Its good to know you have already connected some victims with one another through a place they all visited. Your guy has connections there, too, obviously. He's been sucessful there, so he probably feels comfortable trolling for victims there, making them feel at ease, and talking them into going with him. He'll go there again, probably. I didn't read about any sexual assaults of any of the victims. It would be nice to know if any DNA was left behind to compare with the others.

I dont know in what condition the victims are being dumped. It seems the longer these guys go without getting caught, the longer they keep their victims before killing them. I hope you get him soon. Has there been some media attention on this? The offender may respond to his own image in the media. Sometimes, they get so confident they will make mistakes when the police are looking. The first murder may have been around his neighborhood or workplace. This is the one I wish I knew the most about. That could possibly tell where he lives or works and perhaps what drives him.

On edit: I'm assuming when you said you found connections with him and five of the girls you meant through a common place, but I don't know for sure if that is what you meant.

I hope they stop him, it hurts so much when a person loose their children.

I am very sorry you lost your son, Wounded. I hope there is an arrest in the I-45 corridor killings soon, too. I do wish police departments would work more closely with one another. By all appearances, the murders date back more than twenty years. The killer has had a long time to perfect the routine, and that alone may make it more difficult to catch him. A task-force seems to be needed, but, I don't know that one has been started. SAM, are you just trudging along with this one by yourself?

I wonder where he is now.

Do you know if the victims were known to have been bound?

Different modes of death could be experimentation on the part of the offender to explore what gets him off and/or necessicity to commit the crime. Any sign of post-mortem activity?

On edit: Any idea what the survivor had to say about the offender's behavior toward her?

I did notice something interesting on the I-45 serial killer. Alison Craven 12 years old was abducted from Friendwood Texas in 1971 her body was found mutilated and decapitated. 26 years later in 1997 Laura Smither 12 years old was also abducted from Friendwood Texas and was mutilated and decapitated Guess where her remains were found?
This proves my profile is right on the money and a serial killer has been working that area off and on for 30 years.

Something I just noticed Alison Craven was mutilated stated her hands and teeth were found in a field not far from her home. The rest of her remains were found near Pearlman field missing those body parts. Smithers was decapitated and mutilated remains found near Pearlman Field.

I have completed my profile on the I-45 Corridor serial killer. He is a white male between the age of 55 and 60. He has size and is strong. He is an opportunist and takes advantage of girls who may need a ride using a pay phone at convenience stores. He also uses a grab and snatch blitz attack or tricks some of his victims into a compromising position. He is normal to above normal in intelligence. He is organized and works, has good reliable transportation. Most likely likes to drive a dark colored pick up truck.
Statistics on I-45 homicide victims.
Total of 18 victims that I think are linked to one serial killer and one attempted abduction.
All but one were between the ages of 12 and 17. All were white except for 2 . Note: two afro american girls who were killed at the same time may also be victims of this serial killer making the total 20.
40% were abducted from convenience stores tall;king on phone.
60% bodies were dumped in killing fields are in bodies of water in close proximity.
3 victims were mutilated.
6 victims were beat and strangled to death.
5 victims were shot to death most in the head.
Modes of death--since some of the vict have been shot and others severely beaten and strangled we have different modes of death. 4 victims were found in close proximity in a field called Calder Road field. 2 of the vict were shot the other 2 were severely beat and strangled to death. Obviously the same killer was using this field as a dumping ground and sense we have different modes of death I'm including all strangulation cases and head shot cases to our victims list based upon age and geographical location of where the victims were abducted and recovered. 3 of these death were mutilation, in 1971 Alison Craver 12 years old was abducted. Her hands and arm along with some teeth were discovered 3 months later in a field called Pearlman field not far from her home. The rest of her body was found not far away. In 1997 12 year old Laura Smither was abducted. Her decapitated body was found in a retention pond located on Pearlman field. So we have 2 mutilation involving 12 year old girls who bodies are located in close proximity 26 years apart. Now we either have more than one serial killer are one very sick puppy. I think on these victims we have one serial killer. He obviously has different modes of killing demonstrated by the modes of death of the 4 vict in Calder Road Field. I think our perp likes to torture by beating his victims then sexually assaulting them and strangling them to death. If they fight or he has a control problem then he shoots them in the head. Some are mutilated by decapitation and other body parts dismembered. I think our perp likes to experiment with the human anatomy in a sexual manner. He may re-visit his victims in the killing fields and have sex with them post mortem like Gary Ridgeway did the GRK.
He is very dangerous to young girls and woman. He is not in custody and will kill again. And I'm confused why this serial killer has not made the news big time. People who live and travel in this area should be aware of this killer.
NOTE: Some of the victims had artcles of clothing shoved in there mouth anus/virgina that's another way I used to link this sick perverted killer.

Were they both within 20 miles of the abduction site? Can you post the map?

Here is the map

http://www.crimesearch.net/Page2.html

Fact Sheets

Fact Sheet of Missing Girls Along I-45 S

http://www.crimesearch.net/Fact_Page_I-45S.html

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MISSING GIRLS- 1973 -1999 HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS

http://www.crimesearch.net/MISSING_GIRLS.html

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Either that or a van. If he is driving a pickup truck, he is taking them somewhere, SAM. The double abductions sure do sound like the sexual sadist who spends time with his victims in a previously selected and secured spot. With the premortem and postmortem activities, it sounds like both the sadist and necrophile profile.

A badge? A police car?

>A badge? A police car?

According to www.missingtrio.com, a security guard saw another security guard leaving with three girls, who matched the descriptions of the missing girls, in his pickup truck. He turned this information over to the police 30 years ago, and they only recently followed up!

Strange. Its one of the first things I would think of doing. The cops (real), the Rent-a-Cops (real) and the Uniform-Rental/Equipment-Sales places for those who just buy a blue light, a radio, a badge and some handcuffs.

I just think its the first thing to check. Young girls alone much less in groups just don't get abducted so quietly so many times. The only way to have had this going on for so long is that they are not alarmed because they have the receipt and didn't shoplift the merchandise or something like that.

Sure there are other possibilities, but thats the first that comes to my mind.

I don't know if the disappearance of these girls is linked to the disappearance of the others, but, there were two double abductions over the years, and that is enough to at least investigate the possibility. Whoever is doing the I-45 corridor killings has been able to get away with this for a long, long time. However, the other girls were found in the open, and in this triple abduction, a note was sent to the husband of the older girl proclaiming she and the others had gone off to visit a nearby city for a week. Document examiners have not been able to say definitively if the handwriting is hers and she addressed her husband in a style that was uncommon for her. If the person responsible for the triple abduction is responsible for the double abductions, perhaps he scared himself on this one and took greater pains trying to cover up. He may have known the oldest victim, but, she may not have known him, or she vaguely knew him. I would say the "cop" ruse is most likely.

edited to add: Along with checking for anyone who had been arrested for impersonating a police officer, I would look for anyone arrested for attempted kidnapping and anyone who was reported approaching girls or trespassing on to the properties of girls who fit his preference group. There are crimes of opportunity on the list, but, there are definately signs of stalking as well.

Teenage girls disappear from an apartment complex in Oregon and the cops are ever so ready to say 'internet lured-away to be a model'; blood on the window and cops are ready to say 'drunk and injured herself leaving via the window'. (By the way, just HOW drunk would the posters here have to be to go out the window in the middle of the night rather than the door)?

Its a nice, convenient explanation of the events that lets the cops off the hook and they can sit in an office and write a memo instead of going out and doing some old fashioned leg-work to solve the case!

Are all these I-45 corridor killings linked. No, probably some are totally separate murders. Some may be drunks, some may be marital matters, but the real problem is simply a lack of desire to track down the facts and dig for evidence. Reaching for that rubber stamp that makes the file less of a burden is too easy.

So, do you know if they have established a task force on this one or not, SAM?

Would you happen to have a map of the body locations and where the victims were abducted from?

Hi OEJ,
There was a task force but I don't know if it is active at this time. There is a map but some of the information on it is incorrect.
I am working on a new map and will post it when it is finished.

Regards,
JS

Texas Missing Persons Clearinghouse Online Bulletin
Missing Person Details

Date Picture Updated: 10/11/2001

Name: Wanda Lee Ann Priddy

AKA: Wanda Lee Ann Miller, Wanda Lee Ann Lundin
Case Number: M8604005
Case Type: Endangered
Last Seen in: Port Lavaca (Calhoun County)
Last Seen on: 8/29/1978
Height: 5' 4 "
Weight: 110 lbs.
Age Missing: 20
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Date of Birth: 1/21/1958
Race: White
Sex: Female
State Missing From: Texas
Country Missing From: USA
Circumstances: Unknown

Additional Pictures

Date Picture Updated: 1/15/2002

Photo is shown age progressed to 44 years of age.

You can contact the Missing Persons Clearinghouse at :

Missing Persons Clearinghouse
Texas Department of Public Safety
P O Box 4087
Austin, Texas 78773-0422
Phone: (512) 424-5074
Helpline: (800) 346-3243

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http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/mpch/mpdetails.asp?id='M10/11/200110:47:25AM'

Texas Missing Persons Clearinghouse Online Bulletin

Unidentified Person's Details

Date Picture Updated: 10/12/2001

The picture of this person is only the artist's conception and should not be considered an exact likeness.

Case Number: U8807006

Agency: Walker County Sheriff's Office

Date Found: 11/1/1980

Estimated Date of Death: 11-1-1980
Cause of Death: Unknown
Race: White
Sex: Female
Age: 15 - 20
Height: 5' 5 " - 5' 7 "
Weight: 100 lbs. - 110 lbs.
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Lt. Brown
State Found: Texas
Country Found: USA

Clothing: Rectangular pendant with a smoky stone on a gold chain, had possibly been wearing a yellow shirt and blue jeans.
Miscellaneous: Scar on right elbow and ears pierced.

You can contact the Missing Persons Clearinghouse at :

Missing Persons Clearinghouse
Texas Department of Public Safety
P O Box 4087
Austin, Texas 78773-0422
Phone: (512) 424-5074
Helpline: (800) 346-3243

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/mpch/UnidentifiedDetails.asp?id=U8807006

© 2000Texas Department of Public Safety.

JS

Fragments identified as animal bones

By Nathan Smith
The Daily News

Published July 17, 2004

GALVESTON — Medical examiners concluded Friday that bone fragments found under a house on Avenue S 1/2 came from an animal, not a college student who disappeared in 1988.

“A limited quantity of bone fragments were evaluated by a forensic laboratory, and the results were that they were animal in origin,” said Galveston Police Lt. Walter Braun. “The fragments will be sent away to another lab for further evaluation.”

More bone fragments found under the house near 43rd Street also will be sent for analysis, Braun said, but investigators wrapped up their two-day search at 2:45 p.m.

Police began digging under the house after new leads provided by a tipster in the last few weeks gave them hope that the remains of Texas A&M University at Galveston student Suzanne Rene Richerson might be found there. Richerson disappeared from her job as a night clerk at the Casa del Mar Hotel-Condominiums on Seawall Boulevard on Oct. 7, 1988. Investigators say they believe she was murdered. The 22-year-old’s purse was found in the complex’s office and one of her shoes in the parking lot, but nothing more of Richerson has ever been found.

A woman contacted The Daily News and police a month ago to claim she had seen men dig up Richerson’s body and move it years ago.

Investigators initially said they doubted the woman’s story, but the woman told The Daily News on Thursday her testimony led police to the house on Avenue S½. She declined to comment on the details of her conversations with investigators.

Braun declined Friday to discuss particulars of the investigation, such as the details of the witness’ testimony or the names of people suspected to have been involved in Richerson’s disappearance.

“Sooner or later if this investigation turns out to be something good, all the details will come out,” he said. “Everything that’s out there right now is all rumor; it’s hearsay. We aren’t releasing details of this investigation because we don’t want this witness to get hurt.”

The crush of law enforcement officials and reporters that crowded into the 4300 block of Avenue S½ left many curious residents of the neighborhood bewildered, while others were angered by the hubbub and complained loudly for everyone to shove off.

“I’ve never seen anything like this, and I used to live in Chicago,” said Dawn Prater, who lives at 43rd Street and Avenue S, a block away from the crime scene. “It’s like something out of ‘Law & Order,’ only it’s real. It’s kind of creepy.”

The dig on Avenue S½ is not the first time a tip has lead investigators to break ground searching for Richerson’s remains. Police and county jail trusties dug along FM 2004 in Hitchcock in January 1989 looking for Richerson’s body, and private detective Willie Payne dug up the backyard of a La Marque residence 11 months later.

In May of 1990, Payne, who had initially been hired by Richerson’s parents, organized a dig in a remote pasture in Brazoria County in the same month the student’s story was featured on the early 1990s television show, “Missing: Reward.”

Though all previous searches proved to be deadends, Braun says investigators will continue to follow reasonable leads.

“All tips are going to be looked into,” said Braun. “Some leads turn out to be fruitful, and others don’t. It would be premature to determine if this particular investigation is fruitful or not because all of the bone material recovered from the scene hasn’t been tested yet.”

http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?wcd=22278

© 2004 Galveston County Daily News. All rights reserved.

Hi SAM,
I posted the update on her case because she is one of the victims found along the I-45 Corridor.

Regards,
JS

The thing is, the security guard that reported the sighting said that he never heard another thing about it for about 30 years. My God, if this report is correct, talking to that security guard or the reporter, now, could put an important suspect on the list. This security guard recognized the man in the vehicle as another security guard that worked there at some time. This triple abduction was the work of a highly intelligent, highly organized Sadist, SAM. This is a high he could have lived on for years, too. I don't know. Would you just look at this case once more and then tell me what you think about the brother's story in light of the above possible information?

>Considering the two double abductions, I would seriously
>look at this triple abduction. It is extremely rare for a
>serial killer to commit even one double abduction, no less
>two! If the two double abductions are related, this rises to
>the level of Signature.

I got this information from Robert Keppel's writings on Signature killers. They are a sub-category of serial killer, and apparently it is something like 75% of that sub-category are signature killers. That can really be helpful in linking crimes. Because double-abductions are so rare, it would be considered a very unique signature.

Thanks, SAM. I totally agree with you. At least one of the girls knew the offender. I have got to look at this case a little closer. It is bugging the heck out of me.

So you don't think the Kelly Dae Wilson case is a part of this series, either?

Stranded Teen: Tow-Truck Driver Terrorized Me

Man Tows Car, Changes Tire, Attempts To Sexually Assault Girl

POSTED: 8:03 am CDT July 29, 2004
UPDATED: 11:50 am CDT July 29, 2004

HOUSTON -- A northwest Houston teen stranded on a southwest Houston freeway said a man posing as a tow-truck driver terrorized her.

Video


Teen Fights Off Attacker Posing As Tow-Truck Driver

The girl said she was stranded with a flat tire on the West Loop near Interstate 10 when a man she believed was a tow-truck driver offered to help.

Police told News2Houston the man towed the girl's car to the Heights, changed her tire and then tried to sexually assault her.

"There's probably ladies out there everyday that he probably stops for and tries to sexually harass. All I knew (was) that he was trying to hurt me," the teen told News2Houston.

The girl said she managed to escape by stabbing the man in the torso and shoulder with a pocketknife.

Police said the teen described her attacker has a tall, bald, clean-shaven man with a tattoo of a spider web on his left shoulder. He was driving a faded black, older model Chevrolet pickup with "Super Tow" painted in white letters on the side.

Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers at (713) 222-TIPS.

Copyright 2004 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/3591320/detail.html

I don't know ANY mother that would attempt to stop an investigation into her missing daughter. Very suspicious.

The killings stop for 9 years in this area and start again in 1983.
Now I ask you to look at these murders, cause of death, age, and where and how the bodies were desposed of and tell me most of these girls were not killed by the same killer.
I count 9 victims and at least 6 were killed by the same killer maybe more. Now notice where the last two victims Bracewell and Geer were last seen CONVEIENCE STORE.
When the murders start back up in 1983 with Heidi Fye, Laura Miller, Jane Doe and Janet Doe all will be last seen at CONVEIENCE stores and found within 80 yards apart in Calder Road Field another dumping ground. No doubt about it it's the same killer and the reason why you had 9 years between killings is because the killer was in prison. Now how hard would it be to determine who lived in that area who went to prison in 1974 and was released in 1983 and who has a crminal record of sexual assaults.
Find that person and you will have the I-45 Serial Killer.

Confessed serial killer's trial to start


By: DENISE DAVIS , Citizen Staff

09/15/2004



Tony Shore

The trial of a former League City man, who police have called a serial killer, is set to begin Sept. 27.

Anthony Allen Shore, 42, was charged by Houston Police in October 2003 with the killings of two teenagers, a young woman and a 9-year-old girl between 1986 and 1995 after he confessed to the crimes.

Police said Shore confessed to killing Laurie Lee Tremblay, 15, Maria Del Carmen Estrada, 21, Diana Rebollar, 9, and Dana Sanchez, 16.

Also, Houston police officials are linking Shore to the 1993 sexual assault of a 14-year-old Houston girl who was attacked by a man who broke into her family's home after she returned from school.

Shore lived in League City until he was 13, which would have been in the mid-1970s, League City police said.
He attended Clear Creek High School.

League City Police questioned him in connection with the Calder Road Killings.

In 1983, Heidi Villareal Fye, 23, was found dead in the fields off Calder Road.

The bodies of three more women were discovered in the same fields in the years to follow.

The nude body of Laura Miller, 16, was found in the same fields in 1984. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.

On Feb. 2, 1986, the body of an unidentified young woman police call Jane Doe, was found in the fields. In 1991, the body of another young woman, called Janet Doe by police, was found in the same area.

Fingernail scrapings from the unidentified woman known as Janet Doe were sent by League City Police to the same Dallas forensic lab that tested evidence from Houston.

That investigation continues.

Other police agencies in the Bay Area also have been looking at Shore as a possible suspect in cases in their jurisdictions.

Since 1971, at least 18 women have been abducted or murdered along a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 45 between Houston and Galveston, prompting many residents and a tabloid to nickname the portion of roadway "America's Highway to Hell."

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety's Web site, Shore has been a registered sex offender since January 1998, when he received eight years probation for the sexual assault of two family members, ages 11 and 13. Their specific relationship to him is unknown.

All of the victims he is charged with killing were found in different locations in Houston.

Tremblay was found dead on Sept. 26, 1986 behind a restaurant in the 10600 block of Westheimer Road. Estrada's body was found partially nude on April 16, 1992 in the drive-through of a fast food restaurant at 6707 Westview.

Rebollar's badly beaten nude body was found Aug. 7, 1994 behind a vacant building at 1440 North Loop West. On July 6, 1995, police found Sanchez's body on North View Park.

Three of the victims - Estrada, Rebollar and Sanchez - had been sexually assaulted.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1574&dept_id=532240&newsid=12929563&PAG=461&rfi=9

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Oct. 28, 2003, 1:57PM

Man charged in serial killings

of four Houston-area women

Dallas lab found link in suspect's DNA

By S.K. BARDWELL

Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle

When she disappeared about 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 26, 1986, Laurie Lee Tremblay, 15, was walking from her family's apartment to catch a bus.

Maria Del Carmen Estrada last was seen at 6:30 a.m. on April 16, 1992, when the 21-year-old was leaving her home to walk to work.

At noon on Aug. 7, 1994, 9-year-old Diana Rebollar left her home to get sugar for her mother from a nearby store, and never returned.

On July 6, 1995, Dana Sanchez, 16, called her boyfriend about 7:30 p.m. to tell him she planned to hitchhike to his north Houston house. She never arrived.

The families of the girls and young women later would learn the fate of their loved ones. Three had been sexually assaulted and all were strangled. On Monday, police charged Anthony Allen Shore with four counts of capital murder in connection with the deaths, the mysteries apparently solved by a Dallas lab the Houston Police Department contracts for evidence testing.

Last year, HPD's troubled crime lab was shut down. The department since has used independent, accredited labs for testing.

Some evidence in the deaths had been tested before without identifying a suspect, said homicide Capt. Richard Holland.

Investigators several weeks ago sent evidence not previously tested from the Estrada case to Orchid Cellmark in Dallas.

Holland noted that DNA analysis has progressed from the time the crimes were first investigated, and attributed the lab's finding to the advancements.

"They were able to detect a profile from the evidence we had collected," Holland said. The Dallas lab called Friday with the results.

"We secured a warrant (for Shore's arrest) Friday at 2:30 and had him in custody at 4:15 p.m.," said homicide Lt. Greg Neely.

Over the weekend, investigators said, Shore acknowledged his involvement in the four killings and the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in 1993, leading to the charges filed Monday.

Shore's history as a sex offender made him easier to find.

The 41-year-old tow-truck driver has been a registered sex offender since January 1998, when he was sentenced to eight years' probation for sexual assaults on family members, homicide Sgt. John Swaim said.

The Texas Department of Public Safety sex offender Web site says the victims were two girls, ages 11 and 13. Their relationship to Shore is unknown.

"That's how his DNA got into the system," Swaim said.

Shore, who has held several jobs over the years, including as a musician playing guitar and keyboard with a band, has had a number of addresses, but has remained in Houston most of his life, Swaim said.

He has children from a previous marriage, but lives with his current wife and her adult children, Swaim said. He said Shore's wife was unaware of her husband's alleged connections to the slayings.

Shore offered no resistance when arrested Friday afternoon. "Tony Shore, when we picked him up, was a pretty cool character," Swaim said.

"He acted as if he knew what was up. He knew his DNA was in the system, and eventually he would get caught."

After Shore's arrest, officers scrambled to find the victims' families, so they would not learn of the development in news accounts. Neely said all the families were reached except Estrada's, who, police believe, may have returned to Mexico after her death.

For investigators, the lab's revelations about the Estrada case led them to the man they believe is a serial killer, his signature method of strangulation key evidence linking the victims.

Tremblay disappeared while walking to a bus stop from her family's apartment in the 12700 block of Whittington in southwest Houston.

Less than an hour later, her body was found behind Ninfa's restaurant in the 10600 block of Westheimer.

Before Shore's arrest, Tremblay had not been connected to the other victims because her death did not match the pattern investigators detected in the three other deaths.

Estrada was seen leaving her home in the 7200 block of Shady Villa in northwest Houston to walk to work.

Her body, nude from the waist down, was found four hours later in the drive-through lane of a Dairy Queen restaurant in the 6700 block of Westview.

Estrada, older than the other victims but small in stature and easily mistaken for a young girl, had been sexually assaulted. Her purse was missing.

More than a year later, a 14-year-old girl was sexually assaulted when she came home from school by a man who broke into her family's home in the 1900 block of Portsmouth. Police say Shore is linked to the attack.

Rebollar left her home in the 6600 block of North Main in north Houston to get sugar for her mother at a nearby store.

Police found the girl's badly beaten, nude body behind a vacant building at 1440 North Loop West about 12 hours later. She had been sexually assaulted.

Sanchez left the 600 block of Cavalcade in northeast Houston after telling her boyfriend she planned to hitchhike to his house in the 6600 block of Greenyard in north Houston.

Sanchez never arrived and was reported missing. On July 14, 1995, an anonymous male caller to KPRC-TV said a serial killer was on the loose and gave directions to Sanchez's body in a field at the end of North View Park, near the North Freeway and Richey.

The caller said, correctly, that the dead girl's birthday was May 11 and, incorrectly, that her name was Ruby. However, police said, Sanchez had a friend named Ruby and may have given her abductor that name.

Swaim said police believe Shore made that call.

Sanchez had been sexually assaulted.

The manner of Rebollar's strangulation was identical to that of Estrada, and uncommon enough that police were certain the two were victims of the same killer.

"I wish I could share with you ... what he told us, but it's unspeakable," Swaim said. "What he did is unspeakable.

"The tug of evil and good in this city is alive. Finally, good triumphed."

Chronicle reporter Mike Glenn contributed to this story.

http://news.onemissingperson.org/TX-OCT-28-2003-1357-Man-charged-in-serial-killings-of-four-Houston-area-women.html

Date: October 27, 2003

Subject: Suspect Arrested, Charged in Several Homicides of Young Females

Houston police homicide investigators have arrested a suspect believed responsible for the strangulations of four Houston area females dating back to 1986 and said it’s possible the suspect might have killed others.

Anthony Allen Shore (w/m, DOB 6-25-62) has been charged with four counts of capital murder in the 339th State District Court. He has confessed to his roles in the young women’s murders and the sexual assault of another girl.

· September 26, 1986 – Laurie Lee Tremblay, 15, was found dead behind a restaurant at 10694 Westheimer.

· April 16, 1992 – Maria Del Carmen Estrada, 21, was abducted as she walked to work from her apartment at 7200 Shadyvilla. Her body was found hours later in a parking lot of a business at 6707 Westview.

· October 19, 1993 – A girl, 14, was sexually assaulted in her home in the 1900 block of Portsmouth after she had come home from school to find the suspect in the kitchen. The suspect fled and the girl survived.

· August 7, 1994 – Diana Rebollar, 9, was abducted in the 6600 block of North Main as she was returning home from a nearby convenience store. Her body was found at 1440 North Loop. She had been sexually assaulted.

· July 6, 1995 – Dana Sanchez, 16, was talking on a payphone at West Cavalcade at Airline. On July 14, her body was found on North View Park. This case was being investigated by the Harris County Sheriff’s Department, which also has been involved in the overall investigation into the murders of the three other females.

Several weeks ago, biological evidence in one case was sent to the Orchid Cellmark laboratory in Dallas, TX. Results from that evidence connected Shore to the murder of Maria Estrada. Investigators learned Shore resided at 352 Freeport. He was arrested on a probable cause warrant last Friday, October 24.

Anyone with additional information on the suspect, Anthony Shore, is urged to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600.

JFC 10-27-03

http://www.ci.houston.tx.us/department/police/nr102703-2.htm

Man feared to be serial killer on trial in woman's death

Defense lawyers say he strangled her but deny all else

By ANDREW TILGHMAN

Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle

Steve Ueckert/Chronicle

Anthony Allen Shore had previously pleaded guilty to molesting two female relatives in 1998.

A man who avoided suspicion for years while investigators say he kidnapped women, raped them and strangled them with a cord is on trial this week for capital murder in one of four deaths that date back nearly two decades.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Anthony Allen Shore, 42, who was not a suspect in the four deaths until a new DNA test last year led to his arrest.

Shore's trial has been limited to the death of Maria Del Carmen Estrada, 21, who was found dead April 16, 1992, in the drive-through of a Spring Branch fast-food restaurant.

Three other cases
If Shore is convicted, jurors will hear about three similar slayings that included two teenagers and a 9-year-old girl before they consider whether he should get the death penalty.

All four were strangled; three of them were sexually assaulted, police said.

In a strategy that could save his life, Shore's attorneys conceded to jurors at the start of the trial that Shore killed Estrada. They denied the kidnapping and sexual assault, maintaining that Shore deserves a conviction for murder, punishable by up to life in prison.

"Anthony Allen Shore has done some monstrous, maniacal things in his lifetime," attorney Gerald Bourque said during his opening remarks. "But the evidence is going to show in this case that this was a murder. The evidence is not going to show that this was a capital murder."

To convict Shore of capital murder, jurors must believe that a second felony was committed, either kidnapping or aggravated sexual assault.

DNA was in database
Shore used a wooden stick to tighten the cord around Estrada's neck, Assistant District Attorney Kelly Siegler said.

Last year, Houston police linked Shore to the killings after sending previously untested traces of scrapings from underneath Estrada's fingernails to an independent DNA lab in Dallas.

Shore's genetic information was logged in the DNA database because he had pleaded guilty to molesting two young girls in his family in 1998. He received eight years' probation.

After his arrest, Shore told police he killed Estrada and the three other girls, authorities said.

The other victims are Laurie Lee Tremblay, 15, found dead in September 1986 behind a restaurant at 10694 Westheimer; Dana Sanchez, 16, found dead in July 1995 in a field on Northview Park; and Diana Rebollar, 9, found dead in April 1994 behind a vacant building at 1440 North Loop.

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Oct. 21, 2004, 5:42PM

Suspected serial killer guilty of capital murder

Shore says he was 'paranoid' when he strangled woman in 1992

By ANDREW TILGHMAN

Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle

A man accused of strangling four females over a nine-year span was convicted of capital murder today, clearing the way for jurors to consider giving him the death penalty.

Anthony Allen Shore, 42, showed no emotion as jurors found him guilty in the death of 21-year-old Maria Del Carmen Estrada, who was sexually assaulted, strangled with a nylon cord and left in a fast-food drive-through lane in April 1992.

While the trials four-day guilt phase was limited to Estrada's death, jurors during the punishment phase that starts Friday will begin hearing about the three other females Shore is accused of killing, including two teenagers and a 9-year-old girl.

"It's ugly," defense lawyer Gerald Bourque said of the evidence that will come out as jurors consider whether to sentence Shore to life in prison or a lethal injection.

On Wednesday, jurors heard Shore say on tape that he was "paranoid" and "freaked out" when he used a nylon cord to strangle a young woman in his car.

"I opened her blouse and she resisted. ... There were voices in my head that I was going to have her, regardless, to possess her in some way," Shore said, describing to police the night he killed Maria Del Carmen Estrada more than 12 years ago.

Jurors in Shore's capital murder trial heard his admission Wednesday, a taped conversation he gave to police after he was arrested in October 2003.

"I didn't set out to kill her," Shore told a detective. "That was not my intent. But it got out of hand."

Shore, a former telephone repairman and wrecker driver, said Estrada got into his car after he offered her a ride to work. He then parked behind a Dairy Queen on Westview near Wirt Road.

"She was amenable to a kiss, and then it got out of hand. I got a little paranoid," he said. "She became real violent. I locked the door so she couldn't get out. I didn't have sex with her, but I tried to."

"I had a serious panic. I freaked out and I left the scene," he told police.

Several jurors looked at Shore across the courtroom as they listened to the nine-minute tape.

Prosecutors Kelly Siegler and Therese Buess say Shore was lurking around the residential side streets of the northwest Houston neighborhood when he kidnapped 21-year-old Estrada and sexually assaulted her before leaving her in the restaurant's drive-through lane.

Estrada's clothing, including her bra and panty hose, had been cut with shears. He used the cord from a Venetian blind to strangle her, and a wooden stick to twist the cord and cinch it tightly around her neck.

Shore's attorneys admitted to jurors from the trial's outset that he killed Estrada. But they said he is guilty of murder, not capital murder, saying Shore did not kidnap or sexually assault her.

Shore was arrested last year after previously untested scrapings from underneath Estrada's fingernails matched his DNA. He was logged into the state's DNA database because he pleaded guilty in 1998 to sexually abusing two girls in his family. He got eight years' probation.

After his arrest in the Estrada case, his demeanor in the Houston police homicide interrogation room was unusual, police said. "He was looking me right in the eye. He showed no signs of deception. That's very rare," Sgt. John Swaim testified Wednesday.

Swaim said in his 22 years as a homicide detective, no murder suspect had called him by his first name.

"He called me John," the detective told jurors. "In my opinion, he was seeing if he could control me. It was going to be a mind game between us."

Shore was "calm and cool" after being told police linked his DNA to Estrada. After several hours of interrogation, Shore agreed to make a recorded statement. That's when he told police he killed Estrada and three girls, authorities said.

Now that Shore is convicted and his capital murder trial will proceed to a penalty phase, jurors may hear evidence of those deaths.

Shore has admitted killing Laurie Lee Tremblay, 15, who was found dead in September 1986; Dana Sanchez, 16, found dead in July 1995; and Diana Rebollar, 9, found dead in April 1994. All four were strangled, and three were sexually assaulted, prosecutors said.

Also on Wednesday, Katherine Long, a DNA analyst with Orchid Cellmark, an independent, Dallas-based forensic lab, told jurors that tests showed Shore's DNA was found under Estrada's fingernails.

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Oct. 22, 2004, 1:13PM

Killer asks for death penalty

Man is blamed in four deaths and now may face execution for one

By ANDREW TILGHMAN

Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle

Alleged serial killer Anthony Allen Shore is asking jurors to give him the death penalty.

"He is prepared to give up his life," defense attorney Alvin Nunnery told jurors this morning. "It's what he thinks should happen based on the way he has lived his life."

At the start of the punishment phase of Shore's capital murder trial, Nunnery said Shore now only hopes to save his soul, but not his life.

"He accepted the Lord into his life," Nunnery said. "He understands that while he would ultimately be free from the pain and penalty of sin - that is eternal damnation- he has to pay the consequences for what he did."

Jurors on Wednesday convicted Shore of capital murder in the death of 21-year-old Maria Del Carmen Estrada, who was sexually assaulted, strangled with a nylon cord and left dead behind a fast-food restaurant in April 1992.

The four-day trial has been limited to Estrada's death, but jurors during the punishment phase, which started today, began hearing about the three other females Shore is accused of killing: two teenagers and a 9-year-old girl.

"It's ugly," defense lawyer Gerald Bourque said of the evidence that will come out as jurors consider whether to sentence Shore to life in prison or lethal injection.

Jurors in state District Judge Caprice Cosper's court deliberated for less than three hours after prosecutors urged them to focus on the facts of Estrada's death and not Shore's possible motivations.

"Tony Shore is in a world all by himself. You could line up shrinks from now until Doomsday to interview him ... and you will never understand what kind of man he is," Assistant District Attorney Kelly Siegler said in her closing argument.

Faced with DNA tests and Shore's tape-recorded confession to police, his lawyers have conceded his guilt since the trial's outset. But they tried to avert a possible death penalty by denying a kidnapping or a sexual assault, which raised the charge from murder to capital murder.

"He intended to kill her. He killed her. It's disgusting. It's depraved. It's maniacal. But it's not capital murder," Bourque told jurors.

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Man gets two life sentences

By Scott E. Williams
The Daily News

Published January 7, 2004

TEXAS CITY — A man who murdered two women, mutilated their bodies and left them in a field will be in prison at least until he is 97.

José Castillon, 33, pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to capital murder and aggravated kidnapping in a plea agreement that will keep him off of death row. Instead of the lethal injection that could have resulted from a jury verdict, Castillon will serve back-to-back life sentences. As part of the agreement, Castillon forfeited all rights to appeal the verdict or his sentence.

During a hearing on the plea bargain, the rows behind the prosecutors’ table were full of relatives and friends of the murdered women, while the only person who sat behind the defense table was the brother of defense attorney George Murphy.

Castillon was arrested May 18, 2001, three days after mosquito control workers found the nude, bloody bodies of Cammy Lynn Keleman and Dana Denise Feazell lying about 100 feet away from each other on a dirt road that led to Swan Lake, near Loop 197.

Investigators said they believed he had picked up one of the women, who had engaged in prostitution, and tied her up, leaving her in the field until he returned with the other. He then killed them the night before their bodies were discovered.

As a result of the plea agreement, Castillon must serve a life sentence for capital murder in the killings. That sentence will last at least 37 years before he becomes eligible for parole. That prison stretch will not begin unless he receives parole for the aggravated kidnapping life sentence that he must first serve. He will have to serve 27 years before becoming parole-eligible on that charge. Castillon has credit for three years time served in the county jail while awaiting trial.

After formally finding Castillon guilty, Judge Susan Criss allowed relatives of the victims to make statements. Castillon stared straight ahead, never making eye contact as William Feazell, Dana Feazell’s brother, spoke.

“There’s no punishment or torture severe enough for the lives you have taken, or the pain you have caused our family,” Feazell told Castillon, his voice shaking as he read a written statement.

Feazell later said he had wanted Castillon to die for his crime, but decided that living his life in prison would be more arduous punishment.

Joseph Keleman, who had been Cammy Keleman’s brother-in-law, said Castillon could receive no punishment to match what he had done.

“I don’t care what they had been doing,” he said after the hearing. “No one deserves what happened to them. We loved the hell out of that girl.”

The aggravated kidnapping charge stemmed from an attack on another woman that occurred nearly two weeks before the women’s bodies were found. That attack provided police the clues that led to Castillon’s arrest.

Castillon met and picked up the woman, but bound and gagged her before leaving her in the same field where Feazell and Keleman’s remains were later found.

The woman managed to escape and made it to the side of the road, where she flagged down a passing motorist who took her home.

She did not report the incident to police until learning of the murders, at which point she told investigators what had happened to her and told them part of the license plate of the car her attacker had been driving.

Investigators used DPS records to determine that the vehicle belonged to Castillon. They also found the washcloth he had stuffed into the woman’s mouth when binding her with medical tape, and it was identical to one of the washcloths found at the murder scene. Investigators traced the brand and manufacturer of the washcloths and found that the same type of washcloth was used at the nursing home where Castillon worked.

Defense attorney Murphy said after the hearing that Castillon agreed to the stacked life terms both to avoid the death penalty and out of a sense of remorse.

“Well, he was facing the death penalty, but the bottom line is that he’s hopeful that his decision to do this brings some measure of relief to the people to whom he’s caused such great suffering.”

Months ago, prosecutors had turned down a plea offer that would have seen Castillon serve a single life term in prison for murder.

First Assistant District Attorney Mo Ibrahim, who was the lead prosecutor on the case, said he accepted the offer of back-to-back terms after talking to the families. He also said the forfeiture of all appeals in the case by Castillon was a key factor in the agreement.

“The families wanted to know when he was found guilty that it would be forever,” he said. “There’s no appeal, no coming back.”

Murphy said Castillon was denying all interview requests, and both Ibrahim and Texas City police Sgt. Brian Goetchius said Castillon never gave a reason for his actions. It could be that no one ever will know why Castillon killed the women, or why he disfigured them so brutally. To Ibrahim, that didn’t matter.

“Nothing, nothing can justify what this man did, so I really don’t care why,” Ibrahim said. “All I care about is that he’s going to spend the rest of his life in prison, and that there was some finality in this case today.”

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