Investigators spent hours in a Bacliff neighborhood Thursday searching for what could be buried beneath the ground.

BACLIFF, Texas — Investigators in Galveston County on Thursday searched a residential neighborhood using ground-penetrating radar as part of an ongoing probe connected to the Texas Killing Fields cases, where the bodies of girls and young women have been discovered over decades.

Several blocks in Bacliff remained cordoned off with crime scene tape as authorities executed a search warrant at a property across from homes in the area. According to the warrant, investigators are looking for the possible remains of two girls believed to be buried on land owned by James Elmore Jr.

Elmore was arrested last month and charged in the killing of Laura Miller, a 16-year-old who was last seen in 1984. Her remains were later found in a shallow grave near Calder Road in League City, an area long associated with the Killing Fields investigations.

Heather Fite, a lifelong Bacliff resident, said the renewed search brings back memories of when young people began disappearing years ago.

“It’s not surprising,” Fite said. “Back then, it wasn’t that bodies were being found right away — it was that kids were just disappearing.”

Authorities have not confirmed whether any remains have been located at the Bacliff property.

Tim Miller, Laura Miller’s father and founder of Texas EquuSearch, is referenced in the search warrant. He said he developed a relationship with Elmore in recent years and that Elmore provided details about the circumstances surrounding his daughter’s death.

Miller said Elmore told him he was with Clyde Hedrick the day Hedrick allegedly gave Laura Miller drugs that led to her death. Hedrick, who had been linked by authorities to multiple killings, died by suicide last month.

Miller also said he was told that Hedrick previously owned the Bacliff property and that the remains of two additional girls could be buried there. Investigators spent hours at the site Thursday working to determine whether that information is accurate.

The Texas Killing Fields, a stretch of land along Interstate 45 between Houston and Galveston, has been the site of numerous unsolved killings dating back decades.

Investigators say they expect to be searching the Bacliff property through Saturday.