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Dickens' mother watched from her house as Bell shot her son four times, emptying his pistol, then retrieved a rifle to administer a coup de grace. It wasn't for a lack of effort."īell is serving 70 years for the 1978 murder of Larry Dickens, a Marine who confronted Bell after he exited his red and white GMC pickup naked from the waist down and began masturbating in front of a group of girls in Pasadena. One former Galveston DA, Kurt Sistrunk, told the Chronicle, "I didn't believe we had sufficient evidence that we could proceed to grand jury with, and without getting into specifics, that's the decision that had to be made, no matter the temptations to proceed otherwise. Several investigators said not enough effort was made in 1998 to re-investigate the cases. And Bell refused to cooperate with police. Harris County prosecutors never investigated the claims and subsequently lost the letters. Galveston prosecutors refused to present Bell's written confessions to a grand jury. Several senior investigators familiar with Bell's letters of confessions told the Chronicle they have long believed he committed multiple murders and found evidence to corroborate his claims.

In July and September, in exclusive interviews, Bell, now gaunt and pasty-faced at 72, told a Chronicle reporter the tally of lives was not just seven, but 11, the "Eleven that went to Heaven."īell claims a brainwashing "program" forced him to "be a flasher," to "rape girls" and ultimately to kill.