Anybody watching the Texas killing fields?

[outhereincali]

Chilling, and shocking. That someone like Clyde Hendrick is a free man because of a technicality is infuriating.

It occured in the 70's and the irresponsibility of the police was horrible. This was the same time of the Candyman murders in Houston.

If you can stand the subject it's an interesting documentary.

It's on Netflix.

 

[clob94]

Chilling, and shocking. That someone like Clyde Hendrick is a free man because of a technicality is infuriating.

It occured in the 70's and the irresponsibility of the police was horrible. This was the same time of the Candyman murders in Houston.

If you can stand the subject it's an interesting documentary.

It's on Netflix.

Watching it? I have family that lived it.

 

[outhereincali]

Watching it? I have family that lived it.

How so?

 

[LongfellowDrew]

Chilling, and shocking. That someone like Clyde Hendrick is a free man because of a technicality is infuriating.

It occured in the 70's and the irresponsibility of the police was horrible. This was the same time of the Candyman murders in Houston.

If you can stand the subject it's an interesting documentary.

It's on Netflix.

Yeah watched the whole thing. I remembered Jessica Cain but the others I wasn't familiar with.

 

[WRLHookem]

Watching it? I have family that lived it.

You're an anomaly. Most of us have lived regular lives.

 

[TopSirloin]

I know the Assistant DA Kevin Petroff. Great guy.

 

[clob94]

You're an anomaly. Most of us have lived regular lives.

My aunt uncle and cousins lived down I-45 back in the 70s and 80s. The boys were in elementary/Jr high when all this got going in the 70s. Their dad was an insurance guy for Lloyd's of London and he would do inspections on oil facilities in that area. My cousins basically grew up not being allowed out of the freaking house except for school and sports. My aunt was a worry wort. I just remember as a kid going to visit them and being petrified by the stories my aunt would tell about teenagers always going missing and turning up "dead in a field" down the road.
@LonghornMM grew up down there. I promise you, he lived it.

 

[WRLHookem]

Watched it all last night. I grew up in NW Houston but I didn’t remember this story or murders making any national news at the time. They caught one guy. The other guy, Clyde, got away with it other than losing half his jaw somewhere along the way.

 

[clob94]

Watched it all last night. I grew up in NW Houston but I didn’t remember this story or murders making any national news at the time. They caught one guy. The other guy, Clyde, got away with it other than losing half his jaw somewhere along the way.

Tomball? Cypress?

Do you remember Dean Corll? Dude from Stink-a-dena? Used teenaged boys to lure other teenaged boys to his lair where he'd torture, rape and kill them?
That area of Houston has some fvcked up history.

 

[Oldmanastro]

The Candy Man. I grew up in the Klein district ‘70-82.

 

[clob94]

The Candy Man. I grew up in the Klein district ‘70-82.

I forgot that was his nickname. He was a sick mofo... and didn't the kid that shot him get sent to prison or something?

 

[Oldmanastro]

The kid that shot him was one of his two teenage accomplices. Both got life sentences.

 

[WRLHookem]

Tomball? Cypress?

Do you remember Dean Corll? Dude from Stink-a-dena? Used teenaged boys to lure other teenaged boys to his lair where he'd torture, rape and kill them?
That area of Houston has some fvcked up history.

Memorial. That was NW Houston area back in the day. Yes, the Candy Man (credit to Oldmanastro). I remember that one.

 

[clob94]

Memorial. That was NW Houston area back in the day. Yes, the Candy Man (credit to Oldmanastro). I remember that one.

So you got to go eat at James Coney Island and hang out at the old Warwick hotel back in the day. Bud Bigelow's-- Rumplheimer's ice cream-- Look's Sirloin-- Christie's seafood-- my family still tells stories about those places.

 

[outhereincali]

Tomball? Cypress?

Do you remember Dean Corll? Dude from Stink-a-dena? Used teenaged boys to lure other teenaged boys to his lair where he'd torture, rape and kill them?
That area of Houston has some fvcked up history.

This all happened in the 70's. They said law enforcement in the Houston area that the cops wouldn't cooperate with each other.

It also said that the police acted like missing children didn't exist they were nothing more than runaways.

 

[WRLHookem]

This all happened in the 70's. They said law enforcement in the Houston area that the cops wouldn't cooperate with each other.

It also said that the police acted like missing children didn't exist they were nothing more than runaways.

70s thru mid-80s.

Runaways is a simplification. Actually, they broke it down that one of the girls was considered a runaway (which she was know to have done before) and the others were involved in “drugs” (pot) or other “illicit” activity therefore implying maybe they deserved it. And so the cops didn’t make it a priority. The takeaway was had the cops done more work in the early stages they would have nailed Clyde. Clyde’s stepdaughter had tried many times to have him fried and the cops just turned a blind eye. Back then abuse was not the big deal it is today.

 

[clob94]

70s thru mid-80s.

Runaways is a simplification. Actually, they broke it down that one of the girls was considered a runaway (which she was know to have done before) and the others were involved in “drugs” (pot) or other “illicit” activity therefore implying maybe they deserved it. And so the cops didn’t make it a priority. The takeaway was had the cops done more work in the early stages they would have nailed Clyde. Clyde’s stepdaughter had tried many times to have him fried and the cops just turned a blind eye. Back then abuse was not the big deal it is today.

What I didn't realize was there were 30-ish bodies they found in that area. Fvcking insane. I knew there were several- everytime we visited Houston (it seemed like) my aunt had a new story about another kid that just vanished-- and their body was found later in the area.

 

[weevilcatch]

What I didn't realize was there were 30-ish bodies they found in that area. Fvcking insane. I knew there were several- everytime we visited Houston (it seemed like) my aunt had a new story about another kid that just vanished-- and their body was found later in the area.

Who owns that land and how the **** do bodies keep getting deposited there???

 

[clob94]

Who owns that land and how the **** do bodies keep getting deposited there???

I'm not sure. Back then I think it was a petrochemical company or an oil company. I can't recall. Who owns it now? I have no clue. But from what I remember, that whole area was littered with bodies. It's just that this one particular area had a cluster of them within a few yards of each other. As a killer, you develop habits like everyone else. So if you're dumping bodies in one spot and keep getting away with it, why not keep using the same spot?

 

[weevilcatch]

I'm not sure. Back then I think it was a petrochemical company or an oil company. I can't recall. Who owns it now? I have no clue. But from what I remember, that whole area was littered with bodies. It's just that this one particular area had a cluster of them within a few yards of each other. As a killer, you develop habits like everyone else. So if you're dumping bodies in one spot and keep getting away with it, why not keep using the same spot?

Damnit...humans can be some evil mother****ers man.

I was reading that bodies have been discovered there as far back as 1971 and as recently as 2016??? And that of these bodies, the victims had been abducted from 1971 into the early 2000s. Absolutely insane one 25 acre area could be used for over 30 years and nobody saw anything ever? Just crazy.

And apparently there were multiple killers that used this area as a dump?

Wouldn't surprise me a bit if some sick **** cops were involved somehow.

 

[LongfellowDrew]

What I got out of it was that the League City police department sucked balls back then. I even told my wife it made it seem like it was a cop doing the killings.