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Episode 88

The boys, war baby here with another episode of murderous minors.

Situated just an hour or so from beaches on the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico, Houston, Texas and the early 1970s was enjoying a boom with suburbs cropping up all around it.

There was plenty of work due to the petrochemical industry and the Houston ship channel which connected the city to the open waters of the Gulf.

Pushing further out from downtown became required as the population approached 2 million, however the police force was unable to keep up, leading to alarming murder rates and cases that simply went unsolved.

There just wasn't enough money, officers or time.

On this episode of murderous minors we fall into the hole that was the Houston mass murders discovered in 1973 when 17-year-old Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. murdered 33-year-old Dean Coral.

This episode contains numerous mentions of rape, torture and murder.

May they rest in peace.

North of downtown Houston sits its oldest suburb, the Heights, mostly lower to middle class back then with businesses of all types cropping up all over due to lack zoning laws in the city.

One such business was Coral Candy Company, started by a woman who wanted to compete with an ex-husband after they divorced and he kept their original business.

In 1962 she and her kids moved to the Heights and in 1965 she moved her factory to 22nd Street across the road from Helm's elementary school.

Her son Dean Coral was well mannered and well liked throughout town and he was noticed due to his evident love of children, wherever he was, young boys or teens were always with him.

At the candy factory he installed a pool table in the back and provided boys with candy to sell door to door, putting a little money in their pockets.

Little boys like David Owen Brooks who in about 1965 had wandered over to the factory after school with other kids.

He was about 10 years old when he met Dean for the first time according to his mother.

Following his parent's split he lived with his father in the Heights, then he and his mother moved to Louisiana where he began getting into trouble for stealing.

Even when he lived in Louisiana, Brooks would visit his father and since they didn't get along that well he found himself spending more and more time at Dean Coral's 16th Street apartment.

The man had closed the candy factory chapter of his life in 1968 when his mother moved to Colorado on the advice of a psychic.

Once on his own Coral's relationship with the neighborhood boys took a sinister and deviant turn behind closed doors of his ever-changing addresses.

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