The Candy Man. Most people’s minds go to the urban legend, but the truth behind this name is much more sinister. Sexual assault, mutliation, torture, murder, a sick and twisted rampage of a man who preyed on the weak. His crimes only ended when his life was taken, by his very own accomplice. This is a story of a trio of predators, whose crimes horrified all of Texas when their web of lies became undone in 1973. This is the story of Dean Corll, the candy man.