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May 2019
53m 41s

“Candy Man” Pt. 2 - Dean Arnold Corll

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After his candy store closed in 1968, Dean Corll needed a new way to bring in young victims from the greater Houston area. So, he recruited two teenage boys to lure their friends to his apartment, where he would drug and kill them. 

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