He has been under suspicion for four decades, yet never charged. Clyde Hedrick remains a suspect in the so-called “Killing Fields” murders, but maintains his innocence.

In 1985, 29-year-old Ellen Rae Beason's body was discovered near the Galveston causeway, but it wasn't until nearly three decades later that her murderer was caught.

A few mysteries are as chilling and unresolved as the Texas Killing Fields. KPRC 2 docu-series 'The Evidence Room' - The Texas Killing Fields.

In our four-part episode of KPRC 2 Investigates nationally recognized show ‘The Evidence Room,’ we examine the lives of four women and the work their families have done to find justice.

A man considered a suspect in the so-called ‘Killing Fields’ murders is facing a review of his parole conditions, according to Galveston County District Attorney Jack Roady and Texas EquuSearch founder, Tim Miller. Clyde Hedrick was paroled from prison in 2021, sent to live at halfway house and placed under the state’s highest level of supervision known as the Super Intensive Supervision Program (SISP).

On Oct. 7, 1983, Heidi Villarreal Fye disappeared. Her body was found the following April in an area off Calder Road in League City. The area would later be known as “The Killing Fields.”

Tim Miller, founder of Texas EquuSearch, won a default judgment in his 2014 wrongful death lawsuit filed against Clyde Edwin Hedrick. Galveston County judge Lonnie Cox granted Miller’s motion for default judgment on Monday and awarded him $21,020,000 in damages.