New revelations emerge about Houston's Candyman serial killer Dean Corll

abc13 ^ | 05/09/2025 | Jessica Willey

[ChicagoConservative27]

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For more than half a century, chilling questions have lingered: Were there more victims of Houston's notorious "Candyman," Dean Corll, the serial killer whose crimes predated even the term "serial killer" and if so, who are they?

On a recent Tuesday night, family members, friends, and true crime enthusiasts crowded into Murder By The Book bookstore to get answers.

"There's still a reason to tell this story because there are still people like this out there, and teenagers need to know," said investigative journalist Lise Olsen in an interview prior to the launch of her new book "The Scientist and the Serial Killer."

On that Tuesday night, the packed room was to celebrate its release, a read that took four years of Olsen's life to investigate, research and write.

Debra Christy, who was in the audience, lived with the story her whole life.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Local News; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: about; candyman; corll; dean; emerge; houstons; killer; new; revlations; serial; texas

[ChicagoConservative27]

Isn't I-45 a notorious spot in the 70s and 80s for these types of murders?

[BenLurkin]

Before serial killers, they were known as “Bluebeards”

[DCBryan1]

Lots of people saw Dean doing foundation and sub floor work in his parents candy wearhouse where he had an apartment, pool table, fridge, and couch. He concreted over once his kill count went up. There was one picture of an unknown kid found RECENTLY in his room by his mother no one knows about:

Unknown victim of Dean Corll on torture board found decades after murders.

[DCBryan1]

warehouse/factory owned by parents. Lots of people think there are a few bodies there, today but police turned eye on the foundation of “boys will be boys and they just ran away”.

[Gay State Conservative]

later

[packrat35]

Most certainly were more than were never found. The police ignored this and said they were runaways. When the bodies were found, they wanted it to stop as it made them look bad for ignoring all the missing boys for so long.

[DCBryan1]

Cops also stopped because the body count was approaching a record serial murder in Columbia IIRC.

[ro_dreaming]

Isn’t I-45 a notorious spot in the 70s and 80s for these types of murders?

In League City, it’s called “The Killing Fields”.

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

I grew up in Pasadena, going to Deer Park schools. I certainly heard about the Candyman, as well as the dad who poisoned his own son on Halloween.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Thanks

[Robwin]

A majority of the boys Corll killed came from an area in Houston called The Heights. That was where Corll lived and his family had their candy store. That the police could overlook or excuse the disappearance of so many young men in such a concentrated area was a disgrace.

[ro_dreaming]

Yeah, I’m a native down here, so am well aware of that area off I-45 in League City. I used to work in the area, even. Of course, I was a 24 year old dude, fresh out of the Navy, so didn’t really have any expectation of being a victim (and obviously, I wasn’t).