In 2022, Netflix witnessed a dip in its subscribers, which heavily impacted its revenue. This resulted in the axing of many shows and their consecutive seasons. However, the streaming platform bounced back with the releases of many real-life stories docuseries which garnered a lot of attention. The major success was the Evan Peters-starrer ‘Dahmer’ which gained a lot of traction. Now, the platform has released yet another real-life crime docuseries titled ‘Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields’.
The new docuseries is a continuation of Netflix’s ‘Crime Scene’ anthology. In 2021, ‘Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel’ kicked off the series. It chronicles the story of the Canadian Woman, Elisa Lam, who came to Los Angeles and stayed at the Cecil Hotel. She was found in the hotel’s water tank. The next in the series was The Times Square Killer’, which told the story of gruesome murders in the early 1980s of sex workers near Times Square. On November 29th, 2022, Netflix released ‘The Texas Killing Field’, which is currently in the Top 10 list of global trending shows.
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What Is The Story Behind ‘The Texas Killing Fields’
Netflix has garnered the attention of its viewers with another real-life crime docuseries released in November 2022. ‘Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields’ has entered the list of Netflix’s Global Top 10 list. The show was viewed for 23,880,000 hours. It is based on the mysterious murders that happened in the deserted Interstate stretch between Houston and Galveston. It is deemed as the ‘Highway To Hell’. The murder spree began in the late 1970s and continued till the next millennium in 2006.
During that period, 30-35 slain women were brutally killed. The three episodes docuseries first shows us how a group of the Texan community discovered human skulls in 1984, which were left there since the 1970s.
Over the period, dozens of bodies were found along that strip of the farm. But, the investigative officers identified four bodies—Laura Miller, Heidi Fye, Jane Doe (Audrey Lee Cook), and Laura Smither. All were girls who were teenagers or adults.
There was a pattern in which they were killed and disposed of—under a tree, naked, on their back, and arms folded. The investigative officers found a pattern in the killings. Unfortunately, the mystery remains unsolved, but over the years police have found some primary suspects.
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Who Are The Prime Suspects In The Murders?
The bodies found were a mix of women from different age groups. Jane Doe aka Audrey Lee Cook was a 30-year-old woman. Laura Smither, a 12-year-old girl, and an aspiring ballerina from Friendswood was also found dead. The investigation is still in progress, and there are two prime suspects found in the case—Robert Abel, a former NASA scientist and the field owner, and Clyde Hendrick, a former construction worker.
Abel was at the top of the list of prime suspects in the gruesome murders. The suspicion was growing due to his fervent search for evidence and self-investigation. But, year after year, the police couldn’t find any strong evidence against him. Another man is Clyde Hendrick. He was a construction worker when the murders happened in the area. He was a womanizer and had a criminal history.
But, he was not pinned as the perpetrator of the field murders. All hopes were not lost. In 2012, a man named Kevin Edison Smith was convicted of the murder of 13-year-old Krystal Jean Baker in the same area in 1996. These murders could be done by different people or by one person. It is still a mystery.
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