Tucson Festival of Books

Looking for the Lost Boys


Investigative reporter Lise Olsen is here with a true story about two dozen teenage boys who were murdered by a serial killer 50 years ago in Houston. Who were they? Why did no one seem to care? Even now the case is chilling.


Panelist
Lise Olsen

Lise Olsen is investigations editor at the Texas Observer and the author of "The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston's Lost Boys," a deeply researched tale about dozens of young men who were kidnapped and killed by Dean Corll in the 1970s....


Books:
The Scientist and the Serial Killer
The Search for Houston's Lost Boys
Lise Olsen
True Crime
Random House
April 2025
ISBN 9780593595688
464 pages
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Code of Silence
Inside the Case That Led to the First Federal Judge to be Impeached for Sexual M isconduct
Lise Olsen
True Crime
Beacon Press
August 2022
ISBN 9780807007280
288 pages
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