Accomplice who killed Houston ‘Candy Man’ serial killer featured in Netflix’s ‘Mind Hunter’

“In the late 1970s the two FBI agents expand criminal science by delving into the psychology of murder and getting uneasily close to all-too-real monsters,” according to the show’s website.

In the series, Ford and Tench were busy preparing to interview famed killer Charles Manson, as Dr. Wendy Carr and FBI newbie Gregg Smith take on analyzing Elmer Wayne Henley – who became a household name in 1973 for killing Houston serial killer Dean Arnold Corll, known as the “Candy Man”, in Pasadena. Corll, with the help of Henley and David Owen Brooks, tortured, raped and killed nearly 40 young boys between 1970 and 1973.

On the night of Aug. 8, 1973, Corll threatened to kill Henley and two others during a party. Henley, a high school dropout, had spent years luring young boys to their ultimate demise at Corll’s hand.