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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.
By SHERI JENNINGS. Ami Canaan Mann says her second film as a director, "Texas Killing Fields," was inspired by her discovery of a map of the Houston area featuring the photos of nearly 60 female...
- 10 Robert Ben Rhoades
- 9 Harvey Glatman
- 8 Rodney Alcala
- 7 William Richard Bradford
- 6 Robert Berdella
- 5 Jerry Brudos
- 4 Dean Corll
- 3 Anatoly Slivko
- 2 Jeffrey Dahmer
- 1 The Unsolved Polaroid
Serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades stalked the highways of Texas in his mobile torture and death chamber. Rhoades, a long-haul trucker, converted the sleeper cab of his 18-wheel semi truckinto a small, makeshift sex chamber where he would torture his victims and rape them for weeks on end. Eventually, he’d kill them in the most brutal manner imaginab...
Harvey “The Glamour Girl Slayer” Glatman, a.k.a. The Lonely Hearts Killer, was a truly frightening and twisted serial murderer in the late 1950s. Sometime around 1957, Glatman posted Lonely Hearts adverts in newspapers to lure his victimsin addition to prowling modeling agencies in Los Angeles, eventually posing as a photographer himself. He’d then...
Rodney Alcala was known as The Dating Game Killer because he appeared as a contestant on a popular dating show during his killing spree. He was described as a “killing machine” by investigating detectives as he would strangle his victims, revive them from unconsciousness, and then strangle them again—repeating this twisted process until they died o...
William Richard Bradford was sentenced to death in California for the murders of his 15-year-old neighbor Tracey Campbell and a Los Angeles bartender at The Meet Market, Shari Miller. In 1984, Bradford met Shari Miller at the bar she worked at and told her he was a professional photographer who could help build her modeling portfolio. He took her t...
Robert “Bob” Berdella (also known as known as The Kansas City Butcher and The Collector) was a serial killer and torturerwho documented his sinister slayings in photographs. Between 1984 and 1987, he murdered at least six men in Kansas City, Missouri. After befriending his victims, sometimes offering them money or lodging, he kidnapped them and phy...
Serial killer and necrophile Jerry Brudos was known as The Lust Killer for his perverse attraction to his victims. He killed them in cold blood, oftentimes while wearing women’s clothes, and then kept many of his victim’s shoes as trophies. Since the age of five, Brudos had a fetish for women’s shoes, and he received psychotherapy as a teenager aft...
Twisted serial killer and torturer Dean Corll abducted, assaulted, and killed at least 28 teenage boys and young men from 1970 to 1973 in Houston, Texas. He was given the nickname The Candyman and The Pied Piper, as he would use candyto lure his vulnerable victims into a false sense of security. Corll was assisted by two teenage accomplices, David ...
Soviet serial killer Anatoly Slivko played a disturbing game with his victims in an attempt to recreate his own twisted fantasy. In his early 20s, he witnessed a traffic accident that fatally injured a young boy wearing a Young Pioneers (the Soviet equivalent to the Boy Scouts) uniform. The gruesome scene of the dead Young Pioneer sexually excited ...
There are some images you should never search for online. Such is the case for the personal Polaroid collection belonging to serial killer and cannibalJeffrey Dahmer that was uncovered during his arrest. Near midnight on July 22, 1991, Milwaukee police officers discovered a man named Tracy Edwards roaming the streets with handcuffs dangling from hi...
On September 20, 1988, 19-year-old Tara Calico disappeared near her home in Belen, New Mexico, when she failed to return from her regular bike ride in Valencia County. What was believed to have been a kidnapping soon evolved into a potential serial killer case after a chilling Polaroid was uncovered. Nine months later, a woman discovered a Polaroid...
Sep 9, 2011 · "Texas Killing Fields" was screened Friday at the Venice Film Festival. Canaan Mann delivers an elegant crime thriller drawing on actual crimes haunting the fields near a small Texas town where...
Nov 30, 2022 · The four murdered women in the Texas Killing Fields seem to have little in common at first glance, but surprising connections reveal themselves in the doc.
Nov 30, 2022 · Netflix's new documentary, Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields, looks into the murders of 35 women between the 70s and 90s. But who was the killer responsible? Here's what we know….
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