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Galveston County Edition
VOLUME VII, NUMBER 10
October 2010
Police News Reporter “Identifies” Houston
Mass Murder Victim – Bodies to be Exhumed
By Debera Phinney
For over 35 years the bodies of the last
two remaining victims of the Houston
Mass Murders remained at the Harris
County Institute of Forensic Sciences
(formerly Harris County Medical
Examiner’s Office) waiting to be identified. The Houston Mass Murders, as it
came to be known through the media,
was in reality the largest serial killer
rampage in Texas history. Dean Corll,
along with his two teenage accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr. and David
Owen Brooks abducted, tortured, raped
and murdered 28 young men over a three
year period between 1970 and 1973.
In our May 2010 issue, The Police
News reported the story of the incredible hard work that Dr. Sharon Derrick,
a forensic anthropologist with the
Harris County Institute of Forensic
Sciences, is doing to resolve these
cases. When Dr. Derrick’s work began
in 2006, there were yet four victims to
be identified. Her painstaking research
combined with today’s advancement
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Lee Harvey, missing since March 3,
1971 and Joseph Allen Lyles, missing
since February 1, 1973 (found 1983).
With two remaining, Dr. Derrick
granted an interview with Barbara
Gibson, freelance investigative reporter
for The Police News, to once again
reach out to the public for any possible
leads or tips to identify these young
men. “After meeting Dr. Derrick, I was
so inspired by her passionate pursuit in
identifying these victims that I wanted
to do everything I could to help. I had
high expectations that our story would
generate that one tip that would bring
a name to these victims and closure to
a family’s decades old search for their
missing son. Well, that tip didn’t come
in and after a few weeks of no response
from the public, I started to take a
closer look at the case” said Gibson.
The two remaining victims, known as
“swimsuit boy” case #ML 73-3356 was
one of 17 boys found buried in a shallow grave inside a boat stall rented by
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Corll in the southwest area of Houston.
The other victim, #ML 73-3378, was
one of four victims found buried in a
secluded wooded area near Lake Sam
Rayburn in San Augustine County.
Gibson continued to research the
case through news archives and the
police and autopsy reports. In a
report by Detective David Mullican
of the Pasadena Police Department,
Henley confessed to Mullican that he
had been involved in or had personally killed six victims at the house on
Lamar St. in Pasadena. They were
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Blackburn were buried at Sam Rayburn;
Baulch had been strangled. Also, in
a later report, Henley said that Billy
Gene Baulch, Jr., the brother of Mike
Baulch had also been killed, but buried
at High Island in Galveston County.
While reviewing the autopsy report
on Michael Baulch, case #ML 73-3333,
Gibson found conflicting information.
The report indicated the cause of death
as two gunshot wounds to his head
and that his body was recovered in
the southwest Houston boat shed. In
addition, using the degree of decomposition, the autopsy report indicated
the time of death as August 1972. She
then cross referenced the police reports
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and discovered a statement from the
victim’s mother dated August 13, 1973,
that her son had only been missing
“about a month”. Henley’s description
of how the victims were killed and
where they were buried proved to be
correct, except for Michael Baulch.
The remains of the victim identified
by the parents as Michael Baulch was
far more decomposed than they could
have been if missing only a month.
When the news of this horrific case
broke, the Houston Police Department
was under intense scrutiny by the
press and deluged by calls from terrified parents across the country that
wanted to know if one of the victims
could be their missing son. The Harris
County Medical Examiner's office
took hundreds of reports and worked
feverishly to identify the victims as
quickly as they could. DNA technology wasn't even heard of in 1973 and
Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Joseph
Jachimczyk had to rely on dental x-rays,
x-rays of prior injuries, clothing recovered at the crime scene, family identification and missing person reports
to confirm identification. The boys
that had no dental work or prior bone
injuries posed the greatest challenge.
Michael Baulch's case posed that
challenge as he had no dental work
history and had not suffered a bone
fracture. The identification came down
to Michael Baulch's missing person
report and his parent's identification.
According to the M.E.’s supplemental report to the autopsy, Mr. and Mrs.
Baulch were shown the remains of two
victims; Unknown #2 and Unknown
#26. They felt positive about Unknown
#26 being Billy Baulch, Jr., but not as
certain that Unknown # 2 was Michael.
The mother thought the hair was too
light to be Michael’s and the father
didn’t think the hair was coarse enough
to be his. However, they described a
chip in tooth #9 and a vertical crack in
tooth #8. This information matched the
remains of Unknown #2. The Baulch’s
were shown the jaw and Mrs. Baulch
said she could not be sure but it could
be Michael’s mouth. Mr. Baulch studied
the smile by cupping his hands over the
jawbones and looking only at the teeth
and decided that, yes, it was Michael.
The Baulch’s were then shown photographs of all victim’s clothing. They
recognized a silver buckle and a belt as
belonging to Michael. At their request,
the traumatized parents were shown all
the autopsy photographs including the
two gunshot holes. At this point each
parent agreed this was Michael and it
was Michael’s hair.
At the core of the misidentification was
the fact that Michael’s parents had filed
a previous missing person report when
he hadn’t returned home in August of
1972. He did, eventually, return home
a few weeks after that incident. Given
the fact that this was the only missing person report on file for Michael,
Houston police sent it to the ME’s
office and it was then used to establish the time frame of decomposition.
Based on these facts, Gibson suspected the body had been misidentified as
Michael Baulch and buried with brother,
Billy, Jr., Michael’s murdered brother.
This information was given to Dr.
Derrick who was able to confirm
through DNA testing that the “unidentified” victim known as ML733378, is Michael Anthony Baulch.
In a recent interview with Barbara
Gibson, Dr. Sharon Derrick, PhD Forensic Anthropologist and Dr. Jennifer
Love, PhD -Director of Anthropology,
responded to these questions;
Gibson: What was your initial reaction when I brought you information
about the possible misidentification
of Michael Baulch?
Dr. Derrick: My initial reaction was
surprise. We had not fully investigated
the cases that had been identified back
in 1973. We didn’t have any real question about those identifications. So, we
had not gone back to look at those yet.
Gibson: What do you think caused
the misidentification?
Dr. Derrick: I think back in that time
period the methods that are used as
a standard today, such as DNA, were
not available to the researchers & the
investigators. So they had to go on
what was available as far as circumstantial & biological evidence went.
This individual was mostly skeletal and
so the pathologist did an autopsy, the
dentist looked at the teeth, there were
no dental records for comparison with
those teeth. The individual was not
recognizable, there were some personal
effects that the family recognized as
belonging to their son among all of
the stuff of the victims, and there was a
brother who was also a victim. The family felt that they could identify certain
aspects of the teeth from his smile. So
there were several things that were used
to make a circumstantial identification.
Unfortunately, without DNA confirmation they weren’t able to catch what we
did with DNA.
Gibson: What steps did you take to
confirm it was Michael Baulch?
Dr. Derrick: When the idea that the
decomposition stages might not be consistent with this being Michael, I went
back and looked at all the photographs
that we had of the individual victims
from that time period and looked at the
condition of #ML 73-3333’s remains
and there was information in the police
record that was conflicting. The infor-
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mation that was used by this office said
that Michael Baulch had been missing
since 1972. There was other information in the police records that said he had
only been missing a month. This individual from the boatshed, #73-3333 was
more consistent in his decomposition
with other individuals in the boatshed
who had been missing for a longer
period of time than Michael would have
been missing if he had only been missing since July 1973. So, I felt that this
was enough evidence that we should
really intensively review these cases.
So, we looked at the decomposition,and
at what the family said regarding his
hair type and what they thought about
who this individual might be.
We looked at the hair type of the #733378 (Sam Rayburn victim) individual,
we looked at the dentition, interestingly
enough Billy Baulch’s dentition was
much more similar to ML 73-3378 than
the individual identified as Michael
Baulch. There were some characteristics in the dentition that are known to
be inherited, although not a method of
identification, not in an odontological
identification in this case. These inherited traits were the same in these 2 individuals, not the same in ML 73-3333
(boatshed). There were also some statements by the perpetrator who placed
burial of this body (Michael Baulch)
later in time at a different location at
the Sam Rayburn site rather than the
boat stall.
So with all of that together, we felt that
there was enough evidence that we
should see if we could collect a family
reference sample. So, I had to search
for family and one of the siblings agreed
to give a sample of DNA – a buccal
swab through the cheek & we were
able to compare her DNA profile with
the profile of #73-3378 (Sam Rayburn
victim) and were also able to obtain a
DNA profile for ML 73-3333 (boat shed
victim) from some bone that had been
retained as part of the autopsy. We
compared all 3 of those things.
The living sibling was related quite
strongly to #73-3378 as well as Billy
Baulch. Because we were also able to
collect DNA from his bones that were
retained and she was not related at all
with the DNA profile to the individual
identified as Michael Baulch.
Gibson: How did the Baulch family
react to the news?
Dr. Derrick: The Baulch family is quite
understandably concerned and saddened because it’s been 37 years since
they buried Billy and the person they
considered to be Michael. But, they are
interested in making sure another family does get the opportunity to identify
their loved one, so they are cooperating
with our new investigation.
(A member of the Baulch family was
unable to be reached for comment.
Both parents, Billy Sr., and Margaret
Baulch, are now deceased. The Baulch’s
were no strangers to tragedy. In addition
to losing two sons to murder, they had
also lost their oldest son, Marvin age
15, in a tragic car accident in May 1969.
Billy Jr., age 17, and who was thought
to be Michael, age 15, are buried in an
unmarked grave next to Marvin in the
Woodlawn Cemetery in Houston.)
Gibson: You stated that you had a
long process ahead of you. Describe
that process.
Dr. Derrick: We are going to need to
do a full anthropological examination
of both boys #73-3333 who is currently
interred with Billy Baulch. So, the first
thing we need to do is disinter them and
identify which boy is Billy and which
boy is #73-3333 and give them a complete examination. There is a process to
this and Dr. Love has been working on
this and I’ll let her address it.
Dr. Love: In order to exhume them we
need to get permission. We are beginning to file for permission for disinterment, once that’s granted we can go and
bring both victims here (ME’s office)
and separate them. Then we disinter
Michael from the county cemetery.
Gibson: How long will this process
take?
Dr. Love: This is our first case to disinter, so we don’t know how long it will
take for the paperwork to get through
the system with the State. So we’re at a
learning curve. We’re actively working
on it and keeping the family updated on
the process.
Gibson: Do you have any idea as to
who the victim is that is currently
buried in Baulch’s grave? Were you
able to get DNA?
Dr. Derrick: We have a DNA profile. There was no hit with the CODIS
system (CODIS Missing Person DNA
database) that has a database of other
samples of DNA or the CODIS criminal
DNA (because they didn’t take DNA
back then). But I suppose there could
be a hit with someone that would be
related to him. But, no there has been
no hit with one of these databases. The
next thing to do will be to construct his
biological profile, put together what we
consider to be a good idea, a picture,
of who this person might have been
biologically. Then we can start to look
at circumstances and try to find families who have never had their children
identified that may have been a victim.
We could then put this out to the media
and try to get some DNA sample from
possible relatives.
Gibson: Will you be doing the facial
reconstruction of that victim as well?
Dr. Derrick: I have discussed this with
Dr. Love, and did send an email to the
FACES Laboratory that did the other
reconstructions because I wanted them
to know this boy #73-3378 had been
identified that they had done the reconstruction on. They wanted to know if
they could do another reconstruction
on this other boy. That would depend
on what we ascertain from looking at
the skull’s condition to tell if they can
do a reconstruction. Then we’ll talk
about it.
Although the identity of one unknown
victim has been resolved, Dr. Derrick
must now begin the task of identifying
the new unknown victim (ML 73-7333)
buried in Michael Baulch’s grave as
well as the remaining unidentified victim (ML 73-3356). M73-7333, whose
body was recovered in the boatshed, is
described in the autopsy report as being
a white male, 15-18 years of age, 5’8
to 5’10 with light brown hair approx
7” in length. It is believed that this victim would have gone missing in 1972.
ML73-3356, also recovered from the
boatshed, is described as being a white
male, 15-20 years of age, 5’2-5’7 with
dark brown hair approx 7” in length.
According to a statement made
by David Owen Brooks, two victims
were killed at the Columbia Street
address in the Heights. Corll lived at
this address between September of
1971 and February 1972. No identified victim corresponds to these dates.
Could these two boys be those victims?
If you have any information that would
assist in identification of these victims,
please contact Dr. Sharon Derrick at
713-796-9292 or email to:
[email protected].
Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr., was never
charged with the murder of Michael
Baulch even though he confessed to
the crime. It is unknown whether further charges against Henley will be
pursued in light of these developments.
Debera Phinney is a freelance investigative reporter. She can be reached at
[email protected].
Barbara Gibson is a freelance investigative reporter focusing on cold cases.
She is currently working on her first
true crime book about the Corll murders. She can be reached at:
[email protected].
Date with executioner for security guard killer
Gayland Charles Bradford,
Bradford stole a .357
41, was sentenced to death in
revolver, a cap and Wil1990 for the murder of Brian
liams’ wallet before fleeEdward Williams, 29, at Aning the store.
gelo’s Food Store in Dallas.
His girlfriend testified
The store’s video surveilduring the trial that the
lance system caught the murthen 20 year old bragged
der on tape. It showed Bradabout the killing.
ford calmly walking into the
At the time of the murstore and shooting Williams,
der, Bradford was on
the store’s security guard,
parole for a robbery conin the back. After Williams
viction in Dallas County.
fell to the floor, the video Gayland Charles Bradford He was sentenced to
showed Bradford bending
four years in prison, but
over him and shooting him three more was let out two years early—just eight
times.
months before the homicide.
Killer to Die for Murder 14 Years Ago
Larry Wayne Wooten, 52, is scheduled year-old wife, Bessie. Both were beaten,
for execution Thursday, Oct. 21, for the stabbed, had their throats cut and were
deaths of an elderly Paris couple.
robbed of approximately $500. Bessie
Wooten has been on death
Alexander was beaten
row since 1998 and has lost
with a pistol with such
all of his appeals, the latest
force that the grips and
loss in the federal court in
portions of the trigger
Houston, where he appealed
mechanism broke off.
on the claim he would not
Troy Alexander discovhave turned down a plea barered the bodies of his
gain if he had known about
parents in their home.
other DNA evidence that
Wooten had done odd
didn’t become available until
jobs for the Alexanders.
late in his trial.
His blood was found at
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The late DNA evidence
the crime scene, and a
strengthened the case against
pair of his pants with
Wooten, and a Lamar County jury con- Grady Alexander’s blood was found
victed him of the 1996 murders of 80- near an area where Wooten had bought
year-old Grady Alexander and his 86- drugs shortly after the murders.
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Galveston Police broadcast a bulletin for the getaway car in a residential
burglary. Jamaica Beach
patrolman J.C. Sanchez
later recognized the vehicle parked in the driveway of a bayfront summer
home which was unoccupied.
Police Chief Andy
McLane and Lt. Steve Hubbell along with Galveston
Joseph Ryan Hanka
Police joined Sanchez at
the scene where they arrested Joseph Ryan Hanka, 23, and Berkley Inge,
18 but not before they
jumped into a canal in an
attempt to make a swimming getaway.
Hanka got a dose of pepper spray from Galveston
Police Lt. Joel Caldwell
after he kicked an officer
while being subdued.
The men were later connected to a second Jamaica Beach burglary.
They were being held in
the Galveston County Jail
in lieu of $100,000 bail
each.
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Maryland killer captured in Santa Fe
SANTA FE, TX - A former Maryland
man was arrested in Santa Fe in connection with the February slaying of a 63year-old Elkton man.
Hubert Allen Wood, 21, was arrested as
a fugitive by officers with the Santa Fe
Police Department, according to the Cecil County, Maryland Sheriff’s Office.
Daniel Curran, was found stabbed to
death Feb. 17 inside his home in Elkton,
Maryland.
A neighbor who went to check on
Curran’s welfare found him dead in his
bedroom.
Wood was an acquaintance of the dead
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man who visited him several times before the murder.
He was being
held without bail
in the Galveston County Jail
pending extradition.
In Maryland,
Wood
faces
charges of firstHubert Allen Wood
and second-degree
murder,
first-and-second degree assault, armed
robbery and reckless endangering.
Relentless stalker gets 14 years in prison
FRIENDSWOOD - Gobin Ramroop, 57,
of Pasadena was sentenced to 14 years in
prison and ordered to pay a $2500 fine
by a Galveston County jury. Ramroop,
who uses the alias Govinda Vishnu,
was convicted of Stalking - Enhanced,
a second degree felony by a Galveston
County jury on September 2.
Gobin Ramroop
He was indicted by a Galveston County
Grand Jury in December 2009 and arrested December 23, 2009.
Ramroop was first brought to the attention of Friendswood Police in March
2008. His victim told police he had been
harassing her despite her attempts to
have him leave her alone. She told police he continued to call her and write
her and that his actions were becoming
disturbing as he began to express his
love for her. She had initially met Ramroop through her employment.
Ramroop was previously convicted of
Harassment - Enhanced by a Brazoria
County jury in March 2009. He spent
three months in the Brazoria County Jail
following that conviction. The conviction was the result of Ramroop harassing and stalking the same woman at her
home in Pearland.
Upon his release from the Brazoria
County jail, Ramroop continued his
harassment of the woman. The 39-yearold woman contacted the Friendswood
Police in September 2009 to report the
continued harassment.
Police officials noted that even when
Ramroop was aware of the police investigation, the harassment continued to
the point of stalking.
He was arrested August 13 after the
District Attorney accepted charges for
Criminal Trespass. Ramroop came to
the victim’s business without her permission on July 17, 2010.
In addition to the two convictions,
Ramroop has a criminal history in
Florida that includes Aggravated Battery, Domestic Assault, Stalking and Attempted Murder. He served 10 years of
a 13-year sentence in Florida for the attempted murder of a male acquaintance
of a former girlfriend.
Lt. John Wayne Jennings, 75
GALVESTON - Retired Galveston Police Lieutenant John Wayne Jennings
age 75 of Galveston passed away Monday, September 13, 2010 at Memorial
Hermann Hospital in Katy.
Funeral services were Monday, September 20, 2010 at Carnes Brothers Funeral Home, Reverend Dennis Hankins
officiating. Burial followed at Grace
Memorial Park in Hitchcock under the
direction of Carnes Brothers Funeral
Home.
Lt. Jennings was born August 17,
1935 in Pritchard, Alabama to Bartley
Murell Jennings and Sarah Lillian Richardson Jennings.
He was a 48 year veteran of the
Galveston Police Department.
Jennings served his country during
the Korean War with the U.S. Marine
Corp. He was a member of Bible Baptist Church and he truly enjoyed loving
on his grandchildren.
He was a member of the Municipal Police Officers Association for 19
years and was a 35 year member of the
B.P.O.E. Galveston Lodge # 126.
Preceded in death by his parents,
sisters, Nancy Fay Wooten and Peggy
Hood and a son, Dennis Crouch, survivors include his wife of 52 years, Perry
Lou Hughes Jennings; sons, Matthew
Jennings, J. Wes Jennings and wife
Tabitha all of Galveston, and Glenn
O’Brian Jennings and wife Sandy Hope
of Costa Mesa.
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50-years in prison for bat-and-hammer killer
BACLIFF — A jury found a
former drug informant guilty
in September in the bat-andhammer slaying of a wealthy
Bacliff man.
Robert Villanueva, 39, was
handed a 50-year prison sentence by te same jury, in the
Oct. 5, 2007, killing of Albert
Walter Lacy, 74.
Authorities say Villanueva was a drug addict and
the $450 stolen from Lacy
during the murder went for
drugs. There was $50,000
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ROYCE “RANDY” RANDALL SILLAVAN, 72, loving husband, father,
grandfather and great-grandfather went
home to be with the Lord on Thursday,
September 2, 2010.
Randy was a Retired Decorated Veteran of the Houston Police Department
and Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office. He upheld a family tradition back
to his father’s generation that has continued with his brothers, sons, nephews
and his grandson- in-law.
He was a dedicated officer to Houston Police Department from 1957-1982
serving as their first ever Fire Arms Examiner and was in charge of obtaining
the AFIS system for the department.
His career continued with Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office from 19891999 setting up the first firearms lab in
their Crime Scene Investigation Unit.
He retired as a Lieutenant. He was a
Master Mason at the Reagan Masonic
Lodge, #1037 for 41 years.
Randy is survived by his devoted wife
of fifty-one years, Marjorie Sillavan of
Trinity, Texas; three sons - Ricky Sillavan and wife Brenda of Angleton,
Texas; Ronald Sillavan and wife Connie
of League City, Texas; and Michael Sillavan and wife Stephanie of Angleton,
Texas; Grandchildren - Melissa Brinly
and husband Scott of League City, Texas; Nichole Sillavan of Freeport; Texas,
Amber McNutt and husband Brian of
Tomball, Texas; Ricae Fleck and husband Andrew of Keller, Texas; Kevin
Sillavan of Angleton, Texas; Kristin
Sillavan of Angleton, Texas; Royce Sillavan of League City, Texas; Slade Sillavan of Angleton, Texas. Great-Grand
Children - Jacob Brinly of League City,
Texas; Joshua Ecke of Angleton, Texas
and Addalyn McNutt of Tomball, Texas.
Siblings - Brother, Russell Sillavan and
wife Diane of Sealy, Texas and Sister,
Linda Lipperdt and husband Wayne of
Columbus, Texas. Sister-in-law, Allyne Sillavan of Bellville, Texas. Many
Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Nieces and
Nephews.
Randy was preceded in death by his
Mother, Sadie Sillavan , Father, Texas
Ranger - Hollis Milton Sillavan and
Brother, Robert Sillavan.
A memorial service was held at Cashner Funeral Home in Conroe Wednesday, September 8th, 2010.
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When the police arrived, the officer asked the farmer, “You mean
to tell me they were all dead?”
The farmer looked the cop straight
in the eye and said, “Well, some of
them said they weren’t; but you
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In Memorium
PUBLIC
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Police Officer Henry O. Wendell Jr.
Pearland Police Department
Died: Friday, October 6, 1967
Age: 43
Tour of Duty: 2 months
Cause of Death: Struck by vehicle
Date of Incident: Friday, Oct. 6, 1967
Officer Wendell was struck and
killed by a vehicle while directing traffic at Main Street and
Plum Street following a high
school football game. The impact
knocked him 85 feet.
The driver of the vehicle was
arrested and charged with murder
by auto. He was sentenced to
only 6 months probation.
Officer Wendell had only been a
Pearland officer for 2 months. He
was survived by his wife and five
children.
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HITCHCOCK - A man who formerChief Kennelly told The Police News
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Hitchcock on a felony warrant from through the District Attorney’s Office
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