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They described it to us as these three were a killing machine, just going, wreaking havoc

through the Houston area and taking so many lives.

For Vault Studios, I'm Reid Redmond.

You're listening to The Daily Crime.

On the morning of August 8, 1973, police were called out to 2020 Lamar Drive in Pasadena, Texas, where a man named Dean Coral had been shot to death.

Dean Coral, the main suspect in all this, was shot and killed by Elmer Wayne Henley, this house

in Pasadena.

We now know that Coral's killer was also one of his accomplices in a string of brutal

killings known as the Houston mass murders.

Once that investigation started rolling, it turned into something just more

than a strictly a homicide. Elmer Wayne Henley confessed, along with another young man, David Brooks,

to helping Dean Coral engineer a long conspiracy of murder to kidnap young boys and kill him.

Nearly 50 years later, investigators are launching new search efforts for additional victims.

I think we've got the technology.

I think we've got the knowledge,

and I think certainly we've got determination to,

let's hope we can find one.

Marcelino Benito joins us from KHOU in Houston.

Marcellino, to say this is a disturbing story is really an understatement.

But before we get to the news here, let's start with the background.

Who was Dean Coral?

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