Dean Corll was an American serial killer who shocked the nation with his killing spree that led to the death of several innocent teenage boys from 1970 to 1973. Known as Houston Mass Murder, the crime involved abducting, raping, torturing and later murdering the boys. Most of his victims were between the age of 13 and 20, and majority of them belonged to the area of Houston Heights. In most of his abductions, Corll was assisted by his two teenaged accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley and David Owen Brooks. Corll’s crime style was typical – he lured boys to his address with an offer of a party or a lift. The boys were then offered drinks or drugs and would be restrained forcefully or deceptively. He then performed the heinous crime of rape by tying them to a ‘torture board’ before strangulating or shooting them with a .22-caliber pistol. In Henley’s subsequent police assistance, more than 27 bodies were found, 17 of whom were buried in a rented boat shed. Four victims were buried in woodland near Lake Sam Rayburn and six victims on a beach on the Bolivar Peninsula. Corll often forced his victims to either phone or write to their parents with explanations for their absences. It was his ally Henley who finally put a stop to Corll’s atrocious crime streak by killing Corll with his own gun. Ironic as it may seem to be, once known as the Pied Piper who led thousands of rats to their death, Corll with his brutal crime led to the death of several young boys to become the worst example of serial killer in American history.