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Kimberly Pitchford

Case from Pasadena, TX dated Jan 03, 1973

Victim Details

Kimberly Pitchford

Female

White / Caucasian

Pasadena

TX

1973-01-03

16

Kimberly

Pitchford

07/25/2026

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Kimberly Raye Pitchford, a 16-year-old girl from Pasadena, Texas, disappeared on January 3, 1973, after attending a driver's education class. Her body was discovered two days later in a ditch in Angleton, Texas. She had been strangled.

Her case remains unsolved, though it has been linked to Edward Harold Bell, a convicted murderer who claimed responsibility for the deaths of multiple young girls in Texas during the 1970s. Bell, who was serving a 70-year sentence for an unrelated murder, ...
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