Dean Arnold Corll Case

Dean Arnold Corll was an American serial killer who abducted, raped, tortured and murdered roughly 28 boys in a series of killings spanning from 1970 to 1973 in Texas. The murders became known as the Houston Mass Murders. Corll was also infamously known as the “Candy Man” and the “Pied Piper”. He was known as this because he and his family owned a candy factory in Texas, from which he gave candy to local children. All of Corll’s victims were males between the ages of 13 and 20, with the majority of his victims in their teens. Mr. Corll usually did not work alone, he had two accomplices: Elmer Wayne Henley, and David Owen Brooks. Several of Corll’ victims were friends with his accomplices. Corll’s victims were lured into one of two vehicles, a Ford Econoline or a Plymouth GTX. He lured them in with promises of a party or a lift to where the teens needed to go, but once the children were in his vehicle, he would take them to his house, where the teens were offered alcohol or other drugs until they passed out, tricked into handcuffs, or simply forcefully grabbed. Then they were stripped naked and tied to either Corll’s bed or a plywood torture board. Once manacled the victims were sexually assaulted, beaten, and tortured, until finally they were killed by being strangled or being

He was born on December 24, 1939, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was the first child of his mother, Mary Robinson, and his father, Arnold Edwin Corll. Corll’s father was extremely strict with his son, and his mother was extremely protective of him, so the couple bickered and had quarrels very often. The couple divorced in 1946, when Dean was 15 years old. After the couple split, they sold the family home and Mary Corll relocated to a trailer home I Memphis, Tennessee. Meanwhile Arnold Corll had been drafted into the Air Force after they divorced. Mary did not want Dean to lose contact with his father, so Dean’s parents attempted to