Dean Corll started killing young boys in 1970 as part of his killing spree. Reportedly, he targeted males aged 13 to 20 as all of his victims. He primarily abducted his victims from a low-income ...

In the early 1970s, young boys began vanishing from the streets of a quiet Houston neighborhood. At the time, many believed police brushed off the disappearances as runaways. But the truth was far ...

Elmer Wayne Henley assisted Dean Corll in killing six of his 28 victims Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in ...

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 ...

PASADENA, Texas (KTRK) -- The house in Pasadena where the infamous "Candy Man" Dean Corll once lived and died was demolished Friday. For almost 50 years, people have recalled the atrocities that once ...

Fifty years ago this month — on Aug. 8, 1973 — a sweating 17-year-old named Elmer Wayne Henley led police to a metal boatshed in Southwest Houston, where he and two other killers had been burying the ...

Elmer Wayne Henry ; Elmer Wayne Henley during an interview at the Michael Unit prison on May 1, 2008 in Tennessee Colony, Texas. Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. could have been one of Dean Corll’s many victims ...

Elmer Wayne Henley Jr., an accomplice to Texas serial killer Dean Corll, is speaking out for the first time in 50 years in a new ID documentary titled 'The Serial Killer's Apprentice,' premiering ...