In 1985, 29-year-old Ellen Rae Beason's body was discovered near the Galveston causeway, but it wasn't until nearly three decades later that her murderer was caught.
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Read full article: See these super helpful Insider Deals for beauty and around the house. But it wasn’t until 2014 that someone was finally convicted for her death. Even though her body was found in Galveston County, Benson’s case is connected to the ‘Killing Fields’ murders in League City because of the prime suspect.at the Texas Moon bar in July 1984. She went to the bar with her friend, Candy Giffords. Even though she was married, Giffords was having an affair with Hedrick. When Gifford’s husband showed up at the bar and asked about Hedrick, Candy said he was there with her friend, Ellen.Gifford and her husband left the bar, and the next day, her friends car was found in the parking lot. According to police and prosecutors, Gifford kept asking Hedrick what happened to Beason, but his stories kept changing. At one point, he said he saw Ellen get into a car with someone he didn’t know. After constantly pressuring Hedrick for answers, he took Gifford to the place where he discarded Beason’s body under an old car seat in November 1984. Prosecutors said Hedrick threatened to hurt Gifford and her family if she went to police. Fearful of Hedrick, Gifford finally told police where to find Beason’s body in July 1985. The original autopsy at the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the cause of death undetermined. Hedrick denied hurting Beason, and claimed she drowned while ‘skinny-dipping’ at the Dickinson sandpit. He said he panicked because he had been drinking, smoking marijuana, and had a criminal past. So, thinking no one would believe her death wasn’t his fault, he left her body on the side.Hedrick was originally convicted of abuse of a corpse in 1986, and sentenced to a year in jail. Beason’s body was then exhumed twice. Once in 1993, and again in 2012. New autopsies determined that she had died from a skull fracture. In 2013,“We’re dealing with a possible serial killer, he’s not going to have a warm blood in his system,” Hansen said of Hedrick.Award winning investigative journalist who joined KPRC 2 in July 2000. Husband and father of the Master of Disaster and Chaos Gremlin. “I don’t drink coffee to wake up, I wake up to drink coffee.”As an Emmy award-winning journalist, Jason strives to serve the community by telling in-depth stories and taking on challenges many pass over. When he’s not working, he’s spending time with his girlfriend Rosie, and dog named Dug.
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