{"id":333942,"date":"2026-06-12T18:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333942\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:17:09","slug":"search-ongoing-for-possible-body-in-part-of-the-texas-killing-field-investigation-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333942\/","title":{"rendered":"Search ongoing for possible body in part of the Texas Killing Field investigation, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Texas EquuSearch officials have confirmed that a search is ongoing for a possible body in connection with the Texas Killing Fields investigation on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The search is localized to New Calder Road at Ervin Street, according to the organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials have not said what this investigation pertains to or who the victim may be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Back in March, the Galveston County District Attorney&#8217;s Office said James Dolphs Elmore Jr., of Bacliff, was indicted for his role in the Texas Killing Fields case. He was charged with manslaughter and tampering with evidence in connection with the 1984 murder of Laura Miller, as well as tampering in the 1986 killing of Audrey Cook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The DA said, through a multi-agency investigation, including re-interviewing witnesses, the DA&#8217;s office decided to seek grand jury indictments against Clyde Hedrick for the deaths of Miller, Cook, Heidi Fye-Villareal, and Donna Prudhomme &#8212; whose bodies were also found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Hedrick died in March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Texas EquuSearch officials have confirmed that a search is ongoing for a possible body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[119374,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-333942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-119374","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}