The Texas Killing Fields: League City Jane Doe & Janet Doe Identified

Pop Culture Crime
3 min readAug 10, 2019
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League City, Texas, is an unassuming town with 83,000 residents nestled between Houston and Galveston. But it is also part of the site many call the Texas Killing Fields.

For several decades, League City Jane Doe and League City Janet Doe remained identified, their remains having been found on Calder Road in League City, Texas.

League City Jane Doe

Jane Doe was the first of the two to be found on February 2, 1986. She’d been in the field for at least six weeks before she was discovered. Today, we can call her Audrey Lee Cook.

Cook was originally found just off Calder Road in a field by some boys riding their bikes. She was in close proximity to the body of another woman.

Cook was born on November 25, 1955, and was from Memphis. She’d lived in other Texas cities, including Houston, and she worked at a golf cart company for a period of time. She apparently had strong mechanical skills, as she also worked as a mechanic for National Rent-A-Car before her death.

Cook’s family apparently last heard from her in December of 1985, and an investigator had come to Houston on behalf of the family to look for her. Unfortunately, the investigator was not able to present any significant finding…

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