In part two of our series on the Texas killing fields, we enter the 1980s, a decade that marked a grim evolution for this haunting stretch of land. The isolated area between Houston and Galveston saw an alarming number of young women vanish, their lives seemingly claimed by a predator, or predators, who eluded capture. What patterns began to emerge, and why did answers remain so painfully out of reach?

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