Richard Alan Kepner was 19 when he disappeared from Houston, Texas, in mid-November 1972. His remains were recovered buried at High Island Beach and were positively identified in September 1983.

Investigators later linked Kepner’s murder to Dean Corll, known as The Candy Man, and to Corll’s teenage accomplices David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley. Corll and his accomplices abducted, tortured, and killed multiple teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973; Henley fatally shot Corll in August 1973, and Henley and Brooks later admitted involvement in the abductions and murders.

Kepner’s death is one of the victims that revealed the full scope of those crimes. If anyone knew Richard, saw him in Houston in November 1972, or has information about his disappearance, please share what is known.