, Texas are trying to a link a troubling 1988 cold case to the chillingly similar slaying two years earlier of Christine Morton, pictured right. Now, the working theory is that a serial killer may have been at work although Morton's husband has been in prison for nearly 25 years for the crime. According to the Austin American-Statesman, Debra Jane Baker of Austin was beaten to death with a blunt object in her bed while she slept--identical to Morton's slaying 12 miles away. Morton's husband has been trying to get DNA testing to determine if

COPS BUST PENA IN 1982 MURDER OF SHEREE STRONG

MANUEL Richard Pena is surely a prince among men. Over the past 30 years he has been accused of all kinds of violent acts against his family. In 1976, he shot a now ex-wife in the genitals during a spat, in 1989 punched his stepfather, 72, and in 2004 he beat his grandson, 7, so severely he gave the boy a bloody nose. And he always managed to pretty much walk away--until now.
On Friday, the 69-year-old headcase was charged with the 1982 murder of his then girlfriend, Sherri Strong. Cops found her in his house lying facedown,

FRANK NARVAEZ KILLER HAD OKC CONNECTION: COPS

DETECTIVES in Texas have found an Oklahoma City connection to the three decade old cold case killing of businessman Francisco "Frank" Narvaez. Narvaez, 42, was found stabbed to death on Sept. 30, 1983 in a Denton, Texas hotel. His car--a 1983 gray Oldsmobile Cutlass--was later found abandoned in Oklahoma City. Det. Kevin Smith said: “We feel strongly that the suspect has ties to the area where the vehicle was left. We hope to generate some interest in the