The Candyman Murders | Serial Killer Dean Corll

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In the early 1970’s, 42 boys vanished from the Houston Heights area of Texas.

Dean Corll lived in the area and worked for the family company, Corll Candy Company. In 1970, he began a three-year killing spree, along with his accomplices David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley.

All of their victims were males, aged between 13-20. The three men tortured and abused their victims before viciously murdering them.

Their rampage ended in 1973 when Elmer killed Dean following an altercation. He called police and said "Y'all better come here right now! I just killed a man!"

Dean, Elmer and David have been conclusively linked to 29 murders.

Read our blog for this case - https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2025/08/17/dean-corll-and-the-candyman-murders/

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0:37.8	olivia we're recording this june 2025 we're recording some backup episodes for you know when i have
0:46.0	this baby and i'll might be like a little preoccupied so we're just trying to get some episodes
0:52.1	recorded ahead of time so that in case anything happens, if I'm just like very, very sleepy or something, we'll have some episodes to fall back on.
1:01.5	So we're not really going to have much chat in this one because who even knows.
1:06.8	No reason that's going to come out.
1:08.7	Yeah.
1:10.0	I mean, the usual weather rundown, it's rainy here. It's warm. It's okay. It's fine. It's fine.
1:20.0	Less hot than it has been. Peeps in my lap. All the usual stuff here. It is actually very cold this morning and I'm like on my computer when I'm recording
1:29.5	it's got like a weather thing down the bottom and it's got the little, you know,
1:33.2	it's the momenter and it says temperatures to drop.
1:36.8	So it must be getting colder.
1:38.7	Yeah.
1:39.9	Yeah.
1:41.5	I do have this listener of the week too.
1:43.8	Oh yeah, we do have a listener of the week. Who knows when they'll get to hear this. Yeah. I do have this listener of the week, too. Oh, yeah, we do have a listener of the week.
1:45.9	Who knows when they'll get to hear this? Yeah, but, you know, eventually, hopefully they're still
1:50.7	soon. Yeah. So their name is obviously not their real name, I'm assuming, but it's chemical revenge.
1:58.3	She wrote, ladies, you two make my week. I started listening while doing chores,
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