MUS-2026-0553
Archive card
MUS-2026-0553
Homicide
- Incident
- 1991
- Indexed
- Oct 30, 2026, by MuseUnsolved
- Agency
- Vidor Police Department
- Location
- Vidor TX
Public record. Index entry.
Index entry. Case details compiled from public reporting; our researchers have not verified this file yet.
Summary
What happened, as the record shows.
Lucille Katherine Page, known as Kathy, was 34, worked as a waitress in Beaumont, and lived in Vidor with her two daughters. In the early morning of May 14, 1991, a newspaper carrier found her car in a drainage ditch alongside Interstate 10, about 100 yards from her home, with Page dead in the driver's seat. The car was barely damaged, and an autopsy showed she had been strangled and that the crash scene had been staged. Her father James Fulton later put up billboards criticizing the investigation, and her case drew renewed attention as the reported inspiration for the billboards in the film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Her husband Steve Page has been described in reporting as a person of interest, has denied involvement, and has never been criminally charged. The Texas Rangers list the case on their unsolved homicides program, and it remains unsolved.
Timeline
What the record establishes.
- May 14, 1991
Page is found dead in her car in a ditch near her home. Texas DPS reports she was strangled and the crash was staged.
- April 17, 2018
Texas DPS announces an increased reward of up to $6,000 for its featured Rangers cold case.
- June 2021
Crime Stoppers of Southeast Texas announces a $50,000 reward in the case.
Key people
The people in the file.
34, a Vidor waitress and mother of two daughters, Erin and Monica. Found strangled in her car on May 14, 1991.
Her father, who campaigned publicly for answers, funded billboards about the case, and helped fund later reward efforts.
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Investigating agency
Where tips go.
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