By A prime suspect in the “Texas Killing Fields” case is dead after being hospitalized in Houston last week. Clyde Edwin Hedrick died Saturday at the age of 72.
Hedrick was on parole after serving eight years of a 20-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter. For more than 40 years, he had been a prime suspect in the murders of four women and girls whose bodies were found off Calder Road in League City between 1984 and 1991.
Hedrick was never charged for any of the killings and maintained his innocence until the day before his death.
