Covering all cases in the Lone Star State. From The Candy Man to Dr. Death to The Eyeball Killer. I intend to inform you of all the Texas true crime I can deliver!
“We’re not in Wonderland anymore, Alice.”
― Charles Manson
Charles Frederick Rogers (born December 30, 1921; disappeared June 23, 1965) was an American seismologist, pilot, and murder suspect who vanished after police discovered the dismembered bodies of his elderly parents inside the refrigerator of their Houston home. The gruesome crime became known in the media as the “Ice Box Murders.” Rogers was never located and was declared legally dead in absentia in July 1975. He remains the sole suspect in the killings, which are still classified as an open case by the Houston Police Department.
Gary Lynn “Pat” Patterson (September 24, 1963) was a 33-year-old man who went missing on May 3, 1997, after traveling from Waco to El Paso for a job interview. Investigators found his body, severely beaten and buried alive, nearly a year later in the desert.
Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973), also known as The Candy Man, was a serial killer who abducted, raped, tortured and murdered at least 27 teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. He was aided by two teenaged accomplices, David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley.
John David Norman (October 13, 1927 – May 22, 2011) was a sex offender who committed numerous offenses related to child molestation and child pornography. Throughout his life, Norman operated various direct mailing services that distributed child pornography and facilitated sex trafficking. He has also been alleged to have connections to serial killers Dean Corll and John Wayne Gacy.