HOUSTON – In a field of crosses, where four young girls were found brutally murdered 30 years ago, people searching for their own missing loved ones tied yellow ribbons on the trees as a sign of hope.
The area once known as the killing fields is now home to Magnolia Creek Baptist Church in League City, and it is also where a very special tribute was held Sunday evening.
It was a church memorial to remember Laura Lynn Miller, the 16-year-old daughter of Tim Miller, the founder of Texas Equusearch.
Laura's body was found in that field in 1984. She had been murdered and her killer has never been caught.
Laura's death has been the driving force behind all of Tim Miller's work with Texas Equusearch.
To date, the volunteer search group has participated in over 1,500 searches for missing people and victims of violent crime. Equusearch has successfully found more than 300 of those people alive.
Sunday night, many of the people Miller and his team have helped over the years gathered to say thank you and to remember Laura Miller, who Tim credits for always pushing him to go on.
"After her death Laura spoke to me, I heard her words in my head, ‘Don't give up Dad, don't ever give up,'" he said.
And so that has become Miller's mission, to find the missing and never give up.