Rusty Branch

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Rusty Branch
Name	Willard Karmon Branch Jr.
Sex	Male
Age	17
Missing from	Houston, Texas
Disappeared	c. February 9, 1972
Discovered	August 9, 1973
Location	Houston, Texas
Identified	July 3, 1985
Span	11 years
Cause of death	Gunshot (homicide)

Willard Karmon "Rusty" Branch Jr. (July 2, 1954 - c. February 9, 1972) was a teenager killed by serial killer Dean Corll in 1972. Branch, who had been known to hitchhike, had disappeared sometime in February 1972. He had been emasculated and shot in the head and was buried in Corll's boat shed, where his body was uncovered amongst 16 others between August 8th and 9th.

Sources

• Rusty Branch at Find a Grave
• Dean Corll on Wikipedia^{POSTMORTEM WARNING}
• Elmer Henley Jr. on Wikipedia
• David Brooks on Wikipedia
• Associated Press