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- I knew Jessica Cain when we were kids. My dad and her dad were childhood friends. I remember she was very friendly, very pretty. Her parents had a nice house with some land, a little lake, and they kept a horse. And I remember years passed when I never saw her or her family, and then one day I heard she'd disappeared. I always wondered if she was part of this, but because nobody's ever found her it remains possible that she could be out there somewhere. I just don't know.
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- Similar to ashantara's comments above, as I watched 48 hours my skin started to crawl as I realized that this killer might have hands on me as well.
As a teenager in the 70's I graduated from Angleton High School and attended Sam Houston State University. I drove to the university, and home from Huntsville, TX to Angleton, TX along the I45 route known at the "killing fields" every Friday afternoon/evening, and back to school each Sunday at the same time. One evening in 1978 or 1979, around dusk, I was driving south on I45, through downtown Houston on my way home from college. There was construction on I45, and I was traveling in the rightmost lane, the 'slow' lane, as my car wasn't in real good shape. It was a 1970 Subaru, 2 door, red compact car. The paint was oxidized, but it was all I could afford. A man had been following me and came up beside me when I was in the construction zone. He was moving closer to me, as if to try and run me into the construction barriers. I sped up and he followed me, pulling up beside me, getting in front of me, and then beside me again, glaring at me. He was, to an 18 year old, in about his late 20s and sort of skinny to average build. He wore black rimmed glasses and had dark curly hair. The reason I know the detail is because I turned onto FM528 toward Alvin, so I could travel home to Angleton, and he followed me. There wasn't much traffic. I remember I had to turn on my lights because light had turned to dusk. I am very cautious, and always travel with my doors locked, but for some reason, that night, the driver's door was unlocked, although the passenger's side was locked. As I followed FM528, he was dead on my tail, making me speed up so he wouldn't hit me. At each light, I tried to hide in the light traffic. Back then in the late 70's, if you remember, there wasn't much on that road. I know I was at a light nearer to Highway 35 than to I45 when I caught a red light. It is the red light that starts on a curve that turns left, and an abandoned liquor store was on the right. There was no traffic, no cars in sight as I stopped. I looked in my rear view mirror and saw him get out of his car, and run toward my driver's side door. He opened it and I popped the clutch and punched the gas and the door hit him and knocked him to the pavement. I sped on FM528 and Highway 35, all the way to Angleton, hoping a policeman would stop me for speeding. He followed me not quite into the city limits of Angleton. Just after Danbury, he suddenly wasn't in my rear view mirror anymore. I was in a state of panic. I will never forget his face, nor the way I felt that night. - Reply to this comment
- RICK PERRY PROBABLY KILLED THEM ?
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- I'm sorry, this is a terrible tragedy, but I need to correct something.
Krystal Baker could not have been related to Marilyn Monroe.
Norma Jeane Baker was not biologically a Baker. In fact, to this day her father remains unknown but is speculated to have been a man named C. Stanley Gifford.
Norma Jeane's mother Gladys was married to a man named Jasper Baker, and they had two children, Berniece and Jackie. They divorced long before Norma Jeane was born and Jasper, Berniece and Jackie moved to Kentucky.
Norma Jeane was born an illegitimate child and was no biological relation to the Baker family. Her mother, in the hopes of getting all her children under the same roof, started using the name Baker for Norma Jeane so that they would all have the same last name.
This sounds like one of those family stories that just gets passed down and believed, but it's simply not true. - Reply to this comment
- Having grown up in the general area covered by this program, I was most interested in watching it. I had an experience back in the early 1970's that has haunted me ever since then. At the time, I was a 20-something student at the University of Houston but still lived in Baytown with my parents, so I made the drive back and forth five days a week. When returning home, this involved driving a short distance on I-45 and then turning onto the 210 that goes toward Baytown. One day, just after I had turned onto the 210 a man drove up next to me and pointed at my right front tire area. The way he looked was seared into my mind, and I instantly felt in danger. I clutched the steering wheel but was determined to keep driving. He was persistent and repeated the action several times. I didn't feel anything wrong with my car, so I kept going. As soon as I got home, I jumped out to inspect my car, and there was nothing wrong. I thought about this when the Tiki Island girl was featured on the program because no one can figure out why she would have pulled to the side of the highway late at night. I realize that the person who did this to me would be quite old now, so I'm not saying it could be the same person who is still actively hunting girls. However, the method may be used by other predators, so public service announcements and other information should contain the warning not to ever stop if someone uses it. I often wonder whether I would be alive today if I had stopped.
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- Texas has long since had a reputation for non-investigation of most violent police report by citizens like many southern states along with Louisiana most of the citizens consider themselves autonomous to state laws and constitutional laws, many of these young women in Texas that have gone missing. To most Texas law enforcement. They were perceived to be runaways that is a gross negligence of law enforcement Texas has never had a rapid police awareness enforcement policy. So if you live in the state or even passed through the state. Please be aware that when something happens to you law enforcement in states like Texas and Louisiana would generally arrest you, rather than investigate what you are telling them.
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