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Jul 27, 2019 · Dean Corll was a 33-year-old electrician living in Houston who, with two teen accomplices, kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered at least 27 young boys in Houston in the early 1970s. "The Candy Man Murders," as the case was called, was one of the most horrific series of murders in U.S. history. Corll's Childhood Years.
Jan 17, 2022 · Though Dean Corll tried to target vulnerable and at-risk youths, many of his victims had loving parents who were desperately trying to find them. One of Corll’s victims, Mark Scott, was 17 years old when he disappeared on April 20, 1972.
It was the most shocking crime of its day, 27 boys from the same part of town kidnapped, tortured, and killed by an affable neighbor named Dean Corll.
Aug 7, 2023 · The victims, ages 13 to 20, were lured away from the Heights and murdered by Dean Corll -- who became known as the Candy Man -- and his accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley and David Owen Brooks....
Aug 19, 2023 · Corll’s killing spree had gone undetected for three years until Henley shot and killed Corll, and then led police to the graves of at least 27 victims — in that boatshed, on the beach near...
True Crime. A Closer Look at One of Dean Corll’s Victims. Dorothy Hilligiest's son David disappeared one day on the way to a neighborhood swimming pool in 1971. Like a few other Houston...
On August 8, 1973, the Houston Police Department discovered a 33-year-old man named Dean Corll shot to death at a home where he was staying in Pasadena, a Houston suburb. They were given...
