Lise Olsen: The Scientist and the Serial Killer

Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Dean Corll was a serial killer in Houston in the early 1970s. He kidnapped and murdered more than two dozen missing teenage boys before he was murdered by one of his accomplices. Decades later, a forensic anthropologist discovered a box of remains from the case. She spent years using scientific tools to identify some of the unknown victims. Journalist Lise Olsen tells me the story at the center of her book: The Scientist and the Serial Killer.

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