Joseph Allen Lyles (17)
Born
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama
Death
1 Feb 1973, High Island, Galveston County, Texas
Tragically, Joseph Lyles 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 February 1, 1973, 17-year-old Joseph Allen Lyles, an acquaintance of Corll who lived on the same street as Brooks was “grabbed” by Corll at his Wirt Road address. He was subsequently buried at Jefferson County Beach. His remains located August 1983 and identified November 2009.
