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Postby Marionumber1 » Sat Mar 26, 2022 11:46 pm

Here is one source that I found: Independent (Long Beach CA), "Homosexuals list 100,000", 1973/08/16

[...]

However, among the items found in a raid on an apartment here were four photographs with the word "kill" printed in orange lettering on the tape binding the young mens pictures.

Newman said the meaning of the word would be thoroughly investigated, but it was pointed out that it merely could mean that the four no longer were "available." He said an attempt would be made to find the four to confirm their state of health.

[...]


As for the Corll/Norman connection, all the signs point that way, and I would be confident saying that it is at least 90% certain, but I have been trying to dig up Dallas police records that confirm exactly what type of link they found with Corll.
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Postby drstrangelove » Sun Mar 27, 2022 12:10 am

Marionumber1 » Sat Mar 26, 2022 11:46 pm wrote:As for the Corll/Norman connection, all the signs point that way, and I would be confident saying that it is at least 90% certain, but I have been trying to dig up Dallas police records that confirm exactly what type of link they found with Corll.

This is precisely what I'm looking into. I'll be able to produce something more thorough soon, but here's the timeline i got so far:

August 8th 1973 – Dean Corll found dead
August 9th 1973 – Wayne Henley, David Brook confessions
August 10th - 14th 1973 – Dallas police receive anonymous tip about Odyssey Foundation. (From insider who got spooked after man from Houston called, gave info on John Norman.)
August 14th 1973 – Dallas police raid John Normans apartment.
August 17th 1973 – State Department field agent in Los Angeles reports to Kissinger's State Department in Washington about Dallas investigation into Odyssey foundation.
August 23th 1973 – State Department field agent in Dallas assists Dallas PD with case.
August 31st 1973 – Houston police file report about letter received from Ahern postmarked 24th of August. They contact LA PD Vice division with this info.
September 1st 1973 – LA PD Vice division arrest Guy Straight.
October 23rd 1973 – Bill Byars is arrested as part of Guy Straight investigation, along with Houston photographer William Johnson.
December 1973 – Roy Ames warehouse raided in Houston.
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Postby drstrangelove » Sun Mar 27, 2022 12:18 am

NYTimes online digital TEXT-based archives scrubbed the word "kill" from their article on the Odyssey foundation from 16 August 1973:

Assistant Police Chief Donald Steele reported that four pictures of young boys found in the apartment had the word written on them. However, the police said they were told the word referred to their removal from the procurement ring's literature because they were uncooperative and did not mean they had been ordered killed.

- https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/16/arch ... llass.html

Here is a scanned copy of the original from their paywalled archive:
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Postby drstrangelove » Sun Mar 27, 2022 1:08 am

murders of Donald & Jerry Waldrop are the most suspect thing I come across in relation to Dean Corll:
- Father reports the two boys hanging around Roy Ames back in 1971.
- They are both dug up in gravesite #5 of the boatshed, as bodies #9 and #10.
- Police paused digging on the 8th after recovering body #8. Excavation resumes after crime scene left overnight, with graveside #5 on 9th of August.
- Inside gravesite #5 is found a partially filled out Houston police report that had been buried with body #9, one of the Waldrop brothers. (source: D-68904 – Report – 1.pdf , pages 12 and 14) Though it appears as if this item goes missing in later police reports.
- Other documents are found buried that directly identify the identity of both Waldrop boys AND their parents.
- I remember reading somewhere in the police reports there having been confusion about when gravesite #5 was initially discovered, or why it wasn't discovered earlier on the 8th but rather on the 9th. I'll have to revisit this, but it seemed to indicate there was some confusion or disorder about the sequence of events during the boatshed excavation.

I think Dean Corrl buried evidence of something bigger he was involved in with those two boys as insurance.
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Postby drstrangelove » Wed Mar 30, 2022 10:43 am

Useful info on Roy Ames connection:

The last "major ll commercial dealer case prosecuted in
the State of Texas was the case of Roy Clifton Ames in
Houston. That case, which received considerable local
publicity, involved the production of obscene films and
other materials in Houston, and the sale of these materials
through the mails using addresses in New York and California.
The majority of the materials in question were of a homo-
sexual nature, and local Houston residents, including several
young teenage boys, were used as "models. 1I
This case pro-
bably earned the City of Houston the title of "Kid-Porn
Capital of the World. II Four and one quarter tons of poY'n
and equipment were initially confiscat2d. Later two additional
tons were seized by Houston Police Department.
Roy Ames and his associate, Leonard Edward Cunningham,
recruited boys f~om the Houston area and paid them to perform
homosexual acts with each other and with adults while Ames
filmed and took still photos of them in local residences
and motels. Advertisements for the products were placed
in sexually oriented magazines~ with requests for merchandise
being sent to a New York address and a California address.
Requests were then mailed from the two addresses to Houston
where orders were filled, showing the return address of either
of the two cities where requests were oriainally received.
However, envelopes were postmarked in ~ouston. Ames plead
guilty and was sentenced to twelve years in federal prison.
He could have received ~p to twenty years and fines totaling
$25,000 on each of the four counts of conspiracy and mailing
obscene matter. Cunningham entered a guilty plea and received
a sentence of six years.


- https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitizat ... 6NCJRS.pdf , page 72

"Juvenile officers say 11 boys who were victims in the Houston mass murders case are pictured in sex material seized in what police called a homosexual ring. Police said Thursday they have identified 32 of the thousands of youths in the pictures and films. Juvenile Officer Johnny Freeman said most of the youngsters are from the Heights area of Houston and a few questioned from the Bomball area moved there within the past year. The case became public last week when four men were charged with sexual abuse of a child. They are Bryant A. Burch, 31, Leonard E. Cunningham, 29, John Jennings, 40, and Alfred Van Dyke, 35. Officers Ed Greenstein, Audrey Davies and Freeman said they were told by youngsters involved in the case they were paid $15 to $20 for “being in a movie” and they did not know that was against the law. Reels of films show youngsters, some as young as 8 and 9, engaging in sex acts, Greenstein said. Distribution of the film ranged as far as Sweden and Austria, authorities claimed. The officers said postal inspectors and the Internal Revenue Service have been working on the case. Police estimated they have more than 10,000 color photos of unclad children in various poses, more than 1,000 reels of film, 200 magazines and a number of paperback books. Some of the youngsters in the pictures now are legal adults, leading officers to believe the business has been going on locally for some years.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37850595/corsicana-daily-sun/

In 1975, a second search was conducted of Ames' warehouse by Houston police officers. In this search, over two tons of child pornography were seized.

- http://courts.mrsc.org/appellate/060wna ... pp0592.htm

So it was Roy Ames' warehouse the child pornography of 11 Corll victims were found in. Leonard E Cunningham was probably 'Charles Anson' in the Ahern letter.
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Re: Serial killers with hidden parapolitical connections

Postby drstrangelove » Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:01 pm

Marionumber1 » Wed Mar 23, 2022 1:05 am wrote:Finally, Guy Strait, who was Byars' partner in the operation, did later acknowledge knowing and working with John Norman (Chicago Tribune, "His only regret: I got caught", 1977/05/17):

Strait said he knows John Norman, who ran a national male prostitution ring employing young boys and helping put together a "neater package" to attract customers. He also said he wrote an article for Hermes magazine, a Chicago-based journal publishing philosophy and sex stories of "boy love."


Lots of signs pointing to a connection, but I don't think it's been definitively established yet. Your observation about this unknown "Bill" might be very significant, though.

There's more. This Bill Johnson photographer from Houston worked directed for Byars and skipped bail alongside him and Guy Strait in Apr 1974:

“Still being sought by authorities are bill Byars, 37, a Hollywood film producer and reported heir to the Humble Oil fortune; Bill Johnson, 55, of Houston, a photographer employed by Byars, and Guy Strait, 53, of Los Angles, a producer and distributor of so-called 'chicken gay films'. Grodin said he believes all three men are in Europe.”

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2681706 ... les-times/
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Postby drstrangelove » Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:51 pm

“Anthony Summers' J. Edgar Hoover biography, "Official and Confidential",
says that an older associate of Lyric's owner took two boys from the Lyric
L.A. "studio" down to "visit" then U.S. F.B.I. Director Hoover at his home
in La Jolla north of San Diego. (Tristans note: The story goes that upon
arrival the two boys were in sour moods and the sight of a "trollish" J.
Edgar laying by his pool didn't help matters. As the boys were being
introduced, Hoover mentioned that one of the boys would look much better
without the "girly long hair". The boy responded by telling J. Edgar to "go
fuck himself." This was a party that never got started, and both boys were
hurried back to the limo and Los Angeles. An alternative rumor is one where
the boys were driven to meet Hoover at his favorite bungalow at Clint
Murchisons Del Charro hotel in La Jolla, and two limo's then transported
everyone to an outdoor location where an "encounter" was to take place. Both
scenarios agree that the meeting was aborted due to the described
confrontation. As Hoover died on May 2nd 1972, this meeting, if it happened,
would have to predate that ). Since Strait was the oldest of those arrested
in the 1973 scandal, and as Linedecker says that Strait "claims to be the
first person to accuse Hoover of being a "closet queen", Strait may have
been the unidentified "older associate". Its thought that Summers and others
clearly knew it was Strait.”


There's just more and more. Bill Byars pimping boys used in Lyric child porn productions to J. Edgar Hoover.
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Postby drstrangelove » Thu Mar 31, 2022 6:01 pm

No verifiable source for this, google group, but seems about right:

British citizen Anthony Aikman, who had also migrated to Italy, had heard
from a friend who worked at the American Embassy that a young American film
crew was in Italy and that the producer was looking for a writer/director to
join the crew. Upon meeting Billy Byars, Aikman was told that the script
needed work and that they also needed help directing the film. Aikman soon
agreed to join the crew and together Byars and Aikman completed the script.
After finding a remote coastal location in Salerno, Italy and a home to
rent, the Lyric Boys, many of whom by this time were under the legal foster
care custody of Billy Byars Jr. , were brought over to Italy from the U.S.A.
by Byars longtime companion and photographer William Johnson
. Among the boys
was the model and soon to be actor known as "Peter Glawson" and his younger
brother known as "Max" and the long time Lyric model known as "Billy
Marshall" appearing as "Jack Good". Aikmans' first and lasting impression
of the boys were that they were ill mannered, illiterate and unintelligent.
He remembers it was very difficult to get them to learn even the simplest of
lines. William "Bill" Johnson was described as an older man who remained in
the background and was said by Billy to be his security guard. He has also
been described as Byars "henchman" and "hired bully". Johnson was also
reported to have been an intermediary between Billy and his father years
before when Byars father threw Billy Jr. out of his house upon learning of
Billy's homosexuality
. Billy Jr. himself was remembered as a braggart who
boasted about how he was an heir to an oil fortune, knew J. Edgar Hoover and
once told Aikman he could have Aikman or anyone else killed and nothing
would happen to him. He also repeated the lie that he had a Masters degree
from MIT and believed his real parents were Russian royalty. Bill Dewar was
the cameraman and really the only person who had professional experience
working on a film. He was described as a hard working man and talented
filmographer. Although the film credits for TGC have been listed in various
ways, it can be now said that Dewar/Byars/Aikman were the "Directors",
Byars/Aikman were the "Writers" with a poetry credit to Barbara Smith, Dewar
was the "Director of Photography" and Dulaney the "Sound Engineer".

- https://groups.google.com/g/soc.motss/c ... 8o4c?pli=1

Lots of good information on Bill Byars and Guy Strait from what are seemingly online pro-pederasty groups. I think there were basically three types of child pornographers operating back in the 1970s. Those that kept it borderline legal, so using boys around 14. Then there were those that went down into the single age digits, which involved more S&M stuff, incest, other taboos. Then I think there was a snuff market. I'd put Byars and Strait in the first two categories(seems a lot of online sources believe it was just the first, hence why they readily provide info), and Roy Ames in the last two categories. This is purely speculative, but I think Dean Corll was being used as an adult actor in Roy Ames films. Houston is a port city, so I think that stuff mostly got shipped overseas. That is, the high risk stuff like snuff was never circulated in its country of origin, too risky, hence the connection with places like Belgium and the Netherlands, which persistently keep popping up.

Guy Straits testimony to the Senate is very interesting as well. He states on multiple occasions, or rather insinuates, that high powered individuals are involved in this stuff. I'll post some of it later.
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Re: Serial killers with hidden parapolitical connections

Postby drstrangelove » Sat Apr 02, 2022 5:32 am

Predator sent back to hospital
MARCH 12, 2009 2 AM PT
SAN DIEGO COURTS —
An elderly sex offender who was allowed to live under supervision in rural East County was ordered yesterday to return to a state hospital because he broke several rules of his release.

John David Norman, 81, had been living in Boulevard until his arrest Feb. 2. Among other violations, he was accused of passing a note to a 19-year-old bagger at a grocery store in El Centro, then failing to notify authorities responsible for monitoring him. The note contained Norman’s name and phone number.

- https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sd ... story.html
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Postby Marionumber1 » Tue Apr 05, 2022 7:21 pm

Great digging once again. It's definitely valuable to have that explicit confirmation that the Houston location containing child pornography of Dean Corll's victims belonged to Roy Ames' pedophile ring co-conspirator. The Houston police report never explicitly confirms that Ahern's story is true, but this child porn bust less than 2 years later solidly backs up the connections he was alleging. And I wouldn't be surprised if you're right about Charles Anson just being Leonard Cunningham's alias.

The Byars family connections are certainly interesting. His father Billy Byars Sr. was reportedly acquainted with such familiar names (to JFK assassination researchers) as Clint Murchison, J. Edgar Hoover, and Jack Ruby. If I recall correctly, Byars Sr. was the only person other than Robert Kennedy and the Secret Service head whom Hoover called on the afternoon of JFK's assassination. That does in turn lead to a strange dynamic where Byars Sr. is close to Hoover while his purportedly estranged son is supplying Hoover with underage boys for sex. I am not sure how much I believe that there was actually a disconnect between the activities of Byars Sr. and Byars Jr.

Humble Oil, by the way, is known to have partnered with Joseph Rault, a New Orleans oilman who was cleared to assist the CIA's JM/WAVE station in Miami and was most likely infiltrating Jim Garrison's investigation of the Kennedy assassination (p.172-173 of Let Justice Be Done by Bill Davy and p.68 of A Farewell to Justice by Joan Mellen).

Like you, I wonder about the circumstances of the Waldrop boys' murders. Most of the victims seem to have been recruited by Corll's ring and that was the only way they would have gotten in touch with the other behind-the-scenes backers of his like Ames. Donald and Jerry, however, knew Ames even before they became victims of Corll's. I wonder if they were targeted by Corll for a particular reason, like to prevent them from talking if they knew too much about these higher-level men like Ames. Maybe the police report buried with them was an aborted attempt to out Ames to the police as a pedophile?
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Postby drstrangelove » Tue Apr 05, 2022 7:51 pm

Marionumber1 » Tue Apr 05, 2022 7:21 pm wrote:Great digging once again. It's definitely valuable to have that explicit confirmation that the Houston location containing child pornography of Dean Corll's victims belonged to Roy Ames' pedophile ring co-conspirator. The Houston police report never explicitly confirms that Ahern's story is true, but this child porn bust less than 2 years later solidly backs up the connections he was alleging. And I wouldn't be surprised if you're right about Charles Anson just being Leonard Cunningham's alias.

The Byars family connections are certainly interesting. His father Billy Byars Sr. was reportedly acquainted with such familiar names (to JFK assassination researchers) as Clint Murchison, J. Edgar Hoover, and Jack Ruby. If I recall correctly, Byars Sr. was the only person other than Robert Kennedy and the Secret Service head whom Hoover called on the afternoon of JFK's assassination. That does in turn lead to a strange dynamic where Byars Sr. is close to Hoover while his purportedly estranged son is supplying Hoover with underage boys for sex. I am not sure how much I believe that there was actually a disconnect between the activities of Byars Sr. and Byars Jr.

Humble Oil, by the way, is known to have partnered with Joseph Rault, a New Orleans oilman who was cleared to assist the CIA's JM/WAVE station in Miami and was most likely infiltrating Jim Garrison's investigation of the Kennedy assassination (p.172-173 of Let Justice Be Done by Bill Davy and p.68 of A Farewell to Justice by Joan Mellen).

Like you, I wonder about the circumstances of the Waldrop boys' murders. Most of the victims seem to have been recruited by Corll's ring and that was the only way they would have gotten in touch with the other behind-the-scenes backers of his like Ames. Donald and Jerry, however, knew Ames even before they became victims of Corll's. I wonder if they were targeted by Corll for a particular reason, like to prevent them from talking if they knew too much about these higher-level men like Ames. Maybe the police report buried with them was an aborted attempt to out Ames to the police as a pedophile?

Franchis Shelden worked as geologist and had something to do with oil speculation in Texas or something if i remember right.

I think Dean Corll buried the police reports with the bodies to implicate Roy Ames and the others involved. David Brooks father and uncle were good friends with one of the cops at Houston PD, and there was some suspicion surrounding the Brooks family I found in the police reports. Some detectives went out to David Brooks father's place at one point after he had put the property on the market. Nothing came of it, but they were interested in a lake there.

The conclusion I came to in the Dean Corll/ Roy Ames/ John Norman case was this:

At least in part, John Norman in Dallas was operating a procurement and distribution network for two groups producing child pornography in Houston and California. Child prostitution was apart of this to. His network was an intermediary between the two, sending boys from California to Houston and boys from Houston to California. In this way the network was able to isolate boys from their locality and make them reliant on the network for lodging, expenses etc. This made them more compliant and willing to accept things asked of them they hadn't signed on for, such as sadomasochism pornography. Trafficking boys across state lines also created a jurisdictional nightmare for local law enforcement agencies at a time when federal ones where either disinterested in these crimes or helping to cover them up.
Roy Ames used Dean Corll to recruit boys for John Norman in Dallas who would send them onto LA. It is also likely Roy Ames used Dean Corll as an adult actor in sadomasochist pornography, which possibly escalated to the production of snuff films sold on the European black market. This isn't really that speculative. We know Dean Corll raped, tortured, and murdered at least 11 children also used by Roy Ames to produce child pornography. This happened in Houston, which is a port city. We also know that the S&M child pornography Roy Ames produced ended up on the European market. All the ingredients are there. In fact, the only argument to be made against it would be:
1) They didn't think of it.
2) They did think of it but didn't do it. Either because of moral objection, or because it wasn't profitable enough to be worth the risk.
The absence of hard evidence for this, that being the existence of an actual snuff film found, would be attributed to such an item being high risk and in high demand(?). It is unlikely such an item would be circulated locally, or left lying around in storage for police to discover. And in regards to this, it would also seem as if some members of Houston PD where involved in a cover of Dean Corll being associated with Roy Ames. The one of the police reports which Dean Corll assumably buried with two of his victims, was found on one directly linked to Roy Ames through a missing persons report filed by the father. And this police report found with the body never found its way into evidence. Roy Ames was never investigated in regards to the murders despite multiple leads pointing towards him. This aside from the State Department destroying John Norman's client list discovered by police in Dallas. So there is evidence for a lack of evidence being attributed to a cover-up.
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Postby drstrangelove » Tue Apr 05, 2022 8:13 pm

The big connection would be between William Johnson, Bill Byars Houston associate, and Roy Ames. I did find evidence that Byars and Johnson were shipping boys from Houston to California to be used in their films.
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Postby Marionumber1 » Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:41 pm

Agreed, that is absolutely an important connection to probe. I think we need to further flesh out Roy Ames' network of co-conspirators in his child porn operations. I strongly suspect that names like John Norman and members of Byars' orbit such as William Johnson will come out.

One of the interesting things to probe is whether some of these people might have become affiliated through more legitimate above-ground businesses as well. For instance, Roy Ames was a Houston music producer, and Norman himself lived in Houston during young adulthood and was involved in music and TV production there. It's also known that Ames sometimes collaborated with another prominent Houston music producer named Huey Meaux, who was revealed to be a pedophile and belonged to a larger Houston-based child abuse network that I've talked about on the JonBenet Ramsey threads. And like you say, the oil business is another such field. Yes, we have Shelden as an oil geologist (though I don't recall if he operated outside of Michigan), the Byars family with Humble Oil, and also (in connection to the JonBenet Ramsey case) the Fleet White family which had some association with prominent Houston businessmen (see page 16 of the Houston Clubber).

I do think you are on to something as well that John Norman may have been more of a go-between, running a "network of networks" to help coordinate between more localized child trafficking operations at the time.
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Postby Marionumber1 » Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:57 pm

Speaking of the Fleet White family, which has been implicated in pedophile ring involvement in California, Colorado, and Texas (interestingly, this network has some credible ties with the Manson Family), they are said to have had a business relationship with prominent oilman J. Paul Getty. Getty's son John Paul Getty Jr. was a patron of Kenneth Anger, an LA-based filmmaker with a keen interest in satanism who was himself tied to the Manson Family and was once investigated by the police because he was suspected of producing snuff films. I wonder if the Getty Sr./Getty Jr. situation is a parallel to the Byars Sr./Byars Jr. situation, where the son may well be doing the dirty work on behalf of his well-connected father who remains in the shadows. To some extent, that is also a parallel to the Fleet White Sr./Fleet White Jr. dynamic.
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Postby drstrangelove » Wed Apr 06, 2022 1:03 am

https://thehotstar.net/odysseynetwork.html

The Politics of Organised Vice - Part 2: Dean Corll and the Odyssey Network
During the 1970s and 80s there were a series of mass child murders in cities across the United States. These were attributed to the motiveless crimes of serial killers, that is, where the motive is murder itself; a term popularised by behavioural scientists at the FBI to make sense of a seemingly new and senseless criminal phenomenon. However, in at least four cases there was substantial evidence linking these serial killings to a nationwide paedophile network which used children for the purposes of pornography, prostitution, and much worse. Members of this network included high powered individuals, and its operations were covered up by institutions as high up as the US Department of State.

To unravel this, we begin in Houston, Texas in 1973, and with the death of a man named Dean Corll.

NOTE: paedophilia was often conflated with homosexuality by news and law enforcement agencies in the 1970s. Thus, many of the sources used, such a police reports and news articles, will characterise crimes such as the rape, torture, and murder of children as homosexual ones. The men involved in such crimes, in most instances, did not have sex with other men at the peer level. Which is to say, they were pederasts or paedophiles, not homosexuals. That said, the homophobic slant given to police reports and news articles at the time these crimes were committed, should not preclude them as evidence of the crimes themselves. As they are the only pieces of evidence we have.

On the morning of August 8th 1973, 17 year-old Elmer Wayne Henley called Pasadena PD to report he had shot and killed a man at 2020 Lamar Drive. When police arrived at the address they discovered the bullet ridden body of 33 year-old Dean Corll lying naked in the hallway of his Pasadena bungalow. Henley had been waiting for police in front of the property with two others, 20 year-old Timothy Cordell Kerley and 15 year-old Rhonda Louise Williams.

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According to the three's statements, which more or less all aligned, Henley had invited the other two over to the Dean Corll's house for a paint sniffing party. They passed out and at some point Corll had tied the three of them up then started to rape and torture Kerley. Henley, who had known Corll, convinced him to untie him so he could do the same to Rhonda. After which Henley managed to get a hold of gun, which he used to shoot and kill Corll, he then untied the other two and called the police1. At the scene was found a double-ended dildo, glass rods, a hunting knife, and a plywood board with rope and handcuffs fixed to it.

After being taken into custody, Henley told police he knew of several teenagers Corll had killed and buried in a boat shed. He directed police to 4500 Silver Bell where Corll had been renting a storage shed since 1970. Inside police found two ten pound bags of lime, a garden rake, a shovel, a plastic bag full of teenage sized clothing, and an envelope containing pornographic literature2. A subsequent excavation of the site turned up the bodies of seventeen boys between the ages 13 and 19 who had gone missing in the local area over the past three years3.

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Henley then confessed to having helped Corll torture, kill and bury at least other six boys over the past two years. And he told police of another two locations where bodies had been buried. Four were recovered from a wooded area near Lake Sam Rayburn where Dean Corll's family owned a cabin, while another seven were found along a stretch of beach on the Bolivar Peninsula. A total of twenty-eight known victims. All of them males aged between thirteen and twenty years. Autopsies performed on the bodies indicated these victims had been raped and tortured before being killed. The cause of death in most cases given was strangulation or gun shot wound to the head.

Boat Shed Bodies: 17

Beach Bodies: 8

Woodland Cabin Bodies: 4

All up, 28 victims reported missing between September 1970 & August 1973.

Henley then also implicated a friend of his named David Owen Brooks(18) as an accomplice. It turned out Brooks had introduced Henley to Corll two year prior. Brooks was interviewed by police and he confessed to having been involved with these murders, and detectives concluded Corll had recruited the pair of teenagers to procure victims for him, but that they had come to progressively participate in the torture, murder, and disposal of the victims themselves4.

These are the crimes of what could be categorised as a rape, torture, and murder crew that targeted male victims between the ages of thirteen and twenty. The aspects of it are it had one adult supervising two teenaged procurers. Thus, following profile can be derived:

A group consisting of one or more adults;
Supervising one or more teenagers;
Engaged in the rape, torture, and murder of males under twenty.

This profile will fit a broader pattern later established as the scope of this series expands. But for now, this is what we start with:

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Dean Corll is better known as The Candyman killer. His activities have been recorded into the true crime cannon as an isolated instance of "serial killings", a categorical term popularised by behavioral psychologists at the FBI in 1974, later introduced into the public lexicon during news coverage of the Atlanta child murders in the early 1980s. A serial killer, more or less infers, an isolated instance of multiple murders over an a period of time by a single perpetrator, where the primary motive in each instance is the act itself. Which is to say the victims are more or less chosen at random, except for fitting a certain demographical profile.

However, in the case of Dean Corll, it is unreasonable to reduce this crimes to an isolated instance of random serial killings. Because to reach this conclusion, one would either have to be unaware of, ignore, or omit, multitudes of evidence pointing towards a broader network engaged in similar activities, ones from which there was to be found profit, and thus an alterer motive.

The first evidence of this is found in the confession statements given by both Wayne Henley and David Brooks on the 9th of August, the day after Dean Corll had been killed. In these confessions both teenagers stated that Corll had told them he was apart of Dallas organisation that bought and sold young boys, and that members of this organisation were also murdering boys in Dallas.

Henley's signed confession, made to Detective D.M.Mullican on August 9th 1973, stated that David Brooks had introduced him to Dean Corll after he had expressed interest in making some money, ''. . .and he took me to Dean Corll. Dean told me that he belonged to an organisation out of Dallas that bought and sold boys, ran whores and dope and stuff like that. Dean told me that he would pay me $200 at least for every boy that I could bring and maybe more if they were real good looking boys'' 5. Henley went on to say ''. . .I have come within an inch of killing him(Corll) but I just never got up enough nerve to do it until yesterday, because Dean had told me that his organization would get me if I ever did anything to him'' 6.
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Then David Brook's signed confession statement, made that the same day of August 9th, stated ''During one of our conversations Dean mentioned that there was a group of people in Dallas which had similar activities to his. He mentioned a man by the name of Art who he said had also killed some boys in Dallas. One day while I was at his house I picked up a piece of paper with the name Art on it and all of a phone number but the last number and the area code was 214. Dean also mentioned Art has a wife. Lately Dean has been wanting to go to Dallas and I believe was supose to go at the end of this month'' 7.
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Both confessions were made the same day, that is the 9th of August. Henley's confession was timestamped at 11.55 am and Brooks at 1.20 pm8. The two were being held and questioned at two different police stations in Houston, and spoke to two different sets of detectives. Henley had been held in custody by Pasadena police since the morning of the 8th. Brooks had turned himself in at Harris County PD on the morning of the 9th, assumedly after having heard of Corll's death through either the news or word of mouth. This meant Henley and Brooks had not communicated in the period between Henley having killed Corrll and them making corroborating statements that Corll had said he was apart of a larger organisation based in Dallas.

Further more, Rhonda Williams, the girl who had been tied up in Dean Corll's house, stated the following to police, ''Wayne has told Rhonda that he had been to Dallas several times with Dean and that a warehouse was in Dallas where she could make $1500 a week doing something illegal but Wayne reportedly had never told her what it was'' 9.
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Dean Corll said he worked for an organisation in Dallas that bought and sold boys, also killed them —

Evidence 1.1: Signed confession of Elmer Wayne Henley, as given on the 9th of August 1973.

Evidence 1.2: Signed confession of David Owen Brooks, as given on the 9th of August 1973.

Evidence 1.3: Statement by Rhonda Williams, as recorded by police on the 16th of August 1973.

On August 13th Pasadena detectives working this case called Dallas PD to inquire about the possibility of one or more murders there connected to the Dean Corll murders in Houston10. Then, the very next day, on the 14th of August, Dallas PD raided the apartment of a 45-year-old maned named John D. Norman on a tip that he was running a child pornography and callboy service out of an apartment at 208/3716 Cole Avenue11. The tip had reportedly been received anonymously on the 10th12 from someone involved who had gotten panicky after their services had been requested by a man calling from Houston13.
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When police raided 208/3716 Cole Avenue they arrested John Norman who had been found in the company of five teenaged boys. From the apartment they seized photographic equipment, child pornography, and enough documents, files, and booklets to fill a van14. Amongst the files found were an estimated 40,000 index cards with client information. And among these were the names of prominent individuals and some government employees in Washington15. But most strikingly, police also discovered the photographs of four boys with the word “kill” written on them16.

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Evidence seized from the apartment linked the operation to a post office box registered in San Diego, California under the name The Odyssey Foundation. This foundation had been setup as a front for a child pornography and prostitution mail service. Men could become members by subscribing to the foundations newsletters, which was child pornography. They could then also become 'sponsors', which would have them host boys, called 'fellows', in their homes for a given period and be paid a fee to do this. Boys housed in this manner would then be made available to other members of the network. Photographs of young boys, along with other details such as age and personality quirks, were advertised like classified ads in these newsletters circulated clandestinely through the postal service. The organisations network spanned from coast to coast across the United States. Most of the boys being trafficked in this manner were runaways and out of state to where ever they were sent.

So one day after Dallas PD is contacted by detectives working the Dean Corll murders in Houston, they discover a child pornography and prostitution mail service operated by a man named John Norman, in whose apartment they discover:
— An estimated 40,000 index cards with client information.
— Four photographs of boys with the word “kill” written on them.

Dean Corll had a private post office box in Houston17, which David Brooks had stated on more than one occasion, he had used for some kind of pornographic mail service18. While inconclusive, the coincidences here are starting to pile up.

On the 8th of August police discover the bodies of 28 boys murdered in Houston by Dean Corll.

The confession of Wayne Henley, as it was given on the 9th of August 1973, stated that Dean Corll claimed to be apart of a larger organisation based in Dallas.

The confession of David Brooks, as it was given on the 9th of August 1973, stated that Dean Corll claimed to be apart of a larger organisation based in Dallas.

Rhonda Williams stated to police that Wayne Henley told her he had travelled to Dallas several times with Dean Corll, and that she could make $1500 at a warehouse in Dallas doing something illegal.

David Brooks stated to police, first on August 11th 1973, then later on September 20th 1976, that Dean Corll used a secretive pornographic mail service.

Then Houston PD contacted Dallas PD on August 13th in regards to information David Brooks had given them about Corll knowing of murders in Dallas.

Then the very next day Dallas PD raid John Norman's apartment and discover a child prostitution and porngraphy mail service, four photographs of boys with the word “Kill” written on them, and 40,000 index cards listing clients.

Strange. . .yes, but nothing conclusive. . .yet. And now things look like this:

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However, the circumstances surrounding John Norman and his child porn and prostitution network in Dallas only get stranger. The 40,000 index cards that were confiscated by Dallas police, they were handed over to Henry Kissinger's State Department in Washington, who then subsequently destroyed them. This was confirmed by the State Department itself, both in an official statement given to the Chicago Tribune in 197719, and then in further detail with a lettered response to a request made by a US Senate inquiry into child exploitation held that same year20.

According to this State Department letter, just days after news broke of the Odyssey network in Dallas, one of its field agents in Los Angeles had reported the case to Washington. That was on the 17th of August. Then on the 23rd a State Department agent started to assist Dallas PD with the investigation. This was ostensibly in regards to a passport. Dallas PD mentioned to the agent that two of the names found in the index cards worked for the State Department, and this information was relayed to Washington sometime before the 5th of September 1973.

The State Department then confirmed that two of its employees had 'similar' names to the ones found on the index cards. One of these had been assigned to the US embassy in Mexico City. However no further investigation had been made into this. Then over a year later, in December of 1974, Dallas police handed over the entire collection of index cards to the State Department, who placed them in storage in January 1975, where they remained without review, until they were eventually destroyed later that year in September.

At this point it's worth mentioning that this is only one in a series of child trafficking cover-ups the US State Department has been involved in since the 1970s. To list a few without going into detail, there was the case of Laura Silsby in Haiti, Howard Gutman in Belgium, and Dyncorp in both Bosnia and Afghanistan. Both men in charge of the State Department during the period of concern here, 1973-1977, also had ties to Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who was inextricably linked to Jeffrey Epstein, who I might add, had other State Department ties through one of his planes that had been formerly registered to the Department(and also Dyncorp!) and a NY property he rented from the Department in the 1990s that had been the former Polish embassy. Henry Kissinger, who was Sec of State from September 1973 until January 1977, is credited as having introduced Lynn to Evelyn Rothschild at a Bilderberg meeting in 1999. While Cyrus Vance, who succeeded Kissinger as Secretary of State, was the senior partner at the New York law firm, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, which had hired Lynn Forester out of college in 1980. In fact, the government official who had given the Department's response to the Chicago Tribune's inquiry into the missing index cards was Matthew Nimetz, who had been brought over as a State Department attorney from that same law firm. Moreover, Vance's son, Cyrus Vance Jr, was the New York district attorney whose office attempted to downgrade Jeffrey Epstein's sex offender status. While this is all somewhat of a tangent, it fits a broader, almost fifty year pattern, of State Department officials involvement with human traffickers. Something which will be expanded upon in other articles to come.

Which put things like this:

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Now let us return to the possible ties between Dean Corll and John Norman, in a letter received by Houston police from a man named Steven Dale Ahern in California. In the letter, postmarked 24th of August 1973, Ahern gave information on a child pornography ring in Houston, further more, that a number of Dean Corll's victims had been photographed there by a man named Roy Ames21.

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According to the letter, Ahern had been in Houston back in 1971 after responding to an advertisement placed in an underground child pornography magazine called The Advocate. While there, he had been photographed by a man named Roy Ames who had a partner named Charles Anson, and that this Ames knew another man named Dean Corll who he used to exploit young boys. Ahern said that Ames and Corll had invited him to an S&M party at Corll's apartment when he was there. He also said he'd seen a number of Corll's victims appear in child pornography magazines circulated in California, but which had been produced in Texas22.

Houston police contacted the LAPD Vice Division regarding the information sometime between the 24th and 31st of August. Vice detectives in LA reported that thought they could identify at least one of Dean Corll's victims in a child porn magazine they had obtained called Hot Rods #323.

Then, on September 1st, the LAPD Vice Division arrested a man in Hollywood named Guy Strait for using boys aged 9-15 in pornographic films. And some of the boys used in Straits pornography had also been from Texas. At the time police told the local press that there was a possible link between Strait's operation and similiar ones in Dallas and Houston24. This is more probable than possible, as Houston PD had contacted the LA Vice division regarding Houston victims being found in child pornography only days prior to them having arrested Guy Strait.

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This Guy Strait was business partners with another man named William 'Bill' Byars Jr in a Hollywood production company called Lyric Productions(or DOMLyric). Strait's arrest in September eventually led to that of Byars , along with thirteen others, some months later on the 26th October 1973, as part of an ongoing investigation into what LA Vice described as “one of the nation's biggest 'chicken movie' operations”25. Among those arrested with Byars was a photographer from Houston, named William 'Bill' Johnston26. Police stated that Byars and Johnson may have been using boys from Houston in their films27.

Bill Byars was from a wealthy and well established oil family in Texas, heir to the Humble Oil fortune. His father, Bill Byars Snr., had been good friends with J. Edgar Hoover. In fact, according to one biographer28, Byars Jr. furnished the FBI director with boys used in his pornography productions, though we'll leave this digression alone for now.

In April 1974, some months after they had been arrested; both Strait and Byars, along with Byars Houston associate William Johnson, all skipped bail and were thought to be in Europe29. Byars and Johnson had in fact fled to Europe, but Strait hadn't and was eventually picked up by police in Phoenix, Arizona later in 1976 on unrelated charges of sex with a minor30.

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While in prison, Strait had told a reporter in 1977 that he knew John Norman and had written articles published in one of Norman's underground newsletters called Hermes31. Strait also later appeared before a Senate inquiry into child pornography rings and mentioned that he knew a child porngrapher in Houston by the name of Roy Ames32.

This Californian child porngraphy operation can be called DOMLyric. And it involved three principal figures:
— William Byars Jr.
— William Johnson
— Guy Strait

DOMLyric was discovered on the 1st of Sept 1973 by the LAPD vice division, after receiving a letter from an LA-based informant named Steven Ahern. This letter mentioned two key bits of information:
— That a number of Dean Corll's victims had appeared in child pornography circulated in Califronia.
— That a Houston child pornographer named Roy Ames knew Dean Corll.

Further more:
— William Byars Jr was from Tyler, Texas; and his associate William Johnson was from Houston, Texas.
— Boys used in their pornography had come from Houston and Dallas.
— They were partners in this with a man named Guy Strait, who stated he knew John Norman and had been published in one of Norman's underground newsletters.
— Guy Strait stated that he knew a child pornographer in Houston named Roy Ames.

And now things look like this:

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