Among these operations were the Odyssey Foundation based in Dallas; the Delta Project, Creative Corps and M-C Publications of Chicago; and Handy Andy from Pennsylvania.
Norman was released from Atascadero in October 2008 under strict conditions, but soon returned to custody after handing a sexually suggestive note to a 19-year-old male clerk at an El Centro grocery store.
Brisendine began to realize that his "sponsor" was instead preying upon young men for procurement into sex and prostitution by leading them in under the false pretenses of being a gay support organization.
Rob Shivers and the FBI both believed that the files stamped with "Kill" wasn't literal and was instead a publishing term referring to trashing outdated materials.
Upon receiving the memo, the police jumped on the lead quicker than usual due to the Houston murders and raided Norman's apartment at 3716 Cole Avenue based on the tip.
[14] Police seized booklets bearing the name International and containing photographs and contact information of teenage boys and young men, as well as 30,000 index cards listing between 50,000 and 100,000 clients located in 35 U.S.
[11][15] Dallas Police Lt. Harold Hancock told the Chicago Tribune in May 1977 that prominent public figures and federal employees were among the names found in Norman's client list.
[1]: 38–39 [15] During his time in Homewood, Norman sexually abused ten teenage boys, enticing them with beer, showing them pornography and committing acts such as groping and oral sex upon them.
[1]: 38, 45, 48–49 In the spring of 1976, while still awaiting trial on charges related to the Homewood crimes, Norman was bailed out of Cook County Jail for $36,000 by an unknown person from California.
[16][15] Norman was paroled in the fall of 1977, but was arrested again in Chicago in June 1978 for having sex with two underage boys from a local foster home and taking pornographic pictures of both.
[17] Norman was accused of re-founding the Delta Project, now called the Creative Corps and M-C Publications, after being released from prison and operating it out of his apartment at 685 1/2 West Wrightwood Avenue, allegedly sending photos of the boys to a "don" in Canada.
[20][21] Between October 1983 and May 1984, Norman produced and published a child pornography magazine called Handy Andy from his rural home and a nearby motel in Aspers, Pennsylvania.
Additionally, the source who tipped off police about the Odyssey Foundation was a prostitute involved in the organization who got scared after an unidentified man in Houston requested his services.
[11] In 1975 however, Houston police reported finding pictures depicting eleven of Corll's victims during a raid on a child prostitution ring, once again raising the possibility of connections to Norman.
[25] Norman is also alleged to have been connected to another serial killer, John Wayne Gacy, who murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men in Chicago between 1972 and 1978.
Norman's closest associate and personal friend was Phillip Paske,[26][27] who was briefly an employee of Gacy's construction business, PDM Contractors.