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  • “CRIME HUNTER: How ‘pedophile’s pedophile’ linked two serial killers”, 2022

    REVIEWED

    (This is a review of a 2022 article by Brad Hunter, published in Toronto Sun, March 12, 2022)

    Shockingly trashy! Even by Sun publishing standards

    A swamp of false and misleading statements

    Did Tracy Ullman pay Brad Hunter to write this? Is she a friend?

    Brad Hunter wrote; “As the clock ticked towards his date with death — May 10, 1994 — Gacy insisted he was innocent (he wasn’t) but also that he had accomplices”

    “Detectives had eyed two employees of Gacy’s contracting firm. They were Michael Rossi and David Cram. Cops found nothing but there was a third former employee that needed a closer look”

    “His name was Phillip Paske, a cross-dressing young man who had a penchant for violence and sex with boys. Paske was also the top lieutenant of a man named John David Norman, who Gacy suggested also played a role”

    Gacy specifically stated that none of his victims were John Norman-Paske male prostitutes, that he had no need for nor interest in them; “David Cram said Paske could get guys for me to blow me, and I told him no way, as I don’t want that kind coming around, so I would have had no need for Norman or Paske’s services”.
    —Gacy prison letter, March 28, 1992

    Brad Hunter wrote: “In the early 1970s, Norman was busted for running a nationwide sex-trafficking operation called the Delta Ring based in Chicago and Dallas that supplied underage boys to pedophiles. At the same time, he ran a bustling child pornography business”

    WOW! People shouldn’t presume to pontificate on historic crime cases, if they are completely ignorant of the facts, and Hunter was apparently totally clueless about John Norman. Norman was NEVER “busted for running a nationwide sex-trafficking operation called the Delta Ring”. In 1973, while living in Dallas, Norman ran a male prostitution service called “Odyssey Foundation” from his apartment there, between May and August of that year. He was raided on a tip from a young prospect named Brisindine, and charged with possession of marijuana and “conspiracy to commit sodomy”. A Grand Jury declined to indict him on either charge and they were dismissed. The only “pornography” Norman produced in Dallas was promotional nude photos of his sex workers.

    Brad Hunter wrote; “Two of the boys believed to have been slain by Gacy were last seen near Norman’s home. Coincidence?”

    First, one of those two boys, Michael Marino, was determined to be a misidentification, so there’s only one – Kenneth Ray Parker. On October 24, 1976, 16-year-old Kenneth Parker was last seen near a restaurant at Clark Street and Diversey Parkway, an intersection where Gacy picked up many of his victims. It was also close to a pinball arcade frequented by juvenile male prostitutes and the men who preyed on them – such as Gacy. So, yes, it’s a coincidence. No one has ever claimed to have seen Parker with Norman or Paske that day.

    Refer:

    https://www.thejohnnydoeproject.com/kenneth-ray-parker/

    Brad Hunter wrote; “Accomplices of Dean “Candy Man” Coryll alleged that the Houston killer worked with Norman and bought, sold and murdered scores of young boys” – OUTRAGEOUS! A bald-faced lie.

    David Brooks and Wayne Henley never “alleged that the Houston killer [Dean Corll] worked with Norman”, that’s bs. What they did say, was that Corll told them he was involved in a ring that bought and sold boys, also operating out of Dallas. Corll never named John Norman to them, he had no idea that John Norman even existed, and neither Brooks nor Henley ever uttered the name John Norman – not in their statements to Houston police nor during their long terms in prison.

    Refer: “Dean mentioned there was a group of people in Dallas which had similar activities to his. He mentioned a man named Art…”, David Brooks statement, Aug. 9, 1973

    “Dean told me that he belonged to an organization out of Dallas that bought and sold boys, ran whores and stuff like that. Dean told me he would pay me $200 for every boy I could bring him…” Statement of Elmer Wayne Henley, Aug.9, 1973

    Brad Hunter wrote; “Even after he was busted in 1973, Norman was shockingly never convicted for sex trafficking…”

    If Brad knew anything about these cases, which he obviously did not, he would have known that The Mann Act, the federal law prohibiting “transporting minors across state lines for the purpose of prostitution”, specifically applied to FEMALE minors only. Norman couldn’t be charged for trafficking BOYS and neither could anyone else!

    Refer: The Mann Act

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act

    Brad Hunter wrote; ““Gacy, Norman and Paske are all in Chicago around that time,” Tracy Ullman, an executive producer of the Peacock docuseries John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise, told oxygen.com. “I find it hard for all these things to just be a coincidence.”

    Well, Gacy LIVED in Chicago for many years, and both Paske and Norman were released on parole into Chicago – they were REQUIRED to live there under the terms of their release. None of them “arranged” for them all to be living in Chicago at that time. Maybe the Illinois parole board set that up deliberately, just to create a mysterious “coincidence” to trouble Tracy Ullman 50 years later?

    Brad Hunter wrote; “One of Gacy’s claims was that Norman’s sex-trafficking ring was making snuff films with young boys. Gacy told detectives they should look through Norman’s videos to see if they recognized any of the victims he’d killed over the years”

    There’s no way Gacy could know that, of course. But there simply were NO “Norman’s videos” to look through! John Norman never made ANY films. All of the CSAM Norman is documented to have made, was in the form of photographs. All of it.

    Refer: “chicken” film which Chicago police claimed Norman had somehow masterminded from his jail cell, was really THEIR idea, and THEY incited a group of pedophiles to make it!

    Andre “Andy” Drath Betrayed

    “Handy Andy” was a photo-magazine, the only commercial grade CSAM John Norman ever produced – “Hearing Set For Accused Child Pornographer”, by Jeffrey R Roth

    A link to the original Sun article, below

    https://torontosun.com/news/world/crime-hunter-how-pedophiles-pedophile-linked-two-serial-killers

  • “Eye of the Chicken Hawk” reviewed

    Sex, Lies, and Manipulation – overview

    “Eye of the Chicken Hawk”, by Simon Dovey is a self-published masterpiece of manipulative misinformation. It’s not remarkable for what is in it, as he would like to believe, it is remarkable for what is not in it. Almost all the information, about any given case or subject he discusses in this book, has been left out. In this review series I will be highlighting these omissions and providing the missing facts, as well as debunking falsehoods and correcting narratives.

    What Was Left Out

    Ernst Dieter Korzen and Stefan Michael Mahn

    “Eye of the Chickenhawk” begins with this claim, on pg. 6; “…in reality snuff films were confirmed by law enforcement authorities before the turn of the 20th century. In 1999 it was reported: “Two Germans have been jailed for life after becoming the first people in Europe to be convicted of murder while producing a ‘snuff movie,’ a film in which real victims are tortured and killed. A court in the town of Hagan heard how Ernst Dieter Korzen, 37, and Stefan Michael Mahn, 30, filmed themselves sexually assaulting and torturing a 21-year-old woman in 1997 to produce the snuff movies which they expected to sell for more than $25,000. The victim died before the production was complete and the pair kidnapped a second woman to finish the video. But she escaped and the men were arrested…”

    “The victim died before the production was complete…”, she died when the camera was off or not focused on her! They went for a schnitzel break perhaps, and when they got back she was dead. They didn’t capture her death “on camera”, that’s why they had to start again with another victim. “…the pair kidnapped a second woman to finish the video”. But this second woman escaped! and then they were arrested. Game over. So these two horrible men were incompetent filmmakers and incompetent murderers. Whatever they had filmed with the first victim, couldn’t be called a “snuff”, or they would have stopped there. They may have intended to make a snuff film, but they failed.

    The Legendary Russian Child Snuff Films

    Dovey’s next try, on pg. 7-8, is the legendary Russian child snuff film claims. He says;

    “These fears were confirmed the following year when Italian authorities discovered films coded “Necros Pedo” among those being distributed internationally by a child porn network based in Russia. “Last week Italian police seized 3,000 of Kuznetsov’s videos on their way to client’s in Italy; sparking an international hunt for paedophiles who have bought his products. The Italian investigators said the material includes footage of children dying during abuse. Prosecutors in Naples are considering charging those who have bought the videos with complicity in murder. They say some may have specifically requested films of killings. . . The most appalling category was code-named ‘Necros Pedo’ in which children were raped and tortured until they died. . .The Naples newspaper IlMatino published a transcript of an alleged email exchange between a prospective client and the Russian vendors. ‘Promise me you’re not ripping me off,’ says the Italian. ‘Relax. I can assume you this one really dies,’ the Russian responds. ‘The last time I paid I didn’t get what I wanted.’, ‘What do you want?’, ‘To see them die’. ” and cites as his reference — ‘British link to snuff videos’, The Observer, October 1 2000

    Terrifying, isn’t it? “footage of children dying during abuse”, “children were raped and tortured until they died”. Surely, this must be the real thing, real child snuff porn films?
    Good thing, none of it is real. The following month it would be revealed that Italian police had been operating a fake CSAM ordering website for the previous two years. Constructed with the help of Microsoft, the police sting site was designed to lure and trap the very worst of the persons seeking to buy CSAM online; the twisted sickos who would order a film which they believed genuinely depicted children being raped and tortured until they died. Suckers really did “order” videos on the police site, which gave the police all their personal info, including an address for undercover police posing as a delivery service to put the tape right in their hands. No weaseling out with excuses, for these perverts, they’re going to prison. But how do you convince the sickos, that the videos advertised on your police sting site are the real thing? By having “police investigators” declare that “the material includes footage of children dying during abuse”, in media coverage. You could include a disturbing email exchange “between a prospective client and the Russian vendors”, wherein the vendors assure him “this one dies” – except those aren’t Russian vendors, they are Italian police. They will tell the sicko whatever he wants to hear, whatever it takes to get him to order the video and get himself arrested.


    The real Russian website, the “Blue Orchids” site, used these categories; “Russian Flowers,” “Girls,” and “Man and Boy”, the police sting site used “Snipe” and “Necros Pedo”, that’s one way to tell them apart. The films under the “Necros Pedo” category, the only ones claimed to be snuff films, were “Thief’s Punishment 1”, and “Thief’s Punishment 2”, filmed by Victor Razumov in 1999. These depict the very real abuse and suffering of a 15 year old boy. They are not classic fake snuff were actors fake “the acts” in them.

    They just aren’t snuff films. The boy doesn’t die;
    “In February 2001, the Moscow City Police identified the 15-year-old boy in the “Thief’s Punishment” series and brought him to Moscow for questioning. The boy identified Victor Razumov as the man who raped and abused him in the videos. Based on the boy’s testimony, Razumov was arrested for forcible sexual assault. Razumov is currently awaiting trial…” –

    https://web.archive.org/web/20111023181911/http://www.cbp.gov/xp/CustomsToday/2001/April/custoday_bluorchid.xml

    You can read all about the fake Italian police sting site here;

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/fake-web-site-traps-child-porn-suspects-in-italy-1.243981

    “Fake Web site traps child porn suspects in Italy
    Italian authorities have charged almost 1,500 people in an Internet child pornography sting that could lead to one of the biggest trials in the country’s history.
    Suspects were charged after being lured to a fake child pornography Web site, police said Saturday.
    For between $400 and $6,000 US, browsers were told they could order videos or computer discs showing children in explicit sexual acts.
    The Web site also claimed to offer gruesome images of youngsters being raped and then tortured to death”

    The fake police sting site is the one offering “gruesome images of youngsters being raped and then tortured to death”

    and here

    https://edition.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/italy/10/28/rome.porn/

    “The huge number of people were trapped in a complex investigation which involved the authorities setting up a fake paedophile Internet website.
    The site, set up with the help of the world’s biggest software company, Microsoft, was called “amantideibambini” (“loversofchildren”).
    In Italy, packages ordered on the Internet were intercepted when they arrived by mail and were repacked. They were then delivered to the addresses by undercover police officers disguised as postal workers and carrying hidden cameras”.

    That was the first installment of Sex, Lies and Manipulation a review of “Eye of the Chickenhawk” by Simon Dovey. “Stay tuned”, there are many more installments to come.

  • Andre “Andy” Drath Betrayed

    One – Chicago PD Incite Chicken Film 1977

    When Sgt. Ronald Kelly, head of Area 6 youth division, Chicago PD first looked into the child pornography problem alleged to be erupting across America, seasoned Vice investigators from other cities advised him not to bother trying to bust the child porn film makers themselves. “They’re all overseas, that’s where it all comes from”, they told him. But Sgt. Kelly wanted to take down CP film producers, not just confiscate their products, and he was convinced there must be producers in America. Maybe in his own State. Maybe right here in Chicago. And so, Youth Division went on a hunt for made-in-US CP films. Reporters from Chicago tribune were recruited to snoop around in XXX shops, asking about the origin of their products. But they had no luck. Boy hustlers brought in on prostitution charges were interrogated; did any regular ‘johns’ ever ask them to do porno films? Still nothing.

    And then, an undercover officer made contact with David Berta and John Bell selling packages of sexual photos featuring local 14 year old boys, on the street. He bought some and asked about films of these or any other local boys? But Berta and Bell had no films. They couldn’t get their Super 8mm cassettes developed safely, so there was no point. (“Sgt. Ronald Kelly of the Area 6 youth division said Sunday that an undercover police officer had bought a packet of dozens of pornographic pictures of Chicago boys”, Hunt 6 men, 20 boys in crackdown – Chicago Tribune May 16, 1977)

    Meanwhile, 14 year old Andy Drath was “earning a living” as a boy hustler, a prostitute. According to a claim by Chicago Tribune reporter Michael Sneed at the Sexual Exploitation of Children hearings, Andy had been involved in prostitution from the age of 10. Andy didn’t want to be “on the street” anymore. He wanted a home, a permanent home, but not a random foster home that he would have to share with 4-5-maybe 6 other kids. Andy wanted a home of his own, and of his own choosing.

    A recent ‘john’ had asked Andy to move in with him, a young man named David. He had even promised that if Andy moved in, he would apply to be Andy’s foster father and adopt Andy. “Then you can be certain that you have a permanent home, that you’ll never get kicked to the street”, David said. David was a nice enough guy, Andy thought, and he didn’t have any better offers, or any other offers at all. Andy agreed to give it a try, and moved in with David. And David held to his word, he applied to be Andy’s foster parent and was conditionally approved. [“One of the children that was arrested the other day in Chicago was a prostitute for a number of years, He is now 14, and has been a prostitute since he was 10. The boy started living with this man, and I’d say 2 weeks after living with him, the man applied to become a foster parent. He was in fact made a conditional foster parent and the boy was placed in his home”, testimony of Michael Sneed at SEofC hearings],

    But not long after that, David asked Andy to pose for some photos. “What kind of photos?” “You know…sex. With your buddy” “Why??” “We can make a lot of money, Andy. Get you all the nice things you want. And just with buddy, I promise, no old trolls”. So before long, Berta and Bell became porn photo salesman.

    Sgt. Kelly wasn’t satisfied with pornographic photos of boys. He wanted a CSA images film, and one that was produced locally. So the undercover officer was instructed to buy more photos, and tell Berta and Bell that you are mob connected, that you can get anything developed, and unlimited copies. And he did tell them that. They said, if you can get the film developed, we will make a film with our 14 year old boys. And they made arrangements to meet up after the film was “in the can”.

    [“we were able to infiltrate them enough to have one of my undercover people act as a developer for this film and accept orders for this film on the number of copies”, Sgt. Ronald Kelly, testimony to the SEoC Hearings]

    “Andy, I need you and buddy to do a film now. Just one, that’s all“

    [“The principal figures arrested Saturday were David J. Berta, 32, and John Bell, 19. Police said Berta and Bell used two 14-year-old boys to film a pornographic movie in which Bell also participated. Berta and Bell were charged with taking indecent liberties with a child. Police said Berta and Bell, after making their pornographic movie in Chicago, handed it over to a police undercover agent when he assured them he had syndicate connections and could get it processed without risk”, Hunt 6 Men, 20 Boys In Crackdown, Chicago Tribune 1977]

    • Sgt. Kelly of Chicago PD wants to bust a local CP film producer
    • His officers can’t find one, so they incite some porno photo peddlers to make one, using two 14 year old boys, one of which is Andy Drath.
    • This “chicken” CP film would never have been created, without Chicago PD undercover promising Berta and Bell he would get it developed. Andy and his friend would not have been sexually exploited in this film, without Chicago PD undercover promising Berta and Bell he would get it developed.
    • Chicago PD are as responsible as Berta and Bell for the film being filmed, and for the 14 year old boy’s sexual exploitation, and the ‘mastermind” behind it being made at all, is Sgt. Ronald Kelly. Andy was betrayed by David, by Berta & Bell, and by Chicago PD.

    TWO – pervs rounded up, asses covered

    [“Chicago police arrested a Park Ridge dentist Monday on charges of filming a pornographic movie involving children.
    The dentist, identified as Dr. Lloyd William Lange, 42, was the fourth man arrested in a crackdown on child pornography and child prostitution begun Friday by Area 6 youth division officers.
    Police charged that Lange filmed a pornographic movie involving two 14 year old boys that was produced by Berta, 32, and Bell, 19, both of Chicago. Lange was charged with taking indecent liberties with a child one of the 14 year olds who appeared in the film and with contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor.
    In addition to Lange, Berta, and Bell, police have under arrest David Welch, 26, the foster father of one of the 14-year-old boys involved in the pornographic film.
    Welch was charged with taking indecent liberties with a child after the boy told police he had sex with Welch on three occasions. Police also have take into custody two 14-year-old boys, one of them a participant in the movie, and are looking for the second 14 year old involved in the film”, Dentist Seized In Sex Raid, Chicago Tribune, May 17, 1977]

    So now, Chicago PD have charged the cameraman Lange, the director David Berta, the adult sex performer Bell, the pimp providing Andy and his friend – Andy’s foster father David Welch, and have both 14 year old boys in custody, grinding them for statements against the men. Andy complies, naming six men as ‘having sex’ with various boys. But there’s one person still to be named. The person ultimately responsible for all the CSA occurring in context of the filming, by causing the film to be made, the person whose idea it was to have someone make such a film. But…oops! That person would be Sgt. Kelly. Can’t say that, when they publicly brag about bagging child porn producers. Fortunately for them, the perfect patsy for them has been sitting in Cook County Jail all this time…John Norman! Everyone will believe Norman could mastermind a CSA film from his jail cell, just have to claim all the others take orders from him – that they belong to his ‘operation’.

    Andy Saves His Betrayers

    In the end, Andy is the only witness against the CSA film gang, and against Welch. Did I mention that Andy revealed a sexual relationship with Welch? Resulting in charges? We haven’t talked about the second film yet. Welch was so inspired by the Berta-Bell filming, and believing the group could get films developed, took Andy to a motel to shoot a second film. It just so happened, that Chicago Tribune reporters were doing ride-along with Sgt. Kelly’s officers, and they were surveilling Welch at the motel, with Sneed and Bliss looking in. Michael Sneed tells the disgusting story in “Clown and Candyman”. How she watched Andy having sex with “a much younger boy” as Welch filmed them. She watched these children having sex! Until the officers kicked in the door and arrested Welch.

    With a little help from the Tribune, Sgt. Kelly will now brag that he succeeded, he found and took down a “child porn producer” ring, right there in Chicago! (All he had to do was incite some men to form one, so he could arrest them all for being one. What’s that called, again? Entrapment or something?) [“In other cities, police have confiscated films, but we have arrested the participants…that’s never been done before”, Dentist Arrested In Child Sex Filming, Chicago Tribune, May 17 1977]

    Now all that Sgt. Kelly needs, is to see them all convicted. But he’s not going to get his wish, because Andy has other plans. It’s time to set his own path, and take it wherever that may lead him. Far away from here. San Francisco sounds good…

    Without Andy, the sole witness for the prosecution, the case against the film crew and against Welch for abusing Andy, collapses. They never will be prosecuted. No one will be convicted. It was all a pointless waste of Youth Division resources, that should have been employed in tracking down the missing teen boys, now under John Wayne Gacy’s floorboards.

    There will one day be a letter from a San Francisco lawyer trying to get Andy’s guardianship transferred from Chicago, and that will be the last that Illinois ever hears of Andy. For 36 years.

    RIP, Andre “Andy” Drath!


  • “The Serial Killer’s Apprentice”

    by Katherine Ramsland and Tracy Ullman

    A Review: WHAT WAS LEFT OUT

    General Observations: [I can’t tell which author was responsible for what content, so I’m just going to say; “the authors” throughout]

    • There are no source citations, other than an occasional reference within the text, and no chapter notes. The authors haven’t bothered to provide documentation for what they’ve said, am I reading conjecture and opinion throughout?
    • This book is supposed to explain why the authors changed their opinions of, and perspective on, Elmer Wayne Henley and presumably why we should also. Their reasoning is comprehensible, but nothing changed for me. Reading the accounts of how they lured the victims and what was subsequently done to them, while Henley and Brooks observed or even participated, still evokes the same sense of horror and outrage in me. They will forever be “the face of true evil” for me, just as much as the Nazi Deathcamp guards.
    • I appreciated the debunking of Vargas’ ‘new victim’, polaroid photo boy, with the truth about that photo.
    • The recounting of how the victim’s remains were recovered, and Brooks and Henley’s accounts of what they knew about their demise, was handled well – respectfully and minimally explicit. The same goes for the mistaken and revised identifications.

    False/ misleading statements, and what the authors left out:

    The infamous Sgt. Ronald Kelly lie, (Head of Area 6 youth division, Chicago PD), pg. 138; “Dallas police told Sgt. Ronald Kelly, Head of Area 6 youth division, that they have information associating [John] Norman with the ring that helped transport to Texas the 27 boys murdered in Houston in 1973 in a widely publicized sex and sadism case. That case involved Dean Corll”.

    NONE of the 27 victims were “transported to Texas”. With the exception of one victim originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, ALL of the identified Corll victims were long-time residents of Texas. No one, not John Norman nor anyone else, “trafficked” them into Texas. They already lived there. Furthermore, none of Corll’s victims had been an Odyssey Foundation male prostitute, pimped out by Norman. This story is a blatant lie, an early attempt to falsely link John Norman to Corrl and his victims.

    Here are some examples, of something annoying the authors do several times; pg. 57; “In fact, there was a widespread network of pedophiles from Houston to Dallas, with boys paid or forced into being photographed for pornography”, no source cited, so, a rumor apparently.

    They have gratuitously added “or forced”, thus – boys paid or forced into pornography. There isn’t documentation that, for example, pornographer Roy Ames ever “forced” boys to participate in nude photo-shoots or sex acts on camera. The lack of documentation doesn’t stop them from assuming some boys MUST have been forced, and someone must be “hiding the truth”, so they will just proclaim that to be a fact anyway, I guess.

    The claim by Houston Youth officers, that they identified 11 Corll victims in CSA images found in Ames warehouse, is understandably uncomfortable for some people, particularly family members and friends. They remember a person whom they couldn’t imagine would pose for nude photos or sex acts, for a few dollars. Certainly not voluntarily, if they were involved in pornography or prostitution they must have been coerced, extorted, forced…This was, in the 1970s, and still is, a popular opinion about any & all teen boys. Yet, there is documentation that teen boys of that era who were involved, had a lot more autonomy and self-agency than we want to credit them with, as Det. Williams (OCCK case) found, when he tracked down men who had been teen boy hustlers in the Cass area of Detroit. “Ralph” was one such, described by pedophile Richard Lawson as; “the most beautiful boy in the world, every man wanted him”. This is from Det. Williams’ investigator notes, 3-21-07; “I asked Ralph if there was someone who controlled the money or set-up the meets with the adult men. To which he stated no, he just did it on his own for the money, like every other boy in his neighborhood”

    “The Syndicate in Dallas“:

    • from the “Author’s Note”, pg. i, “Henley killed Corll and turned himself in. At this point, he mentioned his fear of Corll’s association with a sex trafficking ring in Dallas. Brooks, once in custody, also described the ring. The Houston police made a tepid effort to investigate the alleged connection before ultimately dismissing it. However, such a ring did exist”.
    • from pg. 9; “Henley had said it: there was an organization that Corll had talked about that bought and sold boys”
    • from page 12; “Dean told me he belonged to an organization out of Dallas that bought and sold boys, ran dope and stuff like that”
    • and finally on pgs. 59-63, a full discussion of John Norman’s Odyssey male prostitute pimping racket, which he ran out of his apartment in Dallas. But only from May-Aug. of 1973, as Dallas PD are quoted saying; “Criminal record of alleged homosexual ring leader revealed”, Dallas Morning News, 1973; “The procurement ring has apparently been operating since May, when Norman rented the Cole Avenue apartment”

    While careful not to explicitly state, that the “sex trafficking ring” Corll claimed to belong to in Dallas was John Norman’s operation, the authors nevertheless clearly want their readers to “get that”. But Norman was only ‘in operation’ in Dallas from May-Aug of 1973, and Corll started talking to his henchmen about it in 1971-72. No matter how anyone tries to weasel it, Corll coudn’t have been and wasn’t talking about John Norman. Corll never did “belong” to Norman’s ring, Dallas did not find Corll listed on any Norman client card, nor did they find any Corll victim listed as a Norman boy for hire. And yes they did investigate that; Press=Telegram, Long Beach, Ca, Aug.13, 1973, “He [Dallas PD Chief Steele] said each teenager listed would be contacted…”

    Addendum: on pages 10-11, the authors say: “Too late, it’s become clear that there was a sex trafficking ring whose principal operators were based near Dean Corll. Two of these men lived and worked extensively in Houston and Dallas, with associations in California. Their network was documented as having tens of thousands of predators participating, with just as many boys being exploited…It’s improbable that Corll would have had no awareness of this ring, as pedophiles tend to share resources to indemnify each other”

    I’m sorry, but whomever wrote that has neither knowledge nor understanding of the things they presume to pontificate about. Probably did see Gerald Richards’ flowchart but didn’t comprehend it at all. The genuine network, the one documented to have existed circa 1970-76 in North America, (with friends and business partners in Europe), as opposed to Corll’s personal fantasy network, wasn’t a generic “pedophiles” – “if you like kids we like you” network. Although “homosexual pedophiles” isn’t wrong, it was even more subculture specific – it was the network of the boy-lover pederasts. Just being homosexually oriented, didn’t make Corll a boy-lover. He wasn’t. He was a homosexual boy-destroyer!

    I’m not even sure that “pedophile” was an accurate categorization for Corll. His orientation was Sexual Sadism and Murder! Corll didn’t fit the Gay community, he wouldn’t fit the Pederasts…there was no subculture and no network for him. Which is probably why he invented a fantasy subculture for himself, something his teen flunkies would be too naïve to immediately call bs on. But I will. There was NO “Brotherhood of Men Who Butcher Boys”!

    You’re free to imagine “you don’t know that for a fact!’, if you wish, but yes – I do know that for a fact. This is MY area of expertise, I’ve been researching sex offender subcultures for 35+ years.

    pg. 18; “Brooks estimated that Corll had killed twenty-five to thirty boys and young men over three years (plausible, tragically). He added that Corll had “mentioned there was a group of people in Dallas which had similar activities to his” – but that, is a steaming pile of bull dung! They would all represent such an extreme danger to each other, that they’d have to either rat all the others out in hope of being spared, or start picking each other off as clandestinely as possible. This is the murderous satanic cult fantasy, without the horns.

    It’s actually very improbable, that Corll would have any knowledge of the real network. I realize, the authors fantasize that it was really a network of boy-destroyers like Corll, everyone, but I guarantee that if Corll went around proclaiming to anyone but his henchmen, that he tortures and murders boys, he’d be toast by next morning. If Corll wrote to John Norman, saying: “I’ve enjoyed torturing young teen boys to death in the past – can you set me up with some hetero virgin 15 years old boys, for me to rape and torture over a few days before strangling them? p.s. I’m not kidding, there’s a dozen dead boys in my boathouse right now”, there would be surveillance on his PO box, house, business, within the week. And no reply from Norman. But you could prove me wrong, if there were copies of Norman’s newsletters found in Corll’s home, or Hermes journal, or Better Life Monthly…

  • It’s About Winning

    Cases: John Wayne Gacy, Dean Corll, John Norman

    Promotion of revised and false sub-narratives. Summary; that John Wayne Gacy (JWG) and Dean Corll “belonged to” “a larger network of pornographers and sex traffickers” and “were associated with” a large nationwide sex trafficking ring run by John Norman.

    What are people saying about this, what specific claims are being made? I chose a short video on Youtube for a random sampling, because it has multiple people expressing a range of ideas; “John Wayne Gacy’s connection to sex trafficker John Norman”. You needn’t watch it if you don’t wish to, I’ll quote from the speakers, here.

    Karen Conti : (repeating things she claims JWG said to her) – there may have been a snuff film operation, that some of these young men and boys were being killed and videotaped, and the videos being sold on “the black market”. JWG didn’t say who was involved. In her own words; “there was probably a black market for that kind of stuff…back then”.

    JWG speaking; (previously recorded interview) “Philip Paske was involved with John Norman, and Norman was running ‘boys for hire’. They were making snuff films with young boys” (from another segment not in this video) “They ought to look through Norman’s confiscated films to see if they identify any [of JWG] victims”.

    What is being left out?

    1) JWG was in police custody, December of 1978.

    2) the first video cameras compatible with video cassette recorders came on the American market in 1979* prior to that, video cameras came paired with reel to reel recorders (portapaks). During the time when Gacy’s victims were being raped, tortured, murdered and slaughtered, there were no video cassette cameras. Young men and boys were NOT being killed and videotaped, by Paske-Norman or by anyone else, during the years that Gacy was killing boys and young men – because the technological means to do this did not exist at that time.

    3) similarly, there were technological obstacles to making pornographic movies with the popular Super 8mm home movie cameras. These cameras recorded frame images onto a film strip encased in a cassette. Developing that film strip was not something that anyone could do “at home”, it required a proper film lab and expertise. Sending your Super 8 cassettes to Kodak labs for developing and hoping their lab technicians wouldn’t notice criminal images on it, was so obviously stupid that no one would risk it. Not even John Norman. That may be why there’s no evidence of any “confiscated John Norman” films. He just didn’t make his own pornographic films. Norman was quite adept as a photographer, he could develop photo film in a closet if necessary, like thousands of other American amateur photographers of all ages were doing. That’s the way he created nude or pornographic images of boys, as photos, not films. The fact that JWG apparently didn’t know this, suggests that he didn’t really know much about Norman. Gacy’s attempt to shift blame for murdered boys and men buried under his floorboards; “those boys were making snuff films and burying the bodies in my house!”, has practical realities problems.

    4) “I’m going out to make a snuff film! See you, with the video/film, in a couple hours”, if it was really that simple, Gacy surely would have done it himself! It sounds like JWG was the one lusting to make snuff porn. His sister says she found packets of pornographic pictures taped to the underneath of a dresser drawer. In her brief look through, she saw they depicted JWG in a threesome with other men. “In talking with Marty Zelinski, who was an employee and family photographer for John Gacy, he was asked to photograph pornography by Gacy and turned it down. In Terry Sullivan’s hand-written case notes, they show that Gacy asked several living victims if they’d like to appear in male pornography”**

    But why would Paske, and/or Norman, WANT to make snuff porn? They weren’t like Gacy. Gacy murdered young men and boys. Paske’s criminal record for assaults shows he could be violent, but he never murdered anyone, he was only the lookout in the robbery where someone was stabbed to death, he wasn’t the killer. Norman never murdered anyone. Gacy abducted people and held them captive with restraints; “Gacy chloroformed him [Jeff Rignall] and drove him to his house, where his arms and head were restrained in a pillory device affixed to the ceiling and his feet locked into another device”, there’s no evidence that any of Norman’s male hustlers were abduction victims, nor that he ever held them captive. Gacy sexually tortured his victims, he delighted in causing pain and seeing them suffer. John Norman’s extensive criminal convictions record doesn’t include acts of rape or sadism.

    If John Wayne Gacy “belonged to a nationwide sex trafficking ring run by John Norman”, what would that mean?

    1. It can’t just mean meeting Phil Paske, giving him some work, and having a beer with him a few times in Gacy’s house. Norman’s passion at that time was his Delta Project. Wouldn’t belonging to Norman’s ring mean joining Delta? Becoming a Delta Dorm Don? Taking in a cadet or two? No evidence for any of that, though. Norman liked to give his sponsors frequent ‘updates’ on Delta. There’s a video where you can see his folksy-newsy style. He crows about Phil Paske and how pleased he is to have him as an “executive assistant”. No mention of John, no “John WG has come on board, I’m sure he will prove an asset”, or anything. Tracy Ullman observed that pedophiles had ways of communicating even if they never met face to face. That’s true, and the newsletters perhaps most important of all. Were any copies of “The John Norman Newsletter” found in Gacy’s home? Copies of Hermes Journal? Better Life Monthly? Broadstreet Journal? No? I don’t see much belonging going on.

    What is the false narrative underlying all of this, this and the rewrites of the Corll case going on in tandem?

    It’s a false narrative in which the Serial Killers and butchers of boys, ala JWG and Dean Corll, are fully and openly accepted and embraced by the entire boy-lover/pederast underground, as their Brothers. Because all of them are really clones of Corrl, or Gacy. Perpetually lusting to torture and murder boys, and especially, to generate and view torture photos and snuff films. So they are all too happy, the pornographers and the boy hustler pimps, the BL newsletter and journal publishers and all their subscribers, to help a Brother out. To sell the serial slayers, boy sex slaves, knowing they will be tortured and murdered. To keep their secrets, and help hide the evidence when necessary.

    Thankfully, however, it is a false narrative, it was never the reality. Dean Corll could never have been buddies with Roy Ames, not if Ames knew the truth about him. And JWG could never have been buddies with John Norman, not if Norman knew what Gacy had done.

    If there had ever been a Congress of the self-professed boy-lover pederasts, all the subscribers to all the BL newsletters, and John Norman got up on stage and declared; “My friends! Welcome our new Brother Dean from Houston. He likes to torture and murder boys!” There would be a riot. If they didn’t lynch him right there, many were surely drop the dime on him to police as fast as they could.

    Because, boy-lover pederasts develop deep-seated delusional rationalizations about their relationship with the boys in their lives. They need to genuinely believe that their relationships with boys are beneficial to the boys, that they are making their lives better, giving them everything they want and need, at the least making them happy. These rationalizations protect them from full conscious awareness, that they are in reality harming the boys. Not physically, not many open boy-beaters in their ranks. But the sexual exploitation is harming them, the adult “boyfriends” are betraying their innocent trust, and the love they profess for the boys is ultimately a manipulation that will turn to poison as they mature. And when the wheels eventually come off the delusional perception of themselves, and they can no longer lie to themselves, it’s not uncommon for them to self-destruct. “OMG! I’m really a monster!”

    Having someone openly confess their desire to harm boys, while professing to be one of them, would be too confronting for them. They would never stand for it. “That’s not who we are! You’re not one of us, you’re a monster”. There’s not a smidgen of understanding about boy-lover psychology evident, in the false narrative rewrite of historic cases currently being evangelized in multiple formats; podcasts, books, documentaries, etc., despite involvement by the illustrious Dr. Ramsland. And I think I may know why.

    Tracy Ullman said; “When myself, Alison True and Bill Dorsch started working to unearth details behind the John Wayne Gacy case, I had recently been widowed and was working two jobs while raising three kids”, “For years, all three of us were called “conspiracy nuts”. Our ideas were refuted. We were sworn at and had phones hung up on us. We were roundly and publicly criticized by people who had a PR advantage..”

    It’s not about uncovering and documenting the facts about historic crime cases. It’s about “winning”, and the way you win is by developing a PR advantage over the people who had ‘oppressed’ you in the past, and flooding public perception about those cases with your personal narrative about them – the story that you want to be true, about them. It’s about kicking sand in their faces, shouting; “I told you that I had as much right to play in this sandbox as you, and now that I’m 10 feet tall, I’m going to push you out and make sure that no one will ever plays with you again”

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    I am an independent researcher. I have no corporate, media, political or religious affiliation. I do not derive income from my writing, no one pays me to write articles on here, nor do I solicit funds from my readers. I am a survivor of the commercial CSA images industry of the 1970s. I have been researching that industry, historic crimes connected-related to it, and sex offender subcultures, for 35+ years.

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    This blog will provide all the factual information about true crime and historic crime cases, which other sources have “left out”. What other sources didn’t tell you, perhaps because this info contradicts their own narrative-beliefs about the case, or they don’t perceive the info to be important, (it might be, highly!), or they just don’t want you to know about it – for whatever reason. Articles on this blog may incorporate brief summaries-reviews of books, documentaries, podcasts or other published media. If there are provably false, or intentionally deceptive and misleading statements in those materials, I may highlight them and provide correct info from cited sources. False info being currently popular on social media sites won’t deter me from documenting the errors in it. I’m not trying to win popularity contests, or build a 2,000,000 person following so I can socially “down vote” facts that I don’t want popularized, out of public sight.