Amazing, you are doing fantastic work here! Again with another county discrepancy.
Billy Ridinger, let go after torture, what is your opinion about him? PM me if you think wise.
Would you mind terribly linking the police reports, court documents, and the misc. forum, websites, and blogs? Thank you in advance! For some reason they won’t open for me on your fabulous spreadsheet. Wow, you have been putting in some work!
How did you find out the specifics about who and what was in the photos found at Corll’s house? Page two is mind-blowing!
The discrepancies are so numerous, I don’t know how anyone working this case kept things in order. I guess they really didn’t, obviously. And yes, I agree that it was a lot of “here’s a body or set of remains, they belong to your son, case closed”. I can understand the amount of pressure and stress put on the agency, but racing through the investigation in order to lighten their load and satisfy the families of these missing boys, is disheartening. And I’m putting that mildly.
I also understand that things were very different back then, but here were are today with so many questions still that I think could be answered if someone were to take the time to at least reevaluate some of the evidence. I don’t know, I’m in no place to judge really, I’m just taken aback by all the lose ends.
The death certificates - I suppose I can see how they’d list one County, I guess. I’m sure that wasn’t a top priority for them, as I doubt the families gave it a second thought. It was probably easier just to put the same thing on all of them. But then I don’t understand why they’d go into such great detail (1917 ft. east of the...) about the locations if the certificates themselves were merely a formalities.
Billy Ridinger - I don’t mind giving my thoughts on him. I’ve not read anything pertaining specifically to him (his testimony, statements, etc.) only the few police reports that mention him. He was involved with Corll, in some way, earlier than Brooks IIRC. In the reports are multiple addresses associated with Corll and I believe Ridinger either lived with him at a few or was listed as next of kin (roommate possibly) on a rental application. I can’t remember exactly, but the day he almost became another victim was not the first time he had met Corll. Ridinger’s name also comes up in other reports, from other witnesses, and seems to have been associated with more than one victim and more than one perp (known and suspected). I’d like to read more of his own statements and testimony, but his name comes up a lot.
The police reports are not in order so that why it’s hard for me to go back and find exactly where I read all this, but this is the link to where I found them...
Dean Corll records from Houston PD : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Like I said before, I’m sure I’ve missed things which is why I’m reading over them again. So if I misquote something, it’s unintentional. All this information is in those reports though.
The court documents are the same as what you linked above, only from different sites. They’re the same documents though.
As far as the photos found in Corll’s home after his murder, that information is also in the reports! And I haven’t read all of those, I’ve been trying to get the basic facts down, which even that is difficult. I really wish I had the time to organize them because it’d make it easier to read chronologically and go back and find specific things. That’s another place Ridinger’s name comes up...a few photos of him were found amongst the ones found at Corll’s.
Rhonda’s interview - Yah, the Dallas warehouse for one, but also her mentioning that she told
Dean she wanted to get away from her own home for a few days in order to make her mind whether or not she wanted to run away with him (Dean) to CO/NV. Wait a sec, reading over this again, I think there were some typos. It sounded to me like Corll knew Rhonda would be coming over that night
and possibly running off with him and Henley wherever they were going. But I think Dean and Wayne’s name were inadvertently switched a couple of times in that particular report.
There we have again, more confusion!
Yes, page 2 is mind boggling, and I’ve yet to scratch the surface there. I’ve been throwing things on there as I go, because there are sooo many additional people mentioned in various witness statements; other missing boys, other sexual predators in the community, other potential victims. I can’t read one report without finding a new name mentioned. Also several potential aliases for Corll! There’s a wealth of information there, I’m just slowly combing through it.
I do find it very interesting that not more is available to read about this case. I’ve not been able to read any of the well known publications and that’s the first I’d heard of the one you mentioned. I’d like to. It’s also interesting to me that everything out there seems to focus on Henley. A case of the “squeaky wheel gets the grease” I think, but I believe Brooks’ role in all this is significantly downplayed. At the very least, he’s managed to be overshadowed by Henley’s loose lips and love for attention.
I’m going to link the stuff I have on the spreadsheet below...
Here’s the link again and fair warning - it’s still under construction, so somethings may not make sense, but it’s resourceful if nothing else. The dates of discovery, for example, are going to be wrong on a few because the police reports give conflicting info on those and I’m trying to sort through those.
