HEAULMES, FRANCIS: Storyville: Dance With a Serial Killer TV -
On the afternoon of Sunday May 14th 1989 a woman was stabbed to death on a Brittany beach … She was just one of a series of victims. Storyville: Dance With a Serial Killer, BBC 2008
Jean Francois Abgrall: ‘Three very precise stabs wounds … The pathologist was amazed at the precision and violence of them.’ ibid.
‘He said too much and he was trying to convince me … He enjoyed giving information but not enough to trap himself.’ ibid. Abgrall
HEDRICK, CLYDE: Dark Minds TV - Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields TV -
In the badlands of Texas something horrible, something evil, was on the loose. It’s open season on young women. Snatched off the streets and dumped in the dark. Is anyone safe in a serial killer’s paradise? Dark Minds s2e4: Texas Killings Fields, 2013
Over 30 unsolved murders since the early ’70s. ibid.
The Calder Fields are just an enigma. Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields s1e1: Nobody Sees Anything, woman, Netflix 2022
It’s a place where bad things happen. ibid.
Since 1983 Galveston County has an unusually large number of mysterious disappearances. ibid. US news
Just yards off this busy highway, abducted girls and women have been killed and dumped. ibid. UK news
The Calder Road killings have haunted this part of Texas for a really long time … Why are so many women dying around here? … These cases are old. ibid. author
Laura Miller, age 16, disappeared 10 September 1984, League City, Texas … remains discovered 2 February 1986. ibid. caption
Heidi Fye: Eleven months before Laura Miller disappeared. ibid.
The discovery of her [Heidi] remains in Calder Field was pretty horrific. ibid. family
Jane Doe, age unknown, remains discovered 2 February 1986. ibid. caption
These killings of young women had been going on as far back as 1971. ibid. man
Maria Johnson & Debbie Ackerman: They were 15 when they disappeared in November of 1971. ibid. woman
By the time they disappeared there had already been other mysterious disappearances. ibid.
In the past 6 months, 7 teenage girls and young women aged 13 to 21 have been found murdered in the vicinity of Houston, Texas. ibid. black-n-white TV news
Clyde Hedrick was attracted to Houston in the 70s and 80s by the construction boom … ibid. Lise
Clyde Hedrick had been involved in the mysterious death of a woman named Ellen Beason. ibid.
Another body is found on the same piece of land. ibid.
These guys didn’t know what to do. They were stuck. Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields s1e2: Culture of Suspicion, journalist
Detectives were wondering if [Robert] Abel [ex-Nasa scientist] was their guy. ibid.
In April of 97, Laura Smither, a twelve-year-old ballerina, went jogging from her Friendswood homeland and completely disappeared. ibid.
Laura’s murder is only one of at least thirty-five still unsolved cases in a three-country area involving missing or dead young women. ibid. news
We see men who were dominant, violent people who were transient. People like Clyde Hedrick. ibid. woman
Kelli Cox, age 20, disappeared 15 July 1997, Denton, Texas. ibid.
Jessica Cain, age 17, disappeared 17 August 1997, Tiki Island, Texas. ibid.
As time passed and no evidence materialised, the Calder Road killings, they were frozen cold. Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields s1e3: The Reckoning
There are a lot of victims here. ibid. woman
After the trial for tampering with the body of Ellen Beason, he [Clyde Hedrick] got into trouble with the law time and again. ibid. man
We exhumed her [Beason] body. And she has a massive skull fracture … ibid. rozzer to Clyde Hedrick
The jury found him guilty of manslaughter. ibid. rozzer
In most of these cases they’ve lost a lot of the evidence. ibid. woman
HEFFNER, RAINBOW: Killer Kids TV -
17-year-old Rainbow Heffner has just killed his mother in cold blood … She was shot seven times in the head all fired at close range … Killer Kids s4e8: Vampire & The Essay, LMN 2015
HEIDNIK, GARY: Serial Killer Profile TV - Philly online -
Gary Heidnik, a collector of women, in late 1986-1987 he kidnapped women, raped them, and tortured them in the basement torture chamber. Serial Killer Profile s1e2: Gary Heidnik, 2013
‘He incorporated himself as a church, as a self-proclaimed bishop.’ ibid. profiler
‘I dismembered the body and I started burning it on the stove and in the oven, and that’s when you got the big smell.’ ibid. Heidnik
‘It’s just never over.’ ibid. victim
Rivera was Heidnik’s first prisoner. She was later joined by five other young women whom Heidnik plucked from the streets.
Heidnik wasn’t on a mission to kill, Rivera said. The self-proclaimed church bishop and stock-market whiz who had turned about $3,500 into more than $500,000, wanted children. Lots of them.
‘He was trying to get everyone pregnant,’ Rivera said. Heidnik had sex with the women every day, one after the other, on an air mattress in the basement, saving the women he thought weren’t pregnant for last.
Their bathroom was a toilet without plumbing on the basement floor. If they talked back, he beat them with sticks. To make sure they couldn’t hear his comings or goings, Heidnik gouged their ear drums with screwdrivers.
‘I’d watch him do it to other women and see them cry in pain,’ Rivera said.
On every floor, he had music blaring from radios at all hours to muffle the women’s screams.
Rivera made herself a promise: ‘My main focus was to get out of there alive and get the others out alive.’ Philly online article 29th March 2012, ‘25 Years later Heidnik captive recalls the horror’