IN A NUTSHELL

Ok, for those that dont want to read from the start of this blog, here is a synopsis.

You have a guy in prison named Mark Stallings, a former employee at the Startdust Trail Rides (The killing fields). He is in prison for burglary out of Houston and originally got 20 years. While he is in prison, a girl sneaks a gun into him, he attempts to use that gun, assaults a couple guard and gives up and they add time to his sentence. He is doing about 489 years now. He does his time in administrative segregation because of that and probably will be there for the rest of his life.  I decided to write him and ask him about what he knows about the killings and the bodies found. He writes me 12 letters and in those letters he explains how there were cops involved in getting the girls. The girls were used for these parties that Robert Abel (owner of the property) for guys in the oil and gas industry. When they were "done" with the girls. They would be held underwater with their legs (squeezed until not breathing). Mark's job since he was the youngest of the clique was to basically dispose of the bodies. While Mark is in prison, he contact Fort Bend county sheriff and tells them he was involved in the deaths of two girls (Benna Bowen and April Eaves 18 and 19 years old) and dumping their bodies in that county. They pick him up and he takes them directly to the crime scene and the sheriff back then Milton Wright stated to the Houston Chronicle that "he knew details that only the killer would know" and that they were going to convict him. HOWEVER, since these girls were known prostitutes, the district attorney decides NOT to charge him becuase since he is already in for the rest of his life, there is no sense in wasting tax dollars on a trial.  (Really?)  Of course the not wasting money never made it to the press of course. That info came directly from a Fort Bend county detective. 

So while Mark is there in custody he tells them he knows more about the killing fields in League City. They put him in their custody and he is there for only a short time and according to Mark they did a "180" on him and told him to go back to prison and thanks for the info. It is when he mentions a cops involvement in getting the girls that they send him back to prison. 

So me and an HPD Sgt named Mike, Mike is an HPD Sgt that was also investigating this on his own time, meet with the agent who was assigned the killing fields case named Richard Rennison. We give copies of the letters to Rennison who basically says thanks for the info. Me, I dont trust cops very much and the one thing I confronted Rennison about is that I knew he worked for the League City police department as an officer and was working there during the times of the abductions.  I would think there would be a little conflict of interest there since Mark is accusing a League City cop of getting the girls for these parties. 

Then we discover that all the evidence regarding the killing fields from 1983 thru 1997 simply vanished from the League City property room as well as evidence that was "misplaced" at the Galveston County medical examiners office. REALLY?  In comes detective Pat Bittner LCPD. Bittner was the one in charge of the thing on the LCPD side. Bittner suddenly announces his retirement from the department when we started shaking the tree.  

Then officials in Galveston County and League City announce that Clyde Hedricks who was responsible for the death of a girl named Beeson is connected to deaths of two of the girls that were found in the fields. They claim they had DNA evidence, however when Bittner testified later at the trial, he states all the evidence was lost. (somebody got their lies screwed up) LOL. So then Rennsion goes to Hedricks attorney and says if Hedricks admits to the murders that no additional time would be given. The lawyer said HELL NO.... So now they are back at square one trying to get these cases closed.  

Meanwhile, Sgt Mike, (the HPD Sgt) is getting investigated by their internal affairs and ordered to stay away from the killing fields investigation and cease all contact with me. (He has been on leave every since)  They basically threatened to fire him if he continued to work the killing fields cases on his own.  It was discovered that the files HPD had regarding the I-45 murders had also disappeared as well.  Twice, someone did a drive by shooting at Sgt. Mike's house.

There is a little more to this and of course Mark's letters help put it all together.  Mark doesnt write anyone about it anymore because a League City cop goes to his prison unit and tells him to stop talking about the killing fields and just do his time.  

I will update this blog as necessary. We know there were bad cops involved and the tree just keeps getting more branches.  I've had to take extra precautions to be careful, to watch my back as advised by the "good cops".  The cops are shutting down the media before they can even start a story. Its been that way for years. They are going to cover this up as long as they can. It will take a Dept Of Justice investigation into this to get it out into the open, OR a good journalist who has guts and wont give up.