Incensed over her offensive and blatant disbelief of him, the Candyman introduced himself before killing her. Annie fled. She admitted that Coleman tried to link the family name to the Candyman, but she denied that he existed. Octavia who was Annie's guilt ridden mother drowned her worries in alcohol. At the police station, the Candyman slayed Detective Ray Levesque and Ethan was shot dead by a police officer when he tried to escape. The Candyman appeared and he killed him with the bees while Annie escaped. After talking with Ethan, Annie visited Honore Thibideaux who told her that Caroline moved to New Orleans after Daniel's death. The Candyman stalked Annie so he may kill her and destroy himself at midnight on Ash Wednesday. The mirror granted the Candyman his spiritual medium and it imbued his soul with the strength to kill when he was called upon.Īnnie was revealed to be Caroline Sullivan and Daniel Robitaille's descendant. She gave birth to Daniel's daughter named Isabel who was a Creole who was raised by her mother as white. Caroline fled to New Orleans and she hid the mirror in Daniel's birthplace. It was this mirror that held the Candyman's tortured and hateful soul. Caroline seized the mirror and she cradled it. Daniel gasped the words that are called "Candyman" before dying. Caroline's father restrained her and he taunted Daniel over his disfigurement with her mirror. The bees swarmed over Daniel's body by mortally wounding him. A small boy tasted the honey and he proclaimed "Candyman!" The crowd seized the name and they shouted it with gusto. They cutted his right hand off and they coated him in the honey which was from a nearby beehive. Caroline's father and a lynch mob hunted Daniel down. Caroline became pregnant and Daniel was reviled. Chosen by a wealthy landowner to paint a portrait of his daughter named Caroline, the intimacy of the setting caused an affair between Daniel and Caroline. The Candyman was revealed to be Daniel Robitaille who was the son of a slave on the Esplanade Plantation in New Orleans. One of her students named Mathew disappeared and his classmates believed that the Candyman was responsible.
Her husband named Paul McKeever became one of the Candyman's victims. To disprove that the Candyman existed, she invoked his name by summoning him to New Orleans on the eve of Mardi Gras where the killings began in earnest. One of Tarrant's students saw the Candyman. Annie's brother named Ethan was accused of the murder because of the previous confrontations over the subject. The Candyman murdered Purcell in a bathroom after Purcell presented the legend at a book signing. One year after Coleman's murder and three years after the Candyman murders in Chicago, Professor Philip Purcell wrote a book about the murders and Helen Lyle's involvement. Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh was the sequel to Candyman and it was released in 1995.Ĭoleman Tarrant who was the father of a schoolteacher named Annie Tarrant in New Orleans was murdered while he was investigating the deaths of the three men who are murdered like the Candyman's victims.