Born
15 Aug 1955, Georgia

Death
31 Jan 1971, Houston, Harris County, Texas

Tragically, Donald Waldrop was 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 January 30, 1971, two teenage brothers, 15-yer-old Donald Waldrop and 13-year-old Jerry Waldrop were walking towards their parents home (just six weeks after the double murder of Glass and Yates,) were encountered by Brooks and Corll. The Waldrop brothers had been driven to a friend’s home by their father with plans to discuss forming a bowling league and had begun walking home after learning their friend was not at home. Both boys were enticed into Corll’s van and driven to an apartment Corll had rented on Mangum Road, where they were raped, strangled and subsequently buried in the boat shed.