Born
2 Jul 1954, Texas

Death
1 Nov 1972, Houston, Harris County, Texas

Tragically, Willard Branch 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 November 1, 1972, 18-year-old Willard Branch Jr., the son of an HPD officer who subsequently died of a heart attack in the search for his son was emasculated before he was shot in the head and buried in the boat shed. Remains identified July 1985.