Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. was 14 when he was lured to the home of infamous Texas serial killer Dean Corll. His neighbor, David Brooks, targeted troubled boys like him and brought them to meet Corll — a ...
In the early 1970s, dozens of boys began to mysteriously vanish from the Houston area. Some were lured off the streets with candy or drugs. Others were snatched off their bikes. But at the time, the ...
Dean Corll murdered, raped and tortured somewhere in the area of 30 teenage boys in and around Houston before one of his teen accomplices shot him dead in 1973. He remains one of the most prolific and ...
Forty-five years ago this August, Houston’s most notorious serial killer met his end. But through all these years, one of his victims remains unidentified. Dean Corll, known as the Candy Man, was shot ...
For more than half a century, chilling questions have lingered: Were there more victims of Houston's notorious "Candyman," Dean Corll, the serial killer whose crimes predated even the term "serial ...
The quest to understand what makes serial killers tick is a whole industry. But what about someone like Elmer Wayne Henley Jr.? While he's a convicted serial killer, it's impossible to know if he ever ...