From around the country, aging parents who do not know how to use e-mail still send handwritten letters to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences (the former medical examiners office), wanting to know if their sons who went missing in the early seventies might be buried in one of Corlls cemeteries. From that point on, he worked as an electrician at Houston Lighting & Power. He had taken care of him, given him money when he needed it, and let him stay with him whenever David needed to get away from his real father. It is 1,231 square feet in size, and it has two bedrooms. During her free time, she began studying old autopsy reports. When Brooks, whom he had known for a few years, introduced him to Corll in 1971, Henley was impressed. Hill said, "Obviously, the more violent the crime, the more discount I think it would be - 20 to 30 percent is what I would assume. Brooks later stated he had assisted Corll in the abduction and murder of two youths Instead Henley let slip that Corll had once bragged about killing boys and burying them in a storage shed. Texas Lege Watch: A House Republican Fights for Chicken Freedom, Texas Monthly Recognized by ASME in the 2023 National Magazine Awards. But this time he had a helper. I want to know where my Mark has gone.. She asked me if I really had done all the things she had been reading about on the Internet. At some point after his mother left Houston, he decided to embrace a compulsion he had apparently kept secret for years. What is known is that the police barely investigated the boys disappearance. No, she later told police, he wasnt sexually aggressive with her. Henley and Brooks told us that they thought there were more bodies, and there were other places where we wanted to dig, but we were told no.. A sheet of plastic covered the floor. They have no idea who she isand why would they? On September 1, 1970, about three months before Brooks first saw Jimmy and Danny tied up in Corlls bed, the eighteen-year-old Konen had hitchhiked from Austin to Houston to see his girlfriend. As he lay face down, Henley walked over to him and finished the job by shooting him in the back three more times. Before moving to Pasadena on March 7th, 1973, the former army soldier and candy company owner was living in an apartment on Wirt Road, which is in northwest-central Houston. But after they fell asleep, or passed out, Corll went on the attack. 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. I cant have you kill all my friends. And he shot him. His parents divorced when he was young and his mother, Mary, remarried several times. As the weeks dragged on, Dorothy called the police constantly, passing on any rumor she heard and suggesting potential witnesses for them to interview. Grandma could have died on the property or grandpa anything like that, we don't have to disclose those. Attempting to console his mother, Jeff told her, Maybe the ocean will uncover him and someone will find him floating in the water. Therefore, you should be respectful and not step foot on the property without permission. But Mark never wrote again. Mimi Swartz is a staff writer based in Houston. HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Realtors say selling a house where a death occurred all depends on the buyer. For more details, please read our Privacy & Cookie Policy. WebOur Mission. Corll first dragged a terrified Kerley to a back bedroom, then returned for Williams. In Texas, there's the Seller's Disclosure Notice, but be aware. But, he told Derrick, his eyes filling with tears, she had died in a car crash on the night of her high school prom. He listened to me. Mrs. Mary Scott in the house in the Heights that her family owned when her son Mark disappeared on April 20, 1972. Sheriffs deputies display a torture board that Corll had rigged up for his victims, along with other implements he used in the murders. The bodies were buried underneath the floor of shed #11. A serial killer lived in a nondescript home in Pasadena. They basically vanished into thin air., Jimmy, the son of a mining engineer, was a handsome teenager who wore trendy, loud-patterned shirts with wide lapels, leather necklaces dotted with beads, and a leather jacket with fringe that hung off the sleeves. In the living room, they drank beer, and Henley and Kerley bagged some paint (sniffed the fumes of acrylic spray paint out of a paper bag). Starting in 2006 forensic anthropologist Sharon Derrick began identifying the remaining bodies from the killings. 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. 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. No one adored Corll more than his petite, blue-eyed mother, Mary, who was known around the Heights both for her entrepreneurial skills and her fondness for marriage. Madness, maybe. Even today in the Heights, where a new generation of professionals has arrived to renovate the old frame bungalows or tear them down entirely to build their townhomes, yoga studios, and pet lodges, almost nothing is known about Corll and his two teenage assistants. They said they had lured boys into Corlls Plymouth GTX muscle car or his white van, asking if they needed a ride or if they wanted to go drink beer. On May 28th, 2020, he died from COVID-19 at the age of 65. Between August and September 1971, Corll changed his address twice and abducted three more victims. 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. Every weekend the Glasses and the Yateses drove around Houston, posting flyers with their sons pictures. The Harris County Appraisal District website, which has owner records dating back to 1995, shows five different owners in that time. In December 1970 two teenagers disappeared from the Heights neighborhood, in Houston. Perhaps the only moment of sanity came during a pretrial hearing for Henley, when his mother, Mary, ran across her neighbor Dorothy Hilligiest. 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. Not sure what to say to the reporters about her latest loss, she broke down in muted sobs. During the winter of 1971, Henley was lured to Corlls house as an intended victim by David Brooks. For a long time, the frail, white-haired widow said nothing. It was just supposed to be a night of fun, he says, adding that he only had Williams with him because she had been arguing with her father. The other was fourteen-year-old David Hilligiest, who had gone to the candy factory one day as a boy and spent so much time there that his mother had shown up and made him come home. Derrick, a scholarly, silver-haired woman, had no idea there were still bodies from the Corll killings that had never been identified. Not long after they settled into their new home, they divorced. It was a giddy time in Houston: Boosters were calling the city the future of the United States. Over at the Texas Medical Center, rival surgeons Denton Cooley and Michael DeBakey were pioneering heart transplant surgery, and at NASAs giant Manned Spaceflight Center, flight directors were guiding Apollo astronauts to the moon. If you need help with the Public File, call (713) 778-4745. Dean would make these short, jerky movements; hed start smoking a cigarette, which he usually never did; and hed say he needed to do a new boy. Between June 1 and August 4, they killed eight boys, five of whom were from the Heightsand still the police, the neighborhoods residents, and the news media were not putting two and two together. WebWith the aid of two young accomplices, serial killer Dean Corll carried out a brutal series of murders in the early 1970s that continues to haunt Houston, Texas to this day. It is relatively close to South Shaver Elementary School and the Sunset United Methodist Church. He also used a wooded area and two beaches. 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). Texas EquuSearch will soon begin searching for the remains of any additional victims, RELATED: 3 prolific Houston serial killers whose crimes shocked the city, RELATED: Former henchman of one of Houstons most notorious serial killers dies of COVID-19. As many people are moving in and out, history doesn't have time to sink in, so whoever buys a house with that kind a past, better hold onto it, so that happens, and they can make their money. Forrest Wilder writes about politics and the outdoors. Most of the familys business was in Houston, so Corlls mother and stepfather relocated there and opened up a candy store. After he graduated from high school, Dean Corll relocated to Houston as well, where he continued to work for the family business. They sat across a table from each other in an office, and Derrick took a breath. Not one person who knew the teenagers understood how they could have turned so quickly into vicious sadists, willing to do Corlls monstrous bidding. He was kind.. I am in Austin for a couple of days. If you fill out the first name, last name, or agree to terms fields, you will NOT be added to the newsletter list. Then Corll told Henley the same story he had once used on Brooks about belonging to an organization that sold boys into a homosexual porn ring in California. They called hospitals to see if Mark had been admitted, and Walter, a self-employed carpenter and handyman, drove to the Houston Police Department to report that Mark was missing. 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. By late 1972, Corll and his teenage henchmen had become a finely tuned killing machine. He also confessed to being an accomplice and even brought the police to the location where the Candy Man buried his victims. Did he feel such a sense of shame over his own desires that he ended up despising the very objects of his affection? Whenever Henley or Brooks would apply for parole, saying that he was no longer the misguided teenager he had once been, the parents were forced to relive the murders as they wrote letters to the state parole board, detailing the torture their sons had endured. One of the bodies at High Island was identified as Jeffrey Konen, who had been a salutatorian at St. Thomas High School, a private Catholic school west of downtown Houston, before he enrolled at the University of Texas. RELATED: HOUSTONS OTHER CANDY MAN - The year after Corlls death, another Houston man also was dubbed the Candy Man for poisoning his son with a cyanide-laced pixy stix. So, how do you know if something happened in a house you want to buy? She refused to believe it, later telling a reporter for the Houston Post that her son was loyal, obedient, helpful, loving, and a good normal boy. His one problem, she said, was that he was the kind of person who never wanted to get close enough to anyone so they could get ties on him. She then received an intriguing tip from two Houston freelance writers, Barbara Gibson and Debera Phinney, who publish their stories at texascrimenews.com and are so obsessed with the killings that theyve approached the owner of Corlls old storage shed to ask him if they can dig even deeper than the police did. 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. He married his girlfriend after she got pregnant, and they moved into an apartment outside the Heights. 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. I killed Dean! Most of the reporters felt sorry for him. Or evil., Sitting one afternoon at Peppers restaurant in Pasadena, eating a chicken-fried steak, his belly straining at his shirt buttons, Mullican pulls out some photos of himself from 1973, standing beside other cops who worked the case. At the time, it had recently been listed for sale at a price of $184,900. Dorothy Hilligiest's son David disappeared one day on the way to a neighborhood swimming pool in 1971. Meanwhile, many parents of the murdered boys remain frozen in time, still unable to understand what happened to their sons. He drank beer, smoked pot, and chased girls, and he could usually be found at one of the neighborhood hangoutsthe swimming pool, the Long John Silvers on Twenty-third, or the Jack in the Box on Twentieth. This is the house where Dean Corll lived. Had he not said anything, it is possible that the police would never have learned about the murders. After Henleys parents divorced, in 1970, he dropped out of junior high and began working part-time to help his mother. Corll wrestled with Mark while Henley ran out of the room to get a pistol. Dean Corll was born on December 24, 1939 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. After reading the file on Mark Scott, she especially wanted to do what she could for Mrs. Scott. By the next day, police officers were exhuming bodies from a wooded area near Sam Rayburn Reservoir, outside Lufkin, and on a beach at High Island, east of Houston. Corll ran the assembly line, and in his free time, he not only handed out candy to the kids but invited them to a back room in the factory, where he had set up a pool table. She was never the same, and neither were the rest of us. He began inviting teenage boys over to his apartment, some of whom he had been eyeing since his days at the candy factory. Dean would screw all of them and sometimes suck them and make them suck him, Henley said in his confession. In 1973 officials with the medical examiners office had told the Scotts that they believed Mark had been buried at High Island but they werent sure where his remains were. After he arrived, Corll persuaded him to pull down his pants, at which point Corll dropped to his knees and began performing what the Texas criminal statutes at the time called oral sodomy., According to those who knew Brooks, the introspective young teenager was not gay; in fact, he had a girlfriend who lived in the Heights. Some of the parents are now in nursing homes, their minds starting to slip away. One night, Dorothy and Fred and a couple of their kids drove over to the citys Montrose area and sat outside a gay bar called the Silver Dollar Saloon, watching the door, hoping to see David being taken in or out. What made the story simply chilling, though, was the revelation that Corll hadnt acted alone. Then another and another and another. David idolized him. In 1960, at the request of his mother, Corll moved to Indiana to live with his widowed grandmother. At that point, it seems as though Henley finally snapped. My mom did her best to forgive, recalls the Hilligiests youngest son, Stanley, who now works for a Houston oil field services company. Henley insists he didnt bring his friends over to Corlls to be attacked. We report on vital issues from politics to education and are the indispensable authority on the Texas scene, covering everything from music to cultural events with insightful recommendations. He asked Mrs. Hilligiest for some posters that he could put up around the Heights. A Right-wing Cabal Took Over Odessas Municipal Government. Between September 25th, 1970, and August 3rd, 1973, Dean Corll claimed the lives of at least 28 teenagers. One afternoon she walked into one of the institutes refrigeration units and saw two plastic tubs and a cardboard box, each one marked 1973 Mass Murders. The containers held the unidentified remains of three boys dug up from Corlls burial grounds. There had always been questions about what had happened to Marks body after he was murdered. Please log in if you don't want to post You know, a man like that can have a lot of influence over a young, insecure boy.. Pasadena A home that once belonged to one of the Houston-areas most notorious killers will be changing owners again. The house where Dean Corll lived and died is listed for nearly $185,000 on HAR.COM. 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. There were no Amber Alerts being broadcast that would have set off alarms with the public, no Internet that would have quickly spread community gossip. Corll, in turn, loved pleasing her. Surely some of those kids were missing because they had run into Corll. Mitzi Piersol, a 39-year-old mother from the Houston suburb of Cypress, told Derrick she was only a year old when her 16-year-old brother, Rodney, disappeared from the English Oaks apartments, located on Gessner near Interstate 10, one of Corlls old stomping grounds. Corll severed Branchs genitals with a knife and placed them in a plastic bag, which he buried next to the body. The location where Ennis Cosby was murdered. He aimed it at Dean, says Williams, who regularly visits a psychiatrist to deal with the post-traumatic stress disorder she says she still endures from that night, and he said, I cant go on any longer. 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. 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 home. Yet when Ive mentioned my brothers names in front of her, shes started to cry. Over in southwest Houston, the Garcias80-year-old Luis and 77-year-old Doriscontinue to live in their same home, with a faded photo of Homer on the wall, and on Sundays, they still put on their best clothes and visit his grave, setting down fresh flowers while staring at the words on his marker, which read The day they took you, part of us went with you., And in the Heights, there is Mrs. Scott. The backyard - which was once the location of a search conducted by Texas EquuSearch - now features a tool shed that matches the light gray exterior and interior of the house. Dean Corll was responsible for the killings dubbed "The Houston Mass Murders," in which nearly 30 Once they were incapacitated, they were either tied to Corll's bed or handcuffed to a plank of wood that was nailed to one of the walls. At one point, a black Chihuahua jumped in one of the graves and started barking. As stories about Derricks work appeared in the local media, more families began contacting her, some from as far away as California and Florida. He says Corll slowly lured him into his orbit by first telling him that if he ever had anything to sell to make some money to help out his mother, even if it was stolen, Corll could unload it. Below, you will find the address and the GPS coordinates for this location. Copyright 2022 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved. Of the 28 murders that he committed, eight took place at this address. While Corll was focused on Timothy, Henley grabbed a pistol and shouted that he couldn't "go on" any longer. Corll promised Henley $200 for every boy he brought to him. 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. Not sure what else to do, Brooks dropped out of Waltrip High School, where he was a freshman, and began spending more time with Corll. This is an aerial image of the yard that Elmer Henley led the police to. He brushed his thick brown hair slightly over one eyebrow, which drove girls wild. Like Brooks, however, Henley had endured a difficult relationship with his father, who, according to published reports, would get drunk and physically assault his wife and children. Which is maybe a blessing, considering all that theyve suffered, says Deborah Aguirre, whose mother, Josephine, suffers from Alzheimers disease. Once, when they were in bed, they began to have intercourse, but he stopped because he said he just didnt feel like it. Still, she said, he was a wonderful man who wanted to settle down and get married, and she never considered it odd that most of their dates were in the presence of her children or with Brooks and Henley tagging along. Then one day she got a gun and grabbed my younger sister Pamela and dragged her to a back bedroom. One of those found under the storage shed, Marty Jones, who had been murdered in late July, turned out to be the cousin of homicide detective Karl Siebeneicher, who happened to be on the scene. Maybe Dean was considering me as one of his next victims, Henley says in the penitentiary visiting room. More recently, Andrea Yates drowned her five young children in a bathtub in 2001 in a home in Clear Lake. Beating the record by just one or two bodies, after all, was a lot less humiliating than beating it by ten or fifteen. One was sixteen-year-old Malley Winkle, who years earlier had worked at the Corlls candy factory with his mother. Your son, Billy.. He was my first love, she says. Founded in 1968, Cornerstone Community Development Corporation is a minority, community based not-for-profit organization, located in the Village of Ford A/k/a the Candyman, a famous serial killer from Pasadena, Texas. The officer who received the report on Jimmy labeled him a runaway after learning he had previously left home and stayed with friends because he had been having arguments with his father about such issues as the length of his hair. The truth was that even though Corll had been torturing and killing boys, no one realized anything was amiss. Jimmy and Danny sat toward the front. Youre here to talk about my Mark?. Patricia Sharpe writes a regular restaurant column, Pats Pick, for Texas Monthly. 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. They admitted they helped Corll carry the bodies to his car or van, and they helped bury them in one of his private cemeteries. In those years, of course, plenty of people tended to believe, falsely, that homosexuality was linked to pedophilia. You can see the full listing of the home here. I found a good job. Dean was appointed as vice-president of the new family firm. I was there about as much as the chief was. 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. And while these are some of the most notorious homes, Houston realtor Tim Surratt, of Greenwood King Properties, says, "Almost every house has something that's happened to it over time.". 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. 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. Please complete the process by verifying your email address. Besides an army of reporters watching the diggings at the beach, there were bikini-clad girls and their boyfriends, along with young parents and children with plastic pails and shovels. On April 20, 1972, her seventeen-year-old son, Mark, a blue-eyed kid whose cheeks dimpled when he smiled, walked out the front door of that house and was never seen again. @ 29.68135776, -95.21422424 South Houston, Texas (TX), US This was the last home of the serial killer where at least six teenage boys were tortured and killed. And that was it. Corll took Harvey to his apartment, raped him, tortured him, and shot him in the head. The house where Dean Corll lived and died is listed for nearly $185,000 on HAR.COM. 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. Dad began to fall apart right in front of our eyes, recalls Cyndi. 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. There, Brooks said in his confession, he watched as Corll strangled them. 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. But all they said was Why are you here? Please complete the process by verifying your email address. One morning, Brooks said in his confession, he and Henley spent a few hours fishing at Sam Rayburn Reservoir before pulling a dead boy out of Corlls van and digging him a grave. Although the Waldrops home was only half a mile from the church where Jimmy and Danny disappeared, the police still did not investigate. A home that once belonged to one of Houston's most infamous serial killers is up for sale. One day, a kid named Malley Winkle told his mother, Selma, that he had been given a job sweeping up pecan scraps and peeling caramel off the floor at the factory. Bob Wright, the executive director of marketing and communications at Stephen F. Austin University, in Nacogdoches, who was a Houston radio reporter in 1973, says that he was told by a detective that once the body count surpassed the U.S. mass murder record, the excavations were halted. 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