Dean Arnold Corll, also known as the "Candy Man," was an American serial killer responsible for the abduction, torture, and murder of at least 28 boys in Houston, Texas, between 1970 and 1973. His crimes, often referred to as the Houston Mass Murders, were among the most gruesome in American history. Corll lured his victims with the help of teenage accomplices David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley.