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‘Killing the Devil’: 52 years after murdering young men, Candy Man among Texas’ worst serial killers
‘Killing the Devil’: 52 years after murdering young men, Candy Man among Texas’ worst serial killers Jeffrey Konen was 18 years old when he disappeared from the Houston Heights area on Sept. 25, 1970. He had been hitchhiking from the University of Texas to his parent’s home in Houston. Three years later, his naked body was found buried at High Island Beach under a large boulder. His hands and feet were bound, and he was wrapped in plastic and covered in a layer of lime. He died of asphyxiation after a cloth was placed in his mouth, and he was manually strangled. Konen was the first known victim of the infamous Candy Man serial killer. This Candy Man didn’t have a hook for a hand and a swarm of bees at his disposal like in Bernard Rose’s 1992 horror classic with the same name. Instead, the real-life killer, named Dean Arnold Corll, was much more terrifying. Corll was given the nickname for being known as the “pleasant, smiling candy man of the Heights,” who would give candy to children