Dean Corll, David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley

Corll, known as ‘The Candy Man’, killed at least 28 teenage boys and young men in Houston between 1970 and 1973. Corll was then shot and killed by one of the two teenage accomplices he recruited to assist him in the abductions of the victims on 8 August 1973. This accomplice, Elmer Wayne Henley, informed the police of the trio’s murders the same day Corll was murdered.