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Dean Corll

1939 - 1973

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Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973) was an American serial killer and sex offender who abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered a minimum of twenty-eight teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. He was aided by two teenaged accomplices, David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley. The crimes, which became known as the Houston Mass Murders, came to light after Henley fatally shot Corll. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dean Corll has received more than 6,962,483 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Dean Corll is the 172nd most popular extremist (down from 145th in 2019), the 3,995th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,418th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Extremist.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Dean Corll ranks 172 out of 283. Before him are Mary Bell, Ibn al-Khattab, Eugène Terre'Blanche, Baby Face Nelson, Radislav Krstić, and Nancy Spungen. After him are Émile Henry, Tex Watson, John Haigh, Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss, Perkin Warbeck, and Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Dean Corll ranks 232. Before him are Angelo Sormani, João César Monteiro, Jaime Paz Zamora, Abdelmajid Lakhal, Carlos do Carmo, and Panajot Pano. After him are Elena Obraztsova, Charles Geschke, Heinrich Messner, Sandro Salvadore, Ali Mahdi Muhammad, and Igor Chislenko. Among people deceased in 1973, Dean Corll ranks 135. Before him are Sergei Tumansky, Günther Pancke, Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz, Ira Sprague Bowen, Laurens Hammond, and Adolfo Zumelzú. After him are Alexander Mosolov, José Alfredo Jiménez, Aleksandr Ptushko, Carmine Gallone, Eleazar López Contreras, and Amleto Giovanni Cicognani.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dean Corll ranks 3,995 out of 20,380. Before him are Jeanne Tripplehorn (1963), Maureen Stapleton (1925), Nancy Spungen (1958), Stewart Copeland (1952), Richard C. Sarafian (1930), and Dorothy Dandridge (1922). After him are Renée Taylor (1933), Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899), Valerie Perrine (1943), Keir Dullea (1936), Sam Francis (1923), and Belinda Carlisle (1958).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Dean Corll ranks 52. Before him are Louis Farrakhan (1933), Robert Ford (1862), Golden State Killer (1945), Machine Gun Kelly (1895), Baby Face Nelson (1908), and Nancy Spungen (1958). After him are Tex Watson (1945), Jane Toppan (1854), Samuel Little (1940), Bugs Moran (1893), Andrew Cunanan (1969), and Carl Panzram (1892).

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