He became vice president of his family’s “Corll Candy Company” after being discharged from the army, according to the 1974 book “The Man with the Candy: The Story of the Houston Mass Murders.” His profession allowed him to give out free candy to kids in the Houston Heights, where he lived. His family also owned a candy factory, according to Houstonia. The nickname “Candy Man” isn’t just about the free candy and drugs he offered to children to lure them into abuse. That murder halted Corll’s horrific murder spree. The real-life Henley received six life sentences in 1974 for killing Corll and for helping him in killing others, and he’s still incarcerated in Tennessee.Īs for the real-life Corll, he’s obviously dead, after Henley killed him at age 17.
He claimed he only killed Corll, not anyone else, despite being convicted of killing six. When asked what if it was like to kill Corll, if it was difficult to do so, his character replied, “Nah, it was cool.” “He told me he was looking for white, good-looking and young,” Henley’s character recalled. In the show, Henley’s character maintains that he yes, he helped lure other teens to Corll. He could have been one of his many murder victims, but instead assisted in some of the murders. They noted that Corll was known around Houston as the “Candy Man” - he gave free candy (or drugs) to teenage boys to lure them into being kidnapped, raped, tortured and often killed. That man, Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr., ultimately ended up murdering Corll when he was just a teen.īefore interviewing Henley, the FBI team discussed Henley and Corll’s crimes. The second season focused primarily on the Atlanta Child Murders, but it also incorporated several storylines involving other real-life killers, including a prison interview with one of Corll’s victims, who ended up becoming his accomplice.
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Netflix's “Mindhunter” is a fictionalized account of real-life FBI profiler John Douglas’ endeavors interviewing and investigating real life killers, mostly of the serial variety. Of course there’s also "The Candy Man" song from the arguably creepy “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.”īut have you heard of “Candy Man” Dean Corll, arguably the most deviant “Candy Man” who ever existed, real or fictional? He was actually believed to be the most prolific serial killer of his time, surpassing the infamous Boston Strangler. One of the children died - the killer’s son - and the killer was executed a decade later. Then, there’s the real life horror story from the 1970s of a Texan who poisoned neighborhood kids, including two of his own, with Pixie Sticks on Halloween. There’s the 1992 slasher film “Candyman,” which dramatizes an urban legend about a slave owner’s son who is seeking out revenge. The cryptic nickname "Candy Man" conjures up all kinds of creepy depictions of candy-coated predators.
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