131: The Texas Killing Fields Update: Clyde Hedrick, Laura Miller, and New Charges in the Calder Road Murders

About this episode

This episode provides an update on the Texas Killing Fields, focusing on new developments in the Calder Road murders and the investigation surrounding Clyde Hedrick.

In this update episode, we return to the Texas Killing Fields—specifically the 25-acre stretch of land off Calder Road in League City, Texas, where four women were found murdered over the course of years: Heide Fye, Laura Miller, Audrey Cook, and Donna Prudhomme. For decades, their cases remained unsolved. Investigators pursued multiple leads and named several persons of interest, but one name continued to surface: Clyde Hedrick—a local man later convicted in the 1984 death of Ellen Beason. In March 2026, investigators finally questioned Hedrick about the Calder Road murders. Hours later, he was dead. But the case did not end there. In the weeks that followed, authorities arrested Hedrick’s associate, James Elmore, charging him with manslaughter in the death of Laura Miller, as well as tampering with evidence in both Laura’s and Audrey Cook’s cases. In this episode, we revisit the history of the Texas Killing Fields, the failures that allowed these cases to go unsolved for so long, and the lives of the women at the center of it all—particularly Audrey Cook and Donna Prudhomme, who remained unidentified for decades before finally being named. We also examine the long-standing…

Topics covered

• Texas Killing Fields
• unsolved murders
• Clyde Hedrick
• investigation updates
• Laura Miller
• Audrey Cook
• new charges

Keywords

• Texas Killing Fields
• Clyde Hedrick
• Laura Miller
• Calder Road murders
• unsolved cases
• James Elmore
• investigation
• true crime
• murder updates
• Audrey Cook

Mentioned in this episode

Places: League City, Texas

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