HOUSTON (AP) — One after another, as a steamy summer evening faded from dusk to darkness, the bodies of young boys were pulled from the dirt floor of boat stall No. 11. By night’s end on Aug. 8, 1973, eight corpses had been recovered from makeshift graves. The next day, nine more were discovered inside the corrugated metal shed in southwest Houston. Another 10 bodies were found on remote High Island beach, 80 miles east of Houston, and in a … Continue reading
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John I just found this site and I had a very similar experience that you did. I was about 13 at the time and it was around 1970 or 1971. I was walking to my grandmothers on Waugh Dr. coming from a little store when a car pulled over and the door open. The started asking weird questions like my pants size and did I like to drink. My mom pulled up behind him and he took off. When the story broke on the news and showed Correl’s picture, I told my mom that was the guy who tried to pick me up.
Dear Rhonda, I would be very interested in meeting & speaking with you. I am a sibling of one of the perps. Let me know if you are interested?
Rhonda, I can’t wait to read your book and read about your side of the story and such. Will there be photos and such in the book? I hope so. Try to get some of the victims too and of Wayne and David.
I’m so sorry what you had to go through with that monster named Dean Corll. How has your life been in the last 35 years now?
I remember the horrible feeling of hearing that three of my greatest friends, Billy and Tony Balch and Johnny Delome were tortured and murdered by these freaks My best friend, Gloria found out they killed her cousin and they had called her Aunt and said “too bad you will never see your son again’ this was a terrible part of my childhood
thanks
I remember when this all happened and as it turned out i was 14. At that time we hitch hiked wherevever we needed to go. Just to think someone like this did cross our minds but, at that age people who offered up dope were likely to get kids high then it was over for them. At that age gettin high was the thing and it didn`t matter if you knew who you were gettin high with. We were stupid. We lived out in Decker Prarie outside of Tomball and there had been a blacktopping company who had done 2 convenience stores drives in that area right off of 149. I walked across the hiway to the store and one of the workers had John Lennon glasses on and hair like that and I thought that dude was cool(meaning he got high)He waved at me and I waved back. Later the next day they caught the guys doing all the killing. My mom told me David Brooks was one of the guys doing the black topping up the road at the Chumleys gas station. I think I was fairly close to being a potential victim. None of this was ever proved or looked into but, it is something that actually happened although nothing happened fortunately
I have lived in the heights for the past 30 years and this is really sickening to know this happended here in such a beautiful area of town. my heart goes out to the families of the victims
To all who have posted here, my heart, thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies goes out to all of you! I don’t think I personally knew any of the perpetrators or victims themselves but time has blurred my memory somewhat so I can’t be sure. I could have been one of Dean’s victims if not for fate, divine intervention or the simple grace of God.
I posted the following statement in the reply section at about.com after an article by Charles Montaldo entitled “Flashback: Dean Corll and the Houston Mass murders”. I truly hope that this helps in any tiny way possible. A very recent event in my life brought all of this ugliness back to the forefront once again and I felt compelled to finally tell my little piece of this nightmare to those who are the closest to it:
“Rhonda, my heart and all my sympathy goes out to you for what you’ve had to endure and relive all of these years. I can only imagine what you’ve been through.
I was one of Dean Corll’s “almost” victims. I was about 14-15 at the time around the 1970-1971 time frame. I was standing outside of a dentist’s office on 20th Street near Yale waiting for my sister-in-law to pick me up. He drove by in a car (I haven’t found any mention of a car anywhere) rather than the white van indicated in the stories. He waved and smiled almost frantically as he drove past…..like he knew me and I waved back thinking it must have been a relative or family friend.
He apparently turned around somewhere near Heights Hospital and came back and pulled to the curb beside me. He immediately slid halfway over in the seat and told me I was such a “pretty” boy. I literally froze on the spot. I was so totally shocked at that kind of statement coming from a man to me that I couldn’t move. He kept talking to me, wanting to know if I liked boys or men, as he continuing to slide over in the seat while disgustingly rubbing his crotch the whole time. Soon he was right up against the door talking about fun parties with lots of other boys there, alcohol, marijuana and whatever else I wanted if I would only get in the car with him now.
Suddenly, he caught something out of the corner of his eye and immediately slid back over to the driver’s side and nervously looked forward. A Houston Police car had just turned onto 20th from a cross street near where we were and the 2 officers were intently staring at us as they passed very slowly by. As soon as they were about a quarter block past, Dean stepped on the gas and was gone in a flash just like he had appeared. I didn’t know who he was until the story broke in 1973 and I saw his picture!!!
By fate or grace of God, those police officers most probably saved my life that day. The worst part of this is I kept this a total secret from everyone until about a couple years ago when something came on tv about one of the unidentified victims possibly being identified and I finally told my wife about it. If I had only told somebody back then that a man had approached me in that manner…..if I had only thought to run after the police car and gotten their attention……lives may have been saved. Even if nobody would have listened to me or believed me, I should have TOLD SOMEBODY! I will forever regret not doing SOMETHING other than to just bury it deep in my mind! If only I could do it over…………………………………………………………………”
christen scheeval can you tell me the victim that you married.
you can see my e mail on top two blogs [email protected]
dear, timothy spangenberg i would like to know about james s. dreymala
what school did he go to? im not sure if he was the youngest victim or one of the waldrop brothers.I want to help one of the victims with research. of the two i know of she is the only one left that i know of.
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i also went to school with a victim they need to be remembered always.