In light of developments relating to the identifications of victims, the body of Scott still lies undiscovered at High Island, while Lyles's remains were only found by chance in 1983. In 1970, when he was 15, Brooks dropped out of Waltrip High School[24] and moved to Beaumont to live with his mother. On June 27, 1979, the jury deliberated for over two hours before reaching their verdict; Henley was again convicted of six murders and sentenced to six concurrent 99-year terms. [11], From 1954 to 1958 Corll attended Vidor High School, where he was regarded as a well-behaved student who achieved satisfactory grades. [108] Williamsnursing a sprained anklehad been beaten by her drunken father that evening and accepted Henley's invitation to join him and Kerley at Corll's home. [152] Two additional bodies were found in shallow, lime-soaked graves located close to a dirt road. As a result of this diagnosis, Corll was told to avoid P.E. Kerley began writhing and shouting as Williams, whose gag Henley had removed, lifted her head and asked Henley, "Is this for real?" [130], When questioned regarding his claim that as Corll had threatened him that morning he had shouted that he had killed several boys,[129] Henley explained that for almost three years, Brooks and he had helped procure teenage boys, some of whom had been their own friends, for Corll, who had raped and murdered them. All of these victims were killed by either shooting, strangulation or a combination of both. Scott was tied to the torture board and suffered the same fate as Aguirre: rape, torture, strangulation, and burial at High Island Beach. There was a problem getting your location. He subsequently cemented over the floor. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. [116] Henley calmed Corll, promising to participate in the torture and murder of both Williams and Kerley if Corll released him. [87][n 3] His gagged and emasculated body was buried in the boat shed. The following morning, Hembree was accidentally shot in the mouth by Henley,[86] with the bullet exiting through his neck. [13], Corll graduated from Vidor High School in the summer of 1958. Are you adding a grave photo that will fulfill this request? [39] He is also known to have retained keepsakesusually keysfrom his victims. Web5 star rating. In 1965, Corll was vice-president of the family company, Corll Candy. [90], On January 20, 1973, Corll moved to an address on Wirt Road in the Spring Branch district of Houston. [265] In addition, his T-shirt bore a handwritten inscription believed to read either "LB4MF", "LBHMF",[263] or "L84MF". [62], On July 6, 1973, Henley began attending classes at the Coaches Driving School in Bellaire,[96] where he became acquainted with 15-year-old Homer Luis Garcia. The thirteenth and fourteenth bodies unearthed bore identification cards naming the victims as Donald and Jerry Waldrop. Your Scrapbook is currently empty. In the mid-sixties, the company was across the street from an elementary school in Houston, Texas. That business, of course, was the Corll Candy Company, which was owned by his mother, Mary West. Prater was last seen by his mother in Dallas in the company of an adult male and two teenage youths with shoulder-length hair; he had previously lived in the same neighborhood as most of Corll's known victims and had attended the same high school as Henley between 1970 and 1971. He was granted a hardship discharge after He increased the number of hours he worked in order to meet the demand for his familys candy. Brooks showed no emotion as the sentence was passed, although his wife burst into tears. In this confession, Henley readily admitted to having personally killed approximately nine[151] youths and to have assisted Corll in the strangulation of others. This second trial was held in Corpus Christi,[201] with Henley again represented by defense attorneys William Gray and Edwin Pegelow. WebCorll is known to have installed a pool table at the rear of the candy factory where employees and local youths would congregate. [183], By the time the grand jury had completed its investigation, Henley had been indicted for six murders, and Brooks for four. As a result of this behavior, he earned himself the nicknames of the "Candy Man" and the "Pied Piper." July 20: Steven Sickman, 17. By 1965 shortly after Corll completed his military service, The Corll Candy Company moved across the street from a Heights elementary school. After they had spent several hours beating each other, Jones was tied to a board and forced to watch Cobble again be assaulted, tortured, and shot to death before he himself was again raped, tortured, and strangled with a Venetian blind cord. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. One month later, on April 20, he assisted Corll and Brooks in the abduction of another youth, a 17-year-old named Mark Scott. If your candy business requires you to drive during your working hours, be sure to track your mileage and collect [5] Kerley and Williams lay beside Henley, securely bound with nylon rope, gagged with adhesive tape, and lying face down on the floor. Article detailing investigators' suspicions as to, This page was last edited on 27 February 2023, at 22:14. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. However, no firm evidence exists to link Prater's disappearance to Corll and his accomplices. There is a problem with your email/password. This corporate entity was filed approximately sixty years ago on We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. The three teenagers were sitting on the porch outside the house, and the officer noted the .22 caliber pistol on the driveway near the trio. In one part of his confession, Henley had described luring two of the victims for whose murder he had been brought to trial, Cobble and Jones, to Corll's Pasadena residence. Corll then tied Brooks to his bed and assaulted the youth repeatedly before releasing him. In a logistical move shortly thereafter, he and his family moved to the northern outskirts of Houston so that the family candy business could be closer to the city where, they had noted, the majority of their product had been sold. In 1960, at the request of his mother, Corll moved to Indiana to live with his widowed grandmother. [110], At approximately 3:00a.m. on the morning of August 8, 1973, Henley and Kerley, accompanied by Williams, returned to Corll's residence. [10] He and his younger brother were responsible for running the candy-making machines and packing the product, which his stepfather sold on his sales route. Had the search for bodies continued, both victims would have likely been discovered. to which Henley answered, "Yes." Corll's former stepfather had retained ownership of the family's former candy business, Pecan Prince, following his divorce from Corll's mother in 1963; competition between the two firms was fierce. Corll lived in Indiana for almost two years but returned to Houston in 1962 to help with his family's candy business, which by this date had moved to Houston Heights. The company's filing status is listed as Forfeited Existence and its File Number is The arrests in Santa Clara do, however, suggest possible validity in Brooks's statements to police that Corll had informed him that his earliest murder victims had been buried in California.[215]. Scott had been a blond youth who had not had any teeth extracted prior to his disappearance; however, a Dr. Elizabeth Johnson of the Harris County Medical Institute had concluded in 1993 that the fifteenth set of remains unearthed from the boat shedwhich had physical characteristics such as dark brown hair and two extracted. As had been the case in his teenage years, Corll increased the number of hours he devoted to the candy business to satisfy an increasing demand for his family's product. [199], Henley appealed his sentence and conviction, contending the jury in his initial trial had not been sequestered, that his attorneys' objections to news media being present in the courtroom had been overruled, and citing that his defense team's attempts to present evidence contending that the initial trial should not have been held in San Antonio had also been overruled by the judge. [50]:2 Corll then ran out of the room, hitting the wall of the hallway. [19]:3647, Corll was drafted into the United States Army on August 10, 1964,[5] and assigned to Fort Polk, Louisiana, for basic training. [193] Upon advice from his defense counsel, Henley did not take the stand to testify. Altogether, at least ten teenagers between the ages of 13 and 19 were murdered between February and November 1972, five of whom were buried at High Island Beach, and five inside the boat shed. [97] The following day, Garcia telephoned his mother to say he was spending the night with a friend; he was shot and left to bleed to death in Corll's bathtub before he was buried at Lake Sam Rayburn. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Mary West (179925455)? [40][n 2], During the years in which he abducted and murdered his victims, Corll often changed addresses. The companies were formed over a thirty-two year period Kerley had been stripped naked. Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. "[114] Henley agreed and looked up the number for the Pasadena Police Department (PPD) in Corll's telephone directory. One of these individuals, 15-year-old John Harmon, had been a Heights teenager reported missing in 1971. Dean Corll Body count: 27. [13], Corll's mother divorced West in 1963 and opened a new candy business, which she named Corll Candy Company; her eldest son was appointed vice-president of the new family firm,[16] with his younger brother Stanley being appointed secretary-treasurer. In addition, around the time of Lyles's murder, Henley had temporarily moved away to Mount Pleasant in an apparent effort to distance himself from Corll. [4] Corll's father was strict with his children, whereas his mother was markedly protective of both her sons. WebThe death of Dean Corll, also known as The Candy Man may have put a stop to his killing he murdered at least 28 teenagers and young men between September 1970 and August 1973 but it also uncovered a horrific story. [109][5] Williams climbed into the back seat of Kerley's Volkswagen. Brooks initially became one of Corll's many youthful close companions, regularly socializing with Corll and various teenage boys who congregated at the rear of the candy factory. [5], In several instances, Corll forced his victims to either phone or write to their parents with explanations for their absences in an effort to allay the parents' fears for their sons' safety. Henley admitted he had assisted Corll in several abductions and murders, and that he had actively participated in the torture and mutilation of "six or eight" victims prior to their murder. [5] Henley began cutting away Williams's clothes as Corll undressed and began to assault and torture Kerley. [6], Following the second divorce, Corll's mother married a traveling clock salesman named Jake West. [279], In March 1973, a Mr. and Mrs. Abernathy[280] had reported to Galveston County authorities that they had observed three men carrying and burying a "long, wrapped bundle"[281] at Galveston Beach. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. [n 8], All of the victims found had been sodomized and most victims found bore evidence of sexual torture: pubic hairs had been plucked out, genitals had been chewed, objects had been inserted into their rectums, and glass rods had been inserted into their urethrae and smashed. [60], On August 17, 1971, Corll and Brooks encountered a 17-year-old acquaintance of Brooks named Ruben Watson Haney walking home from a movie theater in Houston. [5][80][n 9] Cloth rags had also been inserted into the victims' mouths and adhesive tape wound around their faces to muffle their screams. There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. [92][n 4]. Shortly thereafter, he and his family moved to the northern outskirts of Houston so that the family candy business could be closer to the city where the majority of their product was sold. Hilligiest had been reported missing in the summer of 1971; the other two boys had been missing for just two weeks. Drag images here or select from your computer for Mary Emma Robison West memorial. The Candy Man is a locally-owned business that has operated in Wilson, NC since 1972. The youth had rebuffed the trucker's offer to help free the car, stating he had two friends with him who would free the vehicle. Police had been led to Sellars's body on August 13, 1973, by a trucker who recalled conversing with a youth he believed to be Henley after he had seen a car stuck in the sand close to where Sellars's body was subsequently found. Company and top local executive : Business type : Local permanent employees : Percentage of minority ownership : Percentage of female ownership : 1: [113], Corll then handed Henley a hunting knife and ordered him to cut away Williams's clothes,[118] insisting that, while he would rape and kill Kerley, Henley would do likewise to Williams. [91] On March 7, Corll vacated his Wirt Road apartment and moved to 2020 Lamar Drive, an address his father had vacated in Pasadena. Dean was appointed as vice-president of the new family firm. [125] As Kerley, Williams, and Henley waited upon Corll's porch for the police to arrive, Henley mentioned to Kerley that he had "done that (killed by shooting) four or five times. Several hours later, both youths were strangled to death and subsequently buried in a common grave inside the boat shed directly above the bodies of James Glass and Danny Yates. Brooks served his life sentence at the Terrell Unit near Rosharon, Texas. Corll stated he was burying spoiled candy to avoid contamination by insects. In 1967, he befriended 12-year-old David Brooks, then a sixth grade student and one of the many children to whom he gave free candy. Henley gave a verbal statement; stating he initially had believed the boys he had abducted were to be sold into a Dallas-based organization for "homosexual acts, sodomy, maybe later killing,"[131] but soon learned Corll was himself killing the victims procured. The family There was an error deleting this problem. Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. WebHe returned to a fierce competition between Pecan Prince, his former stepfathers company, and Corll Candy Company, his mothers business. Dean Corll was well known for giving free candy to local children espically teenaged boys. "[205], Brooks's trial lasted less than one week. [15][16] During this time, Corll formed a close relationship with a local girl, although he rejected a subsequent marriage proposal she made to him in 1962. [50]:31 Despite the assault, Brooks continued to assist Corll in the abductions of the victims. [207], Henley is serving his life sentence at the Mark Stiles Unit in Jefferson County, Texas. [5] Corll appeared to calm down and offered the trio beer and marijuana. On another occasion during the time Corll resided at Schuler Street, Henley knocked Brooks unconscious as he entered the house. The Candy Man is a locally-owned business that has operated in Wilson, NC since 1972. Corll received the nickname "Candy Man" while giving free candy to children from his family businesses. The rear windows of the van were sealed by opaque blue curtains. Truman Capote even went to Houston to How that man was able to go out to that storage shed, time after time, and bury one more dead boy is something I'll never understand. Dean Corll was drafted into the Army in August 1964 and served until June 1965, when he received a hardship discharge because he was needed to help run his familys business. Several victims' parents had to leave the courtroom to regain their composure as police and medical examiners described how their relatives were tortured and murdered. After he had shot Corll, Henley released Kerley and Williams from the torture board, and all three teenagers dressed and discussed what actions they should take. [203] He had been indicted for four murders committed between December 1970 and June 1973,[204] but was brought to trial charged only with the June 1973 murder of 15-year-old William Ray Lawrence. He was aided by two teenaged accomplices, David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley. [29][17], Between 1970 and 1973, Corll is known to have killed a minimum of 28 victims. Moreover, in one interview, Brooks claimed that Corll's first murder victim was a youth killed at an apartment complex located at 5313 Judiway Street, where Corll had lived prior to September 1970. I think Houston (the Heights neighborhood in particular) has taken steps to wipe any Corll landmarks off of the map. Henley was brought to trial in San Antonio on July 1, 1974,[187] charged with six murders committed between March 1972 and July 1973. Police also found a plywood torture board measuring 8 by 3 feet (2.44 by 0.91m) with handcuffs attached to nylon rope at two corners, and nylon ropes to the other two. Corll even ended up killing former employees of his candy factory along with dozens of others. 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