Larry Dean Dickens was 26 when he was shot to death on August 24, 1978, in Pasadena, Texas. An ex-Marine and youth counselor, Dickens was visiting his mother and sister when Edward Harold Bell pulled up in a pickup and exposed himself to children nearby. Dickens went outside after his mother called the police; Bell, reportedly nude from the waist down, produced a gun and shot Dickens multiple times, including once in the head. Despite severe injuries, Dickens tried to stop Bell from fleeing.

Bell, then 39, was arrested soon after but posted bail and remained at large for 14 years. He was captured in Panama in 1993, extradited to the United States, convicted of Dickens’s murder, and sentenced to 70 years in prison. Bell had a prior history of sexual offenses and indecent exposure, and later made confessions to other killings that were not conclusively verified.

Does anyone have additional information about Dickens’s life in Pasadena or memories of that 1978 incident?