36 Years Ago She Went Missing After Going To A Club And For Over A Week Now, Texas EquuSearch Has Been Diligently Searching For Her Remains After Her Killer Led Them To A Location
Back in 1986, Rebecca Jean Lemke Beard was 22-years-old and a mom to a 2-year-old little girl. She held a job at a local car dealership, and her loved ones called her Becky.
On March 1st, 1986 in Freeport, Texas, Becky headed out to a club. The Texas Department of Public Safety said that Becky was dressed in a white-colored long silk blouse that had a red triangle on it, blue-colored stirrup pants, and spiky heels. She also had a tiny yellow purse that she held in her hands.
After Becky walked out of the club that day, she completely vanished. Becky’s friends and family members wondered what had happened to her, and although they would get an answer 9 years later, they did not get closure.
It was in 1995 that a man by the name of Paul Gayland Taylor Jr. pleaded guilty to murdering Becky in his home.
Paul tried to direct authorities to the location where he had buried Becky’s body, but her remains were never recovered.
“It’s been 36 years and we never gave up,” Becky’s daughter wrote in a recent Facebook post. “If there was a rock unturned, we turned it and thousands more.”
“Hope and faith alone was the one thing that got us through every year, every anniversary, and every holiday.”
“Every perseverance no matter how steep the mountain, we climbed with determination and a purpose of finding my mother. It is a drive that is buried in our core.”
Facebook; pictured above is Becky
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Last year, Becky’s daughter tried to meet with Paul, the man who took away her mom’s life, but he declined.
A few months after that, Becky’s daughter visited the house where Paul had killed her mom, and she and some of her loved ones tried to see if they could find her body there.
“In October 2021, we went to the house my mother was murdered in,” Becky’s daughter said. “We believed she possibly could’ve been under the house.”
“I can’t describe the feeling of watching my grandmother and aunt crawling under a house and digging for my mother’s remains.”
“We felt her all around us. Between the dogs and GPR….no detectable remains were found…We made the decision that day, that if Paul Taylor would tell us where she was, we would no longer fight his parole and he could be released from prison.”
In March of this year, Paul was offered that deal that Becky’s daughter had discussed with her family.
If Paul was willing to provide the location of Becky’s remains, Becky’s family was ready to stop contesting his parole.
Paul agreed to the deal, and he even submitted to a polygraph test, which confirmed that he was not lying about the location of Becky’s remains.
Although that location was extensively searched, Becky was still not recovered. At the end of last month, a volunteer-run non-profit called Texas EquuSearch began helping to search for Becky in Angleton, and they’ve been looking for more than 10 days now.
“Volunteers have come out day after day in the blistering sun focused on finding her remains,” Texas EquuSearch shared in an update on June 4th.
Progress is slowly going, as everyone is searching across a bigger area than they previously had focused on.
Also, the bulldozers that have been brought in to aid the search can remove only an inch or two of dirt at a time so as not to cause damage to Becky’s remains.
“From the very beginning of my life, the mystery of my mother haunted me,” Becky’s daughter continued.
“I believed and still do, that there is always a purpose behind the pain, the experiences, the brutal and cruel life lessons.”
“There is always hope, even when faced with defeat. There is always another sunrise to start fresh. Be kind to everyone. Be a helper. Love the not-so-lovable. And never give up. Smile through the pain.”
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