The Most Sadistic Serial Killer You've Never Heard Of

He was known as the Candy Man, the friendly local man working at his family's candy shop giving out free chocolates to all the neighborhood kids. Everyone liked him, especially the children. No one would have ever expected that the Candy Man was a monster. >> A Houston tragedy is only a title for what you are about to see defies any

brief verbal description. It is a look at what regrettably may become the most sordid story in the annals of American crime. Perhaps as many as 30 teenage boys brutally tortured, murdered, and buried in and around the Houston area. >> Dean Corll once held the record for the most amount of confirmed victims out of

any other serial killer in all of America, and his true number of victims is likely over double what we know, but still somehow you have likely never even heard of him. This is the life, crimes, and death of Dean Corll, the Candy Man. >> [music] >> My name is Briana, and I'm hot on the

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Dean Corll, the truly evil man at the center of this case, came into the world on Christmas Eve, 1939. He was the eldest born to his parents Mary and Arnold, and a younger brother would quickly follow him. Unlike a majority of other serial killers that we have talked about, Dean Corll lived a seemingly

happy and normal childhood. No deep-rooted trauma like we typically see. His parents were pretty typical normal parents for the time, and the way that they handled their parenting style could not have been more different. Dean's father was really stoic, the kind of guy that never smiles or laughs. He was also a very strict disciplinarian,