James Eugene Glass (14)
Born
Houston, Harris County, Texas
Death
13 Dec 1970, Houston, Harris County, Texas
Tragically, James Glass was one of the victims of Houston’s serial murderer, Dean Corll serial killer and sex offender 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 December 13, 1970, two 14-year-old Spring Branch youths named James Glass and Danny Yates were lured away by Brooks from a religious rally held in Houston Heights to Corll’s Yorktown apartment. Glass was an acquaintance of Brooks who, at Brooks’ behest, had previously visited Corll’s address. Both youths were tied to opposite sides of Corll’s torture board and subsequently raped, strangled, and buried in a boat shed he had rented on November 17. An electrical cord with alligator clips attached to each end was buried alongside Yates’s body.
