I have already gone to the League City police with this information and they laughed at me. And I don't know where else to post this so here it is: What I know about October 7, 1983 (the night Hidi Villareal Fye disappeared)
First, I would like to correct two incorrect statements in the book I just read about the Calder Road killing field (by Kathryn Casey). First, Hidi’s hair was not blonde (or curley) like the other victims, and the pay phone in front of the Plantation convenience store at Hobbs & 518 was NOT where Hidi disappeared from or made her last phone call from (as was the case with one of the other victims).
The story begins six months before that when I got mad at Hidi (who was living with me at the time) for several reasons that I can’t remember now and I kicked her out. The last words I said to her as she was walking out the door was “And don’t come back until your hair is its natural hair color” (one of the things I was unhappy about).
And she disappeared for six months, and then one day (3 days before she disappeared) I went to see my younger daughter play soccer and I glanced over to my left and there was Hidi sitting there watching her daughter play (they are the same age). The amazing thing was, she had very beautiful long and perfectly straight dark brown hair (like I told her to do if she ever wanted to get back with me).
It was de ja vue all over again, and for three days I picked her up after work, partied with her and talked about old times (and then took her home, and that’s mostly because I had another female in my life). Anyhow, on Friday, Oct 7, 1983 Hidi called me 3 times and asked me for a ride to her ex's house on the other side of Houston to pick up “child support money” (although Brandi is not his child). And three times I said no (mainly because I had a date with the other female in my life, but also because I didn’t care much for Stephen and he didn’t like me).
The first time she called that day, she was at her parent’s house and I emphatically said No. The 2nd time was from said pay phone in front of Plantation and again I said No way. The third time she called, she called me at Bobby’s Hacienda (where I foolishly said I would be with my date) and she was calling from the Lone Star Saloon (where she had walked to and where she worked, or used to work). She once again begged me for a ride to Steve’s house (or apartment), and again I said No. But she is not the type of person to take No for an answer. She suggested that I could bring my date along, and she then said she was hitchin a ride to where I was and would be there in a few minutes. I said, Don’t do it. And for the rest of the night I was watching the front door (instead of paying attention to my date which needless to say did not turn out well).
I was pretty used to her disappearing for 6 months and didn't think much about it and Then, six months after that, when Hidi’s body turned up in the Calder Road killing field, I went into the Lone Star Saloon and talked to the waitress/ bar tender. She said Hidi left that fateful night with two “drug dealers” in a black pick-up truck. Because Hidi would not have got into that truck with someone she didn’t know and because I knew pretty much everyone she knew in the area, and because I’ve been thinking about it for 30+ years, I’m 99.9 % sure I know who her murderer is.
I told the League City police who it is, but they just laugh at me because he is well respected at NASA where he and I worked. He happened to be my roommate at the time, and he is also the photographer who took the photo of her that all the news media is showing. And he drove a black pick-up truck and he is very violent. He once beat his dog to death, and he also beat up his best friend in my living room when he started to tell me something about Hidi (that only the murderers could have known). They both drive/drove black pick-ups and they both smoked weed (as did Hidi) but I would consider it a bit of a stretch to call them “drug dealers” but that seems to be what the waitress thought about all marijuana users. But Hidi did know both of them very well.
So there you have it. After 30+ years, I have decided to come out with it and publicly identify the serial Calder Road killer (or at least the killer of Hidi Villareal Fye). Oh, I almost forgot to mention, my house was only a couple blocks from the Plantation Minimart where one of the other girls dis- appeared from and also just a few blocks from Calder Road down the Freeway.
