Henley told police that he'd infuriated Corll by bringing his girlfriend and another friend, Tim Kerley, to the house. Timothy O'Bryan was poisoned with cyanide in his candy and his own father, Ronald, was the killerIt should have been one of the most exciting nights in little Timothy O'Bryan's life. Altogether, 27 bodies were recovered. Ourexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights.
His girlfriend and Tim also were bound, with electrical tape over their mouths. The eight-year-old, along with his little sister, Elizabeth, five, his dad, a neighbour, Jim Bates, and his two children, couldn't wait to go trick or treating on Timothy's night, on October 31, 1974, had started out with dinner at the Bates' house before the two fathers agreed to take their little ones out to collect candy.Ronald was an upstanding member of his local community in Deer Park, Texas.He worked as an optician in town and was the deacon of the local baptist church, where he also sang in the choir.But what the Deer Park community didn't know is that Ronald was also a man in serious debt.He owed almost £78,000 and struggled to hold down one job for long.Ronald came up with a terrifying plan to clear his mounting debts - and thought Halloween was the perfect time to carry it out.Jim agreed to wait outside each of the homes while O'Bryan would walk up to the front doors of the homes with the children.But at one house, no one was home, and the little ones, excited to get as much candy as possible raced off to the next door neighbour.Just a few seconds later, O'Bryan joined Jim on the pavement, clutching five straws filled with powdered sweets.He told his neighbour the couple had been in but hadn't reached the door in time and instead had given him the candy for the children.The trick or treating had to be cut short when it started to rain and the families headed home.As little Timothy was climbing into bed, he begged his dad for some of his Halloween sweets and O'Bryan handed him the Pixie Sticks he had collected from the house while he was alone.Chillingly, he even helped his little boy open the sealed pakcet,After eating the sweets, which Timothy said tasted "bitter", he immediately crumpled over in agony.Racing to the bathroom, little Timothy started being sick and convulsing, all the time being held by his father.Less than an hour later, as he was in an ambulance on the way to hospital, Timothy passed away.When police carried out a post-mortem on Timothy's body, officers discovered he had been poisoned with potassium cyanide.Initially, O'Bryan stuck by his story that he had been handed the sweets by the people living at the empty house.The sweet stick he had eaten contained enough cyanide to kill two adults.Police rushed to stop the other children who had been out with the youngster from eating the poisoned candy.One of the youngsters had fallen asleep, clutching his Pixie Sticks, which thankfully he had been unable to open.None of the other children had eaten any of the deadly candy, including O'Bryan's five -year-old daughter.The father told police he couldn't remember which house he thought the poisoned sweets had come from but then, after he was forced to a walkabout, recognised the home.But he insisted he had only seen a man's arm and that no lights had been turned on.However, the homeowner, Courtney Melvin, was an air traffic controller and had been at work until 11pm that night so there was no way he could have handed over the poisoned sweets.Not only that but the father had taken out a $10,000 insurance policy on each of his children's lives in January, 1974.This was increased by $20,000 just a month before Timothy's death.Then, just days before his son's murder, O'Bryan further increased the premium by $20,000 on each child.The morning after his son had died, O'Bryan called his insurance company about collecting the policies on his son.He was charged with one count of murder and four counts of attempted murder - and pleaded not guilty to all five charges.O'Bryan claimed, instead, that his young son had been killed by a 'mad-poisoner', a local urban legend of a figure who hands out poisoned candy.It took the jury just 46 minutes to find him guilty and then just over an hour to sentence him to death.Former Harris County Assistant District Attorney, Mike Hinton, who prosecuted the case, said the whole community was on shock.He added: "We were all shocked that someone would kill their own son, their own flesh and blood, for a lousy $40,000 life insurance policy. 4 Other Links. 4.1 Kelly Cochran Serial Killer – The Female Psychopath. Corll was born on Christmas Eve in 1939 in Fort Wayne, Ind. All had been sodomized. When Henley awoke, his feet were bound and Corll was handcuffing him to his "torture" board. Signs of torture were visible, including castration, objects inserted into victims' rectums, and glass rods pushed into their urethras. At the first location, a boat shed Corll rented in southwest Houston, police uncovered the remains of 17 boys. The police viewed most reports as probable runaways, although many came from the same area. However, we as human beings do make mistakes and errors. Corll seemed to adjust to the change, doing well in school and described by his teachers as polite and well-behaved. Two families lost two sons to Corll's rage. "The Candy Man Murders," as the case was called, was one of the most horrific series of … By using ThoughtCo, you accept ourProfile of Serial Killer William Bonin, The Freeway Killer Two were particularly close to Corll: Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks. During police interrogation, Henley said Corll paid him $200 or more "per head" to lure young boys to his house. They hung around Corll's house or rode in his van until Aug. 8, 1973, when Henley shot and killed Corll at his home.

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