The Candyman /// Part 1 /// 251 | Forensic Files

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crime cand C [Music] True Crime Buffs all know the legends of the True Crime world the serial killers who have stood
out leaving an indelible blemish on human history through their prolific violence and
destruction gasy dmer Bundy BTK their names are synonymous with the word monster they are often considered to
be the worst of the worst before the notorious Killers roamed the country and haunted our
streets leaving wakes of death and Terror Behind them and before the term serial killers was
coined before we knew about Cals as we know them now there was another monster a mass murderer so evil that he
deserves to be in the same category as these infamous Killers a monster that still terrifies
and haunts someone so cruel and diabolical that there is evidence that perhaps at least one of these ruthless
serial killers knew of his work and imitated him this is the story of Dean Coral the
one they call Paul the killer [Music] Candyman well captain we're going to start off this week by talking about
some pretty unhealthy relationships I don't like to talk about my personal life on the show well let's talk about a
man in his 30s this is Dean Coral who we will come to know quite well this week he managed to warm his way into the
lives of two boys from broken homes taking on the role of some sort of Twisted Father Figure as a result of
that manipulation and dominance both boys lives would ultimately be ruined Dean Coral met David Brooks first Brooks
also lived in Houston Heights or simply the heights as it's most commonly called
the the heights back then was a lower middle class area of Houston a blue collar neighborhood that had become
seedy and run down they met years ago at a candy factory owned by Dean's Mother where Dean Coral handed out free suets
to teens and children so he's like Willie Wonka something like that yeah now David
was born in Bowmont Texas in 1955 his parents divorced when he was 5 years old and he moved back and forth
between his father and Houston and his mother in Bowmont Coral started helping Brooks giving him money and a place to
stay from time to time to get away from his father and generally supporting him the two occasionally took trips to the
beaches in South Texas with other boys David was smart but he was small and wore glasses and he was picked on a
little bit by the other kids so he was easily swayed by Coral's attentions Coral had a lot of influence over the
young insecure boy Brooks said Coral was the first adult male who didn't make fun
of him for his skinny body and glasses pretty soon David idolized Dean Coral when David was 14 Coral
essentially began grooming David and the two began a relationship whereby Coral would pay Brooks $10 to allow Coral to
perform fellatio on the boy David began spending all of his time with coral and despite being a decent student he
dropped out of school and hung out with coral most days even moving in with him at times when he's 15 he walks in on
Coral raping two boys these two boys were tied to a bed now later Coral would ask Brooks for his silence and he would
buy that Silence from Brooks by giving him a green Corvette in exchange for his silence he told Brooks that he was part
of a gay pornography ring and that he had been paid to send boys out to California and I think that he included
those two boys in that statement of I sent those boys out to California right so he he was running some kind of a sex
trafficking ring so we have Brooks who's going to then introduce a kid by the name of Wayne Henley to Dean Coral this
took place in 1971 Wayne Henley was described as an above average student with an IQ
somewhere between 110 and 120 but Henley dropped out of high school in ninth grade he had a lot of financial
responsibility on his shoulders he had to contribute to the income the household income that his mother needed
to raise his three brothers so Coral filled a need that Henley had Financial Security Coral was constantly giving
Henley and Brooks gifts and in return was asking for favors her task so do we believe that Dean is getting his money
from his parents owning the factory well this is not like a huge Candy Factory this is not like Hershey's um or Mars or
any of those other really big ones this is this is they had a house and at some point they opened up a candy factory out
of their house turn the the house into a business right like sweet pets so this was a business that employed a few
people but above that I don't know how much profit was on top of paying the people that worked there including his
mother well he did have a Corvette that he just gave away so yeah he bought he bought the kid a used Corvette they
started becoming uh a thing you know this this group this Trio and eventually Henley became sexually involved with
Dean Coral they also started planning some petty burglaries they would steal a lot of TV sets and this is where I go
back to Dean Coral not having a ton of money and not having a ton of money from his his
uh work at The Candy Factory let's say so he worked at The Candy Factory but he also worked as an
electrician he had two jobs and then on top of that he's paying these kids and giving these kids a lot of gifts right
so I think that he had to supplement his income by getting these kids involved in
burglary stealing things and then selling them so Brooks hentley and coral became a mly trio let's say riding
around town doing drugs partying and meeting up with other teenage boys Brooks and Henley would help get boys
into Coral's van and then take them to his apartment the three hosted parties at Coral's apartment planned
specifically to entice boys whom Coral might like and this would be young white thin and good-looking teenage boys Wayne
and Dean saw each other nearly every day Coral was a frequent visitor at Wayne Henley's home and would chat with his
mother in fact he even worked on her car a couple of times so this is not a relationship that's being kept secret
from the teenage boy family right Mary Henley divorced her husband in 1970 after he shot at her during an argument
Dean was so close with the family that he even ate Easter dinner with the henleys and as stated he would help the
Henley family out with some different things but do the Henley family do they know it's a sexual relationship no no
not at all they think that this is a friendship so Henley he has to act a little older than what he is he's
providing financially for his mother and younger brothers right and then we have
Dean Coral who is the the neighborhood basically thinks of Dean Coral as a nice professional
cleancut guy but a guy that kind of Acts younger than what what he is and so Dean
would typically drive around in his white van with a had a black couch in the back of course he has a white van
and they would say that do do do they all have white Vans well can we just stop making white Vans can we just can
we disagree as a nation that we're not going to produce any more white Vans well a lot of the neighbors would say
that often you could see a dozen or so kids that would Pile in the van and he would take them for r sides now we
should mention that the three Brooks Henley and Dean Coral from all outside perspective they were inseparable right
so all right Captain about 10 dozen red flags here right we have a man in his early 30s hanging out with two teenage
boys very often but a lot a whole big group of teenage boys and taking crowds of kids for rides yeah yeah so creepy
stuff yeah and you would think that neighbors and people on the outside looking in would wonder what is David
Brooks Wayne Henley and Dean Corell you know what's going on with this Trio well
the problem is though there is no father figures so in that case it's like people
are like oh he's just being a Good Samaritan yeah some type of Mentor yeah well we need to start talking about
missing teenage boys but this story is not going to be quite it's going to be quite a bit more
complicated than just one isolated incident because in 1971 72 and 73 thousands that's right thousands of
juveniles were reported missing in or around the Houston Texas area now that number jumps off the page right you say
whoa hold on there Nick that can't be right we do need to keep in mind this is a very heavily populated city it's what
today I think it's the third or fourth most populated city in the United States back then I would assume it to be about
the same and we have to keep in mind that even in Columbus even in our area Captain there are a lot of people that
are reported missing and very quickly that missing person's report is filed away in a trash can because they turn up
within an hour or two hours somebody panicked hit the panic button called somebody in missing and a lot of times
especially back in the early 70s a lot of juveniles would be runaways at this time you know we still have some
people heading out west to California we have a lot of these kids would be 17 17
and A2 year old kids that are just not where they are supposed to be so most of these kids would turn up the ones that
didn't sadly were still ignored by local law enforcement at the time because this
was a time when police chocked the majority of disappearances up to being aways but regarding three of the many
that were reported missing and the last names of these three individuals Cobell Jones and helist all three boys parents
called the police when their sons disappeared and they insisted that their boys were not runaways and in all
actuality many teenage boys disappeared from the Heights area in roughly a three-year span and for no apparent
reason in fact almost 50 5 Z teenage boys simply never turned up again one of these boys was David hillig who
disappeared on July 30th 1971 David then 13 decided to follow his brothers to the town pool on his bike
Greg hillig David's brother called home and asked for his mother to come and pick them up his mother Dorothy was
surprised to learn from Greg that David never showed up at the pool the family rule like most families was the kids
were not supposed to go anywhere without telling their mother when David did not
come home that evening Dorothy and her husband called Neighbors they called David's friends they even searched their
home and of course his room in his room they found all of his belongings including his wallet and money they
started driving around the neighborhood searching for their son finally at sunup
the next day Dorothy called the police police provided virtually no assistance to the hillig telling them that David
likely ran away and would come home soon David would be listed under the quote runaway classification and there would
be no official search for the boy Dorothy hillig was a protective involved parent who was close with her children
and she knew David would not have vanished of his own valtion she continued to Canvas the town looking for
any clues finally someone told the hillig that David was seen in the company of his
16-year-old friend malie Winkle Dorothy immediately called Mrs Winkle to ask if malie had come home Mrs Winkle told
Dorothy that malie called her just before midnight and said we are in Freeport mother this is a popular
swimming and surfing area in the Gulf of Mexico Mrs Winkle asked what he was doing 60 miles away and her son replied
that he was just with a bunch of boys and they went to Freeport to go swimming and he would be home later Mrs Winkle
also heard from her brother Ben that he saw David and malie get into a white van
not far from the hillig home Dorothy plastered the town with missing person's flyers and went door too looking for her
son a friend of David's named Wayne Henley helped distribute missing persons Flyers she traveled to other areas to
search for him on the basis of tips unfortunately the hillig would deplete their life savings looking for their son
even hiring a private detective yeah that's a that's a shame because you want to do anything you can Dorothy called
the Houston PD constantly looking for updates on her son and passing on rumors she heard and possible witnesses that
they should check into one day she told the police that she had learned that malie had a friend who drove a Plymouth
GTX and added she has seen a GTX driving through the neighborhood she even wrote
down the license plate it's license plate TMF 724 now Captain she passed this on to
Houston PD if an officer would have looked into the matter they would learn that that car belonged to a man named
Dean coral and even with all these leads the hge are never going to see their son
again let's fast forward to August 8th 1973 in Pasadena Texas the blazing sun beat down on this industrial city which
is an offshoot of the much larger City of Houston around 8:00 a.m. chief operator for the Pasadena PD answered a
call on the other end of the line a male voice said I just shot a man again the caller said I just shot a man and I want
you I want you the operator interrupted slow down and give me your name the caller answered Wayne Henley I'm calling
from 2020 Lamar Street immediately they're going to dispatch two police cards to the address patrolman Jameson
in car 361 was the first to arrive here is what he observed three teenagers standing on the sidewalk one was a
female and two others were male all appeared redyed and one was crying a white 1969 Dodge van was in the driveway
of the home Wayne Henley The Crying one identified himself to officer Jameson Jameson later described Henley as a thin
youth with light brown hair and brown eyes he had the beginnings of a goatee Henley handed Jameson a 22 caliber
pistol the officer oh wa hold on he had the beginnings of a goatee well he's a teenager he's got that you remember when
we were teenagers and some of the guys were like yeah I can grow a mustache and you look at it and you're like yeah
that's not a mustache right but it's like saying this guy had the beginnings of a douche Cano well he hands the
officer a 22 caliber pistol and the officer observed immediately that the six Chambers were empty the other two
teens were Ronda Williams only 15 years old and she clutched Wayne Henley's arm while they spoke to officer Jameson the
1D te was Tim Curley which just like his name he had curly hair yeah shoulder length hair blue eyes and braces in
brief questioning Wayne Henley told Jameson that he had freed himself from some handcuffs and shot a man named Dean
Coral Jameson looked inside the home and saw Coral's body and returned to the kids he put the three teens in his
patrol car and read them their rights then detective Mullin arrived at the scene he opened the front door and
entered the house the first room a living room was separated from the kitchen area by a Long Bar melin slowly
walked into the room and to his left he turned in a hallway he stopped abruptly taken AB by the sight directly down the
hallway just beyond the door to the bathroom lay the naked body of a man his face was buried in the B carpet at the
crevice where the wall meets the floor on the man's left shoulder and back were several tiny holes his legs were
entangled and a long telephone cord attached to a red phone lying on the hallway floor having been warned by
Dispatch that someone had been shot mullikin presumably wasn't surprised to find a body but what he found in the
bedroom however was another story in the bedroom the beige wall-to-wall carpeting
was covered by a large sheet of clear plastic on the plastic lay a 6 and 1/2t long by 3T wide Pine board with
handcuffs and straps fastened To Each corner the connecting chains running through large holes bored in the wood a
large knife and a wide roll of plastic was in the corner of the room and the Only Furniture in this room is a table
standing against the wall Mullin called his lieutenant and suggest Ed that he take a personal look at this crime scene
which he did identification the man was Dean Coral the dead man 33 years old he worked for the Houston Lighting and
power company as an electrician right Coral was 6'1 in tall and weighed approximately 200 lb he had been shot
six times mostly in the back and shoulder and once in the head the bullet in Coral's head protruded from the skull
Mullin began his investigation of the crime scene he started in the bedroom he found eight sets of handcuffs and the
keys to the handcuffs were scattered about the floor there was a roll of tape and a black toolbox containing torture
items including some Thin glass tubes a 17-in dildo normal size rope an electrical wire in a second bedroom
across the hall he found a gas mask with a clear plastic visor in the attached garage he found traces of white
dehydrated lime on the floor the white van had a series of hooks and Rings protruding from the walls the rear
windows of the van were covered by curtains and there was a piece of stained carpet and rope in the rear of
the vehicle and two large wooden boxes with air holes one of which contained some hair Mullin finished his report and
returned to the police [Music] station all right cheers mates cheers to you captain and where we left off we
were back at the police station now none of the teens invoked their right to an attorney none of them I even asked for
their parents to be notified Henley said he knew coral for quite a while Coral also lived in the heights but recently
had moved to Pasadena Coral invited Henley to a party Henley invited his friend Tim Curley and the two went to
Coral's home at around 9:30 p.m. the night before Henley Curley and coral sat in the front room drinking beer smoking
pot and bagging paint which is according paint yes so this is sniffing the fumes
from acrylic paint sprayed into a brown paper bag at some point Henley left to pick up
his girlfriend Ronda Williams according to Henley he and coral had agreed to leave for Colorado in about a week and
Rhonda was coming with them Henley didn't tell Coral he was going to pick up Ronda that night instead he and
Curley told Coral that they were going out for sandwiches and arrived back at Coral's House in Pasadena around 2:30
a.m. now Dean Coral was not happy that the boys showed up back at his place with Ronda in fact he was extremely
angry he had other plans in mind for that evening well yeah cuz girls have cooties Coral seemed to get over it and
the teens resumed their activities of smoking pot and sniffing paint until at some point the teens all passed out and
Coral's living room when Henley came to his senses he discovered Coral was handcuffing him curly and Ronda their
wrists and ankles were already Shackled and their mouths were sealed with masking tape they lie on the floor
helpless Coral launched into a tie raade threatening to kill all of of them he brandished a pistol and a huge knife in
his hands he shouted to the teens that he had already killed some boys who had resisted him in the past and that he was
going to kill them but quote first I'm going to have my fun but Henley and coral they had a long relationship they
had a special relationship let's say well let's not call it that well Henley started trying to talk and coral took
the tape off of his mouth Henley began to sweet talk Coral he he promised that he would help torture and kill Curley
and Ronda if Coral would free him hey could you imagine being curly like dude shut up what are you doing you going to
help torture me well I don't think at this time that Curley or Ronda were awake but if they were that's what
they'd be thinking oh you just turned on us this quickly yeah yeah great friend well maybe they were coming too because
at some point Coral grabbed Henley by his wrists that were handcuffed dragged him into the kitchen area where they
continued to talk apparently in the Kitchen Coral and Henley struck some kind of bargain Coral would assault
Curley the boy and Henley would rape Ronda then they would kill the two and be done with both of them at this point
it was beginning to be light outside as promised Coral unlocked Henley's handcuffs as Henley recovered himself
Coral picked up curly and disappeared down the hall Henley heard a scuffling and clinking of handcuffs then Coral
returned picked up Ronda and disappeared into the hallway again Henley took a hit
of paint fumes and headed down the hallway to the bedroom there he found curly and Ronda Shackled to a long
wooden board at their wrists and ankles Coral was naked and on his knees beside curle he nodded toward Ronda signaling
Henley Henley took off his clothes and prepared to cut ronda's clothes off of her with the knife Coral that had handed
him Rhonda begged him not to cut the shirt he cut her pants off and laid down beside Rhonda but he couldn't bring
himself to do it meanwhile Coral was trying to assault curlyy the Frantic teen was struggling to defend himself
from the assault Henley saw Ronda was having trouble breathing so he stripped the tape from her mouth and she quietly
begged him to get her out of this place Coral stopped momentarily and removed the tape from Curley's mouth Curley
begged Coral to leave him alone Henley could see the pistol on the small table where Coral left it he got to his feet
and told Coral he was going to the bathroom he went and then on his return he picked up the gun and pointed it down
at Coral he told Coral stop yelling you've gone far enough Dean I can't have you killing all of my friends Coral
looked up at Henley Henley warned him he would shoot if Coral came at him but Coral came up off of the floor in a
lunge trying to grab the gun and yelling kill me Wayne kill me Henley pulled the
trigger twice one bullet struck Coral in the shoulder the other in the head Coral
half fell half stepped through the door into the hallway and bounced against the
wall as he did so his feet became Tangled in the cord to the phone that stretched across the hall into the other
bedroom still shaking with fear and adrenalin Henley emptied the pistol into Coral's back and shoulder Coral stumbled
and crashed to the floor then the police were called the body is discovered and the teens were arrested
now during the police questioning captain we're bringing in other people here not just the teens that they found
on location but we have some of some people that know Coral as well and the first people that they speak to is his
father and stepmother who are adamant and deny that Dean Coral was homosexual or violent saying that there was no way
that he could have assaulted a teenage boy right but did the cops say hey can you EXP explain to us these torture
devices um hey can you explain to us the 17in long dildo well they these two would tell
police that the three teenagers must have murdered Dean in a drug induced frenzy yeah they're they're sniffing a
bunch of paint walking around town with a 17inch long dildo well detective Mullin returned to further question
Henley he was skeptical about the story especially the part where Henley talked about Dean Coral boasting that he had
killed before during this questioning Hill Henley said that he knew Coral had killed before in fact he knew some names
of boys that were killed Henley even knew where some of the bodies were buried he said in an old boat storage
shed somewhere in southwest Houston Henley started rattling off some names Charles Cobell Marty Jones and
someone named hillig he said these boys lived in the Heights neighborhood Cabell and Jones
two boys aged 17 and 18 were missing from the heights for 2 weeks seemingly Vanishing Without a Trace and both boys
parents received phone calls from their sons saying they were in trouble further the officers discovered
that there was a file on a missing 13-year-old that disappeared while in route to a local swimming pool in the
Heights on May 29th 1971 his name was David hillig interviews with Tim Curley and
Ronda Williams backed up Henley's story of the shooting but what is clear is these two knew nothing of the other
allegations that Henley was making about Dean Coral right homicide detectives were called in and Henley was able to
lead law enforcement to a boat shed where he said Coral had buried some boys Southwest boat storage was a 20 stall
dry land Marina made of corrugated metal and shaped like an L the Stalls a sizable 12 ft wide and 30 ft deep Coral
stall was number 11 yeah and it had 6ot wide double doors and they're going to be padlocked Coral rented the space
since November of 1971 and he was listed as a good renter who paid promptly he had recently inquired about
renting a second stall but none were currently available according to the owner Coral visited the stall number 11
multiple times a week often seen unloading things from his white van officers used a crowbar to break open
the lock holding the doors the stall had no windows it was incredibly hot inside
so he has a creepy van and he has a creepy stall yes yes he does and he's asking about renting a second creepy St
can I can I get another stall please inside they find a dirt floor which is covered by two carpets one green one
blue and an old rusted car as well a bicycle leaned against the wall in the left rear corner was a 50gal steel drum
a dozen large brown water containers were scattered about the space two bags of dehydrated lime sat at top one of the
containers beside the car was a plastic bag containing clothing and a pair of red shoes with high heels after clearing
out the stall it was clear that there was going to be some digging and after a lot of effort and quite some time the
digging exposed the distorted face of a young boy they could see a cord embedded
in the boy's throat the smell of Decay permeated the stall yeah this kind of reminds you of gasey in a way yes and as
Twilight approached and the digging continued police officers uncovered a second body meanwhile the media began to
get wind of what happened first the shooting of Dean coral and then the search for what at the time was listed
as the search for three bodies at this storage shed right of course it was just a matter of time before the media showed
up outside of the boat storage shed video footage was shot of an anxious Wayne Henley making a statement about
the shooting and today this is on YouTube you can see Henley on video talking on the phone to his mom saying
mama mama I shot Dean reporters saw that the excavation of the storage shed was unearthing human remains and within
minutes this story was on the 6:00 news the body count was climbing and The Sensational story of a Mad sex pervert
who killed boys and buried them in his boat shed made national and international headlines Within within a
day more than 50 out of state and foreign reporters arrived in Houston to cover the horrific Story the news of the
mass murders in Houston reverberated around the world even the pope addressed the story saying quote we are in the
domain of sadism and demonism now as mass murder and Houston author John gerwell described it some
bodies were shrouded completely in clear plastic and the excavators would brush a
the dirt and turn away from the features that looked up at them these were the more recently interred victims others
were half protected by their plastic wrappings from their head down to waist their lower portions were shredded Away
by lime and time to Stained Fabric or leg bones in tendons the others those which had rested longer in their enemity
in this isolated burial pit were just lumps of decomposition the Earth had all but
claimed them as the bodies emerged from the dirt they were laid on the ground outside the boat shed and numbered Wayne
Henley spent the night in a Cell at the Pasadena Police Station right authorities weren't ready to declare him
an innocent victim just yet police were beginning to wonder if the bodies installed number 11 could possibly have
been the work of just one evil man man right so you have a situation where you have a teenager that just killed his
friend Dean that supposedly was torturing another two teenagers mhm and then when they're brought to the police
station Henley saying hey look there's more to the story and and there's more victims the police don't buy it because
they don't even buy that Dean would have tortured the teens originally that were
in his house but then once they go to his storage unit they start finding these bodies now we have these bodies
but we don't have the why or exactly who right and I think it's a little more complicated because I think what we have
here is Henley seemed content to just tell them that look this guy threatened me and he was going to kill these two
kids that were with me so I I talked my way out of the handcuffs and I killed this evil dude well during the course of
telling that story he throw in there that Dean said hey look I've killed I've killed kids before and I'm going to kill
you guys and I'm going to take my time doing it right and my I'm going to have my fun before that's when like you know
when dogs you know how they kind of they perk up when they hear certain thing and
their ears go up that's when the detective's ears went up and he was like wait a second that one line right there
I want to know what this kid meant by I've killed more before I've killed boys before right and that's when I think
after being pushed he's like yeah he has killed in fact I know where some of the bodies are they're in the
storage shed he's sitting there and they're wondering well 11 people we found 11 kids wow buried in the shed so
we want to know more and the questioning of Wayne Henley is going to continue and
while Mullin was interviewing Henley he is interrupted by a phone call it was a Houston homicide detective he told
Mullin that a David Brooks was brought into the department by his father that the Brooks boy was giving a
statement implicating Wayne Henley as Coral's longtime partner in luring Houston teenagers into Coral's hands
right Brooks claimed to be an eyewitness and that he had knowledge about coral and Henley Mullin hung up the phone and
looked over at Henley he said quote that was officer Lieutenant Porter of Houston
homicide he just told me that a boy named David Brooks was making a statement there about you and coral and
the boys we have dug up at the boat shed but right but Henley Brooks and Dean they were like a m crew according to
Mullin Henley wheeled around in his chair and leaned across the desk toward Mullin and said that's good now I can
tell you the whole story [ __ ] Henley's confession states that he met Coral when
he was about 14 years old old through David Brooks Brooks told Henley that Coral could get them in on a deal where
he could make some money once they met Henley's confession States Coral told me he belonged to an organization out of
Dallas that bought and sold boys ranor and dope and stuff like that Dean told me that he would pay me $200 at least
for every boy that I could bring to him and maybe more if they were really good looking boys he stated I didn't try to
find any for him until about a year later and I decided that I could use the money to get better things for my people
so one day I went over to Dean's apartment on Schuler Street and told him that I would find a boy for him Dean had
a GTX at the time and we got in it Dean and me started driving around we picked up a boy at 11th in stward I talked him
into going to Dean apartment to smoke some marijuana so we he went over to Dean's Dean left some handcuffs laying
out where they could be seen and we had this little deal set up where I would put the handcuffs on and then I would
get out of them then we talked this boy I don't remember his name into trying to
get out of the handcuffs the only thing was we put them on where the locks were turned in where he couldn't get the key
into them then Dean took the boy down and tied his feet and put tape over his mouth Henley said he thought Dean was
going to sell him to this organization that he belonged to so he left then the next day Dean paid him
$200 then a day or so later Henley found out that Dean had killed the boy and found out that Dean had screwed him in
the ass before killing him this was the start of the whole thing and since then Henley said he helped Dean get eight or
10 other boys saying I don't remember exactly how many Dean would screw all of them and then he would kill them Henley
stated that he had killed several of them himself with Dean's Gun and helped choke some of the others then they would
take them and bury them in different places he also said David Brooks was with us on most of these
kills Brook's confession stated in essence that he had been present when most of the killings happened stating I
was in the room when they happened and I was supposed to help if something went wrong Brooks said in a somewhat passive
manner once they were on the torture board they were as good as dead it was all over but the shouting and the crying
Brooks confirmed that once Henley came into the picture quote most of the killings involved all three of us he
made it clear though that there had been murders before Henley arrived on the scene two years ago he said there was a
boy whose name he couldn't recall but Coral kept him alive for 4 days saying it really upset Dean to have to kill
this boy because he really liked him Brooks told investigators that Coral moved almost constantly around the
heights never staying in one place for long and the murders occurred at multiple addresses around town he said
in all I guess there were between 25 and 30 boys killed and they were buried in three different places Brooks makes
clear in his confession that he didn't do any of the actual killing right he said of the killings which he witnessed
quote it didn't bother me to see it I saw it done many times I just wouldn't do it myself and I never did do it
myself while he admitted to luring boy being present for many of their deaths helping to bury the bodies he never
admitted to committing murder murder he did however throw Wayne Henley under the
bus telling police that Henley seemed to enjoy causing pain to the victims and that he had killed some of them and one
time Brooks told police Brooks talked Coral out of killing one of the boys and coral actually let him go this was a boy
named Billy ridinger once Brooks made his initial confession after being brought into the station by his father
he was placed under arrest so clearly Captain Henley confession went far beyond the accessory role he had
initially CED to right he actually according to his words killed six of the victims at Coral's behest by shooting
them in the head or strangling them so based off of Henley right we have this confession we have multiple murders but
then Brooks is also saying hey there was these murders that took place before Henley but then we could then assume
that before Brooks that Dean possibly killed others before Brooks was involved yeah and I don't think that we can
understand the whole tale of Dean Coral unless we know the story of his background what is really remarkable and
terrifying about Dean Coral was that throughout his life there were no visible signs that he would become a
prolific serial killer and actually no one knows how many boys Dean Coral murdered as you just stated Dean Coral
was active and involved in his community and by all accounts well-liked and friendly he was born in Fort Wayne
Indiana on Christmas Eve in 1939 his parents Arnold and Mary were both 23 when he was born we don't know
or have much information about Coral's Young Life uh it was apparently fairly unremarkable it has been reported by
many sources that Dean was something of a mama's boy his parents divorce when Dean was six
soon thereafter Arnold Coral was drafted into the army and was based near Memphis
Tennessee so Mary moved to a trailer home nearby with her sons so they could stay close to their dad yeah Arnold and
Mary remarried in 1950 and moved to Houston oh so they get a divorce they decide to put on dirty
underwear and get married again well he goes off into the army she moves to be close to uh him and his their sons can
be close to him as well Arnold and Mary divorced once again uh Arnold did maintain a good relationship and contact
with his sons and 1953 Mary married again this time to Jim West a Salesman who up and moved the family to vdor
Texas the couple had Joyce this would end up being Dean's half sister while living there Dean was an average student
he thrived in the school band and he was what instrument do we know he was known
to be quite a good trombone player he's a real tromboner people who attended VOR
high school with Dean they say that he was popular he dated girls went to dances and Drive-ins and noted that he
was extremely close to his mother Dean also raised rabbits and pigeons sometime in the mid1 1950s Mary started making
making praline candies and Dean went to work for his mother's candy business harvesting the peans to make the prings
packaging the treats and doing the deliveries in 1962 Mary and Jim divorced the family moved into the
Heights area of Houston where Mary set up her shop the family business was incorporated with Mary as president Dean
vice president and Stanley the secretary treasurer Dean's half-sister Joyce also
helped out Dean had a good relationship with his father Arnold and he decided to
follow in Arnold's footsteps and become an electrician he got a job with Houston
Light and Power so Dean as we said made candy at at night right and worked at Houston light and power during the day
there is a story reported in multiple sources that a male employee of the candy company complained to Mary uh that
Dean had come onto him and Mary Dean's mother fired the employee denying that Dean would ever have done anything like
this in 1964 Dean was drafted into the US Army to which he applied for a hardship discharge claiming he was
needed at the family business the Army granted this request and Dean left the service just 10 months after his
induction according to Army records Coral's service record was considered excellent in 1965 the coral candy
company moved into a building directly across from the Helms Elementary School in the Heights Dean became the general
manager and he seemed to Revel in being known as quote the Candyman this was because this is as he
was known to the neighborhood children well and this is cuz he would hand out free candy when when children would come
into the store it just kind of you know you've seen this you've seen the scene in willly Wonka MH the Candyman can well
in the back room of the candy factory candy store Coral installed a pool table so kids started loitering at The Candy
Factory hanging out in the back room and spending lots of time in the company of
Dean Coral hey it's a good investment though the more they spend playing pool the more candy they buy now no one knows
if anything nefarious happened during this time if any of the boys were prayed upon it has been noted that Dean had a
private room in the back of the Candy Factory where he would Retreat if he was angry or in a temper and he would then
emerge later all smiles this room was referred to in several sources as the pouting
room so perhaps I have to wonder is there you know was was he going into this room at times to kind of stifle
urges having a hard time controlling himself in the presence of all of these young boys or teenage boys right right
now in 1968 on the advice of a medium Mary his mother dissolved the candy company and moved to
Colorado this was likely a difficult transition for Coral he never saw his mother in person again although the two
remained close talking on the phone regularly Coral went to work full-time for the Houston Lighting and power
company throughout the late 60s and until his death Dean dated a woman named Betty Hawkins Betty was a divorce with
two small boys Betty told the LA Times after Dean's death that the couple intended to marry in two weeks time and
the two planed to go to Colorado to live in an interview after Coral's death Betty said quote Dean was one of the
kindest men I ever knew if he had something and someone needed it he'd give it to them she said that Dean was
wonderful with her eight and 10-year-old boys oh if she only knew she also told investigators that quote in 5 years Dean
and I never really had sex saying they would hug and kiss there were times that they came close but never did it stating
he believed that you should be married Betty said that she refused to believe any of the report reports about Dean
yeah you should be married unless you're a child well she said that she had visited Dean's apartment many times
often rode in his van and never once had she stumbled across anything as strange
as what was being reported in the newspapers even when she dropped by in on Dean
unexpectedly however Betty told Billy buch's mother Billy was one of Coral's victims we would later learn that right
that every time she went to Dean's home he had quote a bunch of boys around and she didn't think this was normal Billy
buch's mother told him to stop hanging out with Dean Coral it is interesting though to see
that Dean Coral seemed to have been capable of quote a normal type relationship you
know this based off of affection rather than sadistic urges right but it sounds as though by keeping a girlfriend around
and acting like an upstanding citizen Dean Coral was attempting to hide who he really was or what he really was right a
sadistic pedophilic serial murder now in 1973 Captain we have we're back to the point where we have all the
news coming out about the serial killings of so many teenage boys that has rocked the high neighborhood to its
core and the hillig the family that we've discussed a couple of times so far right they're learning that their son he
possibly met his fate at the hands of this serial killer so Dorothy Hill recalled an incident that happened in
1971 on one day David failed to return home when he said that he would when he turned up he explained that he and malie
visited a man in The Candy Factory this was the coral candy company right across the street
from the elementary school played a little pool went to the powy room well exactly David told his mother he said
there's a pool table in the back and Dean Coral lets us play pool and have free candy Dorothy told David not to
visit The Candy Factory again but he protested he wanted to hang out with his friend stating but malie knows him
meaning Dean and his mother malie's mother actually worked for Dean so she checked with
Selma Winkle and Mrs Winkle said she had worked at The Candy Factory but she actually knew very little about Dean
Coral who worked for the family candy business one way or another a second time when Dave was again late coming
home Dorothy went to The Candy Factory herself there she found David's and Mal's bicycles parked outside she pushed
the button at the door and a man opened it up she asked for David she told the man whom she presumed to be Dean Coral
that she didn't want her son to visit the store anymore when the man told her that he knew Mrs Winkle Mrs hillas
replied that made no difference the man called David from the rear room Mrs hillig bought a box of candy and she and
David left furthermore Dorothy recalled with horror something that happened just a few weeks
prior to the discovery of the bodies her son Greg hillig was friends with a boy down the street named Ronnie Henley she
let Greg go down the street to the Henley house to play remember Greg is the younger brother of David hillig
right when Greg returned he told his mother that Dean coral and Wayne Henley were there
and that quote Dean is a real nice man Greg told her adding that he told me that he and Wayne were going to take me
and Ronnie fishing one of these days if Coral had gotten his hands on Greg it's already suspected that David Hill would
end up being a victim but if Coral had gotten his hands on Greg it would not have been the first time that he made
brothers disappear right even more horrible was Dorothy's recall that not only did the neighbor Wayne Henley help
hand out flyers about David being missing he said to her this is from a book called The Man with the candy I
really really feel you know sorry for yall and my heart just goes out to you David could still be right around here
sometimes the parents can't see the kids and the kids can't see the parents he could be right under your nose and you
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Brief Summary

Dean Coral, a mass murderer, manipulated boys into his deadly schemes, leading to multiple disappearances and a shocking discovery of bodies.

Key points

The Candyman: A True Crime Story. Exploring the chilling tale of Dean Coral, a mass murderer who preyed on young boys.
A Disturbing Trend. Thousands of juveniles reported missing in Houston during the early 70s raises alarms.
A Mother's Desperation. Dorothy Hillig's relentless search for her missing son David highlights parental love and despair.
The Shocking Call. Wayne Henley calls the police to report he shot Dean Coral, leading to a shocking discovery.
The Shooting of Dean Coral. Wayne Henley shoots Dean Coral to save his friends from being killed.
Discovery of Bodies. Police uncover multiple bodies in Coral's storage shed, revealing a horrific crime scene.

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This is the story of Dean Coral, the one they call the Candyman.

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