Charles Cary Cobble (17)
Born
Houston Heights, Harris County, Texas
Death
25 Jul 1973, Houston Heights, Harris County, Texas
Tragically, Charles Cobble one of the victims of Houston’s serial killer and sex offender Dean Corll who abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered a minimum of twenty-eight teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. He was aided by two teenaged accomplices. Their crimes became known as the Houston Mass Murders, and he was known as the “The Candy Man.”
On July 25, 1973, 17-year-old Charles Cary Cobble, a school friend of Henley whose wife a was pregnant at the time of his murder last phoned his father in a state of hysteria claiming he and Jones had been kidnapped by drug dealers. His body, shot twice in the head, was found in the boat shed.
