Charles Cary Cobble was a 17-year-old white male who was murdered on July 25, 1973, in Houston Heights, Texas. The Harris County Medical Examiner listed cause of death as two gunshot wounds to the head. His body was found in advanced decomposition, wrapped in plastic and secured with heavy hemp cord, in a boat shed used as a burial site for multiple victims.

Cobble was identified as one of the victims of Dean Arnold Corll, known as The Candy Man. Corll, together with teenage accomplices David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, abducted, tortured, and murdered numerous young males between 1970 and 1973 in what became known as the Houston Mass Murders. On the day Cobble died he and a friend, Marty Ray Jones, were last seen walking toward Corll’s apartment in the company of Henley; Cobble’s wife was reportedly pregnant at the time. Cobble made a frantic call to his father earlier claiming he and Jones had been kidnapped by drug dealers.

Corll was killed by Henley, who then led police to the bodies and confessed; Henley and Brooks were later arrested and convicted for their roles in the killings. Did anyone who knew Charles or saw him in Houston Heights in 1973 ever report seeing him with Corll, Henley, or Brooks?