The Waldrop brothers father, Everett, a burly, divorced construction worker, later told the Houston Chronicle that he filled out missing persons reports at the police department, then camped on that police department door for eight months. She had twice married and divorced Corlls father, who lived in Pasadena, where he worked as an electrician; then she had married and divorced a salesman. ", Mom of 2, stabbed 8 times, is making most of second chance at life, Whose leak is it anyway? Then one day she got a gun and grabbed my younger sister Pamela and dragged her to a back bedroom. When the police arrived at Southwest Boat Storage, a dry-land marina, the detectives opened the windowless stall number eleven, and they started digging. This is the house where Dean Corll lived. But Davids parents, Fred and Dorothy, refused to believe that their son had taken off without telling them. All of the Heights victims had gone missing between December 13, 1970, and July 25, 1973. The truth was that even though Corll had been torturing and killing boys, no one realized anything was amiss. In a logistical move shortly thereafter, he and his family moved to the northern outskirts of Houston in order that the family candy business could be closer to the city they had noted the majority of their produce had been sold. Although two books about the murders were hastily published, they didnt stay on shelves for long. Checking their notes, the reporters said Corll had once been a resident of the Heights, where he had helped his mother run a small candy factory on West Twenty-second Street. Mama! Photos of the house and other related images. There had always been questions about what had happened to Marks body after he was murdered. But Corll wasnt exactly like his neighbors. 17-year-old John Manning Sellars was also killed at this house. At the time, it had recently been listed for sale at a price of $184,900. Of the victims the medical examiners office was able to identify, at least twenty of them had been residents of either the Heights or an adjoining neighborhood. Not his art! Despite the protests, 21 of the 23 paintings quickly sold. Weve got to turn around, and to keep the peace, my dad would turn around, every time, says Willie Glass. Madness, maybe. But then Mrs. Scott stopped herself and spread more birdseed around. His parents divorced when he was young and his mother, Mary, remarried several times. Of the 28 murders that he committed, eight took place at this address. But she too had forgotten about them until 2006, when she went to work at the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences. But Ill never forget getting out early one day from high school, and I came home and found her with all the photos and all the newspaper stories spread out. Jos R. Ralat is Texas Monthlys taco editor, writing about tacos and Mexican food. I always prayed he would be there, so I could give him a hug., Then, on the evening of August 8, 1973, the Houston television stations cut into their regular programming, and Mrs. Scott, sitting on a flower-print couch in the living room, stared at her black and white screen and sensed that her prayers would forever go unanswered. When Brooks, whom he had known for a few years, introduced him to Corll in 1971, Henley was impressed. And here came Dean, who didnt call him a sissy. Now nearly 50 years later, the 1,231 square foot home, located at 2020 Lamar Drive in Pasadena, is on the market for $184,900, and has been refurbished into a modern The conclusion was inescapable: Mark was somewhere else. Hes been up since five oclock, working his shift at the prison laundry and dabbling on a painting of a landscape dotted with pine trees in the craft shop. Mrs. Scott, who is 83 years old, lives on West Twenty-fifth Street in the Heights, a Houston neighborhood about five miles northwest of downtown. I wonder if theyd like to write a little story about the number of people the government has killed over theretaking their property and annihilating them, he said. For a moment, she didnt seem sure what to do. When the officers in the juvenile division heard that Malley had made a quick phone call to his mother, Selma, the night he and David disappeared, telling her he was at the beach town of Freeport swimming with friends, they assumed the boys were runaways and that the matter was resolved. You know, a man like that can have a lot of influence over a young, insecure boy.. David Brooks was convicted of one of the murders and sentenced to life in prison. Doris could not sleep for days. He hog-tied all three of them and gagged Kerley and Williams. The officer who got Dannys report also labeled him a runaway, after finding out that someone thought hed seen him at a house where runaways often gathered. This Street View image is from October of 2018. In December 2006 she drove to the Ramsey Unit to meet David Brooks. At that point, it seems as though Henley finally snapped. 8 notorious Houston-area locations plagued by suicides, murders She kept dreaming that her son had been buried alive and was trying to claw his way out. Derrick, a scholarly, silver-haired woman, had no idea there were still bodies from the Corll killings that had never been identified. I think ol Dean tried for years to be a normal person, to have a relationship with a woman, to do everything his mother wanted him to do, says David Mullican, a plainspoken 71-year-old retired Pasadena homicide detective who investigated the killings. Whatever evil was in Wayne, there was still some good in him, and finally the good won. In those years, of course, plenty of people tended to believe, falsely, that homosexuality was linked to pedophilia. My fourteen-year-old niece came to visit me the other day, says Wayne Henley, sitting in the visiting area of the Texas Department of Criminal Justices Michael Unit, in Tennessee Colony, outside Palestine. Eleven of them had attended the same junior high. Dean Arnold Corll (December 24th 1939 August 8th 1973) was an American serial killer who along with several young accomplices comitted the Houston Mass Murders in Houston Texas. Their son, who was only a junior in high school, had left for Austin without saying a word? But after they fell asleep, or passed out, Corll went on the attack. While Corll was focused on Timothy, Henley grabbed a pistol and shouted that he couldn't "go on" any longer. The women told Derrick that they believed that the medical examiners office had used the wrong missing person report in 1973 to identify the remains of Michael Baulch, one of the two Baulch brothers who were abducted and murdered on separate dates, and that he could very well have been misidentified. I think hes come home.. It is relatively close to South Shaver Elementary School and the Sunset United Methodist Church. By late 1972, Corll and his teenage henchmen had become a finely tuned killing machine. All she had to do was get a DNA sample from one of them and compare it with a new sample she had taken from the bone. Although the two teenagers were the products of what were then called broken homes (their parents were divorced) and they had dropped out of school, they were hardly regarded around the Heights as troublemakers. They regarded his fondness for children to be no different from what they would find in a respectable scoutmaster. Therefore, you should be respectful and not step foot on the property without permission. But was it only 27 boys? (Corll had been known to make trips to Dallas.) In December 1970 two teenagers disappeared from the Heights neighborhood, in Houston. In those first few weeks, she left work early to wait on her stoop, looking left and right. He angrily declared that reports of links among the victims and the killers were a myth created by the media. While he was at it, he took his own shot at Izvestia. In that era, all the missing persons reports for juveniles throughout Houston were divided among various officers in the juvenile division. Selma, who was divorced and worked nights as a nurses aide, checked out the factory herself and was so taken by Corll that she accepted his offer to work part-time in the afternoons. Many were just like David Hilligiest, straight-arrow, all-American kids who rarely missed a day of school. One fifteen-year-old-boy, Billy Lawrence, whose dad worked in the mailroom at the Houston Post, clearly sensed that he was about to be killed. Even Truman Capote, hoping to revive his floundering career and produce his next In Cold Blood, showed up, wearing his signature Panama hat, smoking cigarettes, and being trailed by an entourage of assistants. One day, she told the police that she had learned that Malley had a friend who drove a Plymouth GTX. In 1997 they were devastated to learn that a local art gallery would be showing a collection of paintings that Henley had done in prison, ranging from landscapes to a pencil drawing of the model Kate Moss. Pasadena A home that once belonged to one of the Houston-areas most notorious killers will be changing owners again. Other parents, who learned from Brookss and Henleys confessions that their sons had been murdered, remain convinced that they were given the wrong remains and buried someone elses child. To this day no one knows how Corll met the boys and persuaded them to ride away with him. Left: Workers unearth bodies at the storage shed that Corll rented. 6 of 35 7 of 35 Houston Chronicle front page (HISTORIC) -- August 9, 1973 (Elmer Wayne Henley, Dean Corll mass murders) -- EIGHT ARE FOUND SLAIN, POLICE EXPECT MORE. Although she was unable to attend Mrs. Hilligiests funeral, held at the same Catholic church in the Heights where Davids had been, she heard that the priest had told the mourners that despite the many good things Mrs. Hilligiest had done over the years, she would always be remembered as a woman of sorrows. Mrs. Scott said to Jeff, There are days when thats what life feels like, just sorrow., Driving past her house on their way to and from work, the new generation of residents barely notice Mrs. Scott as she stands in the front yard, feeding her doves. People were flooding into Houston, the population rapidly approached two million, and the apartments around the Galleria were swarming with single people hoping to someday make their mark on the world. Arlington Heights, IL 60005 847-758-3483 Voice 888-614-2380 TTY 847-758-3473 Fax 224-265-7000-VP Kane 224-265-7001-VP But that summer Brooks began to break away. If it doesn't matter, you could have a buyer's advantage. A serial killer lived in a nondescript home in Pasadena. So, how do you know if something happened in a house you want to buy? But it was one of those things we never got around to doing.. For weeks the story of the murders stayed on the front pages of the Houston newspapers. And it's also where her husband, Dr. John Hill, was gunned down. Although cooler heads prevailed and they managed to settle things, Henley soon decided that he no longer wanted any involvement in the crimes. Brooks, who knew Harvey well, was probably the one who persuaded the teenager to throw his bike into the back of Corlls vehicle and ride with them. The location where Ennis Cosby was murdered. Mayor Louie Welch defended the chief, bluntly declaring that the police cant be expected to know where a child is if his parents dont. Welch simply didnt know what he was talking about. Now 54, Johnson lives in a small town in Mississippi, where she is married and has a teenage son of her own, but she still keeps two photos of Danny in her jewelry box. More recently, Andrea Yates drowned her five young children in a bathtub in 2001 in a home in Clear Lake. A home that once belonged to one of Houston's most infamous serial killers is up for sale. I think this might give you some peace of mind, Derrick said to Mrs. Scott, who nodded and replied, I would like to know. Derrick swabbed Jeffs cheek and returned to her office, where she sent the DNA to a laboratory at the University of North Texas to be processed. Corll's family opened a new shop, which they named "Pecan Prince" in reference to the brand name of the family produce. Later she had impulsively married a merchant seaman she had met through a newly opened Houston computer-dating service (she filled out a questionnaire; her answers were then fed into a giant mainframe computer; and after several days, the computer produced a list of potential dates for her based on other applicants questionnaires). Others were nothing more than lumps of putrefied flesh. Mrs. Scott escorted Derrick into the living room. I like knowing that they need me. For a moment, she started to look down the street. He tied both of them to his torture board and started to sexually assault Kerley. The family was preparing to leave the next day for a Hill Country vacation. At night, whenever I heard a noise, Id get out of bed and walk to the front door, Mrs. Scott says. Corll promised Henley $200 for every boy he brought to him. Dorothy Hilligiest's son David disappeared one day on the way to a neighborhood swimming pool in 1971. They have no idea who she isand why would they? From out of nowhere, half a dozen doves arrived, soon followed by half a dozen more. Nevertheless, Henley and Brooks do not have to be reminded that their murder spree continues to destroy lives. Corll along with his accomplices are believed to be responsible for the murders of at least 27 boys between the ages of 13 and I mean, in the end, what were we going to say to each otherhow we wished we had never met Dean?, In the mid-sixties, when he was either ten or eleven years old, Brooks stopped at the Corll Candy Factory, a small warehouse with an office in front and a loading dock in back, which was just across the street from his elementary school. Corll - known as the Candy Man because his family owned a candy shop - was a serial killer who, with the help of young boys, would lure victims back to his home where he would abuse and torture them before killing them with a .22 caliber pistol. with this post, location or person. The families were on their own. Corll's mother divorced Jake West in 1963 and opened a new candy business, which she named Corll Candy Company. One afternoon, they brought down seventeen-year-old Billy Baulch, who used to sell Mrs. Corlls candy door-to-door, and his sixteen-year-old friend Johnny Delone after the two had left Baulchs home to buy soft drinks. Sheriffs deputies display a torture board that Corll had rigged up for his victims, along with other implements he used in the murders. Willie placed an ad in the weekly Greensheet newspaper written directly to Jimmy, promising him a motorcyle if he would come home. In the confession he gave police two and a half years later, he said he saw two naked boys tied to Corlls bed. The latitude and longitude coordinates for the house are: To view directions on how to get there, you can use the Google Maps shortcut below: 2020 Lamar DrivePasadenaTexasTX 77502United States. Crime Location in Houston, Texas, United States, Serial Killer House in Houston, Texas, United States, Crime Location in League City, Texas, United States, Place of Interest Brooklyn, New York, United States, Crash Site Location Beaufort, South Carolina, United States, Crime Location Los Angeles, California, United States, Crime Location Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Corll had two teenage accomplices called David Brooks and Elmer Henley. As the number of missing kids grew, no one realized that the most prolific serial killer the country had ever seenalong with his teenage accompliceswas living comfortably among them. It wasnt just the number of murders that caught everyones attention. It was like a blood lust, says Henley. Not sure what to say to the reporters about her latest loss, she broke down in muted sobs. WebCorll lived in Indiana for almost two years, but returned to Houston in 1962 to help with his family's candy business, which by this date had moved to Houston Heights. The man I'm surprised it took so long. The Harris County Appraisal District website, which has owner records dating back to 1995, shows five different owners in that time. After taking the boys to one of Corlls apartments or rent housesCorll was constantly moving, sometimes staying in one place for only a few weeksHenley and Brooks would help Corll strip them naked, tape their mouths, bind their hands and legs, and fasten them with handcuffs to a sheet of plywood that was two and a half feet wide and eight feet long. He was this smart, clean-cut, nicely dressed man. When the SWAT team arrived, she fired a shot into the floor and yelled, Theyre not going to steal Pamela from me like they did my Jimmy! We got the pistol away from her and took her to the Harris County psychiatric unit. Desperate to find his son, Walter Scott had driven to High Island almost every day with a shovel so he could dig into the sand and pray for something to guide me, he later said. They started playing the handcuff game to see who could get out of a pair of handcuffs. Every weekend the Glasses and the Yateses drove around Houston, posting flyers with their sons pictures. David had already packed his clothes and had $20 sitting on his dresser to spend during the trip. The next day, Corll paid him $200. The murders would have stopped right then, of course, if Brooks had simply gone to the police. Then Corll would go to work, pulling out the boys pubic hair, inserting a thin glass rod into their penis, or sticking a large rubber dildo into their rectum. Standing on the stoop, wearing scrubs and holding a pouch that contained a DNA test kit, was a woman who introduced herself as Sharon Derrick, a forensic anthropologist from the Institute of Forensic Sciences. Other locations that are relatively close to this place. If I had told her, I wouldnt be here now. He mentioned that the girl he had married in July 1973 had given birth to their daughter, who regularly visited him when she got older. Do you realize I hadnt even gotten my drivers license, and there I was, out committing murders with Dean just because I wanted to please him?. WebHenley suspected that Corll was homosexualI just figured David was hustling himself a queera fact that had remarkably little influence upon his opinion of Corll. At that stage, Corll would rape, beat, and torture them for days on end until he finally decided to strangle them to death. The Chambers County sheriff who oversaw the High Island diggings said, inexplicably, that he had decided to stop the searches until he received definite information on the location of other graves, apparently never considering that there could have been more bodies that Brooks and Henley did not know about. In 1965 he successfully applied for a hardship discharge from the Army, where he had compiled an exemplary record in the radio repair school at Fort Hood, because he said his mother needed him back home. If an officer had bothered to look into the matter, he would have learned that the car belonged to Dean Corll. Lawrence was kept alive for three days on the plywood because, Henley later said, Corll really liked him. Apparently, Corll didnt like Rusty Branch, the son of a Houston police radio technician. Not long after Luis pulled into his driveway, a police officer arrived to tell him and his wife, Doris, that Homers body had been identified as one of Corlls victims. But they promised the families that if their sons were spotted on the streets, they would be told to go back to school. In May of 1972, he murdered Billy Gene Baulch Jr. One year later, he also killed Billy's younger brother, Michael. David Brooks, on the other hand, denied having knowledge of Corll's crimes. The bodies were buried underneath the floor of shed #11. During this period of time, Corll formed a close relationship with a local girl, although he rejected a subsequent marriage proposal this girl made to him in 1962. Texas Lege Watch: A House Republican Fights for Chicken Freedom, Texas Monthly Recognized by ASME in the 2023 National Magazine Awards. Surely some of those kids were missing because they had run into Corll. In September, when her neighbor Mrs. Hilligiest died in her home at the age of 88, Mrs. Scott told her younger son Jeff, who had moved back in with his mother to look after her, that she could be the last parent left in the neighborhood who had lost a son to Corll. He asked Mrs. Hilligiest for some posters that he could put up around the Heights. The bridge where Mallory Beach died in a boating accident. WebOnce a thriving Chicago manufacturing suburb, the heights is now the 10th most dangerous city in Illinois Though it was true that some of the boys had run away from home for brief periods and others had gotten into minor trouble (Mark Scott had once been arrested for carrying a knife, for example), none of them had gotten into serious trouble. Maybe he had them in the apartment when I went to work, Waldrop said to the Chronicle. Realtors say selling a house where a death occurred all depends on the buyer. He later Corll lived in Indiana for almost two years, but returned to Houston in 1962 to help with his family's candy business, which by this date had moved to Houston Heights. The Lost Boys (from left): David Hilligiest, Jerry Waldrop, Jimmy Glass, Danny Yates, Homer Garcia, James Dreymala, Mark Scott, Marty Jones, Billy Lawrence. The house was built in 1952. ", He adds that some sellers find loopholes. Over at NASA, Mercury astronaut Deke Slayton ordered a helicopter containing infrared equipment to fly over the beach to see if it could spot other bodies. Dean Corll was born on December 24, 1939 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I want to try to help you, Derrick said. As a reward for his loyalty, Corll gave Brooks a green Corvette as a sixteenth-birthday present. After the murders of Danny and Jimmy, Corll moved to the Place One Apartments on Mangum Road, five miles northwest of the Heights, and on January 30, 1971, he struck again. WebIn September 1971, Corll moved to another apartment in the Heights: 915 Columbia Street. Josephine Aguirre, a hairdresser who had spent the past year and a half burning a candle in hopes that her son Frank would come home, had already lost a son, Ronnie; in 1969 she had accidentally run over him in front of Helms Elementary. He was nicknamed "the Candy Man" because he owned and operated a company called "Corll Candy Company". During his murder spree, he was aided by two teenage accomplices. It is not a public place. WebDean Corll was an American serial killer and David Hilligiest and Gregory Malley Winkle). Or they were Houston boys who had been somewhere in the Heights right before they disappeared. Between August and September 1971, Corll changed his address twice and abducted three more victims. They sat across a table from each other in an office, and Derrick took a breath. Instead Henley let slip that Corll had once bragged about killing boys and burying them in a storage shed. Over the next couple of days, he confessed to his crimes and led the authorities to the victims' burial sites. Patricia Sharpe writes a regular restaurant column, Pats Pick, for Texas Monthly. One boy was curled up in a fetal position. Dean had David exactly where he wanted him, says Skelton. Luis Garcia, the father of Homer, who had attended a drivers education class with Henley, was just returning from South Texas, where he had buried his mother, who had suffered a debilitating stroke after hearing the news that her grandson was missing. Then, on a sheet of paper, he drew a map of an intersection in the Heights, Shepherd and Thirteenth Street, and he pointed to a particular corner where the boy had lived. His hair is thinning, and he wears reading glasses. But, he told Derrick, his eyes filling with tears, she had died in a car crash on the night of her high school prom. Dannys older sister Cyndi says Danny and Jimmy had once talked about a man, whose description, she later realized, matched Corlls, giving them a ride to a movie theater and stopping to buy them beer. In 1994, more than two decades after the murders, the medical examiners office presented the Scotts with remains that they said they believed were Marks, based on early versions of DNA identification. How Florence ButtNot Her SonLaunched the H-E-B Empire. It is 1,231 square feet in size, and it has two bedrooms. A sheet of plastic covered the floor. As stories about Derricks work appeared in the local media, more families began contacting her, some from as far away as California and Florida. However, please be aware that not allowing certain cookies may impact your experience of the site. Copyright 2023 KTRK-TV. One of the neighborhood boys who came to the Hilligiests home to inquire about David was fifteen-year-old Wayne Henley, who lived half a block away. Trying to get the carrion-like odor out of his nose, thirty-year-old detective Larry Earls chain-smoked cigarettes, but his hands were so filthy that someone else had to put them in his mouth. Dean Corll was responsible for the killings dubbed "The Houston Mass Murders," in which nearly 30 The house has three bedrooms that feature the same light gray hue that can be found throughout the house, and one full bath that has the same black and white countertops and cabinets that are in the kitchen. What made the story simply chilling, though, was the revelation that Corll hadnt acted alone. . In 1960, at the request of his mother, Corll moved to Indiana to live with his widowed grandmother. Ill never forget one mother coming up to the newsroom on a Saturday afternoon, recalls Tom Kennedy, a retired Houston Post reporter. 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