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Houston Heights is a community in northwest-central Houston, Texas, United States. "The Heights" is often referred to colloquially to describe a larger collection of neighborhoods next to and includin
Houston Heights Fire Station - Former city hall and Fire Station 14
Backyard of Station 14, 1920s
A street view of the Houston Heights
Fire Station 15 at Dunbar and N. Main
Dean Corll
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Dean Arnold Corll was an American serial killer and sex offender who abducted, raped, tortured and murdered at least 29 teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston and Pasadena, Texas.
Houston Heights
…considered to be a low income area of the city. In 1973 the Houston Heights Association (HHA) was established to reverse this trend. On December 13, 1970, Dean Corll began luring and killing children from the Houston Heights which became known as the Houston Mass Murders. For most of the period of his crime spree…
Corll in 1973
Corll (left), pictured with his mother and brother in June 1950
Corll, pictured with his half-sister, Joyce West, c. 1960
Corll, aged 24, shortly after entering the US Army in August 1964