The 1973 misidentification of Michael Baulch was discovered as a result of an independent investigation conducted by freelance writers Barbara Gibson and Debera Phinney, who contacted Dr. Derrick with a tip indicating that the second victim unearthed from the boat shed had been misidentified; upon conducting additional DNA testing, Dr. Derrick discovered their suspicions were correct. Corll lived in Indiana for almost two years but returned to Houston in 1962 to help with his family's candy business, which by this date had moved to Houston Heights. The jury deliberated for just 90 minutes before they reached a verdict. (Brooks later claimed that Henley became involved in the abductions while Corll resided at the address he had occupied immediately prior to Schuler Street.) [21] In response, she fired the teenager. [120][5] Williams climbed into the back seat of Kerley's Volkswagen. The oldest of the couples four sons, Henleys childhood home was an unhappy one. Henley Sr. was a violent and abusive alcoholic who took his rage out on his family. Henleys mother tried to do right by her children, and when Henley Jr. was 14, she left her husband and took the kids with her, hoping for a fresh start. Then, of course, theres Elmer Wayne Henleyquite a bit lesser known than Gacywho was sent to prison in 1974 for the spree of murders he committed alongside Prater is known to have continued to visit his father in Houston during weekends after he moved with his mother to Dallas. [30] However, Corll refused, informing Henley that he had raped, tortured, and killed the previous victim he had assisted in abducting, and that he intended to do the same with Aguirre. "[217], The jury deliberated for 92 minutes before finding Henley guilty of all six murders for which he was tried. [5] Mary subsequently sold the family home and relocated to a trailer home in Memphis, Tennessee, where Arnold had been drafted into the United States Air Force after the divorce, to allow her sons to remain in contact with their father. [297] Former workers also recalled that Corll had rolls of clear plastic of precisely the same type used to bury his victims. Brooks served his life sentence at the Terrell Unit near Rosharon, Texas. [55]:9 The police were heavily criticized for curtailing the search for further victims once the record set by Juan Corona for having the most victims had been surpassed. He had two teenage assistants, David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, who would help lure victims to his home. 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Henley likely was lured to Corll's address as an intended victim. [110], In July 1973, after Brooks married his pregnant fiance,[30] Henley temporarily became Corll's sole procurer of victims, assisting in the abduction and murder of three Heights youths between July 19 and 25. Henley claimed these three abductions were the only three that occurred after his becoming an accomplice to Corll in which Brooks was not a participant. Kerley began writhing and shouting as Williams, whose gag Henley had removed, lifted her head and asked Henley, "Is this for real?" Corll was also known as the Candy Man and the Pied Piper, because he and his family had previously owned and operated a candy factory in Houston Heights, and he had been known to give free candy to local children. [80] Henley called Aguirre over to Corll's van and invited the youth to drink beer and smoke marijuana with the trio at Corll's apartment. [203], By the time the grand jury had completed its investigation, Henley had been indicted for six murders, and Brooks for four. He was responsible for the murders and sexual assaults of 28 boys and young males in the Houston area of Texas between 1970 and 1973. [288] In addition, his T-shirt bore a handwritten inscription believed to read either "LB4MF", "LBHMF",[286] or "L84MF". [291], Dr. Derrick has stated she has reason to believe this victim may be named Robert (or "Bobby") French,[292] adding she has received an anonymous package containing a series of photographs potentially depicting this individual taken shortly before his murder, and that the sender of this package named this individual as one Bobby French. [34] Although she often talked to her eldest son on the telephone, his mother never saw him again. Elmer Wayne Henley made headlines around the world in 1973 when he killed Dean Corll and led police to the bodies of almost 30 young men and boys. [19][24] The army granted his request and he was given an honorable discharge on June 11, 1965, after ten months of service. [232], In June 2008, Dr. Sharon Derrick, a forensic anthropologist with the medical examiner's office in Houston, released digital images of Corll's three still-unidentified victims. [175] The twelfth body unearthed bore evidence of sexual mutilation (the severed genitals of the victim were found inside a sealed plastic bag placed beside the body);[176][177] another victim unearthed had several fractured ribs. The unidentified victims were listed as ML73-3349, ML73-3356 and ML73-3378. [301] Corll's earliest double murder, that of Glass and Yates, took place in December 1970; those victims were actually killed at Corll's Yorktown address, as was Corll's earliest known murder victim, Jeffrey Alan Konen, killed in September 1970. Harvey was driven to Corll's Mangum Road apartment, where he was subsequently killed by a single gunshot to the head. These bodies were recovered between 12:05p.m. and 8:30p.m.,[173][174] and all were in an advanced state of decomposition. classes in school. Lyles was known to both Corll and Brooks. Henley's appeal was upheld and he was awarded a retrial in December 1978. [30] On June 4, Henley and Corll abducted 15-year-old William Ray Lawrence; the youth was last seen alive by his father on 31st Street. Corll's victims were typically lured with an offer of a party or a lift to one of the various addresses at which he resided between 1970 and 1973. Corll stated he was burying spoiled candy to avoid contamination by insects. [33], Brooks' parents were divorced; his father lived in Houston and his mother had relocated to Beaumont, a city 85 miles (140km) east of Houston. [72][73], Henley later stated that, for several months, he ignored Corll's offer, although he did maintain an acquaintance with Corll and gradually began to view him as something of a "brother-type person" whose work ethic he admired and in whom he could confide. The defense also contended the evidence provided by the state "belonged to Dean Corll, not Elmer Wayne Henley". Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 August 8, 1973) was an American serial killer and sex offender who abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered a minimum of 28 teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. Henley then left the youth alone with Corll, believing he was to be sold into the sexual slavery ring. Henley suggested to Kerley and Williams that they should simply leave, to which Kerley replied, "No, we should call the police." In March 2011, DNA analysis confirmed that the victim known as ML73-3355 had been misidentified and the same month, the victim was identified as Steven Kent Sickman, a 17-year-old who was last seen walking down West 34th Street shortly before midnight on July 19, 1972. [16], Corll graduated from Vidor High School in the summer of 1958. Henley later compared the acceleration in the frequency of killings and the increase in the brutality exhibited by Corll towards his victims to being "like a blood lust", adding that he and Brooks would instinctively know when Corll was to announce that he "needed to do a new boy," due to the fact that he would appear restless, smoking cigarettes and making reflex movements. This route often involved West traveling to Houston, where much of the product was sold. Houston Police officer Karl Siebeneicher describing Henley's actions upon leading police to Corll's boat shed on August 8. Some victims had been shot, others strangled,[160] the ligatures still wrapped tightly around their necks. He's serving 6 life sentences, but is being considered for compassionate release. Although Dr. Jachimczyk testified as to his uncertainty as to whether John Sellars was a victim of Corll at Henley's trial, he did emphasize his uncertainty as to his personal opinion. The third individual had long, blond hairlike Brooks. "[5] Henley then fired at Corll, hitting him in the forehead. [218] The following day, July 16,[55]:34 formal procedures to sentence Henley for the six guilty verdicts began, and on August 8, Judge Preston Dial ordered that Henley serve each 99-year sentence consecutively (totaling 594 years), and he was transferred to the Huntsville Unit to formally begin his sentence. The arrests in Santa Clara do, however, suggest possible validity in Brooks's statements to police that Corll had informed him that his earliest murder victims had been buried in California.[313]. Henley admitted he had assisted Corll in several abductions and murders, and that he had actively participated in the torture and mutilation of "six or eight" victims prior to their murder. [187] Henley initially insisted that there were two more bodies to be found inside the boat shed and that the bodies of two more boys had been buried at High Island Beach in 1972. [141] After confiscating the pistol and placing Henley, Williams, and Kerley inside the patrol car, the officer entered the bungalow and discovered Corll's body inside the hallway. [308], During a routine investigation in February 1975, the HPD discovered a large cache of pornographic pictures and films depicting boys as young as eight, most of whom were from the Heights. So he was going to sit down with meyou know, (just) lay down with me like he'd been doing when we talkedand he was going to put the gun by my head while we were talking then he was just going to shoot me.". [69], In the winter of 1971, Brooks introduced Henley to Corll. Brooks persuaded Haney to attend a party at an address Corll had moved to on San Felipe Street the previous month. He subsequently cemented over the floor. [68] The identities of both of these victims remain unknown. Less than two weeks later, 20-year-old Raymond Stanley Blackburn was abducted, strangled, and buried at Lake Sam Rayburn. [198] The other youth, Willard Branch,[199] lived in the Oak Forest district of Houston. Henley explained that Williams had argued with her father that evening, and did not wish to return home. He recounted the events of the previous evening and that morning; explaining that he had shot Corll in self-defense. All six bodies directly linked to the Houston Mass Murders found at High Island have been identified. As a result of this behavior, he earned himself the nicknames of the "Candy Man" and the "Pied Piper." One of these individuals, 15-year-old John Harmon, had been a Heights teenager reported missing in 1971. Brooks later described Dreymala as a "small, blond boy" for whom he had bought a pizza and in whose company he had spent 45 minutes before the youth was attacked. The crimes, which became known as the Houston Mass Murders, came to light after Henley fatally shot Corll. [n 2], During the years in which he abducted and murdered his victims, Corll often changed addresses. Twenty-eight young boys killed in all, from 1970 to 1973. However, Scott saw Henley pointing a pistol toward him and according to Brooks, Scott "just gave up." As the couple watched the trio, one of the men (whom they later identified as Henley) advanced upon their car with such a menacing expression that the couple felt compelled to drive away. As the first bodies were removed from the boat shed, a visibly distressed Henley informed investigators: "It's all my fault because I led those boys straight to Dean. [188], At the time, the killing spree was the worst case of serial murder, in terms of the number of victims, in the United States, exceeding the 25 murders attributed to Juan Corona, who had been arrested in California in 1971 for killing 25 men. Dreymala was abducted by Brooks and Corll while riding his bike in Pasadena and driven to Lamar Drive upon the pretense of collecting empty glass bottles to resell. One of these three victims, 15-year-old Randell Harvey, was last seen by his family on the afternoon of March 9 cycling towards Oak Forest,[63] where he worked part-time as a gas station attendant. [122] Corll was furious that Henley had brought a girl to his house, telling him in private that he had "ruined everything". This enticement was typically an offer of a party or a lift, and the victim would be driven to Corll's house. The only victim of the Houston Mass Murders yet to be identified. The macabre record number of known victims attributed to a single murder case set by Corll and his accomplices was surpassed only in 1978 by John Wayne Gacy, who murdered 33 boys and young men and who admitted to being influenced by press coverage of the Houston Mass Murders to manacle his victims prior to their abuse and murder. His next scheduled parole review date is October of 2025. This police raid seized a card filing system containing up to 10,000 names of individuals across America ascribed to this network and the personal details of numerous teenage boys exploited by this sex trafficking ring. [22]:3670 Two women had also observed three men digging at the beach in May 1973one of whom they positively identified as Brooks. Once manacled, the victims would be sexually assaulted, beaten, tortured and, sometimes after several days, killed by strangulation or shooting with a .22 caliber pistol. In response, the police performed a perfunctory search around the boat shed, before dismissing the reports as a hoax. There are two suspiciously long gaps between known victims in the chronology of Corll's known murders. FactualTV has screened a documentary focusing upon the murders committed by Corll and his accomplices. These details, alongside the two additional bones that were found with the 26th and 27th victims discovered, indicate a minimum of two and possibly four more unknown victims. [273][274] ML73-3378 was buried at Lake Sam Rayburn just 10 feet (3m) from the body of Homer Garcia, who had disappeared on July 7, 1973. Konen was born November 20, 1951, per death certificate. [23] He was later assigned to Fort Benning, Georgia, to train as a radio repairman before his permanent assignment to Fort Hood, Texas. Had the search for bodies continued, both victims would have likely been discovered. "[225], Brooks's trial lasted less than one week. [62] Sometime the following month, an 18-year-old Oak Forest youth known to both Corll and Henley named Willard Branch disappeared while hitchhiking from Mount Pleasant to Houston. [145], When questioned regarding his claim that as Corll had threatened him that morning he had shouted that he had killed several boys,[146] Henley explained that for almost three years, Brooks and he had helped procure teenage boys, some of whom had been their own friends, for Corll, who had raped and murdered them. After they had spent several hours beating each other, Jones was tied to a board and forced to watch Cobble again be assaulted, tortured, and shot to death before he himself was again raped, tortured, and strangled with a Venetian blind cord. and shot Delome in the forehead, with the bullet exiting through the youth's ear. Aug 17, 2022 Still image from recent video of Elmer Wayne, Henley, Jr. KFDM 6 News Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr., who in the early 1970s was an accomplice of [30] The Waldrop brothers had been driven to a friend's home by their father with plans to discuss forming a bowling league and had begun walking home after learning their friend was not at home. Corll and his accomplices buried 17 of their victims in a rented boat shed; four other victims were buried in woodland near Lake Sam Rayburn; one victim was buried on a beach in Jefferson County; and at least six victims were buried on a beach on the Bolivar Peninsula. [104] After three days of abuse and torture, Lawrence was strangled before being buried at Lake Sam Rayburn. [118] The two youths arrived at Corll's house, where they sniffed paint fumes and drank alcohol until midnight before leaving the house, promising to return shortly. His name was David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. She met David in 1967 and turned him into her lover, She met Elmer two years later through David. [101][n 5]. [172], Police found nine additional bodies in the boat shed on August 9. He later moved into an apartment of his own above the shop. Police had been led to Sellars's body on August 13, 1973, by a trucker who recalled conversing with a youth he believed to be Henley after he had seen a car stuck in the sand close to where Sellars's body was subsequently found. Webdr heavenly sister passed away; jacqueline dalya cause of death; sunningdale golf club membership cost; ultra wideband in phones; gainesville sun obituaries and funeral notices Had Henley not been adamant in his assertion that the body of Scott had been misidentified, it is likely Sickman would have never been conclusively confirmed as a victim of Corll. Article detailing investigators' suspicions as to, This page was last edited on 29 April 2023, at 02:20. ", In one section of his subsequent testimony at Henley's 1974 trial, Detective Sergeant David Mullican would state to the court: "Other means of torture were pulling their pubic hairs out one by one, shoving glass rods up the penis and shoving a large, bullet-like instrument in the victim's rectum.". [99], On January 20, 1973, Corll moved to an address on Wirt Road in the Spring Branch district of Houston. This brand of cord was the same type used to strangle and bind the bodies of many of his victims. In August of 1973, Henley shot and killed Dean. All of his victims were males aged 13 to 20, the majority of whom were in their mid-teens. [156], Henley agreed to accompany police to Corll's boat shed in Southwest Houston, where he claimed the bodies of most of the victims could be found. He was last denied parole in October of 2015. [61], Between March and May 1971, Corll abducted and killed three victims, all of whom lived in Houston Heights and all of whom were buried toward the rear of the rented boat shed. Brooks later claimed he persuaded Corll to allow Ridinger to be released, and the youth was allowed to leave the residence. This second trial was held in Corpus Christi,[221] with Henley again represented by defense attorneys William Gray and Edwin Pegelow. [220], Henley's retrial began on June 18, 1979. In one part of his confession, Henley had described luring two of the victims for whose murder he had been brought to trial, Cobble and Jones, to Corll's Pasadena residence. Given that Henley became acquainted with Corll in 1972, it is likely this boy would have been killed in 1972 or 1973. [65], On August 17, 1971, Corll and Brooks encountered a 17-year-old acquaintance of Brooks named Ruben Watson Haney walking home from a movie theater in Houston. On June 27, 1979, the jury deliberated for over two hours before reaching their verdict; Henley was again convicted of six murders and sentenced to six concurrent 99-year terms. [108][109] Five days later, on July 12, 17-year-old John Sellars of Orange County was bound, shot to death and buried at High Island Beach. [204], Brooks was brought to trial on February 27, 1975. Elmer Wayne Henley Jr., now 66, in a recent mug shot on the left, and at age 17 in 1973 on the right. [119] Williamsnursing a sprained anklehad been beaten by her drunken father that evening and accepted Henley's invitation to join him and Kerley at Corll's home. [30] Glass was an acquaintance of Brooks who, at Brooks' behest, had previously visited Corll's address. [5] Kerley and Williams lay beside Henley, securely bound with nylon rope, gagged with adhesive tape, and lying face down on the floor. [82] Scottwho was well known to both Henley and Brookswas grabbed by force and fought furiously against attempts by Corll to restrain him, even attempting to stab his attackers with a knife. He died of COVID-19-related complications at a Galveston hospital on May 28, 2020, at the age of 65. Corll is known to have suffered from a hydrocele[103] in early 1973, which may have contributed to this period of inactivity. [100] On March 7, Corll vacated his Wirt Road apartment and moved to 2020 Lamar Drive, an address his father had vacated in Pasadena. Their marriage was marred by frequent quarreling and the couple divorced in 1946, four years after the birth of their younger son, Stanley Wayne Corll. Bunton's family had always believed him to be a victim of Corll and had contacted Dr. Derrick in 2009 to submit a, In the confession given by Henley on August 9, 1973, the youth had stated that victim Mark Scott had been strangled and buried at High Island. The bodies were discovered in three different locations in Texas. These facts may account for this sudden lull in killings. Henley himself has stated that the picture must have been taken after he had acquired a Polaroid camera in 1972although he is adamant that he has no idea who this boy is. [125], Noting Henley had awoken, Corll removed the gag from his mouth. [219], Henley appealed his sentence and conviction, contending the jury in his initial trial had not been sequestered, that his attorneys' objections to news media being present in the courtroom had been overruled, and citing that his defense team's attempts to present evidence contending that the initial trial should not have been held in San Antonio had also been overruled by the judge. Henley told the officer that he was the individual who had made the call and indicated that Corll's body was inside the house. [86], During the time Corll resided at Schuler Street, the trio lured a 19-year-old named William Ridinger to the house. Most victims were abducted from Houston Heights, which was then a low-income neighborhood northwest of downtown Houston. The real stories of Mindhunter season 2: Episode 4. Shortly thereafter, he and his family moved to the northern outskirts of Houston so that the family candy business could be closer to the city where the majority of their product was sold. [181] In reference to the torture board upon which Corll had restrained and tortured his victims, Brooks stated: "Once they were on the board, they were as good as dead; it was all over but the shouting and the crying. He (Henley) started to take a step inside (the boat shed), but then his face just turned ashen, pale, grim he staggered around outside the door. [18][19] During this time, Corll formed a close relationship with a local girl, although he rejected a subsequent marriage proposal she made to him in 1962. Com 15 anos Henley desistiu da escola secundria. As a result of this diagnosis, Corll was told to avoid P.E. [114][115] At Corll's home, Dreymala was tied to Corll's torture board, raped, tortured, and strangled with a cord before being buried in the boat shed. Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 August 8, 1973) was an American serial killer and sex offender who abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered a minimum of 28 teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. [227], Henley is serving his life sentence at the Mark Stiles Unit in Jefferson County, Texas. [14], From 1954 to 1958 Corll attended Vidor High School, where he was regarded as a well-behaved student who achieved satisfactory grades. But first I'm gonna have my fun! [298] The suspicion is that Corll began killing much earlier than 1970 and had been abusing youths prior to this date.[299]. Brooks showed no emotion as the sentence was passed, although his wife burst into tears. That day and the next, investigators found the remains of 16 boys and young men at the boat shed in the 4500 block of Silver Bell Street. In his call, Henley blurted to the operator: "Y'all better come here right now! [287], Forty-two boys had vanished within the Houston area between 1970 and Corll's death in 1973. Inside the lakeside log cabin owned by Corll's family, police found a second plywood torture board, rolls of plastic sheeting, shovels, and a sack of lime. [66] Haney agreed and was taken to Corll's home where he was subsequently strangled and buried in the boat shed. The retrial lasted nine days, with Henley's attorneys again calling no defense witnesses and again attacking the credibility of Henley's written confession. [307] The color Polaroid image had been found in the personal possessions of Henley, which had been stored by his family since his arrest in 1973. [128] Henley calmed Corll, promising to participate in the torture and murder of both Williams and Kerley if Corll released him. [302] It is possible that the initial double murder Brooks had discovered Corll in the process of committing occurred after the murder of Konen and before those of Glass and Yates. Serial killer Henley grants interview. Dr. Derrick has stated that she believes this particular victim may be named Harman, Harmon or French,[286] as the only outstanding missing persons reports relating to youths from the Houston area dated between 1970 and 1973, which fit the forensic profile of this unknown youth, include these surnames. Moreover, co-workers at HL&P would also state that, from the earliest days of his employment, Corll had repeatedly retained coils of used nylon cord that would otherwise have been discarded. The first victim of 1972 was Frank Aguirre, who disappeared on March 24, meaning no known victims were killed for seven months. Delome then pleaded with Henley, "Wayne, please don't!" When Dean finished high school, the family decided to move to the outskirts of Houston, where most of the candy was sold. In the statement Henley gave to police following his arrest, the youth stated he and Corll picked up "a boy" at the corner of 11th and Studewood,[76] and lured him to Corll's home on the promise of smoking some marijuana with the pair. The bullet failed to fully penetrate Corll's skull,[22]:3641 and he continued to lurch toward Henley, whereupon the youth fired another two rounds, hitting Corll in the left shoulder. WebTogether with David Owen Brooks, and Elmer Wayne Henley Jr, he killed 28 known boys between September 1970 and August 1973. [41] At Corll's residence, the youths would be plied with alcohol or other drugs until they passed out, tricked into donning handcuffs,[42] or simply grabbed by force. It's known that he inspired John Wayne Gacy. He also joined Corll on the regular trips he took to South Texas beaches in the company of various youths, and later commented that Corll was the first adult male who did not mock his appearance. Later, Brooks dropped out of high school, and Corll offered him 200 dollars for each boy he would manage to lure in. [16], By the time Brooks dropped out of high school, Corll's mother and his half-sister, Joyce, had moved to Colorado after the failure of her third marriage and the closure of Corll Candy Company in June 1968. The thirteenth and fourteenth bodies unearthed bore identification cards naming the victims as Donald and Jerry Waldrop. [22]:3661 He was dropped off alone at the corner of Westheimer Road and South Voss Road near the Uptown area of Houston at approximately 6:15p.m.[50][51] Corll likely offered Konen a lift to his home, which Konen evidently accepted. Both Kerley and Williams had awakened by this point. Right then's when I knew there were going to be bodies in that shed. The body was buried at High Island Beach. His alcoholic father regularly abused him, WebElmer Wayne Henley Jr. (nascido em 9 de maio de 1956) um serial killer e pintor americano condenado encarcerado no sistema do Departamento de Justia Criminal do Texas (TDCJ). [46] He is also known to have retained keepsakesusually keysfrom his victims. In his confession, Brooks stated the youth killed immediately prior to Henley's involvement in the murders was abducted from the Heights and kept alive for approximately four days before his murder. [60] Both boys were enticed into Corll's van and driven to an apartment Corll had rented on Mangum Road, where they were raped, strangled and subsequently buried in the boat shed. [55]:1[58] His call was answered by an operator named Velma Lines. The crimes, which became known as the Houston Mass Murders, came to light after Henley fatally shot Corll. Prater was last seen by his mother in Dallas in the company of an adult male and two teenage youths with shoulder-length hair; he had previously lived in the same neighborhood as most of Corll's known victims and had attended the same high school as Henley between 1970 and 1971. [201] Another witness who testified to his experience at the hands of Corll was William Ridinger. [312], There is still no conclusive evidence to suggest that Corll had ever solicited any of his victims in this manner, not only because the HPD chose not to pursue this potential possibility, but also because neither Brooks nor Henley ever mentioned having met any individuals from the "organization" Corll had claimed he was involved with.
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