VIDEO: Gruesome Details about the Candy Man’s Murders

In history, there have been quote a few murderers that manage to raise every hair on our bodies in fear many years after their death. One of them is the Candy Man, who despite his nice name is a horrible murderer that has killed and tortured numerous boys.

According to thoughttco.com, Dean Corll was a 33-year-old electrician living in Houston, Texas, who with two teen accomplices, kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered at least 27 young boys in Houston in the early 1970s.

The Houston Mass Murders, as the case was later called, became one of the most horrific series of murders in U.S. history.

There was nothing remarkable about Corll except for his odd choice of friends, who were mostly young male teens.

Two, who were particularly close to Corll, was a 14-year-old boy named Elmer Wayne Henley and a 15-year-old boy named David Brooks. The two boys and Corll spent a lot of time hanging around at Corll’s house or driving with him in his van.

That was until August 8, 1973, when Henley shot and killed Corll while visiting at his home. When police interviewed Henley about the shooting and searched Corll’s home for evidence, a bizarre and brutal story of torture, rape and murder began to unfold.

He said Corll paid him $200 or more “per head” to lure young boys to his house. Most of the boys were from low-income Houston neighborhoods and were easily persuaded to come to a party where there would be free alcohol and drugs.

Many were also childhood friends of Henley and had no reason to distrust his intentions. But once inside Corll’s home, they would soon become victims of his sadistic and murderous obsessions.

Police skepticism towards Henley’s story turned after searching Corll’s house. Inside they discovered a bedroom that looked as if it was designed for torture and murder.

There was a board with handcuffs attached, ropes, and a large dildo and plastic covering the carpeted floor. There was also an odd wooden crate with what appeared to be air holes cut into it.

An examination of the victims determined that some of the boys had been shot, while others were strangled to death.

Signs of torture were visible, including castration, objects inserted into the victim’s rectums and glass rods pushed and into their urethras. All had been sodomized.

The ages of the young victims ranged from ages nine to age 21, however most were in their teens. Two of the families suffered losing two sons to Corll’s deadly rage.

Henley confessed to knowing about Corll’s brutal crimes and also to participating in murdering one of the boys. Brooks, although closer to Corll than Henley, told police that he had no knowledge of the crimes.

After the investigation ended, Henley insisted there were three more boys who had been murdered, but their bodies were never found.

In a highly publicized trial, Brooks was found guilty of one murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Henley was convicted of six of the murders and sentenced to six 99-year-terms. He was not convicted of killing Corll because it was judged as an act of self-defense.