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[Music] welcome to True crb garage wherever you are whatever you are doing thanks for
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listening I'm your host Nick and with me as always ladies and gentlemen back from
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South Florida Fresh Off The Airliner he is our captain well it's good to be back
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Gary let's it's good to be seeing and it's good to see you thanks for listening thanks for telling a
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[Music] friend last week I had something for the first time called lunch pale ale brewed
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over at Breaker Brewing Company garage grade 4 and2 bottle caps out of five lunch pale ale is a traditional American
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pale ale brewed with nugget and Cascade hops it's hoppy but smooth and clean and
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and the funnies which is from Cincinnati Ohio and also the Nathan Whit band which
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is from from where from from Parts Unknown from Parts Unknown and that's enough of the
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beers yes sir everybody gather around grab a chair grab a beer let's talk some true
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crime cand C [Music] True Crime Buffs all know the legends of the True Crime world the serial killers who have stood
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out leaving an indelible blemish on human history through their prolific violence and
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destruction gasy dmer Bundy BTK their names are synonymous with the word monster they are often considered to
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be the worst of the worst before the notorious Killers roamed the country and haunted our
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streets leaving wakes of death and Terror Behind them and before the term serial killers was
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coined before we knew about Cals as we know them now there was another monster a mass murderer so evil that he
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deserves to be in the same category as these infamous Killers a monster that still terrifies
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and haunts someone so cruel and diabolical that there is evidence that perhaps at least one of these ruthless
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serial killers knew of his work and imitated him this is the story of Dean Coral the
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one they call Paul the killer [Music] Candyman well captain we're going to start off this week by talking about
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some pretty unhealthy relationships I don't like to talk about my personal life on the show well let's talk about a
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man in his 30s this is Dean Coral who we will come to know quite well this week he managed to warm his way into the
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lives of two boys from broken homes taking on the role of some sort of Twisted Father Figure as a result of
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that manipulation and dominance both boys lives would ultimately be ruined Dean Coral met David Brooks first Brooks
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also lived in Houston Heights or simply the heights as it's most commonly called
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the the heights back then was a lower middle class area of Houston a blue collar neighborhood that had become
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seedy and run down they met years ago at a candy factory owned by Dean's Mother where Dean Coral handed out free suets
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to teens and children so he's like Willie Wonka something like that yeah now David
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was born in Bowmont Texas in 1955 his parents divorced when he was 5 years old and he moved back and forth
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between his father and Houston and his mother in Bowmont Coral started helping Brooks giving him money and a place to
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stay from time to time to get away from his father and generally supporting him the two occasionally took trips to the
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beaches in South Texas with other boys David was smart but he was small and wore glasses and he was picked on a
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little bit by the other kids so he was easily swayed by Coral's attentions Coral had a lot of influence over the
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young insecure boy Brooks said Coral was the first adult male who didn't make fun
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of him for his skinny body and glasses pretty soon David idolized Dean Coral when David was 14 Coral
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essentially began grooming David and the two began a relationship whereby Coral would pay Brooks $10 to allow Coral to
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perform fellatio on the boy David began spending all of his time with coral and despite being a decent student he
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dropped out of school and hung out with coral most days even moving in with him at times when he's 15 he walks in on
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Coral raping two boys these two boys were tied to a bed now later Coral would ask Brooks for his silence and he would
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buy that Silence from Brooks by giving him a green Corvette in exchange for his silence he told Brooks that he was part
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of a gay pornography ring and that he had been paid to send boys out to California and I think that he included
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those two boys in that statement of I sent those boys out to California right so he he was running some kind of a sex
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trafficking ring so we have Brooks who's going to then introduce a kid by the name of Wayne Henley to Dean Coral this
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took place in 1971 Wayne Henley was described as an above average student with an IQ
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somewhere between 110 and 120 but Henley dropped out of high school in ninth grade he had a lot of financial
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responsibility on his shoulders he had to contribute to the income the household income that his mother needed
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to raise his three brothers so Coral filled a need that Henley had Financial Security Coral was constantly giving
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Henley and Brooks gifts and in return was asking for favors her task so do we believe that Dean is getting his money
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from his parents owning the factory well this is not like a huge Candy Factory this is not like Hershey's um or Mars or
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any of those other really big ones this is this is they had a house and at some point they opened up a candy factory out
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of their house turn the the house into a business right like sweet pets so this was a business that employed a few
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people but above that I don't know how much profit was on top of paying the people that worked there including his
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mother well he did have a Corvette that he just gave away so yeah he bought he bought the kid a used Corvette they
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started becoming uh a thing you know this this group this Trio and eventually Henley became sexually involved with
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Dean Coral they also started planning some petty burglaries they would steal a lot of TV sets and this is where I go
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back to Dean Coral not having a ton of money and not having a ton of money from his his
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uh work at The Candy Factory let's say so he worked at The Candy Factory but he also worked as an
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electrician he had two jobs and then on top of that he's paying these kids and giving these kids a lot of gifts right
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so I think that he had to supplement his income by getting these kids involved in
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burglary stealing things and then selling them so Brooks hentley and coral became a mly trio let's say riding
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around town doing drugs partying and meeting up with other teenage boys Brooks and Henley would help get boys
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into Coral's van and then take them to his apartment the three hosted parties at Coral's apartment planned
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specifically to entice boys whom Coral might like and this would be young white thin and good-looking teenage boys Wayne
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and Dean saw each other nearly every day Coral was a frequent visitor at Wayne Henley's home and would chat with his
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mother in fact he even worked on her car a couple of times so this is not a relationship that's being kept secret
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from the teenage boy family right Mary Henley divorced her husband in 1970 after he shot at her during an argument
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Dean was so close with the family that he even ate Easter dinner with the henleys and as stated he would help the
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Henley family out with some different things but do the Henley family do they know it's a sexual relationship no no
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not at all they think that this is a friendship so Henley he has to act a little older than what he is he's
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providing financially for his mother and younger brothers right and then we have
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Dean Coral who is the the neighborhood basically thinks of Dean Coral as a nice professional
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cleancut guy but a guy that kind of Acts younger than what what he is and so Dean
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would typically drive around in his white van with a had a black couch in the back of course he has a white van
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and they would say that do do do they all have white Vans well can we just stop making white Vans can we just can
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we disagree as a nation that we're not going to produce any more white Vans well a lot of the neighbors would say
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that often you could see a dozen or so kids that would Pile in the van and he would take them for r sides now we
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should mention that the three Brooks Henley and Dean Coral from all outside perspective they were inseparable right
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so all right Captain about 10 dozen red flags here right we have a man in his early 30s hanging out with two teenage
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boys very often but a lot a whole big group of teenage boys and taking crowds of kids for rides yeah yeah so creepy
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stuff yeah and you would think that neighbors and people on the outside looking in would wonder what is David
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Brooks Wayne Henley and Dean Corell you know what's going on with this Trio well
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the problem is though there is no father figures so in that case it's like people
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are like oh he's just being a Good Samaritan yeah some type of Mentor yeah well we need to start talking about
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missing teenage boys but this story is not going to be quite it's going to be quite a bit more
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complicated than just one isolated incident because in 1971 72 and 73 thousands that's right thousands of
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juveniles were reported missing in or around the Houston Texas area now that number jumps off the page right you say
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whoa hold on there Nick that can't be right we do need to keep in mind this is a very heavily populated city it's what
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today I think it's the third or fourth most populated city in the United States back then I would assume it to be about
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the same and we have to keep in mind that even in Columbus even in our area Captain there are a lot of people that
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are reported missing and very quickly that missing person's report is filed away in a trash can because they turn up
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within an hour or two hours somebody panicked hit the panic button called somebody in missing and a lot of times
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especially back in the early 70s a lot of juveniles would be runaways at this time you know we still have some
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people heading out west to California we have a lot of these kids would be 17 17
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and A2 year old kids that are just not where they are supposed to be so most of these kids would turn up the ones that
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didn't sadly were still ignored by local law enforcement at the time because this
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was a time when police chocked the majority of disappearances up to being aways but regarding three of the many
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that were reported missing and the last names of these three individuals Cobell Jones and helist all three boys parents
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called the police when their sons disappeared and they insisted that their boys were not runaways and in all
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actuality many teenage boys disappeared from the Heights area in roughly a three-year span and for no apparent
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reason in fact almost 50 5 Z teenage boys simply never turned up again one of these boys was David hillig who
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disappeared on July 30th 1971 David then 13 decided to follow his brothers to the town pool on his bike
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Greg hillig David's brother called home and asked for his mother to come and pick them up his mother Dorothy was
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surprised to learn from Greg that David never showed up at the pool the family rule like most families was the kids
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were not supposed to go anywhere without telling their mother when David did not
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come home that evening Dorothy and her husband called Neighbors they called David's friends they even searched their
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home and of course his room in his room they found all of his belongings including his wallet and money they
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started driving around the neighborhood searching for their son finally at sunup
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the next day Dorothy called the police police provided virtually no assistance to the hillig telling them that David
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likely ran away and would come home soon David would be listed under the quote runaway classification and there would
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be no official search for the boy Dorothy hillig was a protective involved parent who was close with her children
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and she knew David would not have vanished of his own valtion she continued to Canvas the town looking for
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any clues finally someone told the hillig that David was seen in the company of his
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16-year-old friend malie Winkle Dorothy immediately called Mrs Winkle to ask if malie had come home Mrs Winkle told
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Dorothy that malie called her just before midnight and said we are in Freeport mother this is a popular
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swimming and surfing area in the Gulf of Mexico Mrs Winkle asked what he was doing 60 miles away and her son replied
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that he was just with a bunch of boys and they went to Freeport to go swimming and he would be home later Mrs Winkle
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also heard from her brother Ben that he saw David and malie get into a white van
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not far from the hillig home Dorothy plastered the town with missing person's flyers and went door too looking for her
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son a friend of David's named Wayne Henley helped distribute missing persons Flyers she traveled to other areas to
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search for him on the basis of tips unfortunately the hillig would deplete their life savings looking for their son
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even hiring a private detective yeah that's a that's a shame because you want to do anything you can Dorothy called
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the Houston PD constantly looking for updates on her son and passing on rumors she heard and possible witnesses that
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they should check into one day she told the police that she had learned that malie had a friend who drove a Plymouth
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GTX and added she has seen a GTX driving through the neighborhood she even wrote
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down the license plate it's license plate TMF 724 now Captain she passed this on to
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Houston PD if an officer would have looked into the matter they would learn that that car belonged to a man named
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Dean coral and even with all these leads the hge are never going to see their son
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again let's fast forward to August 8th 1973 in Pasadena Texas the blazing sun beat down on this industrial city which
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is an offshoot of the much larger City of Houston around 8:00 a.m. chief operator for the Pasadena PD answered a
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call on the other end of the line a male voice said I just shot a man again the caller said I just shot a man and I want
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you I want you the operator interrupted slow down and give me your name the caller answered Wayne Henley I'm calling
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from 2020 Lamar Street immediately they're going to dispatch two police cards to the address patrolman Jameson
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in car 361 was the first to arrive here is what he observed three teenagers standing on the sidewalk one was a
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female and two others were male all appeared redyed and one was crying a white 1969 Dodge van was in the driveway
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of the home Wayne Henley The Crying one identified himself to officer Jameson Jameson later described Henley as a thin
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youth with light brown hair and brown eyes he had the beginnings of a goatee Henley handed Jameson a 22 caliber
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pistol the officer oh wa hold on he had the beginnings of a goatee well he's a teenager he's got that you remember when
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we were teenagers and some of the guys were like yeah I can grow a mustache and you look at it and you're like yeah
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that's not a mustache right but it's like saying this guy had the beginnings of a douche Cano well he hands the
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officer a 22 caliber pistol and the officer observed immediately that the six Chambers were empty the other two
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teens were Ronda Williams only 15 years old and she clutched Wayne Henley's arm while they spoke to officer Jameson the
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1D te was Tim Curley which just like his name he had curly hair yeah shoulder length hair blue eyes and braces in
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brief questioning Wayne Henley told Jameson that he had freed himself from some handcuffs and shot a man named Dean
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Coral Jameson looked inside the home and saw Coral's body and returned to the kids he put the three teens in his
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patrol car and read them their rights then detective Mullin arrived at the scene he opened the front door and
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entered the house the first room a living room was separated from the kitchen area by a Long Bar melin slowly
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walked into the room and to his left he turned in a hallway he stopped abruptly taken AB by the sight directly down the
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hallway just beyond the door to the bathroom lay the naked body of a man his face was buried in the B carpet at the
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crevice where the wall meets the floor on the man's left shoulder and back were several tiny holes his legs were
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entangled and a long telephone cord attached to a red phone lying on the hallway floor having been warned by
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Dispatch that someone had been shot mullikin presumably wasn't surprised to find a body but what he found in the
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bedroom however was another story in the bedroom the beige wall-to-wall carpeting
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was covered by a large sheet of clear plastic on the plastic lay a 6 and 1/2t long by 3T wide Pine board with
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handcuffs and straps fastened To Each corner the connecting chains running through large holes bored in the wood a
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large knife and a wide roll of plastic was in the corner of the room and the Only Furniture in this room is a table
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standing against the wall Mullin called his lieutenant and suggest Ed that he take a personal look at this crime scene
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which he did identification the man was Dean Coral the dead man 33 years old he worked for the Houston Lighting and
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power company as an electrician right Coral was 6'1 in tall and weighed approximately 200 lb he had been shot
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six times mostly in the back and shoulder and once in the head the bullet in Coral's head protruded from the skull
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Mullin began his investigation of the crime scene he started in the bedroom he found eight sets of handcuffs and the
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keys to the handcuffs were scattered about the floor there was a roll of tape and a black toolbox containing torture
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items including some Thin glass tubes a 17-in dildo normal size rope an electrical wire in a second bedroom
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across the hall he found a gas mask with a clear plastic visor in the attached garage he found traces of white
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dehydrated lime on the floor the white van had a series of hooks and Rings protruding from the walls the rear
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windows of the van were covered by curtains and there was a piece of stained carpet and rope in the rear of
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the vehicle and two large wooden boxes with air holes one of which contained some hair Mullin finished his report and
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returned to the police [Music] station all right cheers mates cheers to you captain and where we left off we
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were back at the police station now none of the teens invoked their right to an attorney none of them I even asked for
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their parents to be notified Henley said he knew coral for quite a while Coral also lived in the heights but recently
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had moved to Pasadena Coral invited Henley to a party Henley invited his friend Tim Curley and the two went to
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Coral's home at around 9:30 p.m. the night before Henley Curley and coral sat in the front room drinking beer smoking
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pot and bagging paint which is according paint yes so this is sniffing the fumes
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from acrylic paint sprayed into a brown paper bag at some point Henley left to pick up
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his girlfriend Ronda Williams according to Henley he and coral had agreed to leave for Colorado in about a week and
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Rhonda was coming with them Henley didn't tell Coral he was going to pick up Ronda that night instead he and
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Curley told Coral that they were going out for sandwiches and arrived back at Coral's House in Pasadena around 2:30
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a.m. now Dean Coral was not happy that the boys showed up back at his place with Ronda in fact he was extremely
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angry he had other plans in mind for that evening well yeah cuz girls have cooties Coral seemed to get over it and
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the teens resumed their activities of smoking pot and sniffing paint until at some point the teens all passed out and
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Coral's living room when Henley came to his senses he discovered Coral was handcuffing him curly and Ronda their
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wrists and ankles were already Shackled and their mouths were sealed with masking tape they lie on the floor
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helpless Coral launched into a tie raade threatening to kill all of of them he brandished a pistol and a huge knife in
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his hands he shouted to the teens that he had already killed some boys who had resisted him in the past and that he was
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going to kill them but quote first I'm going to have my fun but Henley and coral they had a long relationship they
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had a special relationship let's say well let's not call it that well Henley started trying to talk and coral took
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the tape off of his mouth Henley began to sweet talk Coral he he promised that he would help torture and kill Curley
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and Ronda if Coral would free him hey could you imagine being curly like dude shut up what are you doing you going to
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help torture me well I don't think at this time that Curley or Ronda were awake but if they were that's what
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they'd be thinking oh you just turned on us this quickly yeah yeah great friend well maybe they were coming too because
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at some point Coral grabbed Henley by his wrists that were handcuffed dragged him into the kitchen area where they
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continued to talk apparently in the Kitchen Coral and Henley struck some kind of bargain Coral would assault
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Curley the boy and Henley would rape Ronda then they would kill the two and be done with both of them at this point
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it was beginning to be light outside as promised Coral unlocked Henley's handcuffs as Henley recovered himself
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Coral picked up curly and disappeared down the hall Henley heard a scuffling and clinking of handcuffs then Coral
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returned picked up Ronda and disappeared into the hallway again Henley took a hit
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of paint fumes and headed down the hallway to the bedroom there he found curly and Ronda Shackled to a long
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wooden board at their wrists and ankles Coral was naked and on his knees beside curle he nodded toward Ronda signaling
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Henley Henley took off his clothes and prepared to cut ronda's clothes off of her with the knife Coral that had handed
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him Rhonda begged him not to cut the shirt he cut her pants off and laid down beside Rhonda but he couldn't bring
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himself to do it meanwhile Coral was trying to assault curlyy the Frantic teen was struggling to defend himself
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from the assault Henley saw Ronda was having trouble breathing so he stripped the tape from her mouth and she quietly
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begged him to get her out of this place Coral stopped momentarily and removed the tape from Curley's mouth Curley
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begged Coral to leave him alone Henley could see the pistol on the small table where Coral left it he got to his feet
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and told Coral he was going to the bathroom he went and then on his return he picked up the gun and pointed it down
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at Coral he told Coral stop yelling you've gone far enough Dean I can't have you killing all of my friends Coral
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looked up at Henley Henley warned him he would shoot if Coral came at him but Coral came up off of the floor in a
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lunge trying to grab the gun and yelling kill me Wayne kill me Henley pulled the
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trigger twice one bullet struck Coral in the shoulder the other in the head Coral
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half fell half stepped through the door into the hallway and bounced against the
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wall as he did so his feet became Tangled in the cord to the phone that stretched across the hall into the other
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bedroom still shaking with fear and adrenalin Henley emptied the pistol into Coral's back and shoulder Coral stumbled
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and crashed to the floor then the police were called the body is discovered and the teens were arrested
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now during the police questioning captain we're bringing in other people here not just the teens that they found
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on location but we have some of some people that know Coral as well and the first people that they speak to is his
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father and stepmother who are adamant and deny that Dean Coral was homosexual or violent saying that there was no way
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that he could have assaulted a teenage boy right but did the cops say hey can you EXP explain to us these torture
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devices um hey can you explain to us the 17in long dildo well they these two would tell
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police that the three teenagers must have murdered Dean in a drug induced frenzy yeah they're they're sniffing a
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bunch of paint walking around town with a 17inch long dildo well detective Mullin returned to further question
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Henley he was skeptical about the story especially the part where Henley talked about Dean Coral boasting that he had
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killed before during this questioning Hill Henley said that he knew Coral had killed before in fact he knew some names
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of boys that were killed Henley even knew where some of the bodies were buried he said in an old boat storage
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shed somewhere in southwest Houston Henley started rattling off some names Charles Cobell Marty Jones and
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someone named hillig he said these boys lived in the Heights neighborhood Cabell and Jones
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two boys aged 17 and 18 were missing from the heights for 2 weeks seemingly Vanishing Without a Trace and both boys
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parents received phone calls from their sons saying they were in trouble further the officers discovered
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that there was a file on a missing 13-year-old that disappeared while in route to a local swimming pool in the
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Heights on May 29th 1971 his name was David hillig interviews with Tim Curley and
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Ronda Williams backed up Henley's story of the shooting but what is clear is these two knew nothing of the other
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allegations that Henley was making about Dean Coral right homicide detectives were called in and Henley was able to
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lead law enforcement to a boat shed where he said Coral had buried some boys Southwest boat storage was a 20 stall
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dry land Marina made of corrugated metal and shaped like an L the Stalls a sizable 12 ft wide and 30 ft deep Coral
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stall was number 11 yeah and it had 6ot wide double doors and they're going to be padlocked Coral rented the space
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since November of 1971 and he was listed as a good renter who paid promptly he had recently inquired about
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renting a second stall but none were currently available according to the owner Coral visited the stall number 11
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multiple times a week often seen unloading things from his white van officers used a crowbar to break open
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the lock holding the doors the stall had no windows it was incredibly hot inside
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so he has a creepy van and he has a creepy stall yes yes he does and he's asking about renting a second creepy St
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can I can I get another stall please inside they find a dirt floor which is covered by two carpets one green one
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blue and an old rusted car as well a bicycle leaned against the wall in the left rear corner was a 50gal steel drum
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a dozen large brown water containers were scattered about the space two bags of dehydrated lime sat at top one of the
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containers beside the car was a plastic bag containing clothing and a pair of red shoes with high heels after clearing
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out the stall it was clear that there was going to be some digging and after a lot of effort and quite some time the
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digging exposed the distorted face of a young boy they could see a cord embedded
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in the boy's throat the smell of Decay permeated the stall yeah this kind of reminds you of gasey in a way yes and as
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Twilight approached and the digging continued police officers uncovered a second body meanwhile the media began to
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get wind of what happened first the shooting of Dean coral and then the search for what at the time was listed
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as the search for three bodies at this storage shed right of course it was just a matter of time before the media showed
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up outside of the boat storage shed video footage was shot of an anxious Wayne Henley making a statement about
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the shooting and today this is on YouTube you can see Henley on video talking on the phone to his mom saying
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mama mama I shot Dean reporters saw that the excavation of the storage shed was unearthing human remains and within
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minutes this story was on the 6:00 news the body count was climbing and The Sensational story of a Mad sex pervert
00:35:51
who killed boys and buried them in his boat shed made national and international headlines Within within a
00:35:57
day more than 50 out of state and foreign reporters arrived in Houston to cover the horrific Story the news of the
00:36:05
mass murders in Houston reverberated around the world even the pope addressed the story saying quote we are in the
00:36:13
domain of sadism and demonism now as mass murder and Houston author John gerwell described it some
00:36:22
bodies were shrouded completely in clear plastic and the excavators would brush a
00:36:27
the dirt and turn away from the features that looked up at them these were the more recently interred victims others
00:36:36
were half protected by their plastic wrappings from their head down to waist their lower portions were shredded Away
00:36:44
by lime and time to Stained Fabric or leg bones in tendons the others those which had rested longer in their enemity
00:36:55
in this isolated burial pit were just lumps of decomposition the Earth had all but
00:37:01
claimed them as the bodies emerged from the dirt they were laid on the ground outside the boat shed and numbered Wayne
00:37:09
Henley spent the night in a Cell at the Pasadena Police Station right authorities weren't ready to declare him
00:37:17
an innocent victim just yet police were beginning to wonder if the bodies installed number 11 could possibly have
00:37:24
been the work of just one evil man man right so you have a situation where you have a teenager that just killed his
00:37:32
friend Dean that supposedly was torturing another two teenagers mhm and then when they're brought to the police
00:37:42
station Henley saying hey look there's more to the story and and there's more victims the police don't buy it because
00:37:49
they don't even buy that Dean would have tortured the teens originally that were
00:37:54
in his house but then once they go to his storage unit they start finding these bodies now we have these bodies
00:38:02
but we don't have the why or exactly who right and I think it's a little more complicated because I think what we have
00:38:10
here is Henley seemed content to just tell them that look this guy threatened me and he was going to kill these two
00:38:18
kids that were with me so I I talked my way out of the handcuffs and I killed this evil dude well during the course of
00:38:25
telling that story he throw in there that Dean said hey look I've killed I've killed kids before and I'm going to kill
00:38:32
you guys and I'm going to take my time doing it right and my I'm going to have my fun before that's when like you know
00:38:39
when dogs you know how they kind of they perk up when they hear certain thing and
00:38:42
their ears go up that's when the detective's ears went up and he was like wait a second that one line right there
00:38:48
I want to know what this kid meant by I've killed more before I've killed boys before right and that's when I think
00:38:55
after being pushed he's like yeah he has killed in fact I know where some of the bodies are they're in the
00:39:01
storage shed he's sitting there and they're wondering well 11 people we found 11 kids wow buried in the shed so
00:39:10
we want to know more and the questioning of Wayne Henley is going to continue and
00:39:14
while Mullin was interviewing Henley he is interrupted by a phone call it was a Houston homicide detective he told
00:39:22
Mullin that a David Brooks was brought into the department by his father that the Brooks boy was giving a
00:39:30
statement implicating Wayne Henley as Coral's longtime partner in luring Houston teenagers into Coral's hands
00:39:39
right Brooks claimed to be an eyewitness and that he had knowledge about coral and Henley Mullin hung up the phone and
00:39:48
looked over at Henley he said quote that was officer Lieutenant Porter of Houston
00:39:55
homicide he just told me that a boy named David Brooks was making a statement there about you and coral and
00:40:03
the boys we have dug up at the boat shed but right but Henley Brooks and Dean they were like a m crew according to
00:40:11
Mullin Henley wheeled around in his chair and leaned across the desk toward Mullin and said that's good now I can
00:40:20
tell you the whole story [ __ ] Henley's confession states that he met Coral when
00:40:25
he was about 14 years old old through David Brooks Brooks told Henley that Coral could get them in on a deal where
00:40:33
he could make some money once they met Henley's confession States Coral told me he belonged to an organization out of
00:40:41
Dallas that bought and sold boys ranor and dope and stuff like that Dean told me that he would pay me $200 at least
00:40:51
for every boy that I could bring to him and maybe more if they were really good looking boys he stated I didn't try to
00:41:00
find any for him until about a year later and I decided that I could use the money to get better things for my people
00:41:08
so one day I went over to Dean's apartment on Schuler Street and told him that I would find a boy for him Dean had
00:41:15
a GTX at the time and we got in it Dean and me started driving around we picked up a boy at 11th in stward I talked him
00:41:26
into going to Dean apartment to smoke some marijuana so we he went over to Dean's Dean left some handcuffs laying
00:41:33
out where they could be seen and we had this little deal set up where I would put the handcuffs on and then I would
00:41:39
get out of them then we talked this boy I don't remember his name into trying to
00:41:45
get out of the handcuffs the only thing was we put them on where the locks were turned in where he couldn't get the key
00:41:52
into them then Dean took the boy down and tied his feet and put tape over his mouth Henley said he thought Dean was
00:42:01
going to sell him to this organization that he belonged to so he left then the next day Dean paid him
00:42:07
$200 then a day or so later Henley found out that Dean had killed the boy and found out that Dean had screwed him in
00:42:16
the ass before killing him this was the start of the whole thing and since then Henley said he helped Dean get eight or
00:42:25
10 other boys saying I don't remember exactly how many Dean would screw all of them and then he would kill them Henley
00:42:35
stated that he had killed several of them himself with Dean's Gun and helped choke some of the others then they would
00:42:42
take them and bury them in different places he also said David Brooks was with us on most of these
00:42:50
kills Brook's confession stated in essence that he had been present when most of the killings happened stating I
00:42:58
was in the room when they happened and I was supposed to help if something went wrong Brooks said in a somewhat passive
00:43:05
manner once they were on the torture board they were as good as dead it was all over but the shouting and the crying
00:43:14
Brooks confirmed that once Henley came into the picture quote most of the killings involved all three of us he
00:43:22
made it clear though that there had been murders before Henley arrived on the scene two years ago he said there was a
00:43:31
boy whose name he couldn't recall but Coral kept him alive for 4 days saying it really upset Dean to have to kill
00:43:39
this boy because he really liked him Brooks told investigators that Coral moved almost constantly around the
00:43:46
heights never staying in one place for long and the murders occurred at multiple addresses around town he said
00:43:54
in all I guess there were between 25 and 30 boys killed and they were buried in three different places Brooks makes
00:44:02
clear in his confession that he didn't do any of the actual killing right he said of the killings which he witnessed
00:44:09
quote it didn't bother me to see it I saw it done many times I just wouldn't do it myself and I never did do it
00:44:17
myself while he admitted to luring boy being present for many of their deaths helping to bury the bodies he never
00:44:25
admitted to committing murder murder he did however throw Wayne Henley under the
00:44:30
bus telling police that Henley seemed to enjoy causing pain to the victims and that he had killed some of them and one
00:44:37
time Brooks told police Brooks talked Coral out of killing one of the boys and coral actually let him go this was a boy
00:44:45
named Billy ridinger once Brooks made his initial confession after being brought into the station by his father
00:44:52
he was placed under arrest so clearly Captain Henley confession went far beyond the accessory role he had
00:45:01
initially CED to right he actually according to his words killed six of the victims at Coral's behest by shooting
00:45:09
them in the head or strangling them so based off of Henley right we have this confession we have multiple murders but
00:45:18
then Brooks is also saying hey there was these murders that took place before Henley but then we could then assume
00:45:27
that before Brooks that Dean possibly killed others before Brooks was involved yeah and I don't think that we can
00:45:35
understand the whole tale of Dean Coral unless we know the story of his background what is really remarkable and
00:45:43
terrifying about Dean Coral was that throughout his life there were no visible signs that he would become a
00:45:49
prolific serial killer and actually no one knows how many boys Dean Coral murdered as you just stated Dean Coral
00:45:57
was active and involved in his community and by all accounts well-liked and friendly he was born in Fort Wayne
00:46:05
Indiana on Christmas Eve in 1939 his parents Arnold and Mary were both 23 when he was born we don't know
00:46:15
or have much information about Coral's Young Life uh it was apparently fairly unremarkable it has been reported by
00:46:23
many sources that Dean was something of a mama's boy his parents divorce when Dean was six
00:46:30
soon thereafter Arnold Coral was drafted into the army and was based near Memphis
00:46:35
Tennessee so Mary moved to a trailer home nearby with her sons so they could stay close to their dad yeah Arnold and
00:46:44
Mary remarried in 1950 and moved to Houston oh so they get a divorce they decide to put on dirty
00:46:53
underwear and get married again well he goes off into the army she moves to be close to uh him and his their sons can
00:47:02
be close to him as well Arnold and Mary divorced once again uh Arnold did maintain a good relationship and contact
00:47:11
with his sons and 1953 Mary married again this time to Jim West a Salesman who up and moved the family to vdor
00:47:20
Texas the couple had Joyce this would end up being Dean's half sister while living there Dean was an average student
00:47:29
he thrived in the school band and he was what instrument do we know he was known
00:47:35
to be quite a good trombone player he's a real tromboner people who attended VOR
00:47:41
high school with Dean they say that he was popular he dated girls went to dances and Drive-ins and noted that he
00:47:47
was extremely close to his mother Dean also raised rabbits and pigeons sometime in the mid1 1950s Mary started making
00:47:56
making praline candies and Dean went to work for his mother's candy business harvesting the peans to make the prings
00:48:05
packaging the treats and doing the deliveries in 1962 Mary and Jim divorced the family moved into the
00:48:14
Heights area of Houston where Mary set up her shop the family business was incorporated with Mary as president Dean
00:48:22
vice president and Stanley the secretary treasurer Dean's half-sister Joyce also
00:48:28
helped out Dean had a good relationship with his father Arnold and he decided to
00:48:34
follow in Arnold's footsteps and become an electrician he got a job with Houston
00:48:39
Light and Power so Dean as we said made candy at at night right and worked at Houston light and power during the day
00:48:48
there is a story reported in multiple sources that a male employee of the candy company complained to Mary uh that
00:48:56
Dean had come onto him and Mary Dean's mother fired the employee denying that Dean would ever have done anything like
00:49:04
this in 1964 Dean was drafted into the US Army to which he applied for a hardship discharge claiming he was
00:49:14
needed at the family business the Army granted this request and Dean left the service just 10 months after his
00:49:22
induction according to Army records Coral's service record was considered excellent in 1965 the coral candy
00:49:32
company moved into a building directly across from the Helms Elementary School in the Heights Dean became the general
00:49:39
manager and he seemed to Revel in being known as quote the Candyman this was because this is as he
00:49:47
was known to the neighborhood children well and this is cuz he would hand out free candy when when children would come
00:49:54
into the store it just kind of you know you've seen this you've seen the scene in willly Wonka MH the Candyman can well
00:50:02
in the back room of the candy factory candy store Coral installed a pool table so kids started loitering at The Candy
00:50:11
Factory hanging out in the back room and spending lots of time in the company of
00:50:15
Dean Coral hey it's a good investment though the more they spend playing pool the more candy they buy now no one knows
00:50:22
if anything nefarious happened during this time if any of the boys were prayed upon it has been noted that Dean had a
00:50:30
private room in the back of the Candy Factory where he would Retreat if he was angry or in a temper and he would then
00:50:39
emerge later all smiles this room was referred to in several sources as the pouting
00:50:47
room so perhaps I have to wonder is there you know was was he going into this room at times to kind of stifle
00:50:58
urges having a hard time controlling himself in the presence of all of these young boys or teenage boys right right
00:51:06
now in 1968 on the advice of a medium Mary his mother dissolved the candy company and moved to
00:51:14
Colorado this was likely a difficult transition for Coral he never saw his mother in person again although the two
00:51:23
remained close talking on the phone regularly Coral went to work full-time for the Houston Lighting and power
00:51:30
company throughout the late 60s and until his death Dean dated a woman named Betty Hawkins Betty was a divorce with
00:51:39
two small boys Betty told the LA Times after Dean's death that the couple intended to marry in two weeks time and
00:51:47
the two planed to go to Colorado to live in an interview after Coral's death Betty said quote Dean was one of the
00:51:54
kindest men I ever knew if he had something and someone needed it he'd give it to them she said that Dean was
00:52:02
wonderful with her eight and 10-year-old boys oh if she only knew she also told investigators that quote in 5 years Dean
00:52:11
and I never really had sex saying they would hug and kiss there were times that they came close but never did it stating
00:52:20
he believed that you should be married Betty said that she refused to believe any of the report reports about Dean
00:52:28
yeah you should be married unless you're a child well she said that she had visited Dean's apartment many times
00:52:37
often rode in his van and never once had she stumbled across anything as strange
00:52:42
as what was being reported in the newspapers even when she dropped by in on Dean
00:52:49
unexpectedly however Betty told Billy buch's mother Billy was one of Coral's victims we would later learn that right
00:52:57
that every time she went to Dean's home he had quote a bunch of boys around and she didn't think this was normal Billy
00:53:05
buch's mother told him to stop hanging out with Dean Coral it is interesting though to see
00:53:13
that Dean Coral seemed to have been capable of quote a normal type relationship you
00:53:20
know this based off of affection rather than sadistic urges right but it sounds as though by keeping a girlfriend around
00:53:31
and acting like an upstanding citizen Dean Coral was attempting to hide who he really was or what he really was right a
00:53:40
sadistic pedophilic serial murder now in 1973 Captain we have we're back to the point where we have all the
00:53:48
news coming out about the serial killings of so many teenage boys that has rocked the high neighborhood to its
00:53:58
core and the hillig the family that we've discussed a couple of times so far right they're learning that their son he
00:54:06
possibly met his fate at the hands of this serial killer so Dorothy Hill recalled an incident that happened in
00:54:15
1971 on one day David failed to return home when he said that he would when he turned up he explained that he and malie
00:54:25
visited a man in The Candy Factory this was the coral candy company right across the street
00:54:32
from the elementary school played a little pool went to the powy room well exactly David told his mother he said
00:54:38
there's a pool table in the back and Dean Coral lets us play pool and have free candy Dorothy told David not to
00:54:46
visit The Candy Factory again but he protested he wanted to hang out with his friend stating but malie knows him
00:54:54
meaning Dean and his mother malie's mother actually worked for Dean so she checked with
00:55:02
Selma Winkle and Mrs Winkle said she had worked at The Candy Factory but she actually knew very little about Dean
00:55:11
Coral who worked for the family candy business one way or another a second time when Dave was again late coming
00:55:19
home Dorothy went to The Candy Factory herself there she found David's and Mal's bicycles parked outside she pushed
00:55:28
the button at the door and a man opened it up she asked for David she told the man whom she presumed to be Dean Coral
00:55:37
that she didn't want her son to visit the store anymore when the man told her that he knew Mrs Winkle Mrs hillas
00:55:45
replied that made no difference the man called David from the rear room Mrs hillig bought a box of candy and she and
00:55:54
David left furthermore Dorothy recalled with horror something that happened just a few weeks
00:56:01
prior to the discovery of the bodies her son Greg hillig was friends with a boy down the street named Ronnie Henley she
00:56:11
let Greg go down the street to the Henley house to play remember Greg is the younger brother of David hillig
00:56:19
right when Greg returned he told his mother that Dean coral and Wayne Henley were there
00:56:26
and that quote Dean is a real nice man Greg told her adding that he told me that he and Wayne were going to take me
00:56:34
and Ronnie fishing one of these days if Coral had gotten his hands on Greg it's already suspected that David Hill would
00:56:43
end up being a victim but if Coral had gotten his hands on Greg it would not have been the first time that he made
00:56:50
brothers disappear right even more horrible was Dorothy's recall that not only did the neighbor Wayne Henley help
00:56:58
hand out flyers about David being missing he said to her this is from a book called The Man with the candy I
00:57:07
really really feel you know sorry for yall and my heart just goes out to you David could still be right around here
00:57:15
sometimes the parents can't see the kids and the kids can't see the parents he could be right under your nose and you
00:57:23
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