Dean Corll: podcast appearances and interviews

Dean Arnold Corll was an American serial killer and sex offender who was active between 1970 and 1973 in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. Corll was responsible for the abduction, rape, torture, and murder of at least 29 teenage boys and young men. His crimes are collectively known as the Houston Mass Murders and are considered one of the most severe cases of serial murder in United States history. Corll was aided by two teenage accomplices, David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley. The victims were usually lured with offers of parties or rides to various addresses where they were restrained and then killed by strangulation or shooting with a .22 caliber pistol. The bodies of eighteen victims were buried in a rented boat shed, while others were buried in woodland near Lake Sam Rayburn, on a beach in Jefferson County, or on the Bolivar Peninsula. Both Brooks and Henley confessed to assisting Corll in several abductions and murders and were sentenced to life imprisonment. Known as the Candy Man and the Pied Piper due to his family's ownership of a candy factory and his habit of giving free candy to local children, Corll's crimes were uncovered after Henley fatally shot him.