In this week's episode we cover the horrendous Houston Mass Murders of the Candy Man Dean Corll. Corll was given the nickname the Candy Man because he ran the local candy factory in the area of Houston, Texas known as the Heights. Over the span of about three years, Dean, along with two teenage accomplices, would lure, abduct, torture, rape, and murder upwards of 27 boys and young men. Despite all of the victims going missing from the same area, their crimes would go undetected due to ineffective law enforcement and their tendency to write off reports of missing children as runaways. Dean would bury the bodies of his victims in different locations, but the main location would be in a boat shed that he rented from a local storage facility. This week we talk about Dean's early life and how he was able to essentially groom an entire community into thinking he was just the friendly Candy Man from the Heights.
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Sources:
The Man With the Candy by Jack Olson
The Lost Boys (article) by Skip Hollingsworth
