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Science IDs serial killer victim after 35 years
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HOUSTON (AP) — At first, all forensic anthropologist Sharon Derrick had to solve the mystery of ML73-3349 was the body of an unidentified boy, found dead more than 35 years ago, the voluminous police files from a decades-old serial killings and a desire to give a name to the nameless victim.
Now, two years after she first began the search, ML73-3349 has a name: Randell Lee Harvey. And Harvey’s family has the answer they’ve waited a generation to have.
Derrick knew that ML73-3349 was one of three still-unidentified victims of notorious Houston serial killer Dean Corll and his two teenage accomplices, who had tortured and killed 27 young boys in the early 1970s.
ML73-3349 was found on Aug. 8, 1973, in a makeshift grave in a Houston boat stall, where 17 of Corll’s victims had been buried, the day that Corll was shot and killed by accomplice Elmer Wayne Henley.
Now, two years after she first began the search, ML73-3349 has a name: Randell Lee Harvey. And Harvey’s family has the answer they’ve waited a generation to have.
Derrick knew that ML73-3349 was one of three still-unidentified victims of notorious Houston serial killer Dean Corll and his two teenage accomplices, who had tortured and killed 27 young boys in the early 1970s.
ML73-3349 was found on Aug. 8, 1973, in a makeshift grave in a Houston boat stall, where 17 of Corll’s victims had been buried, the day that Corll was shot and killed by accomplice Elmer Wayne Henley.
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