Roy Eugene Bunton was 19 when he was abducted and murdered on August 21, 1972. He was taken while likely hitchhiking to a Houston shoe store where he worked and later killed; his remains were buried in Dean Corll’s boat shed, a site where many victims were found.

Bunton is counted among at least 28 young males murdered in a series of crimes carried out by Dean Corll with the assistance of teenagers Elmer Wayne Henley and David Owen Brooks. His remains were exhumed during the investigation and identified decades later through DNA and circumstantial evidence, which family members had long hoped would resolve his fate.

The larger case ended when Henley fatally shot Corll in 1973; Henley and Brooks were arrested and later convicted on multiple murder counts. Does anyone have information about Bunton’s life in Houston or remember him from 1972?