October 19, 2023 • 43 mins
Dean Corll, also known as the "Candy Man," was a notorious American serial killer in the early 1970s. He, along with teenage accomplices David Brooks and Elmer Henley, committed a series of brutal murders in Houston, Texas. They lured young boys with promises of money or parties and was responsible for at least 28 known victims. His crimes shocked the nation, and the case highlights the dangers of charismatic predators who prey on the vulnerable.
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Wikipedia - Fort Wayne, Indiana
Wikipedia - Dean Corll
Wikipedia - Rheumatic fever
Wikipedia - Pasadena, Texas
Criminal Minds Fandom - The Houston Mass Murders
Missing Kids - Candy Man Victim: New Clues in Serial Killer Mystery
Texas Monthly - The Lost Boys
Sources for this episode:
Wikipedia - Fort Wayne, Indiana
Wikipedia - Dean Corll
Wikipedia - Rheumatic fever
Wikipedia - Pasadena, Texas
Criminal Minds Fandom - The Houston Mass Murders
Missing Kids - Candy Man Victim: New Clues in Serial Killer Mystery
Texas Monthly - The Lost Boys
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Welcome to Crime on My Coffee.This podcast contains graphic descriptions and adult content
mature audiences only. Please Hi,y'all, and welcome to Crime with My
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Coffee. I'm your fabulous hostess withthe most June, and I'm Suzanne.
We're gonna tell you some stories you'veheard, some you haven't, and some
you'll wish you hadn't, all witha Texas twang. Welcome back, guys,
Welcome back. We're glad you couldjoin us, as always, glad
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you're here. Yay. So whatyou got in here? Meck this week?
Well, in my I have thefamous Puerto Rican coffee that one of
my husband's friends went to Puerto Ricoasked if there was anything that he could
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bring back, and my husband say, like coffee, because that's what I
do. And so he brought backsome coffee and it's called Cafe Manchoo.
Nailed it. That's what I'm goingto say. And I can't tell you
what it says on the back aboutwhatever it says on the back, because
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it's in Spanish and I only doTexan, Bad Texan apparently or very hicic
Texan, one of the two.However, it's fine, so I can
understand you. But it's a goodcoffee. It's good. It's smooth,
it's a robust, I guess wouldbe a word for it, and I
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like it. The aroma is amazing. And I have that in French vanilla
creamer because that's what I like andit's good. I am all set with
it. So what do you havein your mug? I have hot chocolate.
Ooh, hot chocolate. Yummy.Yeah, I wanted some hot chocolate.
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And I put some of the garriedllichocolate sauce in ith too. Just
my hot chocolate, extra hot chocolate, chocolate, hot chocolate chocolate. Pretty
good, pretty good, yummy.I just I felt like hot chocolate today.
I didn't feel I needed the extracaffeine. Hmm okay, all right,
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well we'll go with that. Soundsgood. I like hot chocolate.
I like to put hot chocolate inmy coffee sometimes when it gets really cold
and it stays really cold all thetime. That's that's what that one week
that that happens in Texas every year, that one that one time, Yes,
that's what I like. Gotcha.Well, to everyone's surprise, I
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actually am going to be doing acase today. Surprise, surpress what I
know. It's almost like I needto go back to second shift because I
just don't find I have time foranything on h Yeah, you might.
You might need to change shifts.You might need to go back to working
nights and being a vampire. Iknow something, something I'm not real sure.
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Well, we're going to start ourlittle adventure in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Now, this is on the northwestern part of Indiana. It's about
eighteen miles west of the Ohio borderand about fifty miles south of the Michigan
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border. Okay. Now it isthe second most populous city in Indiana and
seventy sixth in the US. Wow. Yeah, but apparently, I mean
it's a cool place because it wasactually an All American City Awarded recipient for
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four different years. One was innineteen eighty three, one in nineteen ninety
eight, two thousand and nine,and twenty twenty one. Oh wow yeah,
so m I now must be areally cool place. Now in twenty
ten they did get a cultural districtwhich has a bunch of artsy stuff and
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you know, stuff I don't knowanything about. And the Fort Wayne Children's
Zoo has been landed as one ofthe nation's foremost zoos. Oh nice,
Yeah, yeah, I thought thatwas pretty cool. I only know about
that Tyler Zoo, the Dallas Zoo, Worth Zoo, probably cause you live
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in Texas. And I've heard aboutthe San Diego Zoo that's where the penguins
of Madagascar worship too. Oh yeah, I have heard of that one too.
I can tell you that in FortWayne they have eighty six public parks.
That's a big number. It absolutelyI'm thinking that many public parks in
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one town. I don't know,but whatever, I mean city, not
town, but whatever either way.So let's get to the population. In
eighteen sixty, the population was seventhousand people. That's not very many.
That's smaller than my town, andmy town's pretty small. Well. It
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grows in nineteen seventy, which isjust a little over one hundred years later,
population is one hundred and seventy eightthousand, two hundred and sixty nine.
Only snikees yes, And in twentytwenty the population is two hundred and
sixty three thousand, eight hundred andeighty six. Oh my gosh. Yeah,
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just gets bigger and bigger. Acouple of notable people that I do
want to mention that was from FortWayne is Margaret Ringenberg. She was an
aviator, She flew a She wasa fairy pilot in World War Two for
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the WASP, which is the Women'sAir Force Service pilots, and in her
career she logged more than forty thousandhours. Oh snap. Have I even
been alive for forty thousand hours?I don't know. I'm not sure if
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I have. That's a lot.That's a lot. Okay. So I
just did a Google thing. Huh. I didn't put in my actual birthday.
I just put in the month inthe year instead of the day,
and it says that I have beenalive if I were born on that day,
which close enough for three hundred andfifty nine thousand hours. Oh wow.
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So okay, at least I've beenalive forty thousand hours. Yes,
I just can't imagine flying that much. That's a lot, a lot.
So also from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Bill Blast, fashion designer, got
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a lot of fashion awards. Idon't think I have anything Bill Blast,
but you know, I don't haveany fashions so well, I mean I
don't either. You come by it, honestly, it's fine. I'm not
very good at being a girl.Yeah yeah. Joined the club. Join
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the club. Yeah yeah. Iwas indoctrinated from birth faith. And the
last person that I want to mentionfrom Fort Wayne, Indiana is Jalen Smith,
who is a linebacker for the NFL, and I now blah blah blah.
From twenty sixteen to present time playsfor the Dallas Cowboys. Oh fancy.
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I know it's your favorite team.It is, and it has been
for a very long time. ButI mean, think about it. They're
actually America's team. That's what they'renamed. They're the America's team. Everybody
knows about the Dallas Cowboys. Whetherthey like film or not, totally different,
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but everybody knows everybody, well mostpeople anyway. I don't moving on,
Moving on. Okay, So onDecember twenty fourth, which is actually
a good day to have a birthdayif you're raised right. I like how
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you added that. It makes methink that the person we're going to talk
about was who was born on thisday was not raised right. Probably not,
but we're here so obviously not.Well. I mean that is true,
that is true. But on Decembertwenty fourth, in nineteen thirty nine,
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little boy named Dean Arnold Coral wasborn. His mom very protective,
you know, the protective mom overher kids. As she ended up having
you, the total opposite of you, who just kicked us out of the
door and said go do whatever andthe wall home later out of my house.
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You're fine, You'll be able tomake it. Father was kind of
strict, but I understand because hewas drafted by the US Air Force,
so he was drafted or he enlisted, he actually was drafted. Okay,
Yeah, So anyway, mom anddad are together. They kind of fight
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a lot and ended up getting divorcedin nineteen forty six. But because she
was a concerned mother and the kidswanted to be close to their dad,
and their dad really kind of stillwanted to be close to the kids,
she moved into a trailer not farfrom where he lived so they could still
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see each other. Nice. Sonot a bitter baby mama right right now.
Dean was about seven years old whenthis happened, but he ended up
getting sick and he ended up havingan undiagnosed case of rheumatic fever, which
usually develops about two or three weeksafter having a strep throat infection, and
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it does occur usually between the agesof five and fourteen. So after he
gets this strep throat, like Isaid, he ends up getting rheumatic fever.
But it went undiagnosed for a longtime, and some of the effects
in involvement that it has includes theheart, the joints, skin, brain,
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and they get a rash. Well, they didn't find out that Dean
actually had this until he was abouteleven years old and he had gone into
the doctor for something and the doctor'sfound a heart murmur. So his doctor
said, you know what, becauseof this, the heart murmur and everything,
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you can no longer do pe.And I know most kids would be
like Wollo, who no more Pe? I know, yeah, I know,
I know. Well I wasn't likethat, No MENI This was in
nineteen fifty and like I said,he was about eleven years old at this
time, and I guess because Momwas living close to Dad, they still
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had a lot of probably interaction together. They decided that they were going to
reconcile. So they did. Theygot remarried and moved to Pasadena, Texas.
Okay, so number one, ifI'm going to divorce you, I
am not going to remarry you.Ever, I'm sorry. I understand there
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are people that do, and theymake it the second or third or fourth
time that they remarry ex husband orwife. But if I and you and
we split, there's a reason forit, it doesn't matter. There's a
reason, period, end of story, game over. That's what I say,
as well, that's what I say. If I Divorceia, there's a
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reason. And I've never understood peoplelike that. Me neither. But I
know people like that, and I'mpretty sure I do too. Oh,
I'm pretty sure you get pretty sureyou do. And I just don't under
I've never understood it. Like there'sno no, I don't get it.
I don't get it either. Butanyway, so they get remarried, and
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like I said, they move toPasadena, Texas, which is in the
Houston Woodlands Sugarland metropolitan area, andit is the twentieth most populous city in
Texas. Really yeah, yeah,I never would have thought that at me
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neither. So the population in nineteenfifty, about the time that they moved
down there, the population's twenty twothousand, four hundred and eighty three.
In nineteen seventy, the population iseighty nine thousand, nine hundred and fifty
seven, but in twenty twenty,the population is one hundred and fifty one
thousand, nine hundred and fifty inthe Pasadena area. If I did not
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mention this, I would probably endup being divorced because my husband would divorce
me. But they had a countryclub down there called Gillies, right.
It was done by Mickey Gilly,who was a musician singer country music way
back in the day. They hada mechanical bull and this was basically the
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largest honky tonk in the world.They ended up filming a movie there in
nineteen and this movie was called UrbanCowboy. If you haven't seen it,
I suggest I mean watching it onceor twice. That's my husband's favoritest movie
ever. But it starred what JohnTravolta Deborah Winger. But unfortunately Gillies did
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burn down in nineteen ninety and nowthe school district down there owns the lot.
So if I didn't mention anything aboutthat, I would be one of
those people who got divorced. Sointerjection note note to self right here,
delete all of that and see ifit happened, right right. I'm kidding,
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I'm kidding, I know I know. Well. The parents still couldn't
get along because they ended up gettingredivorced in nineteen There's the reason they got
divorced in the first place. Iknow, I know well, I mean
it last said three years. Idon't know. Mom's like, you know
what, I'm done with you.She finds a traveling clock salesman, ends
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up marrying him, and they movedto Vider, Texas, which is about
eighty nine miles from Pasadena. They'rehappy, and then in nineteen fifty five
they welcome a little girl, andso Dean ends up with a half sister.
Now he already has a brother byhis mom and dad, but now
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he has a half sister. Momand dad. Mom and his stepdad decide
that they're going to start a smallfamily candy company out of their garage.
Dean and his brother would help outas much as they could. After school,
they ran a lot of the machinesthey packaged the product in the step
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dad sold the candy along his routethat he had for the clock selling that
he had going on, and itactually did very well. But he realized
that most of the candy that hesold was in the Houston area. So
Carl ends up going to high school. He was just an average student,
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but his only real interest that hereally had in school was in the band,
and he played trombone. He graduatedin nineteen fifty eight, and then
the family, his mom and stepdadand half sister and little brother, ended
up moving back to the Houston area. This way, they were actually closer
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to the area that bought the mostcandy, so they opened up a new
shop. So in nineteen sixty,Coral's about twenty won. His mom's like,
you know what, we moved blahblah blah, not really working for
us. You should go move inwith your mom in Indiana or your grandma
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in Indiana kind of help her outbecause she needed some help and everything.
And Dean's like, okay, I'lldo that. So he goes moves in
with his grandma and Indiana, staysthere for a couple of years, and
then ends up moving back to theHouston area to help the family out with
the candy business that he had,And this time they actually had a shop,
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not just in their garage, butan actual shop in the Houston Heights
area, which is I don't know, maybe twenty miles from Pasadena. So
it's not that far. Not toomuch of a commute, No, not
at all. Dean, when hemoved back to the Houston area to help
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the family and everything, went andgot a place that was above the shop,
the candy shop that they had.It was like a little apartment above
the shop that he ended up stayingin. I've always thought that would be
really cool. I know, Ialways thought that would be really nice too.
Plus, I mean, you're working. If you're working down in the
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shop, you ain't got to commuteexcept for down the stairs. Mom and
stepdad something happens. They're not gettingalong. So in nineteen sixty three they
ended up getting the divorce. Well, because they've been in this candy business
for a while, she decides she'sgoing to open up a candy store of
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her own, and she's gonna nameit after her kids. She's gonna name
it the Coral Candy Company. Andso she made Dean and his dean like
the vice president or something, andmade the brother that he had the secretary
treasurer. Right. She kind ofdid this because she was in competition.
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She felt maybe, I guess alittle bit with the stepdad, because you
know, they had done this,made this candy company. In August of
nineteen sixty four, Coral is draftedto the US Army. He goes to
Louisiana for the basic training, thenhe goes to Georgia for his training after
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that, and then he ended upgoing to Fort Hood, which is probably
about two hundred miles from Pasadena.But he didn't like the military at all.
But he had a good record there. You know, he didn't get
in any fights or anything like that. But he did apply for a hardship
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discharge because he said, well,my family needs me to help run the
business, and so I need tobe there to help them. And that
gave him an honorable discharge. Wow. Yeah, on June eleventh of nineteen
sixty five. So he actually onlyserved ten eleven months in the military.
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He had that much military service andthat was it. That's not much.
No, So he gets out ofthe military and he decides he's going to
go back to Houston Heights area andhelp work in the family business. Like
I said, he had some theyhad competition from the Stepdad's candy shop,
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but Coral decided He's going to workas much as he can and make it
better than Stepdad's and everybody's gonna knowhis candy. So eventually the shop got
moved to another shop that was rightacross the street from an elementary school.
Anyway, he would promote and passout candy, and that was the perfect
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place, right across the from anelementary school. Absolutely, so he in
in front of my house. It'sfine. I mean, as long as
it's good candy, I'll take it. Yes, heck yeah. So Coral
ends up becoming known as the CandyMan or the Pied Piper because he's passing
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out all this candy. Well,in nineteen sixty seven, he's about twenty
eight. At this time, heis out passing out candy and everything,
and he befriends a twelve year oldboy, and over the next few years,
you know, he's around this boyl a whole lot. This little
boy's name is David Brooks. Hewas born February twelfth, nineteen fifty five.
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So he's twelve and Coral is abouttwenty eight. And I'm just assuming
that he probably met him passing outcandy at the elementary school or whatever.
But he's around this boy, andI what I want to say is he's
kind of grooming this boy, rightI'll be your best friend. We can
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be best buds, we can dothings together in a creeperson. Yes.
Yes. Well, about a yearlater, Mom decides that she's gonna get
married again, and that didn't lastlong, but she ends up moving out
of state and closed down the candystore. Oh, time to get a
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new job. I know, Iknow now, Coral talked to his mom
quite often, even though she wasout of state. They talk quite often,
and he did find another job.He went to work as an electrician
at the Houston Lighting and Power Company. He was testing relay systems or something,
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but it was a it was ajob. It was a good job.
It made him money so he couldafford whatever he needed. You know,
apartments for groceries. Who knows waterits water? Yeah? All that.
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Well. In nineteen seventy, Brooksis about fifteen and he decided that
he was going to drop out ofschool, so he did, but his
mom moved because her and Brooks' fatherended up getting divorced. So mom and
Brooks end up moving to Beaumont,which is about eighty five miles east of
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Houston, but his dad remained therein the Houston area, so Brooks would
go back and forth and visit withDad and everything like that. But when
he came, he didn't really staywith Dad a whole lot. He went
and stayed with Coral most of thetime time. And that's only because he
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was probably a lot more fun.He didn't put restrictions you have to be
in the house at a certain timeor anything like that. He was more
of a buddy, say yeah,yeah, but I mean that's what happened.
Red flag. Definitely some red flagsgoing on here. Hold on,
let's pull let's let's let's do something. You'll understand. There's a flag on
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the play. There you go,there you go. Just right before Brooks
moved off, Coral kind of wastrying to talk him into a sexual relationship.
You know. He's like, youknow what, Look, I mean,
I got cash. I'll buy youwhatever you want, but you have
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to give me a blowjob. Okay, this is way more than just a
flag on the play, y'all.Oh yeah, yeah, definitely is.
Brooks was like, I mean,I do want all this stuff, and
you know, but I don't know. Well. Then on September twenty fifth
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of nineteen seventy, eighteen year oldJeffrey Conan vanished while he was hitch hocking
with someone else from Utah. Hewas going to his parents' house and they
dropped him off around six point fifteennear uptown Houston. Nineteen seventy was a
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big turning point because Brooks walked inwith Coral and a couple of teenage boys
at one time who were tied upto the bed, and Coral and these
two teenage boys were having fun,and Brooks is like, what the fuck?
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And He's like, well, youknow what, if you don't say
anything about what I you know,me and these boys were doing, I'm
gonna buy you a car. Brooksis like, oh, I mean I'm
fifteen, sixteen years old, ofcourse I want a car, so I
don't Yeah, And also he's beenusing a lot of air quotes in these
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past couple of sentences. Yeah.Well, Brooks was like, okay,
I'll take a car. So Coralended up buying him a nineteen sixty nine
Chevy Corvette. Coral also told Brooksthat he would pay him money for any
boy that he was friends with ormaybe not friends with, if he could
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lure them back to his apartment.He would pay him two hundred dollars per
boy. Okay, this ref isrunning out of flags to throw on the
field for this place. I know, I know, So two hundred dollars
back here in nineteen seventy, technicallyin today's money is about fifteen hundred dollars.
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It's a lot of money. Brooksis like, well, you know
what I mean, why not?Why not? There's lots of reasons why
yeah, well, I mean,Carl, I know, there's lots of
reasons why not. But Coral hadtold him that these boys were for a
different purpose. They were being soldkind of on the black market or whatever,
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you know, and no harm wascoming to them. Everything was fine,
everything was well and good. AndBrook's like, well, okay,
but you're giving me two hundred dollars, I guess I can help you out.
So on December thirteenth, nineteen seventy, Brooks lured to fourteen year old
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boys. One's name was James Glassand the other one is Danny Yates,
two corals apartartment. Now, Jamesknew Brooks because they had previously been there
before, just briefly, you know, so he didn't see any problem with
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it, and you know, hehad his friends with him, and he's
like, yep, Okay, youknow, let's go. So they go,
and unfortunately, these two boys wereput on what turned out to be
referred to as a torture by boardthat Coral had. It was just a
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big piece of kind of like plywoodor something, and they were tied to
this and unfortunately they were raped,strangled, and then Coral talked Brooks into
helping him bury these two at aboat shed that he had ran just the
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previous month. Okay, that's done, because now your name's tied to it.
But okay, carry on. Yeahyeah, well, I mean,
first off, he's done anyway,but yes, yes, then on January
we're not even trying to be smartabout it, no, no, but
I mean he gets away with itfor a while. On January thirtieth,
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nineteen seventy one, brothers Donald andJerry Waldrop was walking home from a friend's
house and Coral kind of enticed themto come into their van, come into
his van, and Brooks was therewith him. So they were like,
yeah, okay, I mean youalready got a teenager with you, and
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we're teenagers, so yeah, yeahwe will. We'll come back, you
know and party at your place,like you're saying we're going to do.
So they did, and unfortunately,after they got back to the apartment where
Coral was living, they were rapedand strangled and buried in the boat shed.
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A couple of months later, onMarch ninth, nineteen seventy one,
fifteen year old Randall Harvey was ridinghis bicycle for his part time job.
I think he was delivering newspapers orsomething. Ends up going missing. Well
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we know where he went missing tobecause Coral enticed him into coming back to
his apartment and partying in all thisand subsequently ended up being shot in the
head and killed. Don't I believehe was buried in the boat shed as
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well. Then on May twenty ninth, nineteen seventy one, thirteen year old
David hillikissed and sixteen year old GregoryMallory Winkle were abducted and eventually killed.
So we got people missing. Youknow, parents are like, uh,
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what happened to my kid? Butthey just you know, most kids that
ended up missing back in the seventies, a lot of the police departments just
figured they were runaway, so theydidn't really investigate a whole lot. And
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that still happens today. It doesand I think it's horseshit because let's say,
thirteen year old timmy next door ranaway from home because he got in
a fight with his parents or whatever, because they grounded him, because they're
good parents. The fact that heran away doesn't mean that you don't need
to go find him, you freakingcops. It doesn't mean that anything.
I'm sorry. That's just a beiveof mine, and it irritates me to
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no end. If my kid ismissing, whether they ran away or whatever,
you need to find them because mykid is missing. And as a
kid I live, I get it. I understand. I totally understand.
August seventeenth, nineteen seventy one,seventeen year old Reuben Haney, who was
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a friend of Brooks's, was persuadedby Brooks to go to a party at
Coral's place, and he ends upbeing strangled and buried in the boat shed.
Then September nineteen seventy one, Coralends up moving, and shortly after
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he moved, Brooks, who's aboutsixteen about this time, ends helping Coral
abduct two more boys, who wereof course abused and eventually murdered. In
the identities of both of these victimsremain unknown. Then comes along winter of
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nineteen seventy one, Brooks brings anotherfriend of his to corals house under the
assumption that you know, they're goingto party. And Brooks is probably thinking
that this guy is going to beCoral's next victim. But it is Elmer
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Henley, who is about fifteen.But for whatever reason, Coral decided that
this kid could be an accomplice withhim and Brooks, so he offered him
the same deal, two hundred dollarsto bring boys to him. And he
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told Henley that this was because hewas involved in a slavery ring. You
know, Henley was not about it. He's like, no, I can't
do this. But after a fewmonths ended up giving into it because he
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actually needed the money for his family. And this was early nineteen seventy seventy
two when he finally agreed to Coral'sproposition. And here I thought, we
finally found someone with some sense.Well, I mean he almost did.
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He almost did well. In earlynineteen seventy two, Coral moves yet again.
It's about February, I believe whenhe moved, he moved around a
lot. And like I like tosay, oh you move because the rents
do. But I don't know.I don't know. This is around February
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ish, uh, and he movedand Henley said that he's getting involved about
this time. So Coral and Henleyare out. Uh. Caral had a
van that he drove a lot,and I think that was to entice the
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children and have children and have plentyof room for two or more people because
he had a car. But Ithink it was a muscle type car,
you know, that probably didn't holda lot of kids, and maybe weapon
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read that he was using. Henleygets involved now and Henley and Coral lure
a couple of us back to Coral'shome so they could party, you know,
smoke a little weed, drink whatever, and they did. So.
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He actually made up a what hecalled a handcuff trick, right, and
he puts Henley put the handcuffs onand was able to take them off because
he actually had a hidden key onhim and convinced one of the other kids
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to put them on who didn't havea key. Henley convinces one of the
other kids to put the handcuffs on. He doesn't have keys, so he's
not going to be able to getout right. So Coral sees this opportunity
and ends up putting a gag inhis mouth and he told Henley again,
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well that's because he's being sold intoa sexual slavery ring. And you know
you're done, so go on.Henley's like, okay, see ya.
After he left, Coral ended upabusing him and strangling him and killing him.
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And there you go. His remains, as far as I can tell,
the remains of this this kid isunknown. Now we're gonna come to
March twenty fourth, nineteen seventy two, eighteen year old Frank Agera was leaving
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a restaurant where he worked when whatI'm gonna call the Three Amigos, Brooks,
Henley, and Coral ends up showingup in the van and convinced him
to go back to a party atthe apartment that he was living at that
Coral was living at. And thekids like, you know what, okay,
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I'll follow you there because I havemy own car. So Frank ends
up following Henley and Brooks and Coral, and it turns out Frank was actually
Henley's friend. So they go backto the apartment. They do a little
smoking, a little partying, andthen all of a sudden, Coral jumps
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up and just pounces on Frank andhandcuffs him, gets his hands, handcuffs
him behind his back, gags him, and then said, dude, I
don't want to do this, butguess what gonna happen. So Henley,
who had already helped in assisting somethinglike this, said the same thing that
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this had happened before four and I'mout of here. So he leaves,
and then Frank was eventually killed,and then Coral and Brooks ended up helping,
you know, bury him at HighIsland Beach, which is about,
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I don't know, an hour anda quarter from Houston Heights on April twentieth,
nineteen seventy two. About a monthlater, all three of them all
together again. They ended up grabbingseventeen year old Mark Scott, who knew
Brooks and Henley both, and hefought back and was trying to stab him
with a knife, and they gota gun and pointed at him and said
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you know what, Nope, we'regonna win. You don't bring a knife
to a gunfight. They get himback to Coral's place, He's put on
the torture board, just like Frankwas raped, tortured, strangled, also
buried at High Island Beach. Andthen around June twenty sixth, nineteen seventy
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two, two more young men,Billy Balk and Johnny Delom were abducted and
ended up having the same fate asthe two before them, and were buried
at High Island Beach around this time. Around June, Coral moves again,
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but this time he ends up movinginto an house, not an apartment.
He's like, let me try mynew house out. So he ends up
Lauren's nineteen year old William rid Dingerto his house and he put him on
the torture board. He abused him. Brooks for whatever reason, somehow or
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another talked Coral in to letting himgo. So Coral was seriously thinking about
letting this guy go, and thenHenley was like, what the hell I
know? He ran up and knockedBrooks out and then put him on the
bed and tied him down. Then, of course Coral assaulted him several times
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and then released him. And forwhatever reason, Brooks and I know it's
because he was groomed from a veryyoung age, continued to assist Coral in
whatever he needed. So we're gonnapause here because it's really something else and
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we're only about halfway through and wehave a lot more to go. Ah
two parter, or you're gonna makeme wait a whole week to hear what
happens next. Well, I'm gonnamake you wait. But if you're a
Patreon member, you don't have towait. You get both of them.
(43:06):
Yeah, part two is waiting foryou right now. You guys, go
listen to it. Yes, butif you're not a Patreon member you like
me, you gotta wait a week. We'll be back and until then,
okay, bye bye,
Welcome to Crime on My Coffee.This podcast contains graphic descriptions and adult content
mature audiences only. Please Hi,y'all, and welcome to Crime with My
(00:31):
Coffee. I'm your fabulous hostess withthe most June, and I'm Suzanne.
We're gonna tell you some stories you'veheard, some you haven't, and some
you'll wish you hadn't, all witha Texas twang. Welcome back, guys,
Welcome back. We're glad you couldjoin us, as always, glad
(00:51):
you're here. Yay. So whatyou got in here? Meck this week?
Well, in my I have thefamous Puerto Rican coffee that one of
my husband's friends went to Puerto Ricoasked if there was anything that he could
(01:12):
bring back, and my husband say, like coffee, because that's what I
do. And so he brought backsome coffee and it's called Cafe Manchoo.
Nailed it. That's what I'm goingto say. And I can't tell you
what it says on the back aboutwhatever it says on the back, because
(01:37):
it's in Spanish and I only doTexan, Bad Texan apparently or very hicic
Texan, one of the two.However, it's fine, so I can
understand you. But it's a goodcoffee. It's good. It's smooth,
it's a robust, I guess wouldbe a word for it, and I
(02:00):
like it. The aroma is amazing. And I have that in French vanilla
creamer because that's what I like andit's good. I am all set with
it. So what do you havein your mug? I have hot chocolate.
Ooh, hot chocolate. Yummy.Yeah, I wanted some hot chocolate.
(02:20):
And I put some of the garriedllichocolate sauce in ith too. Just
my hot chocolate, extra hot chocolate, chocolate, hot chocolate chocolate. Pretty
good, pretty good, yummy.I just I felt like hot chocolate today.
I didn't feel I needed the extracaffeine. Hmm okay, all right,
(02:42):
well we'll go with that. Soundsgood. I like hot chocolate.
I like to put hot chocolate inmy coffee sometimes when it gets really cold
and it stays really cold all thetime. That's that's what that one week
that that happens in Texas every year, that one that one time, Yes,
that's what I like. Gotcha.Well, to everyone's surprise, I
(03:06):
actually am going to be doing acase today. Surprise, surpress what I
know. It's almost like I needto go back to second shift because I
just don't find I have time foranything on h Yeah, you might.
You might need to change shifts.You might need to go back to working
nights and being a vampire. Iknow something, something I'm not real sure.
(03:28):
Well, we're going to start ourlittle adventure in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Now, this is on the northwestern part of Indiana. It's about
eighteen miles west of the Ohio borderand about fifty miles south of the Michigan
(03:49):
border. Okay. Now it isthe second most populous city in Indiana and
seventy sixth in the US. Wow. Yeah, but apparently, I mean
it's a cool place because it wasactually an All American City Awarded recipient for
(04:13):
four different years. One was innineteen eighty three, one in nineteen ninety
eight, two thousand and nine,and twenty twenty one. Oh wow yeah,
so m I now must be areally cool place. Now in twenty
ten they did get a cultural districtwhich has a bunch of artsy stuff and
(04:40):
you know, stuff I don't knowanything about. And the Fort Wayne Children's
Zoo has been landed as one ofthe nation's foremost zoos. Oh nice,
Yeah, yeah, I thought thatwas pretty cool. I only know about
that Tyler Zoo, the Dallas Zoo, Worth Zoo, probably cause you live
(05:04):
in Texas. And I've heard aboutthe San Diego Zoo that's where the penguins
of Madagascar worship too. Oh yeah, I have heard of that one too.
I can tell you that in FortWayne they have eighty six public parks.
That's a big number. It absolutelyI'm thinking that many public parks in
(05:29):
one town. I don't know,but whatever, I mean city, not
town, but whatever either way.So let's get to the population. In
eighteen sixty, the population was seventhousand people. That's not very many.
That's smaller than my town, andmy town's pretty small. Well. It
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grows in nineteen seventy, which isjust a little over one hundred years later,
population is one hundred and seventy eightthousand, two hundred and sixty nine.
Only snikees yes, And in twentytwenty the population is two hundred and
sixty three thousand, eight hundred andeighty six. Oh my gosh. Yeah,
(06:15):
just gets bigger and bigger. Acouple of notable people that I do
want to mention that was from FortWayne is Margaret Ringenberg. She was an
aviator, She flew a She wasa fairy pilot in World War Two for
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the WASP, which is the Women'sAir Force Service pilots, and in her
career she logged more than forty thousandhours. Oh snap. Have I even
been alive for forty thousand hours?I don't know. I'm not sure if
(06:58):
I have. That's a lot.That's a lot. Okay. So I
just did a Google thing. Huh. I didn't put in my actual birthday.
I just put in the month inthe year instead of the day,
and it says that I have beenalive if I were born on that day,
which close enough for three hundred andfifty nine thousand hours. Oh wow.
(07:23):
So okay, at least I've beenalive forty thousand hours. Yes,
I just can't imagine flying that much. That's a lot, a lot.
So also from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Bill Blast, fashion designer, got
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a lot of fashion awards. Idon't think I have anything Bill Blast,
but you know, I don't haveany fashions so well, I mean I
don't either. You come by it, honestly, it's fine. I'm not
very good at being a girl.Yeah yeah. Joined the club. Join
(08:05):
the club. Yeah yeah. Iwas indoctrinated from birth faith. And the
last person that I want to mentionfrom Fort Wayne, Indiana is Jalen Smith,
who is a linebacker for the NFL, and I now blah blah blah.
From twenty sixteen to present time playsfor the Dallas Cowboys. Oh fancy.
(08:33):
I know it's your favorite team.It is, and it has been
for a very long time. ButI mean, think about it. They're
actually America's team. That's what they'renamed. They're the America's team. Everybody
knows about the Dallas Cowboys. Whetherthey like film or not, totally different,
(08:56):
but everybody knows everybody, well mostpeople anyway. I don't moving on,
Moving on. Okay, So onDecember twenty fourth, which is actually
a good day to have a birthdayif you're raised right. I like how
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you added that. It makes methink that the person we're going to talk
about was who was born on thisday was not raised right. Probably not,
but we're here so obviously not.Well. I mean that is true,
that is true. But on Decembertwenty fourth, in nineteen thirty nine,
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little boy named Dean Arnold Coral wasborn. His mom very protective,
you know, the protective mom overher kids. As she ended up having
you, the total opposite of you, who just kicked us out of the
door and said go do whatever andthe wall home later out of my house.
(10:01):
You're fine, You'll be able tomake it. Father was kind of
strict, but I understand because hewas drafted by the US Air Force,
so he was drafted or he enlisted, he actually was drafted. Okay,
Yeah, So anyway, mom anddad are together. They kind of fight
(10:24):
a lot and ended up getting divorcedin nineteen forty six. But because she
was a concerned mother and the kidswanted to be close to their dad,
and their dad really kind of stillwanted to be close to the kids,
she moved into a trailer not farfrom where he lived so they could still
(10:50):
see each other. Nice. Sonot a bitter baby mama right right now.
Dean was about seven years old whenthis happened, but he ended up
getting sick and he ended up havingan undiagnosed case of rheumatic fever, which
usually develops about two or three weeksafter having a strep throat infection, and
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it does occur usually between the agesof five and fourteen. So after he
gets this strep throat, like Isaid, he ends up getting rheumatic fever.
But it went undiagnosed for a longtime, and some of the effects
in involvement that it has includes theheart, the joints, skin, brain,
(11:43):
and they get a rash. Well, they didn't find out that Dean
actually had this until he was abouteleven years old and he had gone into
the doctor for something and the doctor'sfound a heart murmur. So his doctor
said, you know what, becauseof this, the heart murmur and everything,
(12:07):
you can no longer do pe.And I know most kids would be
like Wollo, who no more Pe? I know, yeah, I know,
I know. Well I wasn't likethat, No MENI This was in
nineteen fifty and like I said,he was about eleven years old at this
time, and I guess because Momwas living close to Dad, they still
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had a lot of probably interaction together. They decided that they were going to
reconcile. So they did. Theygot remarried and moved to Pasadena, Texas.
Okay, so number one, ifI'm going to divorce you, I
am not going to remarry you.Ever, I'm sorry. I understand there
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are people that do, and theymake it the second or third or fourth
time that they remarry ex husband orwife. But if I and you and
we split, there's a reason forit, it doesn't matter. There's a
reason, period, end of story, game over. That's what I say,
as well, that's what I say. If I Divorceia, there's a
(13:18):
reason. And I've never understood peoplelike that. Me neither. But I
know people like that, and I'mpretty sure I do too. Oh,
I'm pretty sure you get pretty sureyou do. And I just don't under
I've never understood it. Like there'sno no, I don't get it.
I don't get it either. Butanyway, so they get remarried, and
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like I said, they move toPasadena, Texas, which is in the
Houston Woodlands Sugarland metropolitan area, andit is the twentieth most populous city in
Texas. Really yeah, yeah,I never would have thought that at me
(14:03):
neither. So the population in nineteenfifty, about the time that they moved
down there, the population's twenty twothousand, four hundred and eighty three.
In nineteen seventy, the population iseighty nine thousand, nine hundred and fifty
seven, but in twenty twenty,the population is one hundred and fifty one
thousand, nine hundred and fifty inthe Pasadena area. If I did not
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mention this, I would probably endup being divorced because my husband would divorce
me. But they had a countryclub down there called Gillies, right.
It was done by Mickey Gilly,who was a musician singer country music way
back in the day. They hada mechanical bull and this was basically the
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largest honky tonk in the world.They ended up filming a movie there in
nineteen and this movie was called UrbanCowboy. If you haven't seen it,
I suggest I mean watching it onceor twice. That's my husband's favoritest movie
ever. But it starred what JohnTravolta Deborah Winger. But unfortunately Gillies did
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burn down in nineteen ninety and nowthe school district down there owns the lot.
So if I didn't mention anything aboutthat, I would be one of
those people who got divorced. Sointerjection note note to self right here,
delete all of that and see ifit happened, right right. I'm kidding,
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I'm kidding, I know I know. Well. The parents still couldn't
get along because they ended up gettingredivorced in nineteen There's the reason they got
divorced in the first place. Iknow, I know well, I mean
it last said three years. Idon't know. Mom's like, you know
what, I'm done with you.She finds a traveling clock salesman, ends
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up marrying him, and they movedto Vider, Texas, which is about
eighty nine miles from Pasadena. They'rehappy, and then in nineteen fifty five
they welcome a little girl, andso Dean ends up with a half sister.
Now he already has a brother byhis mom and dad, but now
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he has a half sister. Momand dad. Mom and his stepdad decide
that they're going to start a smallfamily candy company out of their garage.
Dean and his brother would help outas much as they could. After school,
they ran a lot of the machinesthey packaged the product in the step
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dad sold the candy along his routethat he had for the clock selling that
he had going on, and itactually did very well. But he realized
that most of the candy that hesold was in the Houston area. So
Carl ends up going to high school. He was just an average student,
(17:23):
but his only real interest that hereally had in school was in the band,
and he played trombone. He graduatedin nineteen fifty eight, and then
the family, his mom and stepdadand half sister and little brother, ended
up moving back to the Houston area. This way, they were actually closer
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to the area that bought the mostcandy, so they opened up a new
shop. So in nineteen sixty,Coral's about twenty won. His mom's like,
you know what, we moved blahblah blah, not really working for
us. You should go move inwith your mom in Indiana or your grandma
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in Indiana kind of help her outbecause she needed some help and everything.
And Dean's like, okay, I'lldo that. So he goes moves in
with his grandma and Indiana, staysthere for a couple of years, and
then ends up moving back to theHouston area to help the family out with
the candy business that he had,And this time they actually had a shop,
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not just in their garage, butan actual shop in the Houston Heights
area, which is I don't know, maybe twenty miles from Pasadena. So
it's not that far. Not toomuch of a commute, No, not
at all. Dean, when hemoved back to the Houston area to help
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the family and everything, went andgot a place that was above the shop,
the candy shop that they had.It was like a little apartment above
the shop that he ended up stayingin. I've always thought that would be
really cool. I know, Ialways thought that would be really nice too.
Plus, I mean, you're working. If you're working down in the
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shop, you ain't got to commuteexcept for down the stairs. Mom and
stepdad something happens. They're not gettingalong. So in nineteen sixty three they
ended up getting the divorce. Well, because they've been in this candy business
for a while, she decides she'sgoing to open up a candy store of
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her own, and she's gonna nameit after her kids. She's gonna name
it the Coral Candy Company. Andso she made Dean and his dean like
the vice president or something, andmade the brother that he had the secretary
treasurer. Right. She kind ofdid this because she was in competition.
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She felt maybe, I guess alittle bit with the stepdad, because you
know, they had done this,made this candy company. In August of
nineteen sixty four, Coral is draftedto the US Army. He goes to
Louisiana for the basic training, thenhe goes to Georgia for his training after
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that, and then he ended upgoing to Fort Hood, which is probably
about two hundred miles from Pasadena.But he didn't like the military at all.
But he had a good record there. You know, he didn't get
in any fights or anything like that. But he did apply for a hardship
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discharge because he said, well,my family needs me to help run the
business, and so I need tobe there to help them. And that
gave him an honorable discharge. Wow. Yeah, on June eleventh of nineteen
sixty five. So he actually onlyserved ten eleven months in the military.
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He had that much military service andthat was it. That's not much.
No, So he gets out ofthe military and he decides he's going to
go back to Houston Heights area andhelp work in the family business. Like
I said, he had some theyhad competition from the Stepdad's candy shop,
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but Coral decided He's going to workas much as he can and make it
better than Stepdad's and everybody's gonna knowhis candy. So eventually the shop got
moved to another shop that was rightacross the street from an elementary school.
Anyway, he would promote and passout candy, and that was the perfect
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place, right across the from anelementary school. Absolutely, so he in
in front of my house. It'sfine. I mean, as long as
it's good candy, I'll take it. Yes, heck yeah. So Coral
ends up becoming known as the CandyMan or the Pied Piper because he's passing
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out all this candy. Well,in nineteen sixty seven, he's about twenty
eight. At this time, heis out passing out candy and everything,
and he befriends a twelve year oldboy, and over the next few years,
you know, he's around this boyl a whole lot. This little
boy's name is David Brooks. Hewas born February twelfth, nineteen fifty five.
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So he's twelve and Coral is abouttwenty eight. And I'm just assuming
that he probably met him passing outcandy at the elementary school or whatever.
But he's around this boy, andI what I want to say is he's
kind of grooming this boy, rightI'll be your best friend. We can
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be best buds, we can dothings together in a creeperson. Yes.
Yes. Well, about a yearlater, Mom decides that she's gonna get
married again, and that didn't lastlong, but she ends up moving out
of state and closed down the candystore. Oh, time to get a
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new job. I know, Iknow now, Coral talked to his mom
quite often, even though she wasout of state. They talk quite often,
and he did find another job.He went to work as an electrician
at the Houston Lighting and Power Company. He was testing relay systems or something,
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but it was a it was ajob. It was a good job.
It made him money so he couldafford whatever he needed. You know,
apartments for groceries. Who knows waterits water? Yeah? All that.
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Well. In nineteen seventy, Brooksis about fifteen and he decided that
he was going to drop out ofschool, so he did, but his
mom moved because her and Brooks' fatherended up getting divorced. So mom and
Brooks end up moving to Beaumont,which is about eighty five miles east of
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Houston, but his dad remained therein the Houston area, so Brooks would
go back and forth and visit withDad and everything like that. But when
he came, he didn't really staywith Dad a whole lot. He went
and stayed with Coral most of thetime time. And that's only because he
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was probably a lot more fun.He didn't put restrictions you have to be
in the house at a certain timeor anything like that. He was more
of a buddy, say yeah,yeah, but I mean that's what happened.
Red flag. Definitely some red flagsgoing on here. Hold on,
let's pull let's let's let's do something. You'll understand. There's a flag on
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the play. There you go,there you go. Just right before Brooks
moved off, Coral kind of wastrying to talk him into a sexual relationship.
You know. He's like, youknow what, Look, I mean,
I got cash. I'll buy youwhatever you want, but you have
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to give me a blowjob. Okay, this is way more than just a
flag on the play, y'all.Oh yeah, yeah, definitely is.
Brooks was like, I mean,I do want all this stuff, and
you know, but I don't know. Well. Then on September twenty fifth
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of nineteen seventy, eighteen year oldJeffrey Conan vanished while he was hitch hocking
with someone else from Utah. Hewas going to his parents' house and they
dropped him off around six point fifteennear uptown Houston. Nineteen seventy was a
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big turning point because Brooks walked inwith Coral and a couple of teenage boys
at one time who were tied upto the bed, and Coral and these
two teenage boys were having fun,and Brooks is like, what the fuck?
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And He's like, well, youknow what, if you don't say
anything about what I you know,me and these boys were doing, I'm
gonna buy you a car. Brooksis like, oh, I mean I'm
fifteen, sixteen years old, ofcourse I want a car, so I
don't Yeah, And also he's beenusing a lot of air quotes in these
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past couple of sentences. Yeah.Well, Brooks was like, okay,
I'll take a car. So Coralended up buying him a nineteen sixty nine
Chevy Corvette. Coral also told Brooksthat he would pay him money for any
boy that he was friends with ormaybe not friends with, if he could
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lure them back to his apartment.He would pay him two hundred dollars per
boy. Okay, this ref isrunning out of flags to throw on the
field for this place. I know, I know, So two hundred dollars
back here in nineteen seventy, technicallyin today's money is about fifteen hundred dollars.
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It's a lot of money. Brooksis like, well, you know
what I mean, why not?Why not? There's lots of reasons why
yeah, well, I mean,Carl, I know, there's lots of
reasons why not. But Coral hadtold him that these boys were for a
different purpose. They were being soldkind of on the black market or whatever,
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you know, and no harm wascoming to them. Everything was fine,
everything was well and good. AndBrook's like, well, okay,
but you're giving me two hundred dollars, I guess I can help you out.
So on December thirteenth, nineteen seventy, Brooks lured to fourteen year old
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boys. One's name was James Glassand the other one is Danny Yates,
two corals apartartment. Now, Jamesknew Brooks because they had previously been there
before, just briefly, you know, so he didn't see any problem with
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it, and you know, hehad his friends with him, and he's
like, yep, Okay, youknow, let's go. So they go,
and unfortunately, these two boys wereput on what turned out to be
referred to as a torture by boardthat Coral had. It was just a
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big piece of kind of like plywoodor something, and they were tied to
this and unfortunately they were raped,strangled, and then Coral talked Brooks into
helping him bury these two at aboat shed that he had ran just the
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previous month. Okay, that's done, because now your name's tied to it.
But okay, carry on. Yeahyeah, well, I mean,
first off, he's done anyway,but yes, yes, then on January
we're not even trying to be smartabout it, no, no, but
I mean he gets away with itfor a while. On January thirtieth,
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nineteen seventy one, brothers Donald andJerry Waldrop was walking home from a friend's
house and Coral kind of enticed themto come into their van, come into
his van, and Brooks was therewith him. So they were like,
yeah, okay, I mean youalready got a teenager with you, and
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we're teenagers, so yeah, yeahwe will. We'll come back, you
know and party at your place,like you're saying we're going to do.
So they did, and unfortunately,after they got back to the apartment where
Coral was living, they were rapedand strangled and buried in the boat shed.
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A couple of months later, onMarch ninth, nineteen seventy one,
fifteen year old Randall Harvey was ridinghis bicycle for his part time job.
I think he was delivering newspapers orsomething. Ends up going missing. Well
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we know where he went missing tobecause Coral enticed him into coming back to
his apartment and partying in all thisand subsequently ended up being shot in the
head and killed. Don't I believehe was buried in the boat shed as
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well. Then on May twenty ninth, nineteen seventy one, thirteen year old
David hillikissed and sixteen year old GregoryMallory Winkle were abducted and eventually killed.
So we got people missing. Youknow, parents are like, uh,
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what happened to my kid? Butthey just you know, most kids that
ended up missing back in the seventies, a lot of the police departments just
figured they were runaway, so theydidn't really investigate a whole lot. And
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that still happens today. It doesand I think it's horseshit because let's say,
thirteen year old timmy next door ranaway from home because he got in
a fight with his parents or whatever, because they grounded him, because they're
good parents. The fact that heran away doesn't mean that you don't need
to go find him, you freakingcops. It doesn't mean that anything.
I'm sorry. That's just a beiveof mine, and it irritates me to
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no end. If my kid ismissing, whether they ran away or whatever,
you need to find them because mykid is missing. And as a
kid I live, I get it. I understand. I totally understand.
August seventeenth, nineteen seventy one,seventeen year old Reuben Haney, who was
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a friend of Brooks's, was persuadedby Brooks to go to a party at
Coral's place, and he ends upbeing strangled and buried in the boat shed.
Then September nineteen seventy one, Coralends up moving, and shortly after
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he moved, Brooks, who's aboutsixteen about this time, ends helping Coral
abduct two more boys, who wereof course abused and eventually murdered. In
the identities of both of these victimsremain unknown. Then comes along winter of
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nineteen seventy one, Brooks brings anotherfriend of his to corals house under the
assumption that you know, they're goingto party. And Brooks is probably thinking
that this guy is going to beCoral's next victim. But it is Elmer
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Henley, who is about fifteen.But for whatever reason, Coral decided that
this kid could be an accomplice withhim and Brooks, so he offered him
the same deal, two hundred dollarsto bring boys to him. And he
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told Henley that this was because hewas involved in a slavery ring. You
know, Henley was not about it. He's like, no, I can't
do this. But after a fewmonths ended up giving into it because he
(35:29):
actually needed the money for his family. And this was early nineteen seventy seventy
two when he finally agreed to Coral'sproposition. And here I thought, we
finally found someone with some sense.Well, I mean he almost did.
(35:49):
He almost did well. In earlynineteen seventy two, Coral moves yet again.
It's about February, I believe whenhe moved, he moved around a
lot. And like I like tosay, oh you move because the rents
do. But I don't know.I don't know. This is around February
(36:10):
ish, uh, and he movedand Henley said that he's getting involved about
this time. So Coral and Henleyare out. Uh. Caral had a
van that he drove a lot,and I think that was to entice the
(36:34):
children and have children and have plentyof room for two or more people because
he had a car. But Ithink it was a muscle type car,
you know, that probably didn't holda lot of kids, and maybe weapon
(36:55):
read that he was using. Henleygets involved now and Henley and Coral lure
a couple of us back to Coral'shome so they could party, you know,
smoke a little weed, drink whatever, and they did. So.
(37:17):
He actually made up a what hecalled a handcuff trick, right, and
he puts Henley put the handcuffs onand was able to take them off because
he actually had a hidden key onhim and convinced one of the other kids
(37:39):
to put them on who didn't havea key. Henley convinces one of the
other kids to put the handcuffs on. He doesn't have keys, so he's
not going to be able to getout right. So Coral sees this opportunity
and ends up putting a gag inhis mouth and he told Henley again,
(38:01):
well that's because he's being sold intoa sexual slavery ring. And you know
you're done, so go on.Henley's like, okay, see ya.
After he left, Coral ended upabusing him and strangling him and killing him.
(38:24):
And there you go. His remains, as far as I can tell,
the remains of this this kid isunknown. Now we're gonna come to
March twenty fourth, nineteen seventy two, eighteen year old Frank Agera was leaving
(38:44):
a restaurant where he worked when whatI'm gonna call the Three Amigos, Brooks,
Henley, and Coral ends up showingup in the van and convinced him
to go back to a party atthe apartment that he was living at that
Coral was living at. And thekids like, you know what, okay,
(39:08):
I'll follow you there because I havemy own car. So Frank ends
up following Henley and Brooks and Coral, and it turns out Frank was actually
Henley's friend. So they go backto the apartment. They do a little
smoking, a little partying, andthen all of a sudden, Coral jumps
(39:34):
up and just pounces on Frank andhandcuffs him, gets his hands, handcuffs
him behind his back, gags him, and then said, dude, I
don't want to do this, butguess what gonna happen. So Henley,
who had already helped in assisting somethinglike this, said the same thing that
(39:59):
this had happened before four and I'mout of here. So he leaves,
and then Frank was eventually killed,and then Coral and Brooks ended up helping,
you know, bury him at HighIsland Beach, which is about,
(40:19):
I don't know, an hour anda quarter from Houston Heights on April twentieth,
nineteen seventy two. About a monthlater, all three of them all
together again. They ended up grabbingseventeen year old Mark Scott, who knew
Brooks and Henley both, and hefought back and was trying to stab him
with a knife, and they gota gun and pointed at him and said
(40:45):
you know what, Nope, we'regonna win. You don't bring a knife
to a gunfight. They get himback to Coral's place, He's put on
the torture board, just like Frankwas raped, tortured, strangled, also
buried at High Island Beach. Andthen around June twenty sixth, nineteen seventy
(41:07):
two, two more young men,Billy Balk and Johnny Delom were abducted and
ended up having the same fate asthe two before them, and were buried
at High Island Beach around this time. Around June, Coral moves again,
(41:32):
but this time he ends up movinginto an house, not an apartment.
He's like, let me try mynew house out. So he ends up
Lauren's nineteen year old William rid Dingerto his house and he put him on
the torture board. He abused him. Brooks for whatever reason, somehow or
(41:57):
another talked Coral in to letting himgo. So Coral was seriously thinking about
letting this guy go, and thenHenley was like, what the hell I
know? He ran up and knockedBrooks out and then put him on the
bed and tied him down. Then, of course Coral assaulted him several times
(42:22):
and then released him. And forwhatever reason, Brooks and I know it's
because he was groomed from a veryyoung age, continued to assist Coral in
whatever he needed. So we're gonnapause here because it's really something else and
(42:45):
we're only about halfway through and wehave a lot more to go. Ah
two parter, or you're gonna makeme wait a whole week to hear what
happens next. Well, I'm gonnamake you wait. But if you're a
Patreon member, you don't have towait. You get both of them.
(43:06):
Yeah, part two is waiting foryou right now. You guys, go
listen to it. Yes, butif you're not a Patreon member you like
me, you gotta wait a week. We'll be back and until then,
okay, bye bye,
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