Dean Arnold Corll (1939 - 1973)

Born 24 Dec 1939 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States

Ancestors

Died 8 Aug 1973 at age 33 in Pasadena, Harris, Texas, United States

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Biography

Dean Arnold Corll was an American serial killer who, along with teenaged accomplices David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr., abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered at least 28 boys in a series of killings spanning from 1970 to 1973 in Houston, Texas. The crimes, which became known as the Houston Mass Murders, came to light after Henley fatally shot Corll. The media used the name "The Candy Man," or "The Pied Piper."

Victims

• Sep. 25, 1970: Jeffrey Konen, 18
• Danny Michael Yates, 14
• James Eugene Glass, 14
• Jerry Lynn Waldrop, 13
• Donald Wayne Waldrop, 15
• Randell Lee Harvey, 15
• David William Hilligiest, 13
• Gregory Malley Winkle, 16
• Ruben Watson, 17
• Willard Karmon "Rusty" Branch Jr., 17
• Frank Anthony Aquirre, 18
• Mark Steven Scott, 17
• Johnny Delone, 16
• Billy Gene Baulch Jr., 17
• Steven Sickman, 17
• Oct. 2, 1972: Wally Simoneaux, 14
• Richard Hembree, 13
• Richard Kepner, 19
• Joseph Allen Lyles, 17
• William Ray "Billy" Lawrence, 15
• Ray Blackburn, 20
• Homer L. Garcia, 15
• John Manning Sellars, 17
• Michael Anthony Baulch, 15
• Marty Ray Jones, 18
• Charles Cary Cobble, 17
• James Stanton Dreymala, 13
• Roy Eugene Bunton, 17 or 18

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Corll

"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1R3-GBF : 14 March 2018), Deam Corll, Wayne Township, Allen, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 2-32, sheet 62A, line 28, family 396, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1025.

"Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3DZ-ZXB : 13 March 2018), Dean Arnold Corll, 08 Aug 1973; citing certificate number 62252, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,242,933.

United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J539-G6K : 19 May 2014), Dean Corll, Aug 1973; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8499897

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