TRACKING A MONSTER THE TEXAS KILLING FIELDS

In the afternoon of February 2, 1986, two boys riding their dirt bikes through an overgrown 10-hectare expanse of land along Calder Road in League City, Texas, became overwhelmed by a sickening smell. They thought it might be the decaying corpse of a dog or maybe a deer, but as they traced the smell to its origin, they found something far more horrifying: the decomposing bodies of two young women.

Investigators soon identified the first body as 16-year-old Clear Creek High School sophomore Laura Miller, last seen at a pay phone nearly two years earlier. But police had no idea