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In 1973 a 17-year-old in Houston shot the man the neighborhood kids called the Candy Man, then called the police himself. Within days they had dug up 27 bodies of teenage boys. For two years Elmer Wayne Henley had been bringing those boys to Dean Corll for $200 apiece. Their parents had been told the boys were probably just runaways.

Eighteen years later he sat in prison and told a TV crew he wasn’t a serial killer.

In the video below is the real recording of Henley calling his mother after the shooting, and his prison interview. Watch his face when the reporter asks if he sees himself as a victim.

Corll was 33, worked at the power company and handed out free candy to neighborhood kids. Henley met him at 15. Corll offered him $200 for every boy he brought over.

Henley said he ignored the offer for months. Then he brought one.

He shot some of the boys himself and helped choke others. By the time he confessed, there were victims he couldn’t remember killing.

“We killed a boy by the name of Billy Lawrence. I don’t remember how we killed him.”

It ended when Corll tied Henley up in a rage. Henley talked his way loose, grabbed Corll’s .22 and shot him six times.

“I was a boy in a madman’s world.”

He got six 99-year sentences and has been denied parole more than 20 times, most recently in November 2025.

Was Elmer Wayne Henley a victim who finally stopped a monster, or a killer who only turned on Dean when his own life was on the line?