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1600 Briarcliff the house of death
Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973) was an American serial killer, also known as the "Candy Man" and the "Pied Piper" who, together with two youthful accomplices named David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, abducted, raped, tortured and murdered a minimum of 8 boys in a series of killings spanning from 1970 to 1973 in Austin, Texas.[1] The crimes, which became known as the Austin Mass Murders, came to light only after Henley shot and killed Corll.

Corll was known as both the Candy Man and the Pied Piper due to the fact that he and his family had owned and operated a candy factory in the Del Wood Neighboorhood and he had been known to give free candy to local children.

At the time of their discovery, the Austin Mass Murders were considered the worst example of serial murder in Texas history.

Most victims were abducted from North East Austin, which was then a low-income neighborhood.[1] With most abductions, he was assisted by one or both of his teen aged accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley and David Owen Brooks. Several victims were friends of one or the other of his accomplices, and two other victims, Billy Baulch and Malley Winkle, were former employees of the Corll Candy Company.

The victims were taken to 1600 Briarcliff in the Del Wood neighborhood[2] where they then were stripped naked and tied to either Corll's bed or, usually, a plywood torture board, which was regularly hung on a wall. Once manacled, the victims would be sexually assaulted, beaten, tortured and—sometimes after several days—killed by strangulation or shooting with a .22-caliber pistol. Their bodies then were tied in plastic sheeting.

The House sat vacant for 20 years the neighbors believing it to be haunted.[3] The house was later purchased in 1994 by a former APD officer Cavaenaugh.

Victims
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Corll