These bodies were recovered between 12:05p.m. and 8:30p.m.,[154][155] and all were in an advanced state of decomposition. Dec 13, 2022. [114], Noting Henley had awoken, Corll removed the gag from his mouth. Inside Corll's house, Aguirre smoked marijuana with the trio before picking up a pair of handcuffs Corll had left on his table. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. But as far as anyone can tell, there was nothing especially unusual about these fights. They then moved to Texas. cemeteries found in will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Beginning in 1970, Brooks worked with Corll in luring teenage males back to the Candy Man's house. That guy was so messed up. I live about 30 minutes from there. [6] Whenever Brooks told Corll he needed cash, Corll gave him money, and the youth began to view Corll as a father figure. In response, Henley pleaded with Corll to untie him, saying that the two of them could kill both Williams and Kerley together. And installed a pool table, where the workers and other teenagers often got together. He was also observed digging in waste ground that was later converted into a parking lot. [265] In addition, his T-shirt bore a handwritten inscription believed to read either "LB4MF", "LBHMF",[263] or "L84MF". All six bodies directly linked to the Houston Mass Murders found at High Island have been identified. Verify and try again. Coral was called the candy man bacause his family owned a candy factory across fro Helms Elementary and lured kids in by handing out candy samples. He pleaded for his life to Corll. He had lived on Antoine Drivethe same street upon which Brooks resided in 1973. He died of COVID-19-related complications at a Galveston hospital on May 28, 2020, at the age of 65. [58] The other two victims, 13-year-old David Hilligiest, and 16-year-old Gregory Malley Winkle were abducted and killed together on the afternoon of May 29, 1971. 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. The same year, one of the teenage male employees of Corll Candy Company complained to Corll's mother that Corll had made sexual advances towards him. According to official military records, Corll's period of service in the army was unblemished. [19]:3644. [286] The discovery of the material in Houston in 1975 subsequently led to the arrest of five individuals in Santa Clara, California. This bothered Corll and he believed that his mother did not approve of his s*xuality. I could have sworn there was a photo of it in the "The Clown and the Candyman" on Discovery Plus but I did a google search and nothing pops up. How that man was able to go out to that storage shed, time after time, and bury one more dead boy is something I'll never understand. Finding roaches in your home every time you wake up is never a good thing. The family moved just outside Houston in 1958, when Corll graduated, to help the popular candy company, Pecan Prince, grow. That business, of course, was the Corll Candy Company, which was . Wikimedia CommonsDean Corll briefly served in the U.S. Army from 1964 to 1965. According to Philbin & Philbin, 2009, those kids often make up identities to escape, and often these identities are related to the parent with the stronger character. The youth had rebuffed the trucker's offer to help free the car, stating he had two friends with him who would free the vehicle. As had been the case in his teenage years, Corll increased the number of hours he devoted to the candy business to satisfy an increasing demand for his family's product. [20] He was later assigned to Fort Benning, Georgia, to train as a radio repairman before his permanent assignment to Fort Hood, Texas. William DeLong is a freelance wordsmith. On another occasion during the time Corll resided at Schuler Street, Henley knocked Brooks unconscious as he entered the house. 1934). A couple other points are that Brooks says Coril told him his first victims were buried in California. Dean Corll and 'The Candy Man' Murders. In his confession, Brooks stated the youth killed immediately prior to Henley's involvement in the murders was abducted from the Heights and kept alive for approximately four days before his murder. He tells you he was a cheerleader if nothing else. Dr. Derrick has stated that she believes this particular victim may be named Harman, Harmon or French,[263] 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. After letting the boys fight to exhaustion, corll sodomized one in front of the other and then killed them both. [50]:1[53] His call was answered by an operator named Velma Lines. [56], Between March and May 1971, Corll abducted and killed three victims, all of whom lived in Houston Heights and all of whom were buried toward the rear of the rented boat shed. We talk. [205] Brooks's defense attorney, Jim Skelton, argued that his client had not committed any murders and attempted to portray Corll and, to a lesser degree, Henley as being the active participants in the actual killings. 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. Dr. Sharon Derrick is among those interviewed for the documentary. [252][277] The earliest of Corll's victims known by Brooks were two teenage boys killed at 3300 Yorktown, where Corll lived after moving out of his Judiway Street apartment. I had not opened my garage for more than two months, and when I finally decided to completely clean it, I found out that a swarm of wasps had comfortably settled in it. Corll lived in Indiana for almost two years but returned to Houston in 1962 to help with his family's candy business, which by this date had moved to Houston Heights. Dean Corll's mother and stepfather started a candy company in the mid-1950s. 6 of 39 7 of 39 Dean Arnold Corll, born Dec. 24, 1939, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is linked to the abduction, rape, torture and murder of at least 28 boys between 1970 and 1973 in Houston. All of these victims were killed by either shooting, strangulation or a combination of both. That guy was really bad at covering up murder. I think he almost certainly killed before that. The thirteenth and fourteenth bodies unearthed bore identification cards naming the victims as Donald and Jerry Waldrop. Henley had stated in his confession to police that he and Corll had "choked" Michael Baulch and buried him at Lake Sam Rayburn. That was known to be his torture table. The body was buried at High Island Beach. This second trial was held in Corpus Christi,[201] with Henley again represented by defense attorneys William Gray and Edwin Pegelow. [50]:25, About the time of Konen's murder, Brooks interrupted Corll in the act of sexually assaulting two teenage boys whom Corll had strapped to a four-poster bed. Sorry! [113] His mouth had been taped shut and his ankles had been bound together. Meanwhile, Corlls mother doted on him. His parents reportedly never had a happy marriage, and they would often argue. [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. [167] On August 13, both Henley and Brooks again accompanied the police to High Island Beach, where four more bodies were found, making a total of 27 known victims the worst killing spree in American history at the time. Over the next 3 days, police will uncover the bodies of 27 bo. The boys who were taken to Corlls house. There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. [266] He had dark hair and may have had spina bifida, a congenital disability that could have affected his gait, or caused chronic pain. And so for several more years, Corll continued to work at the candy store. [65][66], Henley later stated that, for several months, he ignored Corll's offer, although he did maintain an acquaintance with Corll and gradually began to view him as something of a "brother-type person" in whom he could confide. Kepner was strangled and buried at High Island Beach. "[111] Henley gave the address to the operator as 2020 Lamar Drive, Pasadena. [13], Corll's mother divorced West in 1963 and opened a new candy business, which she named Corll Candy Company; her eldest son was appointed vice-president of the new family firm,[16] with his younger brother Stanley being appointed secretary-treasurer. [24], In 1967, Corll befriended 12-year-old David Owen Brooks,[13] then a bespectacled sixth grade student and one of the many children to whom he gave free candy. Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. 3. That evening, Simoneaux is known to have phoned his mother's home and to have shouted the word "Mama" into the receiver[85] before the connection was terminated. ", Mass Murder in Houston, John K.Gurwell, p. 41, Mass Murder in Houston, John K.Gurwell, p. 104. Corll's victims were typically lured with an offer of a party or a lift to one of the various addresses in which he resided between 1970 and 1973. One of the accomplices said that sometimes corll would get really agitated and start chain-smoking and say he needed another boy to do.. He even gave free candy to local schoolchildren, which earned him the nickname Candy Man.. [285] The discovery raised the disturbing possibility that the statements Corll had given to both Henley and Brooks prior to his murder that he was associated with an organization based in Dallas which "bought and sold boys"[239] may indeed have held a degree of truth. The arrests in Santa Clara do, however, suggest possible validity in Brooks's statements to police that Corll had informed him that his earliest murder victims had been buried in California.[215]. It was also rumored that more bodies would be discovered near the candy factory where he used to work. [212], 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. Henley has insisted that he only accepted the offer because of his familys financial hardship. Most of the children he murdered were abducted from Houston Heights. [12], Reportedly, Corll divulged to some of his close acquaintances after his release from the army that it was during his period of service that he had first realized that he was homosexual, and had experienced his first homosexual encounters. You can always change this later in your Account settings. [5], Corll's Ford Econoline van parked in the driveway conveyed a similar impression. When Corll found out that there was a girl in his house, he freaked out. 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Some accounts state Branch was abducted in February 1972. His character was played by actor Robert Aramayo, best known for his role in HBOs Game of Thrones. TXAG 05 10:07a, 3/6/17 AG The pixie sticks guy is also called Candy Man, but the real one was Corll. But sometimes later, his mother divorced her second husband. He (Henley) started to take a step inside (the boat shed), but then his face just turned ashen, pale, grim he staggered around outside the door. The three used Corlls Plymouth GTX muscle car or his white van to lure the boys, often using candy, alcohol, or drugs to get them inside the vehicle. Ive only seen pictures of the store on documentaries. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the minds door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. Some of them were runaways or troubled youths. In the back of the factory, Corll even installed a pool table where company employees and their friends many of whom were also young teenage boys could congregate throughout the day. A Rocky Household. [159][160], Brooks gave a full confession on the evening of August 9,[161] admitting to being present at several killings and assisting in several burials, although he continued to deny any direct participation in the murders. Utilize our advanced search form to filter the search results by Company Name, City, State, Postal Code, You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave.