Seventeen-year-old Billy Gene Baulch Jr. was abducted and murdered in Houston, Texas, on May 21, 1972. He and a friend, 16-year-old Johnny Delome, were last seen walking to a local store and then taken by Dean Corll and his teenage accomplices Elmer Wayne Henley and David Owen Brooks. Billy was forced to write a letter to his parents saying he and Johnny had found work in Madisonville.

Henley later confessed that both boys were tied to Corll’s bed, tortured and sexually assaulted; Henley manually strangled Billy while Johnny was shot in the forehead and then strangled. Their bodies were buried at High Island Beach. The murders were uncovered after Henley shot Corll on August 8, 1973; Henley and Brooks led authorities to burial sites and were charged and convicted, each receiving life sentences.

What additional details about Billy’s life or last day might help clarify how he came into contact with Corll and his accomplices?