Tim Miller, founder of the search-and-recovery organisation EquuSearch, spent four decades searching for his daughter Laura's killer after she disappeared in 1984. The 17-year-old's body was found two years later in League City, Texas, in an area known as the 'killing fields', where around 30 women and girls vanished or died between the 1970s and early 2000s.
Miller's frustration with what he saw as an inadequate police investigation led him to develop expertise in locating missing people. He founded EquuSearch in 2000, which has since helped find remains in cases including the murder of soldier Vanessa Guillén at Fort Hood in 2020 and the 2024 discovery of Kimberly Langwell, missing since 1999.
Four years ago, Miller received a rambling voicemail from a man claiming to have information about an unsolved murder. After dismissing it initially, the caller persisted, and Miller eventually returned the call. That conversation set off a chain of events culminating this spring in the identification of a possible serial killer and the arrest of an alleged accomplice.
Miller, now nearly 80, told the New Yorker that he dedicated his life to the case and remains disappointed in the system. The breakthrough brings a measure of justice for families who have lived with decades of grief.
