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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 6,651,673 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Dean Corll is the 145th most popular extremist (down from 135th in 2019), the 3,427th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,502nd in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Extremist.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Dean Corll ranks 145 out of 209. Before him are Robert Stroud, Eugène Terre'Blanche, Béla Kiss, Louis Farrakhan, Bugs Moran, and Golden State Killer. After him are Perkin Warbeck, Samuel Little, Anatoly Onoprienko, Émile Henry, Matteo Messina Denaro, and Stephen Paddock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Dean Corll ranks 187. Before him are John Howard, Jason Miller, John Amos, Russell Means, William Devane, and Zeng Qinghong. After him are Lidiya Skoblikova, Brian Mulroney, Abdelmajid Lakhal, Charles Jencks, Marek Janowski, and Leka, Crown Prince of Albania. Among people deceased in 1973, Dean Corll ranks 110. Before him are Lorenzo Fernández, Vilhelm Moberg, Robert Watson-Watt, Mirra Alfassa, Laurens Hammond, and Alexander Mosolov. After him are Alexander Vandegrift, Joseph Szigeti, Karel Ančerl, Salchak Toka, Fuad Chehab, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dean Corll ranks 3,427 out of 18,182. Before him are Robert Penn Warren (1905), Amy Beach (1867), William Devane (1939), Randy Savage (1952), Frederick Wiseman (1930), and Ken Kercheval (1935). After him are Stephen Curry (1988), Charlie Kaufman (1958), Gig Young (1913), René Auberjonois (1940), Ben Turpin (1869), and Gregory Jarvis (1944).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Dean Corll ranks 52. Before him are Carl Panzram (1892), Patty Hearst (1954), Robert Stroud (1890), Louis Farrakhan (1933), Bugs Moran (1893), and Golden State Killer (1945). After him are Samuel Little (1940), Stephen Paddock (1953), Robert Ford (1862), John Wesley Hardin (1853), Nancy Spungen (1958), and John List (1925).

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