Most of the bodies were badly decomposed and difficult to identify. Henley and Brooks were both convicted for their roles in the Houston Mass Murders.
Henley is serving six consecutive life sentences. The Texas-based search and recovery organization announced it will soon begin working with investigators from the Pasadena Police Department and other law enforcement agencies to search for any additional victims. Occasionally, Corll would force his victims to either call or write letters to their parents explaining their absence, helping the Houston Police Department's assumption that the victims were runaways.
He also kept their keys as trophies. Composites and clothing closeups of "Swimsuit Boy", the only victim in the boat shed who is still unidentified. While Corll was never mentioned or referenced on the show, he appears to have been an inspiration for the following unsubs:.
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Attempted victims Rhonda Williams and Timothy Kerley. As a result, he had been, at times, considered an indirect victim of Corll. Norman Lamar Prater. A total of 44 boys were reported missing in Houston during the period of Corll's known activity.
An isolated arm bone and pelvis were found in the same grave containing the 26th and 27th victims, who had been buried tied together. The search was abruptly terminated shortly after finding them, in spite of Henley's claim that Mark Scott and Joseph Lyles had not been found yet. Lyles' body was found by chance in , and Scott's body has yet to be found. However, the bones have not been positively matched to Scott, and Henley denies that Scott was buried there, implying the existence of a 30th victim.
Corll Candy Company employees saw Corll retrieving nylon cords and plastic rolls, which resembled those used to bury the bodies, from the factory as early as He also dug a lot in those years, supposedly to bury spoiled candy.
Brooks declared that the two youths he saw when he ran into Corll and was bribed into silence were not James Glass and Danny Yates, Corll's first known instance of a double homicide. He also said that Corll had killed another victim before their first encounter, and that it happened at Corll's earlier residence before he moved into the house where Brooks and Henley brought victims to him. Corll, Henley, and Brooks were suspects in the January 17, , disappearance of sixteen-year-old Norman Lamar Prater.
Prater was last seen in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by a man and two teenagers with long hair; he lived in the same neighborhood as most of Corll's victims, went to the same high school as Henley between and , and continued to visit Houston during weekends after he moved to Dallas.
There are no known murders attributed to Corll between November and February , but he is believed to have continued killing during that time. In March , a couple announced seeing three men burying a suspiciously long, wrapped bundle in Galveston County.
But an officer who had worked on the Waldrep case said he had learned of the shed burials only after Corll was killed. Reporter Tommy Miller , now the Chronicle's managing editor, wrote about an anxious lower-middle-income Heights neighborhood that had been home to nine of the victims.
Reporter Jack Matthews wrote a story about how no one had called police when the victims were being killed or even when Henley shot Corll. During his murderous spree, Corll had lived at 10 different addresses in Houston and Pasadena. Headlines worldwide were screaming that her son was a monster implicated in torture and sex murders, but Corll's mother "says simply, 'No, he was used.
Henley and Brooks didn't face the death penalty. Sam Robertson , first assistant district attorney, explained, "The Legislature did not provide that murder committed during just any felony could be punishable by death" -- only kidnapping, robbery, burglary, forcible rape and arson. In August , Henley was convicted of murder in the deaths of six youths and sentenced to six consecutive year terms.
In March , Brooks was convicted of murder in the death of one year-old and was sentenced to life. Now in their 40s, they have spent more than a quarter-century in prison. Their bids for parole have been rejected. Most Popular. Today's Picks. However, in early , he decided he would "help find a boy" for Corll as he was in dire financial circumstances. At Corll's home, Corll and Henley devised a ruse in which they would lure a youth to Corll's home and Henley would then cuff his hands behind his back, release himself, then con the victim into placing the handcuffs upon himself.
The victim was lured to Corll's Schuler Street apartment on the promise of smoking some marijuana. At Corll's address, Henley helped con the teenager into donning the handcuffs, then watched Corll pounce on the youth, tie his feet and place tape over his mouth.
Henley then left the youth alone with Corll, believing he was to be sold into the homosexual slavery ring. The identity of this first victim Henley assisted in the abduction of is not known, although it is possible the youth was year-old Willard Karmon Branch, who disappeared in February of and was found buried in Corll's boat shed. On March 24, Henley, in the company of Corll and Brooks, persuaded an year-old friend of his named Frank Aguirre to accompany him to Corll's home on the promise of smoking marijuana with the trio.
At Corll's home, Aguirre was plied with marijuana, then persuaded to handcuff himself before Corll dragged Aguirre to his bedroom and secured him to his torture board before he was raped, tortured and strangled before being buried at High Island Beach. Henley later claimed that he attempted to talk Corll out of raping and killing Aguirre, but Corll adamantly refused.
At this point, Corll informed him the youth he had previously assisted in the abduction of had been killed and that Aguirre was to suffer the same fate. Later, Corll and Brooks informed Henley that his childhood friend, David Hilligiest, had also been killed and buried in his boat shed along with his swimming companion Malley Winkle.
Despite the revelations to the reality of the fate of the boys brought to Corll, Henley nonetheless continued to assist Corll and Brooks in the abductions and murders of youths, who would be lured to Corll's home either alone or in pairs.
Less than one month later, Henley and Brooks persuaded another friend of theirs, year-old Mark Scott, to attend a party at Corll's home.
Corll moved to an address at Westcott Towers in June of and within one month, a year-old youth named Steven Sickman had been murdered. David Brooks later stated Hembree was accidentally shot in the mouth by Henley who, according to Brooks' confession 'just came in the room where the two boys were bound waving the. One month later, a year-old named Richard Kepner was abducted while walking to phone his fiancee from a pay phone.
By the time Richard Kepner had been killed and buried at High Island, Henley had assisted in the abduction and murder of a minimum of nine teenage boys. On February 1, , Corll abducted and killed a year-old youth named Joseph Lyles, apparently without the assistance of Henley, who had temporarily moved to Mount Pleasant in early In the spring of , Henley attempted to enlist in the U. Navy, but his application was rejected due to the fact he had dropped out of high school and possessed a limited education.
In a interview, Henley stated: "I couldn't leave anyway. If I did go, I knew Dean would go after one of my little brothers, who he always liked a little too much.
Nonetheless, between June and July of he, Brooks and Corll had killed a further eight victims between the ages of fifteen and twenty, at least six of whom Henley participated in either the abduction of or murder. On June 4, a year-old friend of Henley's named Billy Lawrence was abducted and, after 3 days of abuse and torture at an address Corll had moved to in Pasadena, strangled with a ligature and buried at Lake Sam Rayburn.
Less than two weeks later, a year-old hitch-hiker named Raymond Blackburn was likewise strangled and buried at Lake Sam Rayburn before a year-old South Houston youth named Homer Garcia was shot and buried at the same location after his July 7 abduction. Two further youths, John Sellars and Michael Baulch, were killed on July 12 and July 19 and on July 25, Henley lured two friends named Charles Cobble and Marty Jones to Corll's apartment where, two days later, Cobble was shot and Jones strangled before the youths were buried in Corll's boat shed.
On August 3, Brooks and Corll - without the assistance of Henley - abducted and killed a year-old Pasadena boy named James Dreymala. The youth last called his mother stating he was at a party.
Dreymala was strangled and buried in Corll's boat shed. On August 8, , Henley brought a further potential victim, year-old Timothy Kerley, to Corll's home upon the promise of a party. Before Corll was able to manacle Kerley to his torture board, the pair left Corll's home to purchase sandwiches. Henley and Kerley later returned to Corll's home - in the company of a year-old girl named Rhonda Williams. Corll was furious a female had been brought to his house, telling Henley in private he had "ruined everything.
Henley woke to find Corll placing handcuffs upon his wrists, Kerley and Williams had each been bound and gagged and lay alongside Henley on the floor. Corll then dragged Henley by his cuffed hands into his kitchen and placed a. Henley pled for his life, promising to participate in the torture and murder of the other youths if Corll released him. Corll agreed and untied Henley, then carried Kerley and Williams into his bedroom and tied them to opposite sides of his plywood torture board: Kerley on his stomach; Williams on her back.
Henley was handed a long hunting knife by Corll, who ordered him to cut away Williams' clothes, insisting that he would rape and kill the youth as Henley would do likewise to Rhonda Williams. Henley began cutting away the girl's clothes as Corll placed the pistol upon a table, undressed and clambered on top of Kerley. As Corll began to assault and torture Tim Kerley, Henley began to cut away Williams' clother with the knife Corll had handed him. As he did so, Williams lifted her head and asked Henley "Is this for real?
Even with a weapon pointed at him, Corll was not cowed: he walked towards Henley, shouting "Kill me, Wayne! You won't do it! As Corll continued to advance upon him, Henley shot him a further two times in the shoulder, upon which Corll staggered out of the room the teenagers were held.
Henley then fired a further three rounds into the rear of his right shoulder and lower back, killing him. He then released Kerley and Williams, phoned the Pasadena police and subsequently confessed to his role in the Houston Mass Murders. On the evening of August 8, Henley confessed to police that for almost three years, he and David Brooks had helped procure teenage boys - some of whom had been their own friends - for Dean Corll.
Henley unequivocally stated that since the winter of , he had actively participated in the abductions and, later, the murders of the victims. He stated that Brooks had also been an active accomplice - albeit for a longer period of time than he. He agreed to accompany police to each of the burial sites to assist in the recovery of the victims.
Between August 8 and August 13, a total of 27 boys between the ages of 13 and 20 were found buried at the three locations Henley and later, Brooks had stated they and Corll had buried the victims, with an additional victim being discovered in Seventeen of the victims were found buried in the boat shed, a further four victims were found at Lake Sam Rayburn, six bodies were found buried at High Island Beach although the body of a seventh victim buried at High Island, Mark Scott, still lies undiscovered at this location and the body of a 29th victim was found buried at Jefferson County Beach in August All the victims found were young males and many had been sexually tortured in addition to being sexually assaulted.
Autopsies revealed each victim had been killed by either strangulation, shooting or a combination of both. At Henley's trial in , one of the bodies found buried at High Island, that of year-old John Manning Sellars, was disputed as being a victim of Corll by a forensic pathologist who examined his remains. The youth, who vanished on July 12, , had died of four gunshot wounds fired from a rifle, whereas each other victim of the Houston Mass Murders had either been strangled or killed by the.
However, Henley and Brooks had led police to Sellars' body on August 13, and the youth's body was found bound hand and foot and buried in a manner similar to Corll's other known victims. Henley was brought to trial in San Antonio in June , charged with the murders of six teenage boys whom he himself lured to Corll's apartment between March and July He was found guilty on July 16, and sentenced to six consecutive life terms. On July 25, Henley and his attorneys filed an appeal, contending that Henley had been denied an evidentiary hearing; that the jury had not been sequestered; that a motion to move the initial trial away from San Antonio had also been denied and that the presence of news media in the courtroom had also prejudiced his trial.
Victims Henley was convicted of killing. Henley's appeal was upheld: his conviction was overturned on December 20, He was awarded a new trial in December of In June, , Henley was tried for a second time.
On June 27, he was again convicted of 6 murders and again sentenced to six consecutive life terms. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on March 4. Elmer Wayne Henley first became eligible for parole on July 8, ; although since this date, he has consistently been denied parole.
As of , both Henley and Brooks are still serving life sentences. Michael Unit prison, in Anderson County Art controversy. In , at the suggestion of a Louisiana art dealer, Henley began to paint as a hobby, in part as a means of generating income for himself and his mother. Henley refuses to paint or draw any images of a violent or exploitative nature: many of his works depict serene imagery such as landscapes, buildings and flowers and the majority being created using acrylics and graphite.
In interviews, Henley has stated that he suffers from a severe color deficiency in his eyesight that makes it impossible for him to clearly distinguish between reds and greens. To compensate, any portraits Henley draws of humans are in black and white; with his other works usually being drawn or painted in color. A pen pal with whom Henley has corresponded has also organized several exhibitions of his artwork.
This exhibition drew outrage from some victims' relatives. In the city of Houston expressed interest in building a monument to victims of violent crime, which Henley said he would be willing to help pay for with part of the proceeds from a second art show. It goes without saying that this case is one of the biggest in the history of serial murder. I think that there would be no more than 20 or so that would rank as highly as the case of Dean Corll and co.
But that is all in my own opinion I guess. I think that we'll focus on Dean Corll since he's the main guy in this trio. He was a child that was bought up in a broken home and was treated very harshly as a child when it came to discipline. Following his parents divorce he and his brother Stanley spent more time with babysitters and school teachers than with their parents. Also in childhood he suffered from Rheumatic fever which left him with a heart condition that meant he missed a of school.
In Dean did as all proud young americans are told to do, he joined the army. Life in the army caused a bit of a change in Dean, well it was probably already there, but being around all those men all the time awaken the urge to fuck men in the ass.
I reckon he fit in really well with the other troops. In he left that life to live in Houston where he got an okay job with the Lighting and Power company. During this time he also started hanging out with teenage boys. I guess that it didn't seem to strange to these kids that a thirty year old guy wanted to hang out with them.
Eventually he found two guys that he liked a lot, Elmer Henley and David Brooks. He spent quite a bit of time sniffing glue with these two, and I guess that they formed a bit of a bond. If you think really hard about this last sentence you may find one of the worst jokes I've ever come up with So much so that Brooks actually moved in with Corll for a while. Somewhere around early it seems that these three crossed that line between talking shit and acting it out.
The unfortunate victim was University of Texas student Jeffrey Konen. Dean Corll lured the guy back to his house with and I'm only guessing here a promise of drugs and alcohol.
Poor Jeffrey didn't know what hit him. But we all do - it was Dean Corll. So now Dean had crossed the line. No doubt he got off on the murder a little, but it wasn't quite right, he needed something else to spice it up a little.
That was where Henley and Brooks came in. One thing that can be proved is that Brooks was given a car by Corll around this time. I guess that these two young guys soon grew tired of just supplying victims for Dean.
They wanted more - they wanted to join in. Over the next two years the trio's kill count would rise to The M. The boys would lure other boys to Dean's house with the promise of an 'alcohol party'.
The victims would then be allowed to drink themselves unconscious. Dean would then tie them up, molest them, then kill them. The bodies were disposed of in two different spots, a remote spot near the Sam Rayburn Reservoir or a rented boat shed in southwest Houston. Then in July Billy's bother Mike Baulch joined the list of victims. There were more victims, too many to mention and I guess everything was going along fine for Dean at this stage. He had no real problems from police, he had a steady supply of kids coming to his house for slaughter and he had two good mates that seemed ready for anything.
But as with everything in this life it was bound to go sour. On August 8, , Henley broke the cycle. He bought Rhonda Williams, 15, to the house. She had run away from home and needed somewhere to stay so Henley thought it would be okay, but it wasn't.
Following a heavy varnish sniffing session Rhonda, Henley and another friend, Timothy Kerley, all passed out. Corll decided it was time to teach Henley a lesson. He tied all of the kids up. When Henley came back around he really started to freak out, pleading Corll to spare him, even promising to rape and kill Rhonda while Dean did the same to Timothy.
So Corll untied Henley and ordered him to begin raping young Rhonda. Well I guess all the excitement must have got to poor Elmer Wayne Henley because he couldn't perform if you know what I mean. Dean obviously found his young friends 'problem' very amusing and started to tease him about it, and it must have been very embarrassing for poor Elmer because he picked up a. Well, Dean didn't take to kindly to being ordered, so his taunts just got worse.
Then they ended. Elmer Wayne Henley put 6 bullets into Dean Corll, killing him rather quickly. He then did something very strange - he called the cops and turned himself in, claiming the shooting was in self defense.
Later on that day Henley led police to the two dumping grounds where they found a combined 27 bodies. It was a new record for number of victims in the USA, eclipsing the previous best killer Juan Corona by 2.
Since Henley put Brooks into the shit he decided to get some of his own back. He said, "Most of the killings that occurred after Wayne came into the picture involved all three of us. Following these confessions where the boys 17 and 18 at the time of Corll's death tried to paint themselves as being almost innocent parties, while the others forced them to do it, both were found guilty of six murders each and both were sentenced to life in prison.
In December Henley's conviction was overturned on the grounds that the trial had suffered from pre-trial publicity. It didn't matter though as he was convicted a second time in June Corll's mother is certain there are many more victims.
He worked with her in her candy factory in Texas which is why Corll is sometime referred to as "The Man with the Candy. Following the findings police were flooded with requests from over one hundred parents as to the whereabouts of there missing children. I guess it's not too impossible an idea to link at least some of these disappearances to Dean Corll, but police didn't seem to interested in any of them as none where found to be linked to Corll and co.
Dean Arnold Corll December 24, — August 8, was an American serial killer, also known as the "Candy Man" , who, together with two youthful accomplices named David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, abducted, tortured and murdered a minimum of 28 boys in a series of killings spanning from to in Houston, Texas. The crimes, which became known as the Houston Mass Murders, came to light only after Henley shot and killed Corll. At the time, the Houston Mass Murders were considered the worst example of serial murder in American history.
Corll's father was strict with his son, whereas his mother was extremely protective of Dean. The marriage of Corll's parents was marred by frequent quarrelling and the couple divorced four years after the birth of their younger son, Stanley, in Mary Corll subsequently sold the family home and relocated to a trailer home in Memphis, Tennessee, where Arnold Corll had been drafted into the Air Force after the couple had divorced, in order that her sons could retain contact with their father.
Corll's parents subsequently attempted reconciliation. Corll was a shy, serious child who seldom socialized with other children and had a tendency to display concern for the wellbeing of others.
At the age of seven, he suffered an undiagnosed case of rheumatic fever, which was only noted in , when doctors found Corll had a heart condition, and he was ordered to avoid P. In , Corll's parents remarried and moved to Pasadena, but the reconciliation was short lived and, in , the couple once again divorced, with the mother again retaining custody of her sons. The divorce was on amicable grounds and both boys maintained contact with their father.
Following the second divorce of Corll's parents, his mother married a travelling salesman named Jake West and the family moved to the small town of Vidor, where Corll's half-sister, Joyce, was born in In Vidor, Corll's mother and stepfather started a small candy company, operating from the garage of their home, and almost immediately, Corll was working day and night while still attending school.
As had been the case in his childhood, Corll remained somewhat of a loner in his teenage years. During his years at Vidor High School, his only major interest was the high school brass band, in which he played trombone. At Vidor High School, Corll was regarded as a well-behaved student who achieved satisfactory grades prior to his graduation. Following his graduation from Vidor High School in , the family moved to the Heights district of Houston and opened a new shop, which they named "Pecan Prince.
He stayed in Indiana for almost two years, even forming a close relationship with a local girl, but returned to Houston in to help with his family's candy business. He later moved into an apartment of his own above the shop. Corll's mother divorced Jake West in and appointed Dean as vice-president of the candy company. The same year, one of the teenage male employees of the candy company complained to Corll's mother that Corll had made sexual advances towards him.
In response, Mary West simply fired the youth. He was later assigned to Fort Benning, Georgia, before his permanent assignment at Fort Hood, Texas as a radio repairman. Corll reportedly hated military service; he applied for a hardship discharge on the grounds that he was needed within his family's business. The Army granted his request and he was given an honorable military discharge on June 11, , after ten months of service.
Following his honorable discharge from the army, Corll returned to Houston and resumed the position he had held as vice-president of his family's candy business. In , shortly after Corll completed his military service, the Corll Candy Company moved across the street from a Heights elementary school. He was known to give free candy to local children, in particular teenaged boys.
The family company also employed a small workforce, and he was seen to behave flirtatiously towards several teenage male employees; he even installed a pool table at the rear of the factory where employees and local youths would congregate. In , he befriended year-old David Brooks, then a sixth grade student and one of the many children to whom he gave free candy. Brooks initially became one of Corll's many youthful close companions; the youth regularly socialized with Corll and the youths who congregated at the rear of the candy company.
He also joined Corll on the regular trips he took to south Texas' beaches in the company of various youths and was also given motorcycle rides by Corll and allowed to ride the bike himself. Whenever Brooks told Corll he was in need of cash, he was given money. Brooks' parents were divorced: his father lived in Houston and his mother had relocated to Beaumont, a city 85 miles east of Houston. In , when he was 15, Brooks dropped out of high school and moved to Beaumont to live with his mother.
Whenever he visited his father in Houston, he also visited Corll, who allowed him to stay at his apartment if he wished to do so. Upon Corll's urging, a sexual relationship gradually developed between the two: Corll paid Brooks to allow him to perform fellatio on the youth and the same year, he moved back to Houston and, by his own later admission, began regarding Corll's apartment as his second home. By the time Brooks dropped out of high school, Corll's mother and half-sister, Joyce, had moved to Colorado after the failure of her third marriage and the closure of the family candy company in June Although she often talked to her eldest son on the telephone, she never saw him again.
Following the closure of the candy company, Corll took a job as an electrician at the Houston Lighting and Power Company, where he tested electrical relay systems. He worked in this employment until the day he was killed by Elmer Wayne Henley.
From to , Corll killed at least 28 persons. All of his victims were males aged thirteen to twenty, the majority of whom were in their mid teens. Most victims were abducted from Houston Heights, which was then a low-income neighborhood northwest of downtown Houston. With most abductions, he was assisted by one or both of his teenaged accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley and David Owen Brooks.
Several victims were friends of one or the other of his accomplices; and two other victims, Billy Baulch and Malley Winkle, were former employees of the Corll Candy Company. Corll's victims were typically lured into his van with an offer of a party or a lift and driven to his house. There, they were either plied with alcohol or drugs until they passed out, tricked into putting on handcuffs, or simply grabbed by force. They then were stripped naked and tied to either Corll's bed or, usually, a plywood torture board, where they were sexually assaulted, tortured, and—sometimes after several days—killed by strangulation or shooting with a.
Their bodies then were tied in plastic sheeting and buried in any one of four places: a rented boat shed; a beach on the Bolivar Peninsula; a woodland near Lake Sam Rayburn where his family owned a lakeside log cabin ; and a beach in Jefferson County. In several instances, Corll forced his victims to phone or write to their parents with explanations for their absences in an effort to allay the parents' fears for their sons' safety.
Corll is also known to have retained keepsakes—usually keys—from his victims. During the years in which he abducted and murdered young men, Corll often changed addresses. However, until he moved to Pasadena in the spring of , he always lived in or close to Houston Heights.
Corll killed his first known victim, an year-old college freshman, Jeffrey Konen, on September 25, Konen vanished while hitchhiking with another student from the University of Texas to his parents' home in Houston; he was dropped off alone at the corner of Westheimer Road and South Voss Road near the Uptown area of Houston.
At the time of Konen's disappearance, Corll lived in an apartment on Yorktown Street, near the intersection with Westheimer Road. He likely offered to drive Konen to his parents' home. Konen evidently accepted a lift from him. David Brooks led police to the body of Jeffrey Konen on August 10, The body was buried at High Island Beach. Forensic scientists subsequently deduced that the youth had died of asphyxiation caused by manual strangulation and a cloth gag which had been placed in his mouth.
The body was found buried beneath a layer of lime, wrapped in plastic, naked, and bound hand and foot, suggesting he had also been violated. Around the time of Konen's murder, David Brooks interrupted Corll in the act of assaulting two teenage boys whom he'd strapped to a plywood torture board.
Corll promised Brooks a car in return for his silence; Brooks accepted the offer and Corll bought him a green Chevrolet Corvette. Glass was an acquaintance of Brooks who, at Brooks' behest, had previously visited Corll's apartment. Both youths were tied to opposite sides of Corll's torture board and subsequently raped, strangled and buried in a boat shed Corll had rented on November Six weeks after the double murder of Glass and Yates, on January 30, , Brooks and Corll encountered two teenage brothers named Donald and Jerry Waldrop walking to a bowling alley.
Both boys were enticed into Corll's van and were driven to an apartment that Corll had moved into at Mangum Road, where they were raped, tortured and strangled before Brooks and Corll buried them in the boat shed.
Between March and May of , Corll killed three more boys between the ages of 13 and 16; as with the Waldrop brothers, all lived in Houston Heights. Two of these victims, David Hilligiest and Malley Winkle, were abducted and killed together on the afternoon of May 29, As had been the case with parents of other victims of Corll, both sets of parents launched a frantic search for their sons. One of the youths who voluntarily offered to distribute posters the parents had printed offering a reward for information leading to the boys' whereabouts was year-old Elmer Wayne Henley, a lifelong friend of Hilligiest.
The youth pinned the posters around the Heights and attempted to reassure Hilligiest's mother that there may be an innocent explanation for the boys' absence. On August 17, , Corll and Brooks encountered a year-old acquaintance of Brooks named Ruben Watson walking home from a movie theater in Houston. Brooks persuaded Watson to attend a party at Corll's address. The youth agreed and was taken to Corll's home where he was subsequently strangled and buried in the boat shed.
Henley accepted Corll's offer, and initially participated in the abductions of the victims, then later actively participated in many of the killings. According to Henley, the first abduction he participated in occurred at Schuler Street, an address Corll had moved to in February of although Brooks later claimed that Henley became involved in the abductions of the victims while Corll resided at an address he had occupied prior to Schuler. If Henley's statement is to be believed, the victim was abducted from the Heights in February or early March of In the statement Henley gave to police following his arrest, the youth stated that he and Corll picked up a youth at the corner of 11th and Studewood, and lured him to Corll's home on the promise of smoking some marijuana.
Henley duped the youth into donning a pair of handcuffs before leaving him alone with Corll. The identity of this victim is not conclusively known, although it is possible the youth was Willard Branch, a year-old casual acquaintance of Henley and Brooks who disappeared on February 9, , and was found buried in the boat shed. One month later, on March 24, , Henley, Brooks and Corll encountered an year-old acquaintance of Henley's named Frank Anthony Aguirre leaving a restaurant on Yale Street, where the youth worked.
Henley called Aguirre over to Corll's van and invited the youth to Corll's apartment on the promise that he could drink beer and smoke marijuana with the trio. Aguirre agreed and followed the pair to Corll's home in his Rambler. Inside Corll's house, Aguirre was given marijuana and then tricked into donning a pair of handcuffs before Corll pounced on the youth. Henley left Aguirre alone with Corll. Henley later claimed to having discovered Corll torturing the youth, upon which Corll informed him 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.
Henley was again paid for luring the victim to Corll's home and subsequently assisted Corll and Brooks in Aguirre's burial at High Island Beach.
Despite the revelations that Corll was, in reality, killing the boys whom he and Brooks had assisted in abducting, Henley nonetheless became an active participant in the abductions and murders. Within one month, on April 20, , he assisted Corll in the abduction of another youth, a year-old friend of his named Mark Scott. Scott was grabbed by force and fought furiously against attempts by Corll to secure him to the torture board, even attempting to stab his attackers.
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