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Smurfette Jane Doe is the nickname given to an unidentified teenaged girl who was found dead by a driver in Houston, Texas on October 16, 2012. [2] The decedent derived this nickname from the distinctive shirt she was discovered in. [2] The decedent was found concealed in a black plastic garbage bag on the side of a busy road, beside a gravel road leading to an oil field. [3]
The Texas Killing Fields is a title used to roughly denote the area surrounding the Interstate Highway 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where since the early 1970s, more than 30 bodies have been found, and specifically to a 25-acre patch of land in League City, Texas [1] where four women were found between 1983 and 1991.
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
Sharkey's nude body was discovered around 8 a.m. on November 28, in bushes on the 1000 block of Red Haw Lane in the Houston Energy Corridor in Harris County. [10] [2] [13] [14] Her body was believed to have been left overnight [2] and police saw no evidence that she walked down the road, nor that there had been any attempt to conceal her body. [10]
Houston Mayor John Whitmire had wanted both defendants to be held without bail indefinitely; on June 24, bond was set at $10 million for Peña. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In the bail hearing on June 23, Harris County Assistant District Attorney Kim Ogg stated that Peña had told police that he had kissed the victim, but that Martínez-Rangel was responsible ...
Their remains were found in a wooded area north of Houston on January 12, 1981. [1] The bodies were found within feet of each other, both significantly decomposed, with a post-mortem interval of approximately two months. [4] Dean Clouse had been bound and beaten to death, and Tina Clouse was strangled. [5]
In 1986, 17 years after the incident, investigators reopened the case, but could not solve it. The case remained closed until July 2003, 33 years after the murder was committed. A batch of forensics they had performed in 1969 was found by Houston police, who located James Ray Davis, a lifetime criminal.
Garcia Glen White (February 4, 1963 – October 1, 2024) was an American murderer, rapist, and suspected serial killer.He was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1989 triple murder of a woman and her two teenage daughters in Houston, Texas, and is also the prime suspect in two additional murders with which he was never charged.