TX TX - Dean CORLL & Elmer Wayne HENLEY Jr., 1970 - 73

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Dean Corll:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Corll
Dean Arnold Corll[SUP][3][/SUP] (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973) was an American serial killer who (with two young accomplices named David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr.) abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered at least 28 boys in a series of killings spanning from 1970 to 1973 in Houston, Texas. The crimes, which became known as the Houston Mass Murders, came to light after Henley fatally shot Corll.http://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/corll-dean.htm


http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-houston-mass-murders-what-really-happened/
On August 8, 1973, the Houston Police Department discovered a 33-year-old man named Dean Corll shot to death at a home where he was staying in Pasadena, a Houston suburb. They were given information that prompted them to search a shed Corll had been renting; a beach at High Island, east of Houston; and a wooded area near Sam Rayburn Reservoir. They eventually discovered the mutilated bodies of 27 boys in what the New York Times called “the largest multiple murder case in United States history.” In this tragic story, Skip Hollandsworth tells of the horror inflicted by Dean Corll on the people of Houston and one family’s search for closure. Here’s the story behind the story.

Elmer Wayne Henley:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Wayne_Henley
Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr. (born May 9, 1956) is a convicted American serial killer, incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) system. Henley was convicted in 1974[SUP][2][/SUP][SUP]:219[/SUP] for his role in a series of murders in Houston, Texas, between 1970 and 1973 in which a minimum of 28 teenage boys were abducted, tortured, raped and murdered by Dean Corll. Many of the victims were lured to Corll's home by Henley or Corll's other teenage accomplice, David Brooks. Corll was shot dead by Henley, then 17 years old,[SUP][3][/SUP] on August 8, 1973http://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/henley-elmer.htm
Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr. (born May 9, 1956) is a convicted American serial killer, incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) system. Henley was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences on July 16, 1974 for his role in a series of murders in Houston, Texas, in which a minimum of twenty-eight teenage boys were abducted, raped and murdered by Dean Corll between 1970 and 1973. Many of the victims were lured to Corll's home by Henley or Corll's other teenage accomplice, David Brooks. Dean Corll, the ring-leader of the murders, was shot dead by Henley, then 17-years-old, on August 8, 1973.
 
I think that it's super uncomfortable that he has a Facebook page. (Or had -- the article is a year old). Who thought that was a good idea?

Corll isn't one of the SKs I know a lot about, but I always thought that it was so disturbing that EWH would go along with it, especially since he lured his friends to their deaths as well. I am honestly very glad that he has been denied parole consistently. What terrifying deaths the poor victims must've had :(
 
I think that it's super uncomfortable that he has a Facebook page. (Or had -- the article is a year old). Who thought that was a good idea?

Corll isn't one of the SKs I know a lot about, but I always thought that it was so disturbing that EWH would go along with it, especially since he lured his friends to their deaths as well. I am honestly very glad that he has been denied parole consistently. What terrifying deaths the poor victims must've had :(

Thanks for commenting!

I'm pretty sure it was taken down, thankfully. Dunno whose idea that was!

I'm very curious to hear what Corll would have to say. I wonder how many more victims there were.
 

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