Houston Infamous Crime and Murder Tour

If you have a fascination with gruesome murders, depraved behavior, sick individuals, this tour is for you. LOL. We cover several infamous murders going back to 1965 as well as people from the mid-1960s who will go on to become cult leaders that result in dozens and hundreds of people dying. Who knows; you might have known some of the victims or perpetrators.

Meeting Point

Houston City Hall

901 Bagby St, Houston, TX 77002, USA

We meet inside the rotunda of the Houston City Hall at 901 Bagby Street, Houston, Texas 77002 on Monday through Friday. City Hall is closed on weekends. On weekends, we meet at a park bench on the east side of City Hall.

What's included:

• Expert Guide

What to expect:

Duration: 5 hours

Londale Hotel

on the NE corner of San Jacinto & Prairie, 419 San Jacinto St #2015, Houston, TX 77002, USA

Ana Trujillo used to live in this flop house hotel where she bragged that she could kill someone with only her shoe. We look at it, but do not enter.

2 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Discovery Green

1500 McKinney St, , Houston, 77010-4011, Texas

Twenty-six years before this park was created in 2008, back in 1982, the body of 16-year old Sherry Lynn Strait was found. She was a victim of the Sunday morning slasher Carl, "Coral" Eugene Watts. Watts was one of the most prolific serial killers in US history. He murdered possibly 80 White women in potentially 4 states and Canada. He said that he could see the evil in women's eyes.

2 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

3000 Tierwester St

3000 Tierwester St, Houston, TX 77004, USA

On August 12, 2016, Sheborah Latrice Thomas drowned in the bathtub her 5 and 7-year old children before she was about to move. She then wrapped their bodies in bedsheets tand rolled them under her neighbor's house.

2 minutes

3838 Arbor St

3838 Arbor St, Houston, TX 77004, USA

This was the childhood home of Dr. Larry Schacht (1948 - 1978). Larry made the Kool-Aid laced cyanide poisoning at Jonestown to 918 people, including nearly 300 children in Jonestown, Guyana.

2 minutes

6909 Van Etten St

6909 Van Etten St, Houston, TX 77021, USA

26-yaer old school teacher Naomi Dominguez rented this home behind the railroad tracks. On June 4, 1999 Mexican serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, also known as the Railroad Killer bludgeoned her to death. Resendiz killed for years as he lived a hobo's life hopping on and off trains, not staying in one place, and killing indiscriminately using any method that was convenient. He killed at least 23 people in 6 states.

2 minutes

The Parklane

1701 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX 77004, USA

On June 9, 2013, after a night of drinking, 44-year Old Ana Trujillo stabbed to death her boyfriend 59-year old University of Houston Professor Alf Stefan Andersson with her 5 1/2 inch blue suede high heel shoe. The TV show Snapped later featured her in one episode.

2 minutes

808 Colquitt St

808 Colquitt St, Houston, TX 77006, USA

Marshall Herff Applewhite (1931 - 1997) was a professor and chair of the Music Department at the University of St. Thomas. He lived here in 1968. He was the leader of the suicide cult group Heaven's Gate. He plus his 38 followers committed mass suicide in Rancho Santa Fe, California.

2 minutes

University of St. Thomas

3800 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX 77006, USA

The University was formed in 1947. Marshall Applewhite was the chairman of the Music Department for 5 years from 1965 to 1970. Applewhite was a bisexual who was charismatic to many of his students and followers. He and his adherents were transient and moved from state to state before becoming situated in Rancho Santa Fe, California. His Heaven's Gate cult group believed that an extraterrestrial ship trailing behind the Comet Hale-Bopp would take them away.

2 minutes

1325 W Pierce St

1325 W Pierce St, Houston, TX 77019, USA

At this site in the mid-1960s, Earline Clark raised her grandson Vernon Wayne Howell (1959 - 1993). Earline's daughter Bonnie Sue Clark became a mother at the age of 14. Vernon's father was 20 years older than Bonnie Sue and abandoned his girlfriend for another teenager. He never saw his baby. Vernon began to claim he could prophesize. He moved to California. In 1990, in Panoma, California, Vernon claimed he was a direct descendant of the Biblical King David. Thus, he changed his name to David Koresh and led the Branch Davidians to their ultimate stand-off and deaths in Waco, Texas on April 19, 1993.

2 minutes

1815 Driscoll St

1815 Driscoll St, Houston, TX 77019, USA

On June 23, 1965, two police officers conducted a wellness check for 81 year old Fred Rogers and his 72-year old wife Edwina Rogers. Edwina's nephew had requested the checkup as Fred and Edwina had not been seen or were answering their telephone for days. Police could not find the couple, but they did not see anything our of order, until they opened up the refrigerator. They thought they saw saw fresh slabs from a hog chopped up until they looked closer. Then they realized that they wee looking at the heads of Fred and Edwina and other body parts. All of their blood had been drained in the toilet to the sewer and their organs removed. Fred's eyes had been gouged out. This appeared to be a professional killing. Their 33-year old, hermit son, associated with the CIA, was missing and never seen or heard of again.

2 minutes

4258 Lehigh Ave

4258 Lehigh Ave, Houston, TX 77005, USA

On December 17, 1998, the Railroad Killer Angel Maturino Resendiz raped, stabbed, and bludgeoned 39-year old Dr. Claudia Benton Subiria with a statue. Benton was a pediatric neurologist with the Baylor College of Medicine.

2 minutes

610 Allston St

610 Allston St, Houston, TX 77007, USA

61 year old twice married and divorced Mary Cerruti had lived in the quiet, unassuming neighborhood of mostly Depression-era bungalows and senior citizens. She had lived here since 2001, for 14 years. It was peaceful here. Then developers moved in and began pressuring peopled to sell their homes so the developers could build multi-story condominiums and apartments. The community was changing from a tranquil area of lots of empty nesters to upscale loud, overcrowded neighborhood of yuppies and dinkies. She spoke out against the instrusion at a community meeting. Shortly thereafter, she was never seen again. Her house fell into disrepair with an overgrown lawn, and the mortage not paid. Police were called to look in on her and found a house full of stench and dead cats, but no Mary. The house was put up for auction and sold. The new owner leased it to a young Couple. The couple went into the attic, looked down an hole, and found her bones.

5 minutes

915 Columbia St

915 Columbia St, Houston, TX 77008, USA

Dean Corll lived in the house in the rear from September 1971 to February 1972. David Brooks aided Corll in killing 2 boys at this location. Corll moved a lot to keep from having anyone see or hear anything that would bring suspicion upon him. Corll lived in 9 places within 3 places. He averaged about 4 months at each site. Corll along with his teenage high school dropout accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley, and David Brooks enticed often delinquent middle and high school boys to come to Corll's homes to drink alcohol and smoke marijuana in a safe environment. Corll had torture boards to tie down his victims as he raped and later beat and killed them.

2 minutes

502 W 22nd St

502 W 22nd St, Houston, TX 77008, USA

This is the site where the Corll Candy Store was located. Dean Corll (1939 - 1973) was a homosexual who left the military prematurely to work for his mother's candy company. He liked little boys and encouraged them to come over. He installed a pool table in the rear of the candy store so they would come more frequently and stay longer. He gave them free candy and earned the nickname of the "Candy Man." Corll had 2 hench boys, David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, who he would pay $100 to $200 a head for new victims to come to his various homes over the years. Brooks and Henley often aided Corll in killing their friends. Corll operated primarily in the Houston Heights neighborhood until 1973 when he moved to Pasadena and continued his killing. Corll was responsible for at least 28 murders between 1970 and 1973. However, he had earned the nickname in 1965 and he possibly murdered over 100 people counting the time from 1965 to 1970.

10 minutes

Helms Elementary School

503 W 21st St, Houston, TX 77008, USA

This elementary school opened in 1921. It was across the street from the Corll Candy Store. Many of his victims came from this primary school.

5 minutes

Yale Street Grill

2100 Yale St, Houston, TX 77008, USA

We eat lunch at one of the oldest, if not the oldest, restaraunts in Houston. This is where homosexual, pedophile, torturer, serial killers in US history Dean Corll would pickup his victims. Corll killed between 28 and 50 young White boys. You might be sitting in the same seat.

1 hour