TX - Unidentified victims of Dean Corll, Houston Serial Killer, 1970-1973

[Keiri]

I used my heritage photo enhancing and while the picture isn’t much better, it’s absolutely clear he’s wearing pants, he’s alive, and he has tape over his mouth.

 

[MadMcGoo]

That is quite an interesting article I had never read either. I’m a little surprised at the relationship he had with a female. More so one her age. Hmm. Another account of multiple adult(ish) males being around Corll. Where are they now?!

I’m not thrilled David is dead either, although I doubt seriously he would have ever revealed anything about the cases. Wayne may not have known about many more murders than we do now or that he talked about, but David was around awhile longer than him; I think he took many secrets to his grave.

I had to step away from this case for awhile. It’s A LOT to take in and even more to wonder about. I hope someday we’ll know more of the truth, because as it stands I feel like we’ve only scratched the surface.

It’s all very frightening if you think about it.

 

[Keiri]

I’d like to know if: the LE in charge ever faced accountability for their bias against the poor and working class that led to so many deaths than there had to be - there were so many opportunities they passed up and ignored. After reading more, it seems obvious Corll was in touch with, or at very least subscribed to, multiple child porn books. Ames is now dead (and what a vicious obit, too, undoubtedly deserved). I feel like so many of us want to find the rest of the bodies, but over and over in these articles, the attorneys and others said “you don’t want to know.” I find that infuriating. I wish there were some way to convince parties with access to lidar to search the beach, the yard and the parking lot of the candy shop. The crimes that could be solved by technology is breathtaking, yet they spend on rocket launchers and armored vehicles. I won’t lecture, I just want some way to help those remaining unfounded victims and their loved ones and there is nothing I can do.

 

[MadMcGoo]

I’m almost hoping that when “Swimsuit Boy” (not a fan of that name) is identified it raises more questions in which the right people will feel need answering. Maybe he’s one of the names mentioned in those reports, maybe he’s another misidentified boy. I don’t know. But a part of me feels his identification will open more doors than it closes. Unfortunately. IMOO

 

[Keiri]

Anyone know why certain boys aren’t listed in namus, such as John Harmon or Bobby french?

 

[Marysel]

maybe it’s because the parents died before the system was made, or the police officers don’t think that the publication of the case will help move forward. Like "it doesn't make sense. Cold case. Let it be in the archive."

 

[MadMcGoo]

I didn’t spend a ton of time searching, but in that time I had no luck determining wether or not most of the boys mentioned were still missing or not. Meaning I didn’t find their names in any of the databases.

 

[Keiri]

Well I researched and found Roy Ames died years later, Glenn Stuart Boggs was murdered in 1973 in a clearly unrelated matter, and then I got to John harmon and was wondering if you folks knew the reason. If I could volunteer to add missing persons data to namus I would.

 

[Keiri]

Oh and Randall lee Harvey was listed as a possible but of course just recently was confirmed.

 

[Keiri]

Check out these notes, someone has thoroughly researched some leads: Dean Corll - CAVDEF

 

[Marysel]

Well I researched and found Roy Ames died years later, Glenn Stuart Boggs was murdered in 1973 in a clearly unrelated matter, and then I got to John harmon and was wondering if you folks knew the reason. If I could volunteer to add missing persons data to namus I would.

Who is Glenn Stuart Boggs?

 

[Keiri]

One of the boys listed in the police records as possible victims

 

[cyberguy]

Check out these notes, someone has thoroughly researched some leads: Dean Corll - CAVDEF

Yes! You need to click on all documents, files. It is a lot, some repeated, but there is a treasure trove here! I’ve only scratched the surface before and wow!
I will share soon what my dad, who did some volunteer work with Pasadena PD found out. I agree with all of you- there’s a whole lot we don’t know. Huge cover up.

 

[Melt71]

Apologies for dropping in as I don't usually linger on the SK threads. But @MadMcGoo posted on this thread (blonde 13-15yo boy, Houston, 1971) today wondering if he might be a Corll victim as well; perhaps he's been mentioned here before, but for completeness sake.... TX - TX - Houston, WhtMale Torso, UP4543, 13-15, 'Jericho Surf Shop' TShirt, Sep'71

 

[ManTheSam]

I found these:
Harvest of Horror: Mass Murder in Houston (explores the Henley, Brooks and Corll dynamic but mainly Henley and Corll. Doesn't have information for Bobby French or John Harmon, but still interesting). It's long and the grammar isn' the best but it has some insight.
Dean Corll autopsy reports from Harris County Archives (haven't read it all but it looks very promising). Some of it is in Harvest of Horror.
Going to look through the Harris County District website and see what I find.

 

[MadMcGoo]

It’s mind blowing to me how I’ve read SOOO much pertaining to these cases, yet every time I click a link there’s something new. There’s so much information out there for someone in the right position to comb through. We’re obviously missing pieces to the puzzle that someone has. I wish someone would step up or speak out for these boys/men.

 

[ManTheSam]

I found these:
Harvest of Horror: Mass Murder in Houston (explores the Henley, Brooks and Corll dynamic but mainly Henley and Corll. Doesn't have information for Bobby French or John Harmon, but still interesting). It's long and the grammar isn' the best but it has some insight.
Dean Corll autopsy reports from Harris County Archives (haven't read it all but it looks very promising).

 

[ManTheSam]

There are even more possibilities they mention in the Pasadena Records for Dean Corll (David Claude Yeager, Timothy Allen Morgan and Richard Lee McNutt).
I noticed they mentioned a John Mathews in the Houston reports and I may have missed something, but what happened to him?
I also want to mention this because on page 85 it mentions parents writing to the medical examiner saying their son missing from Detroit had a spine configuration. It was also mentioned in the Scrapbook of the Autopsy Reports.

 

[MadMcGoo]

I didn’t find anything on the boys mentioned aside from one article. I checked missing person databases, ancestry records and newspaper archives. Without additional information on the boys it’s hard to narrow it down by name/age. (ETA: David Yeager has been in the databases and is still missing as far as anyone knows)

Re: Richard “Ricky” Lee McNutt, 13yo, missing from San Diego, CA since January 1973

https://www.newspapers.com/image/18188204/?terms="Richard+L+McNutt"&match=1



I couldn’t find any sort of follow up on his disappearance.

It might be interesting to note that Ricky was traveling back to CA from Tucson, Arizona and the step father of the other boy you mentioned, Timothy Morgan, lists an address in Tucson. Could be a coincidence.

 

[ManTheSam]

I couldn't find anything on Bobby French or John Harmon (not for sure) but I looked for Rodney Lee Harris on FamilySearch. They have the same birthday, so if it's him, he died in California in 1990 at age 33. It says he was born in Texas, so I think it's him.