The Candy Man and The Houston Mass Murder's
Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973) known as the "Candy Man" or the "Pied Piper" due to having worked in a sweet shop, often giving out free sweets to children and allowing teenagers to hangout at the shop where he had a pool table.
Between 1970 and 1973, Corll is known to have killed a minimum of 28 victims. All of his victims were males aged 13 to 20, the majority of whom were in their mid-teens. Most victims were abducted from Houston Heights, which was then a low-income neighborhood northwest of downtown Houston. With most abductions, he was assisted by one or both of his teenaged accomplices: Elmer Wayne Henley, and David Owen Brooks whom he would pay $200 per boy. Several victims were friends of the two.
Corll's victims were usually lured into either one of the two vehicles he owned. This enticement was typically an offer of a party and the victim would be driven to his house. At Corll's residence, the youths would be plied with alcohol or other drugs until they passed out, tricked into donning handcuffs, or simply grabbed by force. They were then stripped naked and tied to either Corll's bed or, usually, a plywood torture board, which was regularly hung on a wall. Once manacled, the victims would be sexually assaulted, beaten, tortured and—sometimes after several days—killed by strangulation or shooting.
Their bodies were then tied in plastic sheeting and buried in one of four places: a rented boat shed; a beach on the Bolivar Peninsula; a woodland near Lake Sam Rayburn or a beach in Jefferson County.
On August 8th 1973, Corll was shot and killed by Henley after threating to murder him and his girlfriend while partying. Due to this the upcoming trial focused on the teenagers, who remain incarcerated to this day.
Corll and his atrocities predate many infamous serial killers but seem to have been largely lost to history due to his death and lack of trial. Though there is no doubt Corll is as disturbing as any serial killer the world has seen.
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