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From 1970 to 1973, Dean Corll murdered at least 28 boys and young men in the Houston area

He enlisted two teenage accomplices to help find his victims: David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley

Henley shot and killed Corll in August 1973, and was later given six life sentences for his role in the murders

Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. could have been one of Dean Corll ’s many victims. Instead, he became the serial killer’s teenage accomplice.

Dubbed the “Candy Man” by the media, Corll — a seemingly friendly man known for handing out candy to kids in Houston — was responsible for the deaths of at least 28 boys and young men in the early 1970s. Henley — a teenager himself — and neighbor David Owen Brooks helped lure victims to Corll’s Pasadena, Texas, home “under false promises o

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