The Candy Man: Dean Corll and the Houston Mass Murders
In Houston, Texas, in the early 1970s, the man handing free candy to kids outside an elementary school was making them disappear. Dean Corll, known as the Candy Man, paid two teenage accomplices to lure boys to his homes, where at least 28 young victims were abducted, tortured, and murdered. The killings went largely undetected until one accomplice shot Corll dead in 1973 and led police to the bodies. Host Alexander’s Lawson uncovers how the Houston Mass Murders became one of the worst serial cases in modern American history—and why so many boys vanished from the Heights while the city looked…
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