Elmer Wayne Henley, 69, helped serial killer Dean Corll lure, torture and murder at least 28 teens and young men between 1970-1973.

‘The Evidence Room’ is an award-winning true crime docuseries that brings a fresh perspective to the Houston area’s most notorious crimes and convictions through unprecedented access to the Harris County criminal archives.

In a new episode of the KPRC 2 Investigates true crime docuseries ‘The Evidence Room,’ we learn how a Texas woman finally stopped one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history.

He’s considered Houston’s most notorious serial killer - 28 deaths linked to the so-called “Candy Man.”

On a summer day in 1995, an unknown man called the KPRC 2 newsroom to report there was a killer on the loose. He would share where to find one of the victims, and law enforcement would soon discover the victim was 16-year-old Dana Sanchez. It would be years before anyone knew that the man who made that call was Anthony Allen Shore.

Dean Corll is perhaps the most notorious killer in Houston’s history.It may all seem like history, but the tendrils of his thee-year killing spree extend to present day with one set of unidentified child-size remains, still lacking a name since they were found nearly 50 years ago.

48 years ago, Dean Corll, one of the country’s most prolific serial killers, was shot dead at his home in Pasadena, Texas. Texas EquuSearch announced Sunday it will soon begin searching for the remains of any additional victims.

HOUSTON – A Houston serial killer was sentenced to death by a Harris County jury for his role in the strangulation of four people. “Jurors had the courage to look at all the evidence, give a voice to the victims, and declare that he was the worst of the worst,” Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said. Prosecutors also believed Ward was tied to the deaths of 51-year-old Myra Ical and Carol E. Flood, 62, in 2010. In one crime, prosecutors said he raped an 83-year-old woman in Brazoria County and he was sentenced to more than two decades in prison. In 2018, while Ward was awaiting trial for capital murder, prosecutors said he was charged after being caught with a shank while in the Harris County jail.