With the help of two accomplices, The Candy Man abducted, raped, and tortured at least 28 teenage boys between . [188], At the time, the killing spree was the worst case of serial murder, in terms of the number of victims, in the United States, exceeding the 25 murders attributed to Juan Corona, who had been arrested in California in 1971 for killing 25 men. [13], Timothy's death from poisoned Halloween candy raised fear in the community. In March 2011, DNA analysis confirmed that the victim known as ML73-3355 had been misidentified and the same month, the victim was identified as Steven Kent Sickman, a 17-year-old who was last seen walking down West 34th Street shortly before midnight on July 19, 1972. [232], In June 2008, Dr. Sharon Derrick, a forensic anthropologist with the medical examiner's office in Houston, released digital images of Corll's three still-unidentified victims. The Killer Clown Meets the Candy Man: Directed by Pete Jacelone. On October 17, 2008, ML73-3349 was identified as Randell Lee Harvey, a Heights teenager who had been reported missing on March 11, 1971 two days after he had disappeared. "[143][144], In PPD custody, Henley was initially questioned about the killing of Corll. [21] In response, she fired the teenager. [7] At the age of seven, he suffered an undiagnosed case of rheumatic fever, which was not recognized until doctors found Corll had a heart murmur in 1950. The boy had been unable to open the staples that sealed the wrapper shut. Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 August 8, 1973) was an American serial killer and sex offender who abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered a minimum of 28 teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. "[127] He then repeatedly kicked Williams in the chest[30] before lifting Henley to his feet, dragging him into his kitchen and placing a .22-caliber pistol against his stomach, threatening to shoot him. But over a period of two years, Corll groomed Brooks and steadily built his trust. [The crimes] are considered to be one of the most insidious and sadistic serial killings not just in Houston but nationally. On November 4, 2011, the victim mistakenly identified as Baulch (case file ML73-3333) was identified through DNA analysis as Roy Eugene Bunton, a Heights teenager who was last seen by his family heading for work at a Houston shoe store on or about August 21, 1972. In all, he killed 28 victims. Article detailing investigators' suspicions as to, This page was last edited on 16 April 2023, at 01:37. [295][n 14]. In 2013, Williams recounted Henley's actions on the morning of August 8, stating: "He (Henley) was afraid that he wasn't going to be able to save me. In 1964, Corll, then 24, was drafted into the U.S. Army. A film loosely inspired by the Houston Mass Murders. By this point, Corlls mother had divorced a third husband and moved to Colorado. The 1973 misidentification of Michael Baulch was discovered as a result of an independent investigation conducted by freelance writers Barbara Gibson and Debera Phinney, who contacted Dr. Derrick with a tip indicating that the second victim unearthed from the boat shed had been misidentified; upon conducting additional DNA testing, Dr. Derrick discovered their suspicions were correct. Candyman in 2021 may feel made for the Black Lives Matter era but its themes were present from the start. The family moved to the small town of Vidor, Texas, where Corll's half-sister, Joyce Jeanine (1955-2016), was born. Following Hurricane Ike in 2008, the area of High Island Beach where Corll is known to have buried his victims remains submerged,[30] leaving a strong possibility that Scott's body will never be found. However, Corlls involvement at the company was not as wholesome as it seemed. [5] Mary subsequently sold the family home and relocated to a trailer home in Memphis, Tennessee, where Arnold had been drafted into the United States Air Force after the divorce, to allow her sons to remain in contact with their father. After his parents divorced, he and his brother, Stanley, moved with their mother to Houston. Potential association with a national sex ring, Corll's mother would later state the inspiration for her founding a family candy business was a pecan nut salesman calling at her home and observing her baking several pies. He was reportedly unhappy in the service and was discharged 10 months later. [46] He is also known to have retained keepsakesusually keysfrom his victims. [55]:1[58] His call was answered by an operator named Velma Lines. Corll was also known as the Candy Man and the Pied Piper, because he and his family had previously owned and operated a candy factory in Houston Heights, and he had been known to give free candy to local children. Meanwhile, Corlls mother doted on him. [99], On January 20, 1973, Corll moved to an address on Wirt Road in the Spring Branch district of Houston. As had been the case in his childhood, Corll was also considered somewhat of a loner, although he is known to have occasionally dated girls in his teenage years. [145], When questioned regarding his claim that as Corll had threatened him that morning he had shouted that he had killed several boys,[146] Henley explained that for almost three years, Brooks and he had helped procure teenage boys, some of whom had been their own friends, for Corll, who had raped and murdered them. Their bodies were then tied in plastic sheeting[44] and buried in one of four places: a rented boat shed in southwest Houston,[45] a beach on the Bolivar Peninsula, a woodland near Lake Sam Rayburn (where Corll's family owned a lakeside log cabin), or a beach in Jefferson County. What made Corll's crimes all the more shocking was the fact that he was helped by two teenage accomplices one of whom would eventually shoot Corll dead. document.write(new Date().getFullYear()) And unfortunately, it remains unknown how many others Dean Corll might have killed that Henley and Brooks didnt know about. Inside this crate were several strands of human hair. The body was buried at High Island Beach. In one part of his confession, Henley had described luring two of the victims for whose murder he had been brought to trial, Cobble and Jones, to Corll's Pasadena residence. Henley was ultimately convicted of six murders and sentenced to 99 years Brooks received a life sentence on a single count of murder. Beginning in 1969,[32] Corll paid Brooks in cash or with gifts to allow him to perform fellatio on the youth. HOUSTON - On August 8, 49 years ago 13-year-old Stanton Dreymala . Henley later compared the acceleration in the frequency of killings and the increase in the brutality exhibited by Corll towards his victims to being "like a blood lust", adding that he and Brooks would instinctively know when Corll was to announce that he "needed to do a new boy," due to the fact that he would appear restless, smoking cigarettes and making reflex movements. The individual depicted has been ruled out by the Harris County Medical Examiner as being any of Corll's known victims, including his one remaining known unidentified victim. And Corll was screaming at Henley while waving his .22-caliber pistol: Im going to kill you, but first Ill have my fun., Corll then carried Henley into the kitchen to let him know how furious he was that he had brought a girl over to his home. Some accounts state Branch was abducted in February 1972. 0027616865441. eBay Product ID (ePID) 3370019. He said the owner of the home did not turn the lights on, but did crack the door open and hand him five Pixy Stix. Prior to their respective trials, both Henley and Brooks would reject offers presented to them by the district attorney of life sentences in exchange for pleas of guilty in the murders for which they had been indicted. And the following year, Corll killed his first known victim: 18-year-old Jeffrey Konen. [91] Neither youth was named by either Brooks or Henley as being a victim of Corll, and both youths were identified as victims only in 2011. Then, without another word, Henley shot Corll six times with the gun, killing him. The jury deliberated for just 90 minutes before they reached a verdict. Everett Waldrop, the father of Donald and Jerry Waldrop, complained that shortly after his sons had disappeared in 1971, he had informed police an acquaintance had observed Corll burying what appeared to be bodies at his boat shed. [287][289] This victim has been referred to as "John Houston Doe" since the discovery of his body. Brooks later described Dreymala as a "small, blond boy" for whom he had bought a pizza and in whose company he had spent 45 minutes before the youth was attacked. All the bodies showed signs of being sodomised while others had been sexually tortured, including by having their genitals cut off, or having objects inserted into their rectum. [22]:3641 Also found at Corll's address were a large hunting knife, rolls of clear plastic of the same type used to cover the floor, a portable radio rigged to a pair of dry cells to give increased volume,[152] an electric motor with loose wires attached,[153] eight pairs of handcuffs, a number of dildos, thin glass tubes, and lengths of rope. [52], Brooks led police to Konen's body on August 10, 1973. Corll even ended up killing former employees of his candy factory along with dozens of others. [198] The other youth, Willard Branch,[199] lived in the Oak Forest district of Houston. Harvey, who had been shot through the eye. [311] The discovery of the material in Houston in 1975 subsequently led to the arrest of five individuals in Santa Clara, California. [30] Twenty-seven of Corll's known victims have been identified, and the identity of a 28th victim whose body has never been found, Mark Scott, is conclusively known. In a 2010 interview, he claimed to have attempted to persuade Corll not to assault and kill Aguirre once Corll and Brooks had bound and gagged the youth. And many who knew him probably want to forget that they ever did. [172], Police found nine additional bodies in the boat shed on August 9. According to Texas Monthly, Corll killed his first recorded victim in September 1970. In most of these abductions, he was assisted by one or both of his teenage accomplices: David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley. [308], During a routine investigation in February 1975, the HPD discovered a large cache of pornographic pictures and films depicting boys as young as eight, most of whom were from the Heights. Both youths were buried at High Island Beach. Corll was said to be openly flirtatious with the youths and befriended many of them. [193] Waldrop stated that on one of the many occasions when he visited the HPD,[194] the police chief had simply told him, "Why are you down here? We understand the opportunity to grow engagement with new audiences of all ages and through new partnerships with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat, along with our podcasts and on-demand SVOD services, we ensure our programming and unique stories reach audiences across the full demographic spectrum. 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I camped on that police department door for eight months, a grieving father named Everett Waldrop told reporters about when his sons first went missing, according to the New York Daily News. He and Brooks soon made official confessions stating their involvement in the crimes and offered to show police where the victims were buried. An 81-year-old man survived being stuck in a snowbank for nearly a week by eating only candy, croissants and biscotti. [210] Cobble and Jones were killed on July 27, 1973, two days after they had been reported missing. Harvey was driven to Corll's Mangum Road apartment, where he was subsequently killed by a single gunshot to the head. The teenagers then collectively decided to call the police. Dreymala was tied to the torture board, raped, and strangled to death with a cord. [119] Williamsnursing a sprained anklehad been beaten by her drunken father that evening and accepted Henley's invitation to join him and Kerley at Corll's home. He even gave free candy to local schoolchildren, which earned him the nickname Candy Man.. The following morning, Hembree was accidentally shot in the mouth by Henley,[95] with the bullet exiting through his neck. Dr. Derrick has stated that she believes this particular victim may be named Harman, Harmon or French,[286] as the only outstanding missing persons reports relating to youths from the Houston area dated between 1970 and 1973, which fit the forensic profile of this unknown youth, include these surnames. The trio then drove toward Corll's Pasadena residence. [16][34] The jury took 71minutes to sentence him to death by electrocution. This had inspired the salesman to state to her: "If you've got that much energy, why don't you start making candy? [25], Following his honorable discharge from the army, Corll returned to Houston Heights and resumed the position he had held as vice-president of Corll Candy Company. 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