ELMER WAYNE HENLEY SERIAL

The father was arrested recently on an assault charge. has been tested at 126, was a quiet boy and a good student until about 1970, when his father began beating him and fired several shots at her. His mother, a cashier in a parking lot, is divorced. Henley, the oldest of four children, had to work from the age of 11 to help the family. They said he was always inviting youths to his house or his white van with a couch in the back, offering beer or drugs or a party. Biopics, Who had known Dean Corll for, several years, said the older, man was the master of the ring, that he offered them $200 for victims among their friends and paid $5 or $10 for a sex act. Brooks, went to the same junior high school in the Heights.’ Most of them came from the Heights, a deteriorating section of old houses, churches and tough highway beer halls northwest of Houston's skyscrapers. Most of the victims were from white, working‐class families-school dropouts and runaways. Brooks weeping and distraught, led police to the mass graves of victims‐17 in a 12 by 32‐foot shed on the outskirts of the city, four at a resort lake to the north, six on a beach on the Gulf of Mexico. Image: Corlls accomplice Elmer Wayne Henley. He said the older man had tied his 15‐year‐old girlfriend and a boy to planks and was beginning to molest the boy when he shot him. Henley - now aged 65 - remains in prison and Bynon spoke to him several times about doing an interview for the documentary. Henley called Police to say he had shot his older friend, Dean Corll, after a night of drinking whisky and taking drugs. 8, 1973, in the Houston suburb of Pasadena, when Mr. The uncovering of the ring began early on Aug. They could be challenged again, however, in the new court. Henley's confessions were ruled admissible as evidence. Both youths say they acted as assistants to a 33‐year‐old electrician named Dean Arnold Coll who is dead.Īfter extensive pretrial hearings in Houston, most of Mr. Henley was especially sadistic in the tortures that preceded the shooting or strangling of some of the victims. Brooks's written confession states that Mr.

ELMER WAYNE HENLEY SERIAL

Henley and another defendant to be tried later, David Owen Brooks, 19, made a number of oral and written statements about their parts in the slayings. (born May 9, 1956) is a convicted American serial killer and sex offender, incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Gray has said that he would seek an insanity plea for his client. Although he initially confessed to killing only one man, authorities soon learned Henley was one of three serial killers who abducted and killed at least 28 boys, ages 13 to 20 between 19. Vance has subpoenaed 60 witnesses and says he will call at least 30 of them. On August 8, 1973, Elmer Wayne Henley contacted Texas' Pasadena Police Department to report he committed a murder. Henley's defense team of four court‐ap7 pointed lawyers is headed by Will Gray, a Houston appeals lawyer known for his advocaty, in unpopular causes. Vance, based in Houston, is handling the prosecution. The Harris County District Attorney, Carol S.

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