17 Disturbing Photos With Horrifying Backstories

2. The Unknown Victim

Coril

Dean Coril, infamously known as The Candy Man due to his penchant for handing out sweets to neighborhood children, is one of the most prolific serial killers in America history. Along with his two accomplices David Brooks and Elmer Henley, Coril raped, tortured and murdered a minimum of 28 boys between the years of 1970 - 1973.

Coril was shot dead by Henley who is currently serving a 600-year sentence in prison for his role in the murders, and in 2012 a filmmaker was granted permission to review his personal effects, which had been dumped in an old school bus. Among them he found a Polaroid of a handcuffed young boy, lying on the floor with a terrified look, Coril's toolbox of torture implements in the foreground.

It's a stomach-churning image made even more chilling by the fact that no one knows who the child is, and it means there are more victims of The Candyman that the police were unaware of.

 
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