C rews finally demolished the home at 2020 Lamar Dr. in Pasadena in February 2023. “I’m glad it’s gone,” a neighbor told ABC13. The Pasadena Economic Development Corporation purchased the lot with plans to transform it into a trailhead. “I think it’s good,” said the neighbor.
For 50 years, the home at 2020 Lamar Dr. stood with a long shadow and a past darker than any home that has ever stood in the Houston area. In fact, few homes in U.S. history were as notorious, as it’s the place where Dean Corll, with the help of David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, raped and killed several young boys.
In August 1973, after Henley confessed that he had taken part in one of the most heinous criminal activities in modern U.S. history, investigators throughout Harris County descended on the multiple grave sites Corll created for his victims. They also went through Corll’s Pasadena home in an attempt to figure out just how this son of a candy magnate pulled it off over three years.
The crimes
Criminally Texas…