The League City Police Department confirmed that its detectives were helping with a search around Calder Road and Ervin Street, the site where Texas Killing Fields victims were previously found. The agency referred questions about the search to the Santa Fe Police Department.
Santa Fe officials couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
Tim Miller, the founder of Texas Equusearch, said nearly 40 volunteer were in the field, using ATVs and an excavator to help search for signs of a body. Miller said the search effort was prompted by statements made to him by James Elmore, the Galveston County man who in April was charged in connection to two deaths associated with the Killing Fields.
Miller said no remains had been found as of 1:45 p.m. and that he was cautious about his hopes for finding anything. Still, he said, he suspected that Elmore might have provided real information about unsolved murders in Galveston County.
“Everything he’s said has come true,” said Miller, who didn’t name a specific case.Â
The search comes more than two months after Elmore’s arrest in connection to a pair of decades-old deaths connected to the Calder Road oil field, which contributed to the spot’s Killing Fields nickname.
Elmore was charged with manslaughter in connection with the 1984 death of Laura Miller — Tim Miller’s daughter — and with tampering with evidence in connection with the deaths of Miller and Audrey Cook, who is believed to have been killed in 1985.
Elmore is accused of providing drugs to another man, Clyde Hedrick, who is believed to have used the substance to kill Miller. Hedrick, who had long been a person of interest in the killings, died in March.
