Age Progressed
DOB: Aug 28, 1979
Missing: Aug 17, 1997
Age at time of disappearance: 17
Sex: Female
Race: White
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5'4" (163 cm)
Weight: 140 lbs (64 kg)
Missing From:
LA MARQUE
TX
United States
Jessica's photo is shown aged to 29 years. She was last seen by friends at a local restaurant on the evening of 8/17/97. Her vehicle was later found abandoned on the shoulder of I-45 South, near Highland Bayou Park. Jessica's whereabouts are unknown.
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Found Deceased: Jessica Cain - TX - 08/17/1997
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Jessica Lee Cain
Upper Images and Lower Left and Center: Cain, circa 1997;
Lower Right: Age-progression at age 25 (circa 2004)
[font=Times New Roman]Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance
Missing Since: August 17, 1997 from La Marque, Texas
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: August 28, 1979
Age: 17 years old
Height and Weight: 5'4, 140 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Brown hair with blonde highlights, blue eyes. Cain's ears are pierced. A permanent retainer has been placed on her upper teeth. She has a scar on her right knee.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A sleeveless black shirt with a lace bodice and collar, brown knit pants and black patent leather sandals.
Details of Disappearance
Cain had dinner with friends at Bennigan's Restaurant in the 1300 block of west Bay Area Boulevard in Clear Lake, Texas during the early morning hours of August 17, 1997. She departed the establishment at approximately 1:30 a.m. She was driving her father's tan 1992 Ford pickup truck with an extended cab and a camper shell back to her family's residence in Tiki Island at the time. One of Cain's friends saw her vehicle parked on the southbound shoulder of Interstate 45 between Exits 7 and 8 in La Marque shortly after she left the restaurant. The location is near Highland Bayou Park. According to her friend, Cain was last seen walking towards a 1993 or newer cherry-red Isuzu Amigo parked behind her truck on the shoulder. The Amigo is described as being in mint condition with a hardtop, dark-tinted windows, no chrome, rounded wheel wells and a spare tire mounted in the center rear. The driver of the Amigo is considered to be a possible witness in Cain's case and has yet to be identified. Cain has never been heard from again.
Cain's truck was discovered locked and abandoned near the location her friend last saw her on Interstate 45 southbound at 5:00 a.m. that same day. Her wallet was on the driver's seat of the vehicle but her keys were missing. There was no sign of Cain at the scene and no damage to the truck, but the vehicle's camper appeared to have been tampered with.
Authorities are also searching for the driver of a mid-to-full-size white pickup truck who may have been a witness during the time Cain disappeared on the interstate. Witnesses reported seeing the car pursuing Cain's vehicle at a high rate of speed. The driver's truck is described as having a white toolbox mounted near the cab and a light bar with rotating yellow/orange lights. In addition, another possible witness is also being sought in connection with Cain's disappearance. He is described as an African-American male, approximately 25 to 32 years old with a short Afro-style haircut. The witness was driving a purple Dodge or Plymouth Neon at the time he may have seen Cain. Authorities believe the possible witness may be involved in the music industry.
A private investigator claimed that there was a possible link between Cain's disappearance and Jonathan David Drew. Drew was charged with the murder of Tina Michelle Flood in December 1998. He was employed as an automobile mechanic at the time Cain disappeared. The investigator said that Drew had access to a red Isuzu Amigo in August 1997. The Amigo was in the possession of a used car dealership where Drew occasionally worked. It is not known if Drew was the driver of the vehicle spotted behind Cain's truck on the day she disappeared.
Cain's case is also being investigated along with the murders or disappearances of numerous other women from the Galveston County, Texas area since the 1970s. It is not known if any of the cases are connected to one another, but the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI) and Texas law enforcement have formed Operation HALT (Homicide/Abduction Liason Team) to look into the possibilities. The disappearances of Sondra Ramber in 1983, Michelle Thomas in 1985 and Suzanne Richerson in 1988 are among the cases being investigated by Operation HALT.
Cain is described as a model teenager who had no enemies and would not run away from home. She had recently graduated from O'Connell High School and was due to start her freshman year at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas the week after her disappearance. She planned to major in criminology and drama. Cain's case remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
La Marque Police Department
409-938-9269
OR
Texas Department Of Public Safety
800-346-3243
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Source Information
The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
The Polly Klaas Foundation
America's Most Wanted
Texas Department Of Public Safety
The Abilene Reporter-News
The Laura Recover Center
Nation's Missing Children Organization
State to State Unsolved Crimes
[size=small]The Galveston County Daily News
[size=small][color=#0000ff]The Houston Chronicle
[color=#0000ff]http://www.charleypr...in_jessica.html
Upper Images and Lower Left and Center: Cain, circa 1997;
Lower Right: Age-progression at age 25 (circa 2004)
[font=Times New Roman]Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance
Missing Since: August 17, 1997 from La Marque, Texas
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: August 28, 1979
Age: 17 years old
Height and Weight: 5'4, 140 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Brown hair with blonde highlights, blue eyes. Cain's ears are pierced. A permanent retainer has been placed on her upper teeth. She has a scar on her right knee.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A sleeveless black shirt with a lace bodice and collar, brown knit pants and black patent leather sandals.
Details of Disappearance
Cain had dinner with friends at Bennigan's Restaurant in the 1300 block of west Bay Area Boulevard in Clear Lake, Texas during the early morning hours of August 17, 1997. She departed the establishment at approximately 1:30 a.m. She was driving her father's tan 1992 Ford pickup truck with an extended cab and a camper shell back to her family's residence in Tiki Island at the time. One of Cain's friends saw her vehicle parked on the southbound shoulder of Interstate 45 between Exits 7 and 8 in La Marque shortly after she left the restaurant. The location is near Highland Bayou Park. According to her friend, Cain was last seen walking towards a 1993 or newer cherry-red Isuzu Amigo parked behind her truck on the shoulder. The Amigo is described as being in mint condition with a hardtop, dark-tinted windows, no chrome, rounded wheel wells and a spare tire mounted in the center rear. The driver of the Amigo is considered to be a possible witness in Cain's case and has yet to be identified. Cain has never been heard from again.
Cain's truck was discovered locked and abandoned near the location her friend last saw her on Interstate 45 southbound at 5:00 a.m. that same day. Her wallet was on the driver's seat of the vehicle but her keys were missing. There was no sign of Cain at the scene and no damage to the truck, but the vehicle's camper appeared to have been tampered with.
Authorities are also searching for the driver of a mid-to-full-size white pickup truck who may have been a witness during the time Cain disappeared on the interstate. Witnesses reported seeing the car pursuing Cain's vehicle at a high rate of speed. The driver's truck is described as having a white toolbox mounted near the cab and a light bar with rotating yellow/orange lights. In addition, another possible witness is also being sought in connection with Cain's disappearance. He is described as an African-American male, approximately 25 to 32 years old with a short Afro-style haircut. The witness was driving a purple Dodge or Plymouth Neon at the time he may have seen Cain. Authorities believe the possible witness may be involved in the music industry.
A private investigator claimed that there was a possible link between Cain's disappearance and Jonathan David Drew. Drew was charged with the murder of Tina Michelle Flood in December 1998. He was employed as an automobile mechanic at the time Cain disappeared. The investigator said that Drew had access to a red Isuzu Amigo in August 1997. The Amigo was in the possession of a used car dealership where Drew occasionally worked. It is not known if Drew was the driver of the vehicle spotted behind Cain's truck on the day she disappeared.
Cain's case is also being investigated along with the murders or disappearances of numerous other women from the Galveston County, Texas area since the 1970s. It is not known if any of the cases are connected to one another, but the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI) and Texas law enforcement have formed Operation HALT (Homicide/Abduction Liason Team) to look into the possibilities. The disappearances of Sondra Ramber in 1983, Michelle Thomas in 1985 and Suzanne Richerson in 1988 are among the cases being investigated by Operation HALT.
Cain is described as a model teenager who had no enemies and would not run away from home. She had recently graduated from O'Connell High School and was due to start her freshman year at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas the week after her disappearance. She planned to major in criminology and drama. Cain's case remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
La Marque Police Department
409-938-9269
OR
Texas Department Of Public Safety
800-346-3243
[img width=400 height=3]http://www.charleypr...banners/bar.jpg[/img]
Source Information
The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
The Polly Klaas Foundation
America's Most Wanted
Texas Department Of Public Safety
The Abilene Reporter-News
The Laura Recover Center
Nation's Missing Children Organization
State to State Unsolved Crimes
[size=small]The Galveston County Daily News
[size=small][color=#0000ff]The Houston Chronicle
[color=#0000ff]http://www.charleypr...in_jessica.html
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“Missing Child, Wounded Hearts” - “Someone, somewhere, knows something.”
The words are spoken softly, firmly, and without quavering, but behind them lies a decade of grief and frustration. They are spoken by Susie Cain who faces the tenth anniversary of her daughter’s disappearance this month - as well as the 28th birthday of that same daughter.
Jessica Cain was 17 when she disappeared the morning of August 17, 1997. Her family would have celebrated her 18th birthday on August 28. Instead, they were embroiled in a search that involved hundreds of volunteers, law enforcement agencies from around the country, and eventually resulted in them offering nearly a quarter of a million dollars to anyone who could help them find Jessica.
Ten years later, C.H. and Susie Cain are still waiting. “You go on with your life,” Susie Cain says. “You have to, and Jessica would want us to. For one thing, we have to be here for her if she’s ever found. But for another, Jessica was vivacious and full of life. We would dishonor her if we just gave up.”
Jessica’s story, as tragic as it is to those who knew and loved her, has become part of a larger epic that, to this day, occupies a unique place in the annals of America’s crime. Collectively gathered under the umbrella term of “the killing fields”, “the I45 corridor killings, her disappearance adds one more name to a long list of young women who went missing some of whose bodies were later found in an area paralleling I45 south of Houston.
The list contains the names of over 30 young women, added since the early 70s, who are either still missing from, or whose remains have been found in, that general area. The vast majority of those instances remain “unsolved.”
Susie Cain says that while time may diminish the immediate piercing of grief, it does nothing to erase the underlying loss and pain. “That is always with us,” she says. “Jessica is gone, and no passage of time will make that any easier to bear.”
It was early 1:30 a.m. the morning of August 17, 1997, when Jessica left Bennigan’s Restaurant in Clear Lake, driving her 1992 tan Ford pickup. She had been at a cast party for a musical in which she had performed, and was on her way to Tiki Island, where she lived with her parents. Her parents, who had attended the musical, grew worried when she didn’t return home by 2 a.m. and her father went looking for her. He found her truck abandoned on the I45 shoulder near Highland Bayou Park in LaMarque with her wallet inside. A later search of the vehicle also disclosed Jessica’s duffel bag with clothing, a coin purse with money and her driver’s license, and truck keys.
One of Jessica’s friends later said she had seen the truck parked on the southbound shoulder shortly after she left the restaurant. That friend also reported that Jessica was last seen walking towards a 1993 or newer red Isuzu Amigo parked behind her truck. Jessica Cain was never seen nor heard from again.
Law enforcement officials, including an FBI task force, searched for several possible witnesses, including the driver of the Isuzu Amigo; another person who was driving a white pickup truck with a toolbox and a light bar with rotating yellow and orange lights; and an African-American male who was driving a purple Dodge or Plymouth Neon at the time he may have seen Jessica. None of those possible witnesses ever came forward with information about the young woman’s disappearance.
The Cains were adamant about the impossibility of Jessica having left voluntarily. Due to start her freshman year at Sam Houston State University the week after the disappearance, they described her as a “model teenager” who “had no enemies” and would not run away from home.
Jessica’s disappearance in August 1997 followed close behind an earlier tragedy in April 1997. Laura Smither, 12, was abducted from a jogging trail in Friendswood. Her nude body was found two weeks later in a Pasadena retention pond. Laura’s father, Bob Smither, joined in the massive hunt for Jessica as did Tim Miller, founder of the Houston-based Equusearch. Miller’s 16-year-old daughter, Laura, was found dead in the “killing fields” in League City in February, 1986. To date, no one has been charged with her murder, nor that of Laura Smither.
Theories about the person or persons involved in the decades-long unsolved murders and disappearances are as numerous as the multiple agencies involved in the investigations. Those theories have resulted in a “suspect list” posted on numerous Internet websites.
Only one conviction has been obtained for any of the disappearances/murders - that of Anthony Shore, who was convicted in October 2004 in the murders of four young women and girls, three of which had been previously considered I45 corridor victims. Shore was sentenced to die for killing Laurie Tremblay, 16, Maria Del Carmen Estrada, 21, Diane Rebollar, 9, and Dana Sanchez, 16. The four killings stretched from 1986 through 1995. While originally considered a suspect in other slayings, he has never been substantially linked to any other cases.
Several of the suspects have histories of sexual assaults and violence, and at least one - Mark Stallings, currently serving what amounts to life in prison on aggravated assault charges - offered a confession in 2001 to the killing fields murders. Most officials, however, consider that confession to be suspect and, in fact, he has never been charged with any of those crimes.
Private investigator hired by the Cain family later claimed that there was a possible link between Jessica’s disappearance and Jonathan David Drew, who was subsequently convicted of the murder of a Houston waitress in 1998 and suspected of several sexual assaults. Reportedly, a search of Drew’s former home in League City produced a vial containing several human teeth.
William Lewis Reece, an ex-convict who served 10 years in an Oklahoma prison for rape and aggravated kidnapping, was charged in October 1997 with the May abduction of a young woman from Webster. Reece was a construction worker who had worked at a site near the Smither home. A few days after Jessica’s disappearance, he brought his own bulldozer to a ranch near Alvin and began moving huge mounds of horse manure. Investigators later searched through that pile, but found no evidence of human remains.
The owner of that ranch, Robert Abel, now deceased, also came under intense official scrutiny when he seemed to fit an FBI profile of the killing fields murderer. Again, however, that investigation turned up nothing of substantive value to officials.
In August 2006, Equusearch founder Tim Miller received a letter from an unknown person who, Miller believes, may have murdered his daughter - and perhaps other “killing fields” victims. More than 20 years after Laura Miller’s death, the letter’s author claimed to be “the last man your Laura saw and many more.”
Shortly after Miller received the letter, he revisited the site on Calder Drive in League City where his daughter’s remains were found and where he had previously erected a cross in her memory. As alluded to in that letter by the symbol of an upside-down cross, Miller found the actual cross in the field broken. Also found were two pornography tapes, one featuring 16-year-old girls. Laura had been 16 when she was killed.
Officials were unable to recover any forensic evidence from the letter, and despite Miller’s public pleas, the author has never again contacted him.
It’s the unknown that has tormented the parents and family members of the young women down through the years, including the Cain family.
In September 1997, as the search for Jessica continued, one man voiced a truth to a Houston Chronicle reporter that has only grown more definite in the 10 years following Jessica’s disappearance.
Alton Ramber of Hitchcock was the father of then 14-year-old Sandra Ramber who disappeared from her Santa Fe home in 1983. While officials considered her disappearance to involve “foul play,” the case had never been solved. Remembering the last time he saw his daughter, Ramber said, “I remember teasing her for picking at some food on my plate at breakfast. She was happy. But when I got home, was gone. It’s only now that I can even talk about,” he continued. “I’ve had to try to put it behind me or else I would have gone crazy.”
As the Cain family can attest, “putting in behind you” does not mean the loss, the ache and the horror of not knowing what really happened goes away. Jessica Cain occupies as large a part in their hearts as she ever did.
But, Susie Cain is quietly confident. “People may think that what they know or believe or have seen isn’t important enough to report, or that someone may have already done so. That’s not true. We need all the information we can get.
Someone, somewhere, knows something.
If you are that someone, contact the LaMarque Police Department at 409-938-9269. Or, if you’re more comfortable dealing with a local law enforcement agency, contact the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office at 936-336-4500, or Eastex Crimestoppers at 936-724-TIPS (8477). Your information can remain anonymous.
“Missing Child, Wounded Hearts” - “Someone, somewhere, knows something.”
The words are spoken softly, firmly, and without quavering, but behind them lies a decade of grief and frustration. They are spoken by Susie Cain who faces the tenth anniversary of her daughter’s disappearance this month - as well as the 28th birthday of that same daughter.
Jessica Cain was 17 when she disappeared the morning of August 17, 1997. Her family would have celebrated her 18th birthday on August 28. Instead, they were embroiled in a search that involved hundreds of volunteers, law enforcement agencies from around the country, and eventually resulted in them offering nearly a quarter of a million dollars to anyone who could help them find Jessica.
Ten years later, C.H. and Susie Cain are still waiting. “You go on with your life,” Susie Cain says. “You have to, and Jessica would want us to. For one thing, we have to be here for her if she’s ever found. But for another, Jessica was vivacious and full of life. We would dishonor her if we just gave up.”
Jessica’s story, as tragic as it is to those who knew and loved her, has become part of a larger epic that, to this day, occupies a unique place in the annals of America’s crime. Collectively gathered under the umbrella term of “the killing fields”, “the I45 corridor killings, her disappearance adds one more name to a long list of young women who went missing some of whose bodies were later found in an area paralleling I45 south of Houston.
The list contains the names of over 30 young women, added since the early 70s, who are either still missing from, or whose remains have been found in, that general area. The vast majority of those instances remain “unsolved.”
Susie Cain says that while time may diminish the immediate piercing of grief, it does nothing to erase the underlying loss and pain. “That is always with us,” she says. “Jessica is gone, and no passage of time will make that any easier to bear.”
It was early 1:30 a.m. the morning of August 17, 1997, when Jessica left Bennigan’s Restaurant in Clear Lake, driving her 1992 tan Ford pickup. She had been at a cast party for a musical in which she had performed, and was on her way to Tiki Island, where she lived with her parents. Her parents, who had attended the musical, grew worried when she didn’t return home by 2 a.m. and her father went looking for her. He found her truck abandoned on the I45 shoulder near Highland Bayou Park in LaMarque with her wallet inside. A later search of the vehicle also disclosed Jessica’s duffel bag with clothing, a coin purse with money and her driver’s license, and truck keys.
One of Jessica’s friends later said she had seen the truck parked on the southbound shoulder shortly after she left the restaurant. That friend also reported that Jessica was last seen walking towards a 1993 or newer red Isuzu Amigo parked behind her truck. Jessica Cain was never seen nor heard from again.
Law enforcement officials, including an FBI task force, searched for several possible witnesses, including the driver of the Isuzu Amigo; another person who was driving a white pickup truck with a toolbox and a light bar with rotating yellow and orange lights; and an African-American male who was driving a purple Dodge or Plymouth Neon at the time he may have seen Jessica. None of those possible witnesses ever came forward with information about the young woman’s disappearance.
The Cains were adamant about the impossibility of Jessica having left voluntarily. Due to start her freshman year at Sam Houston State University the week after the disappearance, they described her as a “model teenager” who “had no enemies” and would not run away from home.
Jessica’s disappearance in August 1997 followed close behind an earlier tragedy in April 1997. Laura Smither, 12, was abducted from a jogging trail in Friendswood. Her nude body was found two weeks later in a Pasadena retention pond. Laura’s father, Bob Smither, joined in the massive hunt for Jessica as did Tim Miller, founder of the Houston-based Equusearch. Miller’s 16-year-old daughter, Laura, was found dead in the “killing fields” in League City in February, 1986. To date, no one has been charged with her murder, nor that of Laura Smither.
Theories about the person or persons involved in the decades-long unsolved murders and disappearances are as numerous as the multiple agencies involved in the investigations. Those theories have resulted in a “suspect list” posted on numerous Internet websites.
Only one conviction has been obtained for any of the disappearances/murders - that of Anthony Shore, who was convicted in October 2004 in the murders of four young women and girls, three of which had been previously considered I45 corridor victims. Shore was sentenced to die for killing Laurie Tremblay, 16, Maria Del Carmen Estrada, 21, Diane Rebollar, 9, and Dana Sanchez, 16. The four killings stretched from 1986 through 1995. While originally considered a suspect in other slayings, he has never been substantially linked to any other cases.
Several of the suspects have histories of sexual assaults and violence, and at least one - Mark Stallings, currently serving what amounts to life in prison on aggravated assault charges - offered a confession in 2001 to the killing fields murders. Most officials, however, consider that confession to be suspect and, in fact, he has never been charged with any of those crimes.
Private investigator hired by the Cain family later claimed that there was a possible link between Jessica’s disappearance and Jonathan David Drew, who was subsequently convicted of the murder of a Houston waitress in 1998 and suspected of several sexual assaults. Reportedly, a search of Drew’s former home in League City produced a vial containing several human teeth.
William Lewis Reece, an ex-convict who served 10 years in an Oklahoma prison for rape and aggravated kidnapping, was charged in October 1997 with the May abduction of a young woman from Webster. Reece was a construction worker who had worked at a site near the Smither home. A few days after Jessica’s disappearance, he brought his own bulldozer to a ranch near Alvin and began moving huge mounds of horse manure. Investigators later searched through that pile, but found no evidence of human remains.
The owner of that ranch, Robert Abel, now deceased, also came under intense official scrutiny when he seemed to fit an FBI profile of the killing fields murderer. Again, however, that investigation turned up nothing of substantive value to officials.
In August 2006, Equusearch founder Tim Miller received a letter from an unknown person who, Miller believes, may have murdered his daughter - and perhaps other “killing fields” victims. More than 20 years after Laura Miller’s death, the letter’s author claimed to be “the last man your Laura saw and many more.”
Shortly after Miller received the letter, he revisited the site on Calder Drive in League City where his daughter’s remains were found and where he had previously erected a cross in her memory. As alluded to in that letter by the symbol of an upside-down cross, Miller found the actual cross in the field broken. Also found were two pornography tapes, one featuring 16-year-old girls. Laura had been 16 when she was killed.
Officials were unable to recover any forensic evidence from the letter, and despite Miller’s public pleas, the author has never again contacted him.
It’s the unknown that has tormented the parents and family members of the young women down through the years, including the Cain family.
In September 1997, as the search for Jessica continued, one man voiced a truth to a Houston Chronicle reporter that has only grown more definite in the 10 years following Jessica’s disappearance.
Alton Ramber of Hitchcock was the father of then 14-year-old Sandra Ramber who disappeared from her Santa Fe home in 1983. While officials considered her disappearance to involve “foul play,” the case had never been solved. Remembering the last time he saw his daughter, Ramber said, “I remember teasing her for picking at some food on my plate at breakfast. She was happy. But when I got home, was gone. It’s only now that I can even talk about,” he continued. “I’ve had to try to put it behind me or else I would have gone crazy.”
As the Cain family can attest, “putting in behind you” does not mean the loss, the ache and the horror of not knowing what really happened goes away. Jessica Cain occupies as large a part in their hearts as she ever did.
But, Susie Cain is quietly confident. “People may think that what they know or believe or have seen isn’t important enough to report, or that someone may have already done so. That’s not true. We need all the information we can get.
Someone, somewhere, knows something.
If you are that someone, contact the LaMarque Police Department at 409-938-9269. Or, if you’re more comfortable dealing with a local law enforcement agency, contact the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office at 936-336-4500, or Eastex Crimestoppers at 936-724-TIPS (8477). Your information can remain anonymous.
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Jessica has now been missing for 11 years. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family for her safe return.
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Fifteen years later, Jessica Cain’s disappearance still a mystery
by Doug Miller / KHOU 11 News
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Posted on August 17, 2012 at 6:37 PM
Updated Friday, Aug 17 at 6:46 PM
HOUSTON—Fifteen years ago, along a busy stretch of the Gulf Freeway, something terrible happened.
A young woman named Jessica Cain, just days away from her high school graduation, had spent the evening performing in a musical gala. A few of her drama club friends celebrated their performance at a Bennigan’s restaurant in the Clear Lake area. Then, she drove away in her pickup truck and simply vanished.
“You wake up one morning after spending a lovely evening with your friend and you’re told she’s not there,” recalls David Stallings, one of her high school friends. “And you look for her.”
Her father found her truck parked on the shoulder of the Gulf Freeway, but she was nowhere in sight. Her wallet was inside. Authorities dusted her truck for fingerprints, but found nothing that indicated what might have happened.
Her disappearance triggered a massive and frantic search, with deputies slogging through marshes on horseback, and dogs searching through thick brush. Hundreds of volunteers joined the effort, faxing the missing girl’s description to every hotel, motel and truck stop within a day’s drive.
For a time during those sweltering summer days in the swampy fields around LaMarque, it seemed an entire community wept and prayed for the return of a teenage girl whose photographs dominated newspapers and television newscasts for weeks. But Jessica Cain, who would’ve been a 32 year-old woman today, has never been found.
“It was so hard,” says Alicia O’Neill, a high school friend. “I think it’s almost unimaginable to think that you would be walking through a field looking for your best friend, unable to find her and just thinking that she’s out there somewhere.”
Cain was one of dozens of girls and young women who either vanished or were murdered in an area around the Gulf Freeway in Galveston County that came to be known as “the killing fields.” Since the 1970s, more than 30 females have apparently died or disappeared, and there is little doubt some of the killings were connected. Four bodies were discovered buried in the same remote patch of land. One victim’s father reported receiving a disturbing letter purportedly written by a serial killer who claimed to have murdered a number of others.
People familiar with Cain’s disappearance aren’t sure whether it’s related to the other cases. In fact, they really don’t know very much at all about what happened, despite years of searching and investigation, but they’re not about to give up.
“Families don’t stop,” said Bob Walcutt, the executive director of the Laura Recovery Center for Missing Children, which was founded by the parents of Laura Smither, a murder victim killed in the area. “Other people can go on with their lives. For the parents, that one moment in time, they’re locked in that moment in time. They will continue searching.”
Cain’s disappearance is no exception. Some of her friends organized a candlelight vigil to dedicate a memorial in Highland Bayou Park near where her father found her pickup truck. Her parents plan to attend a vigil scheduled for Saturday evening, August 18.
And the friend responsible for the memorial decided to pursue a career in criminal justice. O’Neill became a prosecutor for the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, analyzing DNA to help exonerate wrongly convicted prison inmates.
“You know all the time that she’s out there somewhere, and that the right person coming forward, the right person being brave even after all this time, and just giving us the information we need,” O’Neill said. “All we want to do is just know where she is.”
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Another missing woman's case linked to kidnapper suspected in Jessica Cain's disappearance
Thursday, March 03, 2016 06:50PM
HOUSTON (KTRK) --
Authorities continue to scour a property in southeast Houston, searching for the remains of Jessica Cain, a teen who went missing nearly 20 years ago. Now abc13 has learned of a new case linked to the man suspected in Cain's disappearance.
They've been digging on a private property on East Orem Drive and Martindale for more than a week. Authorities say suspect William Reece identified the property.
Reece is in prison on another kidnapping case. But officers have taken him to the site several times to point out places to dig.
Cain was 17 when she disappeared in 1997. We've also learned that detectives from Denton in north Texas were at the dig site last month. That's because Reece is also a person of interest in the disappearance of Kelli Cox, 20.
Cox went missing in Denton in 1997, the same year Cain vanished.
The Denton Police Department issued the following statement:
"The Denton Police Department had an investigator in the Houston area from February 15, 2016 through February 18, 2016. The investigator was working a "cold case" in cooperation with the Texas Rangers. Texas Rangers met with a person of interest in the disappearance of Kelli Cox. Cox went missing in the City of Denton on July 15, 1997.
The Denton Police Department is still actively investigating the disappearance of Kelli Cox and will continue until the facts of Kelli Cox's disappearance are known. The Denton Police Department is not able to provide further information at this time."
Reese is a suspect in five kidnapping or murder cases and was convicted in a sixth kidnapping case. That victim escaped.
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Remains found during search for missing Houston teen
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SATURDAY, MARCH 19TH 2016
HOUSTON (AP) Human remains have been found at a pasture in a rural area of Houston where authorities have been looking for the body of a teenager who disappeared in 1997.
It was not immediately known if the remains are those of 17-year-old Jessica Cain, who vanished after having dinner with friends.
Mirna Torres, an investigator with the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, says the medical examiner's office will work to identify the bones found at the site. It wasn't known how long that would take.
For more than three weeks, investigators have been digging in the pasture. They were directed to the location by William Reece, a convicted kidnapper.
Reece is also a person of interest in the 1997 disappearance of a North Texas university student.
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Human remains found at dig site in Brazoria County in search for missing woman
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Tuesday, April 05, 2016 12:00AM
ROSHARON, TX (KTRK) --
Texas Rangers confirm human remains have been found at a dig site in Brazoria County. It's the second set of human remains found with a suspected serial killer's help.
The latest discovery was just off Hwy 288 north of Angleton. Police placed red flags in the ground marking the area where they found remains. They sifted through dirt using small tools.
William Reece, a convicted rapist and kidnapper, suspected of murders in two states, has been out of prison on a bench warrant, leading authorities in their search for two young women who went missing in 1997. He has long been linked to the disappearances of Jessica Cain, 17, last seen in La Marque and Kelli Cox, 20, a young mother from Denton, Texas.
Tuesday, Texas Rangers confirmed human remains were discovered last Friday at the Brazoria County site where they were searching for Cox. Last month, crews found human remains at a site on East Orem in southeast Houston where Reece, according to sources, told investigators he buried Cain.
Police believe Reece used stolen construction equipment to bury the bodies. Both sets of remains have been sent the University of North Texas forensics center for identification.
Cox's mother still lives in North Texas where she has always hoped her daughter would someday walk through the door.
"I do want those answers," said Jan Bynum. "Whatever they are and if they think this is Kelli and she's gone, I want this journey to bring some sort of good."
She said police notified her of the discovery and warned her weeks ago about this possibility.
Meanwhile, Reece has once again retained a lawyer. Attorney Anthony Osso will represent him. Osso has previously represented Reece in other cases.
This isn't the only big case that Osso is working. If his name sounds familiar to you, that may be because he also represents Shannon Miles, the man charged with murdering Harris County Sheriff's Deputy Darren Goforth last year.
Anjanette Sorrentino says she was raped, beaten, choked and left for dead.
"I do want justice for Annie," said Pam Bryant, Anjanette's mother.
Bryant says her daughter barely survived after she allegedly was captured in June 1997 by William Reece. During her attack, Ajanette said she witnessed Reece get angry with another man, an accomplice named "Joey" who has not been identified.
We obtained a copy of a sketch that police are using in their investigation. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is also looking into the case.
"He slit that boy's throat and she said he fell to his knees and he fell backwards, and she said blood went all over," said Bryant.
Investigators say Reece became a suspect in Anjanette's case and more.
They all happened in 1997.
There was 12-year-old Laura Smithers. She was found dead. Then there was Kelli Cox and in August Jessica Cain went missing too.
Then there's Sandra Sapaugh, a young woman who survived Reece's attack that very same year. She testified in court and Reece was sentenced to 60 years behind bars.
It's the only case he's been convicted for.
Nineteen years later Bryant just wants justice for Joey and her daughter.
"I am so proud of her and I want justice for her because I am so proud of her," said Bryant.
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Remains confirmed to be those of Jessica Cain, who vanished in 1997
By Claudia Feldman and Monica Rhor
April 15, 2016 Updated: April 15, 2016 10:58pm
Alicia O'Neill had a best friend, Jessica Cain. Then, one steamy night in August 1997, Cain, a 17-year-old senior at a Catholic preparatory school, just disappeared. Vanished.
After leaving a Bennigan's restaurant in Clear Lake, all that seemed to be left of her was her white pickup parked on the shoulder of Interstate 45 in Galveston County, with her purse locked inside.
O'Neill, 20 at the time and studying theater and dance at the University of Texas at Austin, went on to finish her degree. But after that, instead of heading for Broadway, she applied to law school. "I wanted to help people who have been hurt. They deserve to have somebody stand up for them," O'Neill said.
After years of hoping to hug her friend, O'Neill finally knows what happened to Jessica. The remains of a body found last month in a remote field in southeast Houston have been verified as those of Cain, a tragic ending to a mystery that has played out for almost 19 years.
"There's no such thing as closure in situations like this," O'Neill said. "For all of us, knowing where Jessica is and being able to bring her back and knowing that she is safe with us brings us peace. But definitely, it's been a long, long wait. Most people who wait this long don't get an answer. We're grateful for the herculean effort of law enforcement and all the people who never gave up."
Cain disappeared early on Aug. 17, 1997 after attending a cast party where she had celebrated her performance in a high school musical. She had been driving her dad's pickup truck, found on the route to her Tiki Island home.
The confirmation of Cain's remains marks the second long-standing missing woman's case in the I-45 corridor to be solved in five days.
Earlier this week, authorities confirmed that remains found in a Brazoria County horse pasture belonged to Kelli Cox, a University of North Texas honor student and young mother who disappeared on July 15, 1997. She vanished after a field trip to the Denton jail with her criminology class.
Relief, but 'new sorrow'
Searchers were assisted by William Reece, a convicted kidnapper and rapist who has been identified as a "person of interest" in both disappearances.
Reece, 56, told investigators where to look for Cox. He also directed search crews to several tracts of land on East Orem Drive, near Hobby Airport, where Cain's remains were found.
We are relieved at the news that Jessica has been found," Galveston County District Attorney Jack Roady said in a written statement. "But while this news brings confirmation, it also brings new sorrow to Jessica's family, friends and those in law enforcement who have mourned her loss."
Roady said his office is working closely with other jurisdictions around Texas and Oklahoma to complete other criminal investigations and bring charges.
Reece is a prime suspect in another kidnapping and murder - that of Laura Smither. The 12-year-old aspiring ballerina disappeared while jogging on April 3, 1997, in her Friendswood neighborhood, not far off I-45. Her body was found more than two weeks later about 12 miles from her home, in a Pasadena retention pond. Reece has not been charged in her slaying. But Bob and Gay Smither, the girl's parents, later won a $110 million wrongful death lawsuit against Reece, who chose not to participate.
Last year, advances in DNA testing connected Reece to the slaying of 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston in Oklahoma. Johnston was abducted from the Sunshine Car Wash in Bethany, Okla., on July 26, 1997, and her body was found the next day. A Denton police spokesman this month would not say whether the threat of the death penalty in the Johnston case inspired Reece to cooperate with authorities, but added that it was "a good educated guess."
Kidnapping, rapes
Reece spent almost 10 years in prison for two rapes in Oklahoma before being released in 1996. He returned to prison in 1998 to serve a 60-year sentence for kidnapping Sandra Sapaugh.
Sapaugh, then 19, had stopped to fix a flat tire in Webster when Reece forced her into his truck, she testified. She escaped by leaping from the vehicle as they were driving on I-45.
But Reece wasn't arrested until five months after that abduction.
Cox disappeared two months after Sapaugh was attacked.
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