#Candyman killer victims full#

Man, I choked one of вЂem boys, and he turned blue and gurgled, and I jesвЂ™ couldnвЂ™t kill him. Wayne Henley on the difficulties of killing a boy : Sometimes Wayne pitched in with the killing, sometimes not. Most of the boys would go home eventually but there was usually one conked out at the end, not going anywhere, and Dean would have his fun with that one, which ended up with him strangling the kid. How the whole thing got started is not clear but the idea was that David and Wayne would bring teenage boys to parties at DeanвЂ™s place and he would supply them with all the goodies their hearts could desire, dope, booze and plenty of acrylic paint to huff from paper bags. Okay well, this is the story of a guy called Dean Corll who was in his early 30s and his two teenage sidekicks, Wayne Henley and David Brooks. We just say вЂњWell, how much time are we gonna spend on this murder? If society hasnвЂ™t suffered a great loss, why, letвЂ™s go home and call it a day.вЂќ Our division works only murders, period, and not every murder either. It turned out that even if a body of one of these kids had turned up, the cops probably wouldnвЂ™t have investigated very hard. Some years Houston had a murder rate larger than all of Great Britain. Plus, Houston had a huge murder rate, twice that of London in the 1970s, and London was six times bigger. Or so it was believed by almost everyone. This was happening, says Olsen,ДЄt a time when teenagers were deserting their homes and flocking into communes and hitchhiking all over the continent without so much as a twinge of remorse about the generation they had left behind

#Candyman killer victims full#

They came to the full realisation that their son was unmistakeably, undeniably gone, and that no one was going to help. Jack Olsen follows the first set of parents and at one point he says So the parents would ring the cops and the cops would say yes? And the parents would say our son has been missing for two days now and the cops would say well, what do you want us to do about that? And the parents would say why, look for him, of course, and the cops would say file a missing persons report and the parents would say what? Huh? And the cops would heave a sigh and explain and the explanation was : From 1971 boys started disappearing, one here, one there. Specifically, the place was The Heights, a poor white suburb. The place was Houston, 4th largest city in the USA now, 6th at that time, the early 1970s. And itвЂ™s a strangely unknown crime too, not famous at all like your Bundys and Mansons and Gacys. That said, this is a beautifully written account of one of the worst crimes in American crime history, which is saying, you know, a lot. Specifically, the place was The Heights, a poor white sub The title is misleading, it should have been called The Man Who Really Liked Killing Teenage Boys. The title is misleading, it should have been called The Man Who Really Liked Killing Teenage Boys.