TX TX - Houston, 'Swimsuit Boy' WhtMale 15-19, UP4547, Dean Corll victim, Aug'73

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Lester Petry, aged 18, missing from university in Minneapolis on April 18, 1971 under unknown circumstances;

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chin too short
alar too wide
ipd too narrow

 

[snooptroop88]

L84MF ??? Did Corll give a Corvette to Brooks? Where'd Corll get it? Doing random searches on these numbers/letters and various combinations. I'm not a car person, does anyone else know what to make of this? Maybe Swimsuit Boy was a car person. Guys that age love their cars. This is what's coming up on random searches:

The L84 camshaft was not available in 1970 Chevrolet cars. The L84 refers to the 327 fuel-injected engine, which was introduced in 1962 and used in the Corvette and other models until the late 1960s.

The Chevrolet Corvette's small-block L84 engine was revolutionary when it debuted 1964.

...a front-mid-engine, front-wheel-drive layout (also called more simply "mid-engine, front-wheel-drive layout", and abbreviated MF or FMF)...

 

[snooptroop88]

Ralph Hampton Miller – The Charley Project

The young man in this image, missing Ralph Hampton Miller. looks very, very much like Swimsuit Boy to me. I know there's confusion on whether this is the right image for Ralph. Is it? It's still up at various sites for Ralph. I know Ralph disappeared from Florida, and this concerns me greatly because one of Corll's accomplices specifically mentions travel to Florida. The dates are flexible in my mind, what would concern me more than anything is that anyone so deeply associated with Corll would mention travel at any particular location, quite frankly. That would be a place where I'd be watching, jmo, and not just for where Corll's accomplices were going, but where Corll himself may have gone, unbeknownst to us. Ralph was supposedly on his way to see a Chambers Brothers concert, and the clothing Swimsuit Boy was wearing is very, very much in line with the hip and groovy clothing that probably would have been worn to such a concert. And the boots, too-- much of Florida leans towards US southern culture. As for the swim trunks, would it be possible Ralph was booked into a hotel with a pool and that's why he had the swim trunks? It's almost like a pair of trunks for a swanky pool party with that belt and metal.

I'm seeing Jimi Hendrix had died the night before Ralph disappeared, and returning to the Chambers Brothers, I do not see any concert scheduled for the date Ralph disappeared. I see Chamber Brothers in Tampa in July, and I see San Francisco in November. I may not have a complete list, and it's likely it would be very difficult to find one. Ralph did disappear on a Saturday, though, which would be a night when I think a concert would occur, and the clothing with Swimsuit Boy is concert-type clothing, jmo.

I see an incredible resemblance there. The Florida aspect with the accomplice noting any kind of travel there ever, at all, is a concern for me.

 

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New documentary on Corll and Henley is streaming on HBO Max, unfortunately it hardly references the ongoing efforts to identify this young man & potential other victims.

 

[snooptroop88]

Wondering if Swimsuit Boy was in town for the Eagles at Sam Houston Coliseum in June (or July, date disputed) 1972, they were opening for Jethro Tull. Swimsuit Boy's outfit is screaming Texas to me, but he doesn't appear to be from TX as an MP, jmo. If he's not from TX, he was maybe going to see a very Texas band like the Eagles, and in Texas.

As I was looking, I came across Donald Curtiss, missing from Tucson AZ November 1969, graduate of Chicago area high school and son of a business executive there, he was looking for gold in the Catalina Mountains, his friend left him once they entered into a very remote area and Donald had an asthma attack, the friend was going to look for help, and searchers came back scouring the area for Donald, never found him. Struck by the resemblance, Donald Curtiss on left, Swimsuit Boy on right:

Other pics Donald Curtiss:

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18yo in Nov 1969, 5'6"-5'8" Donald and the other young man he was hiking with met at the Tucson YMCA, evidently Donald had been having troubles with asthma and had gone down there to earn money for college. Tucscon would definitely be a good climate in terms of asthma, and Houston TX would not. He had an inhaler on him and a metal detector. Metal detectors are generally pretty sizey, I would think especially in that timeframe. Did they ever find it, I wonder?

And this article on Namus says the friend had noted Donald had an asthma attack and had severe leg cramps, he couldn't walk. Swimsuit Boy had that mild spina bifida which might have affected his walking. Now, I am seeing, though, that certain asthma medications can cause severe leg cramps, although the answer on whether the person would actually be unable to walk is much more "iffy." Swimsuit Boy also had good dentals, and it appears from the image of Donald smiling that his were probably good.

https://www.namus.gov/api/CaseSets/NamUs/MissingPersons/Cases/17759/Documents/1900

The YMCA note also makes me a little nervous because Houston did have a dorm YMCA at this time, from what I read. Whether a Heights branch existed with dorms, I've got no idea. Just looked it up and there is a Heights branch, from what I can see. Uncertain as to whether it had dormitories for overnight. Really wondering on that because of strong resemblance, jmo. Strong resemblance notwithstanding, though, the circumstances don't seem to lend themselves to the idea at all, and LE doesn't suspect foul play,for Donald from what I see on another source. I still can't get past that uncanny likeness, though, between those first two images, the one of Donald and the new likeness they produced for Swimsuit Boy. And also kind of curious about how the friend noted seeing .22 caliber cartridges in an area where he and Donald had been at one point. I wonder what that was about.

Donald Emerson Curtiss Jr. – The Charley Project

 

[snooptroop88]

Also, the L84MF on the shirt. Still wondering if that information is related to coding for a certain vehicle engine, particularly for a Corvette. Corll gifted Brooks a Corvette at one point. Seeing this:

L84 327 with (M)echanical (F)uel Injection, Chevy's pinnacle small block mid-60s, it's vintage and had Rochester fuel injection system, it's like a coveted engine. It had a very brief production run, evidently. (Just read an article noting this particular engine is considered one of the best small blocks of all time.) Note, this engine is (based on what I'm seeing) on Corvette models through 1965. I believe the Corll Corvette was a 1969.

Could this be where the infamous Corvette "gifted" to Brooks really came from, was it the vehicle of a victim? Because this could possibly explain why they found the stolen Camaro in the boat shed. Following through on the hypothetical, Corll would have made sure to swap out that engine quickly on that Corvette because that vehicle may not even have had the original engine when he acquired it, a kid had perhaps worked extensively on that car and he himself swapped out for a different Corvette engine, but it's pure guess only. So if that vehicle didn't have had the original engine when Corll came by it, LE would have not only the VIN on the Corvette (unless he scratched it off), but also the different non-matching stamp information on an engine block. Such a unique combination could give LE too much info, perhaps. But just speculation here, I mean, this L84MF, it may not be that at all. Might be LBHMF... But I still do wonder what the rush was to switch out the engine on a Corvette that would have still been fairly new.