John Manning Sellars (17)
Born
Orange County, Texas
Death
12 Jul 1973, Texas
Tragically, John Sellars 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 July 12, 1973, 17-year-old John Manning Sellars, an Orange County youth was killed two days before his 18th birthday. Sellars was shot four times in the chest and buried at High Island Beach. He was the only victim to be buried fully clothed.
