The Candy Man of Houston: the Dean Corll Story
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (585 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1508632057 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 130 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Also a hardcore true crime buff, he is currently at work on another true crime book The Scorecard Killer, a screenplay about serial killer Randy Kraft. Salinger, and rebel writers like the late Hunter S. Needless to say, he didn’t make it to Woodstock, but he made up for it later by forming his first band, Yellow Moon, at the tender age of twelve years old, with his mother, Karina, and his father, Jackson, on backing vocals and guitar. About the Author Brian Lee Tucker is a former bartender, house painter, and a “late-blooming hippie,” whose mother gave birth to him on the way to the Woodstock music festival on August 15th, 1969.
Influenced by the mellow, smooth sounds of bands like the Mamas and the Papas, the Byrds, and singers like Bob Dylan and Gordon Lightfoot, he created a signature sound all his own, a folk-ish, soft rock style that made him a home town institution around San Fransisco in the early eighties. Brian Lee Tucker is a former bartender, house painter, and a “late-blooming hippie,” whose mother gave birth to him on the way to the
Not written as a book, but in a "screenplay" form Michael Cain Stewart Returned this within 10 minutes of buying. THIS IS NOT A BOOK, but a screenplay. I have read a couple of books on Dean Corll and was very excited to read this too. Unfortunately, this is written as a play with stage or screen directions. No disrespect to the author, but I was lead to believe that this was a novel and not a play/screenplay. I reread the Amazon description before I returned the item to make sure I hadn't made a mistake. I hadn't. If you are interested in the Dean Corll story as I am, this may be something that interests you. I was just not interested in reading this in a screenplay format. Too bad.. Five Stars sick but a good crime
Little did they know that ‘the Candy man of Houston’ was in fact a sadistic, cruel, remorseless rapist and murderer. In the aftermath, two young men, Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks, Corll’s two main accomplices in the heinous crimes, confessed that they had been forced to participate against their will, and Corll himself – by now having been shot dead by Henley – was the lone culprit in the torturous murders. Corll was famous for giving away candy to the kids. But was he? Author Brian Lee Tucker – having culled information from documented interviews, taped confessions, newspaper coverage, magazine articles, court transcripts, provides an in depth, behind the scenes look into who the real culprits were the crimes, which at the time of their discovery, the Houston Mass Murders were considered the worst example of serial murder in American history.. Between September 25, 1970–August 3, 1973, Corll killed at least 28 young men and boys, and the actual number of victims may have been more than thirty. They were all systematically lured into his trap and then beaten,