Flowers hang on a fence surrounding an area where authorities continue to search for human remains near Houston on March 4.(Photo: David J. Phillip, AP)
(NEWSER)<span style="color: Red;">*</span>– Houston police — with the help of a convicted kidnapper — may have found the remains of a Texas teenager missing for nearly 20 years, the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
Houston Chronicle<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reports. Jessica Cain was 17 when she disappeared after a high school musical cast party in 1997. On Friday, police found what they believe could be Cain's skeletal remains in a horse pasture. According to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
KTRK, police had been searching the field for 25 days after receiving a tip from William Reece. Reece is serving a 60-year sentence for kidnapping a woman, but he's been linked to at least five murders and kidnappings—all taking place in 1997,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
KHOU<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reports.
Teams are still working to uncover the remains, which were found at least four feet underground. They need to get every bone they can in order to reconstruct the body. "Right now, we have no clue who this person is," Det. Richard Martinez tells the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Chronicle. "If it is not Jessica Cain, we have to find out who it is." Authorities are unsure how long it will take to ID the remains. Next week, police plan to start digging at a second site were they believe Reece may have buried another body.
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