Dean Corll recruited two teenagers David Brooks and Wayne Henley, to help him commit: abduction, rape, torture and murder of young boys from the Houston Heights area. The victims were invited to parties by David and Wayne, there they were given drugs and alcohol and tied to a torture board. Dean destructively, castrated, emasculated, sodomized and mutilated his victims. The Houston Police Department had listed the boys as "runaway" children. This allowed Dean and his accomplices to continue their active string of carnage.
Arnold Edwin Corll and Mary Robinson, the parents of Dean had a tumultuous marriage. Arnold was known to be a domineering disciplinarian, Mary was said to have been overprotective; they fought constantly and the children suffered through the dramatic …show more content…
Dean exhibited strange behavior prior to 1970. Dean would be seen digging in the basement of the company building. Dean said he was burying rotten candy. He used this same excuse when he was excavating soggy soil around the Houston Heights. Floors were cemented in the basement floor, after the dug. This was yet another odd labor due explanation. Dean kept plastic rolls in the candy storage room, the heavy plastic was not used for candy production or shipping. Investigations later on would find this was the same stuff he used to wrap confirmed victims. Of the remains exhumed from High Island Beach and Lake Sam Rayburn, forty-two children were said to have gone missing during the span of the Houston Mass Murders. The total number of victims may be much higher than the twenty-eight recovered corpses. If David and Wayne hearsay testimony is considered believable, it is possible Dean could have been responsible for a hundred victims, this is according to his claims of murdering boys during trips to California. In all, there is believed to be between 25 and 30 boys killed, and they were buried in three different
Arnold Edwin Corll and Mary Robinson, the parents of Dean had a tumultuous marriage. Arnold was known to be a domineering disciplinarian, Mary was said to have been overprotective; they fought constantly and the children suffered through the dramatic …show more content…
Dean exhibited strange behavior prior to 1970. Dean would be seen digging in the basement of the company building. Dean said he was burying rotten candy. He used this same excuse when he was excavating soggy soil around the Houston Heights. Floors were cemented in the basement floor, after the dug. This was yet another odd labor due explanation. Dean kept plastic rolls in the candy storage room, the heavy plastic was not used for candy production or shipping. Investigations later on would find this was the same stuff he used to wrap confirmed victims. Of the remains exhumed from High Island Beach and Lake Sam Rayburn, forty-two children were said to have gone missing during the span of the Houston Mass Murders. The total number of victims may be much higher than the twenty-eight recovered corpses. If David and Wayne hearsay testimony is considered believable, it is possible Dean could have been responsible for a hundred victims, this is according to his claims of murdering boys during trips to California. In all, there is believed to be between 25 and 30 boys killed, and they were buried in three different