HOUSTON --It's in the books as one of Houston's most bizarre murder mysteries. Dean Goss was a popular dinner club owner back in the day. He married twice, but both wives were murdered in his Meyerland home.

Longtime Houstonians will likely remember the name Dean Goss.

He owned and operated the Dean Goss Dinner Theater. He appeared in the 1971 movie "Brewster McCloud."

He ran unsuccessfully for a spot on Houston City Council in 1979.

His life began to unravel in the early '80s.

In March of 1982, the bloody body of 43-year-old Elaine Goss was found by her husband in an upstairs bedroom. She'd been shot in the back of the head.

"This is one of those major league murders that occurred in Houston," said Sgt. Mike Peters with HPD.

Never before released crime scene photos, obtained by 11 News, show how the intruder apparently entered Goss’ home.

Police still won't say whether a burglary was involved.

Three years after his wife Elaine died, Goss remarried a woman named Paula. Four months later, she was dead too -- also murdered in the Meyerland home.

"When you have two murders of women taking place at the same residence, there is something not right," Sgt. Peters said.

HPD devoted a small army to the case.

"You probably had the best detectives in the division, back in that time frame, working the case," remembered Peters. "They went everywhere and did everything. They traveled out of state."

HPD repeatedly interrogated Dean Goss and his sons. But the interrogations led nowhere.

In fact, when Paula was murdered, Goss was in Methodist Hospital having a benign tumor removed.

"It was one of the most talked about murders in Houston history," said Clarence Walker, a crime writer who's been following the case from day one. 

"If you remember the movie "Psycho," the Norman Bates Motel -- people check in and no one checks out," Walker said. "That's the way this was."

Homicide investigators tell us they tracked all leads, including rumors that Goss was involved with organized crime.

"All indication points to whoever committed those murders probably lived in the same house," Walker said.

He said the lead suspect was Dean Goss’ son, Craig.

If he pulled the two women, he took his secrets to the grave. Craig Goss recently committed suicide.

Dean Goss died of natural causes in 1992.