The 1990s saw a return of violence to the Texas killing field with a new wave of disappearances and murders along the desolate stretch of Interstate 45. As more bodies were found, the pattern of violence became impossible to overlook, yet the identity of those responsible remained as murky as the surrounding marshlands. What tied these victims together and why did this unremarkable area keep drawing such darkness?

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