Ray Stanley Blackburn (20)
Born
Bogalusa, Washington Parish, Louisiana
Death
15 Jun 1973, Houston, Harris County, Texas
Tragically, Ray Blackburn 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 June 15, 1973, 20-yea-old Raymond Stanley Blackburn, a married man from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who vanished while hitchhiking from the Heights to see his newborn child had arrived in Houston three months before his abduction to work on a construction project. He was strangled by Corll at his Lamar Drive residence and buried at Lake Sam Rayburn.
