Laura Jean, 16, was last seen alive in April 1983 in Houston, Texas. She skipped school that day and went to get a hamburger at a restaurant nearby. She did arrive there and ate her hamburger, but she never returned home. A week later, Laura Jean's body was found in the woods near the Sam Houston National Forest, off Farm Road 149. She had been raped, beaten about the head, and strangled, and her body had been set on fire after death.
Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed to Laura Jean's murder and lead police to where he had disposed of her body. He was sentenced to death for another murder in Texas, but his sentence was commuted to life in prison in 2000 and he died shortly thereafter. Lucas was never charged in connection with Laura Jean's murder.
Laura Jean was a high school freshman at John H. Reagan Sr. High in the Heights at the time of her murder, and belonged to the girl's ROTC drill team - The Reagan Riflettes.
Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed to Laura Jean's murder and lead police to where he had disposed of her body. He was sentenced to death for another murder in Texas, but his sentence was commuted to life in prison in 2000 and he died shortly thereafter. Lucas was never charged in connection with Laura Jean's murder.
Laura Jean was a high school freshman at John H. Reagan Sr. High in the Heights at the time of her murder, and belonged to the girl's ROTC drill team - The Reagan Riflettes.
Laura Jean, 16, was last seen alive in April 1983 in Houston, Texas. She skipped school that day and went to get a hamburger at a restaurant nearby. She did arrive there and ate her hamburger, but she never returned home. A week later, Laura Jean's body was found in the woods near the Sam Houston National Forest, off Farm Road 149. She had been raped, beaten about the head, and strangled, and her body had been set on fire after death.
Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed to Laura Jean's murder and lead police to where he had disposed of her body. He was sentenced to death for another murder in Texas, but his sentence was commuted to life in prison in 2000 and he died shortly thereafter. Lucas was never charged in connection with Laura Jean's murder.
Laura Jean was a high school freshman at John H. Reagan Sr. High in the Heights at the time of her murder, and belonged to the girl's ROTC drill team - The Reagan Riflettes.
Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed to Laura Jean's murder and lead police to where he had disposed of her body. He was sentenced to death for another murder in Texas, but his sentence was commuted to life in prison in 2000 and he died shortly thereafter. Lucas was never charged in connection with Laura Jean's murder.
Laura Jean was a high school freshman at John H. Reagan Sr. High in the Heights at the time of her murder, and belonged to the girl's ROTC drill team - The Reagan Riflettes.
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