Galveston Dig Yields Human Remains, Possibly Of Missing Student

GALVESTON, TX -- Brazoria County investigators said they've found human remains in a field during a dig in search for remains a long-missing student.

William Lewis Reece, a convicted kidnapper serving a 60-year prison sentence, has been assisting police on the dig, the Daily News of Galveston County reported.

Law enforcement officials led by the Texas Rangers have been searching for the remains of Kelli Ann Cox, a 20-year-old University of North Texas student who vanished in 1997.

A multi-agency group of law enforcement officials found human bones in Iowa Colony, a village along state Highway 288 and south of Highway 6, Galveston County Chief Medical Examiner Erin Barnhart confirmed.

According to the newspaper, bones also were found in a Houston field about two weeks ago where Reece directed authorities. Investigators at that site were looking for the remains of Jessica Cain, who went missing after her abandoned pickup truck was found along Interstate 45 by the Omega Bay subdivision.

Forensic investigators have not disclosed whether or not DNA from those bones match Cain.