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by Gina Lynelle Schaefer (Author)
On August 8th, 1973, a young man called the Pasadena, Texas, Police. and reported he had shot and killed Dean Arnold Corll, who had attacked him and his two friends. The detectives unraveled the mystery of several missing Houston area boys and coined the term Serial Killer as the search exposed the torture and horrific murders.
This fictional tale of the Pied Pipers Prince twists the infamous affairs of Dean Arnold Corll aided by his teenage accomplices, David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley; Dean created hell on earth for his victims. Through the lens of a paranormal investigator, we are told a tale of horror, revenge, and redemption as each boy or portion of a body is recovered.
Corll was known as the Candy Man because he and his family had previously owned and operated a candy factory in Houston Heights, and he had been known to give free candy to local children. Corll earned the Pied Piper name as his teenage accomplices, David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, lead their friends to hell on earth.
The Pied Pipers Prince twists the infamous crimes of Dean Corll and his accomplices into a dark tale told by his victims haunting the present in-between the vale found between waking & dreaming, life & death, of heaven & hell. Through the lens of a paranormal investigator, we are told a tale of horror, revenge, and redemption as each boy or portion of a body is recovered.
Although this book instills a bit of madness, the grief one feels from losing a loved one in such a horrid way is not to be disrespected. It has been nearly fifty years since that phone call, and with many of the family members have moved on or passed away, it remains a stain on Texas History that has been covered up with live music and Barbecue. Sadly, there are no markers of remembrance or talk in Pasadena or surrounding areas of what would become known as the Houston Mass Murders, but occasionally a show of the Lost Boys will pop up. Usually, every time the house on Lamar Street is listed for sale, raising morbid curiosities of wanting to be near a place where so many murders took place or a parent of one of these children passes away hoping that their long lost son will meet them at Heaven's Gate.
As you weave through the twisted tale of paranormal horror and demonic vengeance, take a breath away from the fiction within these pages and love those around you. Pray for those that have had their children's lives stolen from them by the real evil of the world, and if you have had a life touched in such a horrible way, the author's prayers are with you and your family.
The Vale may be familiar to some readers from the woeful expression vale of tears, which casts the world as a place of sorrow and difficulty. It is the slipstream where some lost souls are found between waking & dreaming, life & death, and heaven & hell.
"Call the world, if you please, "the Vale of Soul-Making." Then you will find out the use of the world...." John Keats, London, England (b. 1795 - 1821)
