AUSTIN, Texas — It happened in a ranch-style home on a quiet street in Pasadena in the early 1970s. The man who lived there, Dean Corll, murdered dozens of teenage boys who had been lured to his house with the promise of beer and marijuana. He was dubbed “The Candyman” because he once owned a candy store.

Corll’s two accomplices – Elmer Wayne Henley and David Owen Brooks – would get paid for finding the young victims and bringing them to Corll where they would be sexually assaulted, tortured and killed.

Eventually, Henley turned on Corll, killed him during an argument then confessed to police about the murders.

In the summer of 1973, Henley led police to the bodies of his victims whom Corll buried on the beach between Galveston and Port Arthur, to a boat shed in Pasadena and to the Ange

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