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Speaker 1: Monster Presents Insomniac. It was August eight and the bullet

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Speaker 1: riddled nude body of Dean Coral, age thirty three, was

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Speaker 1: stretched out along the baseboard of a hallway in his

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Speaker 1: home in Pasadena, Texas, a city within the Greater Houston

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Speaker 1: metropolitan area. He fell facing the wall. He had been

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Speaker 1: shot six times with a twenty two caliber pistol, and

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Speaker 1: he was dead before he even hit the floor. The

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Speaker 1: young man who pulled the trigger, Elmer Wayne Henley, aged seventeen,

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Speaker 1: was also the one who called the authorities almost immediately

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Speaker 1: to tell them that he had just killed a man.

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Speaker 1: He and two other teenagers, Tim Curley and Ronda Williams

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Speaker 1: then waited for the Pasadena police on the front porch

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Speaker 1: of the small home. They knew they had some explaining

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Speaker 1: to do, especially the shooter. When the police arrived, the

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Speaker 1: victim was indeed dead. Dean Coral was dead all right,

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Speaker 1: and the three of them were taken into custody and

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Speaker 1: questioned about the shooting. Henley, the trigger man, claimed it

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Speaker 1: was justifiable homicide, a case of self defense. His story

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Speaker 1: was eventually verified, and much later that's the way it

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Speaker 1: would be ruled in court too. He would not be

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Speaker 1: charged for the shooting of Dean Coral in self defense.

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Speaker 1: But as the authorities inspected Dean Coral's home on that day,

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Speaker 1: they knew almost immediately there was far more to the story.

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Speaker 1: In particular, the items they found in the bedroom troubled

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Speaker 1: home on Lamar Drive. The police said, questions, lots of questions.

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Speaker 1: The homeowner was dead. He wasn't much help. But beginning

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Speaker 1: pistol wielding teenager that remained in custody, they would have

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Speaker 1: all the answers they were looking for, as he told

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Speaker 1: them everything over the next several days, The story that

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Speaker 1: Henley told and the grizzly evidence that was quickly being

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Speaker 1: unearthed under the watchful eye of the media both captivated

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Speaker 1: the rest of the country and even the world. So

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Speaker 1: what really led to the early morning murder on August

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Speaker 1: Why was Dean Coral shot dead in his own home?

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Speaker 1: The authorities in Pasadena, Texas, We're going to learn every detail.

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Speaker 1: It was an appalling story that none of them wanted

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Speaker 1: I'm Scott Benjamin, and everything I'm about to tell you

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Speaker 1: is real. This is insomniac. In late nineteen the entire

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Speaker 1: state of Texas watched as a real life horror story

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Speaker 1: on Tell Vision. But it wasn't just Texas that was watching.

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Speaker 1: The entire country and soon the world was gripped by

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Speaker 1: It would soon come to be known as the Houston

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Speaker 1: mass murders, and the name Dean Coral would be well known,

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Speaker 1: but for all the wrong reasons. Well, he's the main

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Speaker 1: no way to tell this story without including two other

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Speaker 1: teenagers from a suburb of Houston, Texas that somehow found

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Speaker 1: also known as the Handyman. Dean Coral, was born on

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