Jeffrey Alan Konen (18)
Born
2Houston, Harris County, Texas
Death
25 Sep 1970, Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
Tragically, Jeffrey Kohen 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 September 25, 1970, 18-year-old Jeffrey Konen, a student at the University of Texas was hitchhiking when he was picked up by serial killer Dean Corll and subsequently strangled. Corll buried Jeffery’s body at High Island beach, where it was discovered on August 10, 1973.
