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Jul 2022
34m 8s

The Candyman of Houston

Crimehub Studios
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Dean Arnold Corll was an American serial killer and pederast who abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered a minimum of 28 teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. He was aided by two teenaged accomplices, David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley.


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