View Full Version : Unidentified victims of Dean Corll 1970-73
kline
10-23-2007, 05:53 AM
I read recently that the Harris county coroner still has at least three unidentified skeletons from the 'Houston Mass Murder' case of Houston serial killer Dean Corll.
This case has always facinated me .
I checked both the Doe network and the Charley Project and there doesnt seem to be any likely candidates listed.
How could three teen age boys disappear and no one report them missing after all these years?
Someone's sons have been in a body bag at the medical examiners office for over thirty years.Amazing.
marysawol
10-23-2007, 04:15 PM
do you have any links to the unidentified victims in this case?
Chloekins
10-23-2007, 05:56 PM
I read recently that the Harris county coroner still has at least three unidentified skeletons from the 'Houston Mass Murder' case of Houston serial killer Dean Corll.
This case has always facinated me .
I checked both the Doe network and the Charley Project and there doesnt seem to be any likely candidates listed.
How could three teen age boys disappear and no one report them missing after all these years?
Someone's sons have been in a body bag at the medical examiners office for over thirty years.Amazing.
There is a very high rate of teenage runaways that congregate in the Montrose/Heights area today. I dont know if it was the same situation in the 70s but I assume that it was. This could be why there are problems identifying these boys. They could be runaways from foster families or from abusive situations that never bothered to report them missing.
kline
10-25-2007, 04:18 PM
Yeah,I guess thats definately a possibility.
From what Ive read the situation in the Heights was very simular in the early '70's .
It just seemed to me that as high profile as that case was in 1973 that anyone who had a missing child with any connection to Houston would have been on it immediatly.
From what I understand the coroner's office had made a gesture to Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. that if he could shed some light there would be no charges pending.
Apparently he's too busy (In true borderline sociopath fashion) playing the sensitive 'artiste' these days to feel any obligation to aid in the sordid business of indentifying a child he helped torture to death 30 years ago.
Not when he has more important things to do like paint another amaturish Seascape.
He declined through his attourney.
loganone
10-28-2007, 11:49 PM
do you have any links to the unidentified victims in this case?
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1008umtx.html
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http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1010umtx.html (http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1009umtx.html)
[URL]http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1009umtx.html
and is this a possible match for 1009umtx
http://charleyproject.org/cases/p/prater_norman.html
Sugie
10-29-2007, 12:47 AM
What about these young men? They aren't from Texas, but do resemble the reconstructions. Do we know if these monsters strayed outside of Texas?
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/3dmil.html
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/576dmca.html
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/894dmca.html
loganone
10-29-2007, 12:52 AM
What about these young men? They aren't from Texas, but do resemble the reconstructions. Do we know if these monsters strayed outside of Texas?
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/3dmil.html
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/576dmca.html
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/894dmca.html
With what little I have read, it seemed like most victims were friends of Wayne Henley and David Brooks BUT that doesn't mean anything.
Sugie
10-29-2007, 01:11 AM
Just breaks my heart that these three are yet to be identified. If they were from Texas, looks like someone would have identified them by now. I guess it is possible that they were kids of the street, with no one to care about them.....how terribly sad.
marysawol
10-29-2007, 01:28 AM
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1008umtx.html
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1010umtx.html
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1009umtx.html
and is this a possible match for 1009umtx
http://charleyproject.org/cases/p/prater_norman.html
I think Prater is a perfect match to 1008umtx!
kline
10-29-2007, 04:12 AM
I think Prater is a likely candidate too,I know Dallas is a long ways from Houston but I also know that on a couple of occasions Corll had managed to postmark letters from Austin that he had forced a couple of victims to write to thier parents to try and make it appear they had got jobs out of state and simply left town in order to lay cover for himself.
So I think he's a distinct possibity.
Somebody else brought up Dermot Kelly on another thread I have real strong gut feeling about him.
I have to wonder if after he left his parents house (It doesnt say under what circumstances..a fight?)he possibly didnt eventually end up in Houston and perhaps he may have been a victim that Brooks and Corll picked up hitchhiking? Brooks mentioned such an incident in his statement to police.
believe09
10-29-2007, 12:36 PM
I think Prater is a likely candidate too,I know Dallas is a long ways from Houston but I also know that on a couple of occasions Corll had managed to postmark letters from Austin that he had forced a couple of victims to write to thier parents to try and make it appear they had got jobs out of state and simply left town in order to lay cover for himself.
So I think he's a distinct possibity.
Somebody else brought up Dermot Kelly on another thread I have real strong gut feeling about him.
I have to wonder if after he left his parents house (It doesnt say under what circumstances..a fight?)he possibly didnt eventually end up in Houston and perhaps he may have been a victim that Brooks and Corll picked up hitchhiking? Brooks mentioned such an incident in his statement to police.
Kelly and Prater look spot on...amazing. Did anyone contact authorities? I have a missing cousin since 1978, and I can't believe what it might be like to put it to rest, how ever it ends up.
loganone
10-29-2007, 02:10 PM
Kelly and Prater look spot on...amazing. Did anyone contact authorities? I have a missing cousin since 1978, and I can't believe what it might be like to put it to rest, how ever it ends up.
I have sent an email to Doenetwork.
believe09
10-29-2007, 02:30 PM
I have sent an email to Doenetwork.
You are wonderful.
kline
10-30-2007, 03:58 AM
Awesome.Sugie is working contacting Harris county as well.
Even if nothing comes of this at least somebody is trying to do something for these kids.I think it counts alot.
cold case lady
10-30-2007, 08:53 AM
i have a great book on this case and it states that in all 27 bodies were recovered before the police gave up the search,but not all could be identified.A total of 42 young males had gone missing from the houston area since 1970.
kline
10-30-2007, 11:59 PM
Ive never believed that 27 victims was Corll's total.
I think He had killed plenty way before he involved David Brooks and Wayne Henley.
David Brooks claims he stumbled in on Corll at one of his apartments and Corll had two boys shackled to his 'Torture Board'.
This was sometime in 69 or 70. He later bought Brooks a car to keep his mouth shut and admitted that he later killed the boys and they were "shipped off somewhere to California".
That indicates to me his M.O. and ritual was fully developed before he involved Henley and Brooks.
That takes trail and error and a number of victims usually.
Corll always maintained to Henley and Brooks that he belonged to an organization based out of Dallas that "Bought and sold boys."
Neither one of his accomplisses believed him and neither did Law Enforcement but who knows?
Speaking of L.E...it is absolutely shameful the half hearted way they investigated this case under Chief Short's administration.
They seem to have just wanted the case and the subsequent criticism to just go away.
Reading contemporary news quotes from Short and other Law Enforcement officials its obvious that they wrote off the victims as white trash little hippie creeps who got what they had coming and their parents as idiots who should have raised their kids better.
Its not surprising the officers in the field took their cue from their supervisors.
One would hope that todays Houston Police Dept. has a more enlightened attitude.
But to my original point,I still believe that Corll not only surpassed John Wayne Gacy in sheer savagery but in his body count as well.
One of the detectives still maintains that there are bodies in the boat shed Corll buried the majority of his victims in.
But they couldnt get any decent digging equipment from the city of Houston to thoroughly excavate it so they just stopped at Henley's estimation of how many were buried there.
In the months subsequent to his death,Corll had been bugging the lady who owned the boat storage business he rented from.
He told her he wanted to rent another unit because the one he had was full.
cold case lady
10-31-2007, 01:31 AM
considering he was born in 1939,he could have started to kill from a very young age.LE could look back to the mid 40s and where he lived to see if there are any connections.Run aways are alot harder.These were the days when people didn't lock their houses and the world was generally thought to be much safer!
cold case lady
10-31-2007, 07:30 AM
those doe network cases.Where the three boys found in the same spot on august 8?
kline
10-31-2007, 06:46 PM
Since,August 8th was the day Henley shot Dean Corll and they started digging in the boat shed that afternoon,I would assume that,that's where they were found ,apparently among some of the last killed .
They also found that day James Stanton Dreymala 13,Corll's last victim,who Corll lured to his Pasadena home with the promise of pop bottles to return for the refund money,and Charles Cobble and Marty Ray Jones,two aquaintances of Wayne Henley.
I dont know who all else they found that first day.
cold case lady
11-01-2007, 12:26 AM
brooks went to the police and volunteered a statement,when he heard about the shooting of corll by henley in the news.Brooks told police that he was one of the local boys that had been offered candy by corll,beginning in 1967 when he was 12.Three years later he moved in with corll,who paid him a few dollars for oral sex.
kline
11-01-2007, 10:46 AM
Right.I sure wish either Brooks or Henley would take two minutes to look at the reconstruction photos and the photos of the personal effects found with these unidentified kids.
I think they could help alot.Of course I dont think that will ever happen.
Like I said earlier Henley has already refused.
A point that I hope is a factor in any future parole hearing.
I hope Sugie has some luck with Harris county checking this out.
You know this discussion has made me think about how strange it is that in spite of the world wide attention in the press and news media this case recieved in 1973,it seems to have kind of faded into obscurity in the public conscienceness as opposed to the John Wayne Gacy case.
There are only two slim volumes written about it one of which has been out of print since 1974.
Of course fromwhat I understand Journalist and would be writers interested in this case were met with something less then open arms and in some cases outright hostility by the Powers That Be and the neighborhood of the Heights.
So tht may have something to do with it.
Frankly I was less then impressed with Jack Olsen's book.he wrote much better books about far less interesting cases later on.
It would be great to see a good crime writer take an investigative look at this case.Maybe the passing of time would allow for a more concise overview.
To me there are still so many unanswered questions.
It would be interesting for someone to talk to Billy Riddinger the boy who somehow for some reason Brooks talked Corll and Henley into releasing him from the board and letting him go.
What the heck was that all about?
It would also be interesting to hear Timothy Kerley and Rhonda Williams point of view about the morning Dean Corll was killed.To my knowledge except for whatever Billy Riddinger told the grand jury that has never happened.
Of course its hard to say whatever became of these people after all this time.
matknee
11-03-2007, 01:25 PM
You are quite right, I just happened upon this story while researching another case and until, knew nothing about it. What caught my attention is when you stated that corll had told brooks and henley that he belonged to an organization that "bought and sold boys." This isn't the first time I have heard this mentioned. While researching the kidnapping of John Gosch and the alledged role paul bonacci played in his kidnapping, this same statement was made about an organization that "bought and sold boys" in houston, tx. I am still trying to come to grips with the fact that is this really happening in america? I am apalled to say the least
cparks
12-12-2007, 02:52 PM
I remember the friends that I lost. I know we were not so poor that we could not afford to be looked for. I know it is more than hard for a parent to want to see if those bones are their childs. Knowing what happened to them. One was finnaly claimed more than a decade later. I was listening to the news and they said his name. God rest his soul. It was by his I.D. braclett (we all wore these) popular at the time. I remember he came over to hang out sometimes. This is not running away. We were friends.
kline
12-15-2007, 05:30 AM
Hi cparks!
Did you live in the Heights area during the early 70's?
Weve been discusing the three unidentified sets of remains the harris county coroner still has from this case as youve probably gathered.
One of the reconstructions they did bears a remarkable resemblance to a missing boy from the midwest who dissappared iin 1972.
I sure would like to hear any input you have about this case.
cparks
12-15-2007, 11:44 AM
Hello Kline,
I lived in Langwood, not far from the Heights. I'm sure not all of the victims are from the Heights, but I must say the Heights is not a poor area. It was a horrible reason to not find out the truth, to say it was just some poor kids! The truth is one of the victims parent was a Houston police officer and still they wouldn't go to the other areas that had bodies.Even when they were told where. History is a funny thing. I remember it diffrently than what I've read. As young teens, it was fun to go visit or hang out at new friends places, to hitchhike, to party. We didn't run away we went partying, with the intent on going home later. Some of us had bad parents just like today.People fall into the cracks everyday. I servived the 70's. There are more bodies. I can see from my perspective a dislike and disrespect of teens by the public that I lived with as did my friends at the time. Is your intrest because of the three? Picture it, hot summer Houston, a bunch of partying teens found under a boat shed. They just stopped digging. Damn. Nowadays you can call the police and report a runaway and get a case number. We were not even a number back then.
Yes,the resemblance is uncanny
kline
12-16-2007, 04:18 AM
Hi Cparks!
This case has always interested me,I was a teenager too when it broke in 1973,its always haunted me.
There certainly hasnt been much written about it since.
I grew up in Idaho but I know what you mean about the attitude Law Enforcement seemed to have towards "long haired dope smokin' kids" back in those days.
It was the same here.
I think it was a real cheap coping method for Police to write off these kids as worthless kids from disfunctional families,shift some of the blame away from them back towards the victims in this case.
Because there was a lot of criticism directed their way in the press both nationally and internationally that this horror was allowed to be perpetuated on their watch.
Im grateful things are more enlightened now.Look at the effort Harris County is going to in 2007 to indentify these kids.
I agree Corll killed more then 27 victims,according to detectives they took Henley's estimate for the number of bodies in the boat shed at face value and said 'thats it'.
Several have expressed the opinion there are more inthe shed and in Galveston as well.
MidnightQ
04-01-2008, 04:59 PM
Anything new on the post?
kline
04-02-2008, 04:59 AM
Nothing that I know of ,so far there has been no news from Harris county on thier Unidentifieds from Corll's boat shed and some of the possible missings posted on doe network brought to their attention by various members of this board.
Hopefully something will come of it.
Im sure its difficult in the extreme to track down relatives from a 30 year old missing persons case in another state for DNA,when people could have moved ect.
Some of these cases have very little info in the hands of present day Law Enforcement as well.
believe09
06-08-2008, 09:31 PM
here is a beautiful AP article on the coroner who is determined to ID the last victims of Corll and his guys...the mito dna samples were sent to the University of Texas for processing...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080608/ap_on_re_us/unidentified;_ylt=AqeWnYWRq8cIkoiZ04trH05vzwcF
Salem
06-09-2008, 09:41 PM
Here's another article. This one has their pictures again.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/coroner-seeks-identities-of-killers/20080609091009990001?icid=100214839x1203587310x120 0141363
I don't know how to do the tiny url so hope this works.
Salem
anthrobones
06-09-2008, 10:38 PM
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1008umtx.html
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1010umtx.html
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1009umtx.html
and is this a possible match for 1009umtx
http://charleyproject.org/cases/p/prater_norman.html
I would ssy go ahead and submit this as a possible match. It certainly can't hurt.
anthrobones
06-09-2008, 10:51 PM
With what little I have read, it seemed like most victims were friends of Wayne Henley and David Brooks BUT that doesn't mean anything.
So are Brooks and Henley still alive?
SeekingJana
06-10-2008, 12:54 AM
OK, I think Corll killed many many more victims than have been unearthed ( literally).
What happened to the marina land where the known victims' remains were found? Has any organized excavation ever been done since the 70's?
IMO, we only have a small piece of a large puzzle. Since Corll was murdered, we may never know where he traveled and who he killed before he picked up his two young accomplices.
They say the term " serial killer" wasn't coined when Corll killed. I think he got away with murdering his preferred victims- young white males- for many years. I read an article that said he may be responsible for as many as 200 " missing" boys from the 50s and 60s.
I doubt he ever preferred to work alone. But, the question is, did he kill his earlier accomlices ( his bait) like he was going to kill these two? If the earlier accomplices were killed, then talk about a cold trail.
I agree with whoever said that this man is probably worse than John Wayne Gacy. I think he got away with murders for over 20 years, maybe more.
JMHO, sadly.
Maria
anthrobones
06-10-2008, 03:17 AM
With regard to 1010, USMC means U.S. Marine Corps, right? What is L84MF? Does that mean anything?
"a khaki long-sleeved t-shirt that tied in front and had a large peace symbol and the letters “USMC” and “L84MF” on the back"
docwho3
06-10-2008, 09:18 AM
For all I know it might be that L84MF might be a military number but:
Just out of curiosity I tried searching for variations of the L84MF & when I tried L24MF I got a search hit. It is an address in MX, Example:Costa Diamante, Suite L24MF. (costa diamante (Puerto Penasco/Rocky Point, Sonora, MX) ) Not sure that has anything to do with the case but Mexico not so far from parts of Texas.
Synthia1021
06-10-2008, 10:54 AM
anthrobones.. post #34
This is a scarey thought, but it gave me chills when I saw L84MF
The only thing I ever knew L84MF meant was Late (L8) for (4) My (M) funeral (F).
believe09
06-10-2008, 09:59 PM
anthrobones.. post #34
This is a scarey thought, but it gave me chills when I saw L84MF
The only thing I ever knew L84MF meant was Late (L8) for (4) My (M) funeral (F).
Considering the times, this might actually make sense-i wonder if the shirt was hand-lettered or mass produced?
BeavisMom62
06-10-2008, 10:35 PM
anthrobones.. post #34
This is a scarey thought, but it gave me chills when I saw L84MF
The only thing I ever knew L84MF meant was Late (L8) for (4) My (M) funeral (F).
Spooky!:eek:
MidnightQ
06-11-2008, 11:32 AM
What about David Wayne Waggoner
http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/gallery/ncmaprofile_all.php?A200401219S
or Raymond Dale Harris
http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/gallery/ncmaprofile_all.php?A200604238S
J. Brannagh
06-16-2008, 04:22 PM
Has anyone ever gone back to that boat storage place and tried to look for more remains? It sounds like they didn't do a thorough job back then and they would still be there if that is the case. His chilling comment that he was trying to rent another storage shed because the other one was full just makes my blood go cold.
If they haven't done it... they should!
J. Brannagh
06-16-2008, 04:25 PM
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1008umtx.html
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1010umtx.html
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1009umtx.html
and is this a possible match for 1009umtx
http://charleyproject.org/cases/p/prater_norman.html
I agree that he is a good match... the area between the nose and the upper lip appears to be similar in these two... a little longer than is common. it is a little hard to picture them as they were back in the 70s the way they made the composites is a little too current.
Anubis
10-24-2008, 08:42 PM
Did they rule out Norman Prater? I thought he looks like one of the three unID'd. They shirt he was wearing was probably Corll's as Corll was in the Marines. He could have picked him up hitchhiking or met him anywhere in Dallas/Houston. One of the boys he killed was coming from Austin so it seems likely.
kline
10-25-2008, 06:05 AM
From what I understand they have a strong lead on one of the boys,a teenager who disappeared from the Heights in the early seventies.
Theyve located his sisters in another Texas city and have DNA samples from them.The reults should be in any time.
Its funny I look at the recent effort that was taken to locate the remains of that one boy in California who was the victim of a serial killer in the 1960's where they thought his remains were buried adjacent to a freeway.
They used sonar, cadaver sniffing dogs and a massive excavation effort in an admirable but failed attempt to find this poor kids body involving several law enforcement agencies.
Yet in Harris County Texas its almost a sure bet that there are more bodies in Boat Stall number #11 and as far as I know nothing has been done.
Of course Im sure the prospect of having yet more of Dean Corll's unidentified victims on their hands is not something they would relish.Still...
Saucey
10-25-2008, 09:43 AM
Hi I have been reading the boards for a while now but this is my first post. I came upon this thread this morning. Since I had never heard of this case I googled Dean Corll to try to get more information about it. The first link I found was to a wikipedia article with the following quote:
In October of 2008, Sharon Derrick with the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office identified ML73-3349 as Randall Lee Harvey, a teenage boy who just seemed to vanish from the streets of Houston on March 11, 1971. Harvey, who had been shot in the head, was wearing a navy blue jacket with red lining, jeans and lace-up boots. A plastic orange pocket comb was also found with his body.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Corll
I know that wiki articles can be edited by anyone and I wouldn't have any idea how to verify is this information is correct, but based on the description of the clothing in the article it seems to be this person.
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1009umtx.html
suzannec4444
10-25-2008, 11:02 AM
Hi
http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/991730.html
kline
10-27-2008, 05:55 AM
Thanks for that link Suzanne!
I had been waiting to hear the results of that DNA test.
This case is the first true crime case to catch my interest.
And its still one that im facinated by as well as one of the most horrific Ive ever heard of.
David Brooks had mentioned "The Tall Skinny Kid" in his original statement to police back in August of '73.
Sadly unless Im mistaken he was killed at the Schuller street address where according to Brooks,Wayne Henley's sadism and savagery in assisting Corll in the torture of these poor kids reached something of a peak.
kline
10-27-2008, 06:45 AM
OK, I think Corll killed many many more victims than have been unearthed ( literally).
What happened to the marina land where the known victims' remains were found? Has any organized excavation ever been done since the 70's?
IMO, we only have a small piece of a large puzzle. Since Corll was murdered, we may never know where he traveled and who he killed before he picked up his two young accomplices.
They say the term " serial killer" wasn't coined when Corll killed. I think he got away with murdering his preferred victims- young white males- for many years. I read an article that said he may be responsible for as many as 200 " missing" boys from the 50s and 60s.
I doubt he ever preferred to work alone. But, the question is, did he kill his earlier accomlices ( his bait) like he was going to kill these two? If the earlier accomplices were killed, then talk about a cold trail.
I agree with whoever said that this man is probably worse than John Wayne Gacy. I think he got away with murders for over 20 years, maybe more.
JMHO, sadly.
Maria
According to more then one of the original detectives involved in the removal of bodies from Stall#11 at the boat storage facilty Corll rented from they thought it a certainty that more bodies remained.
The search was plagued by heat, stench and the inabilty or unwillingness of the City of Houston to provide them with adequate digging equipment .
It wasnt even remotely processed like a crime scene would be today.
Essentially detectives in their business suits and three of four trustees from the local drunk tank (Some of them quivering from DT'S) went in and started digging away first with shovels and then later a small crappy backhoe.
It got to the point where they were according to one of them sloshing around in mud made from dirt and shell and rotten blood and body fluids.
Reaching in and grabbing handfulls of bones and tissue and dividing them into aproximately equal piles.
After the second day the sickened and discouraged cops had reached the aproximate number of bodies that Henley had estimated for the stall and they gave up and called it quits.
A few days later they had a dumptruck full of fresh crushed shell and dirt come in and fill up the area that had been dug in the stall and they smoothed it over and left.
anthrobones
10-27-2008, 08:24 PM
Why wasn't he listed as a missing person on Doe Network?
kline
10-28-2008, 03:51 AM
Why wasn't he listed as a missing person on Doe Network?Good Question.
Sadly im afraid there are probably many from the late 60's and early 70's who arent listed.
So many people during those times especially L.E. assumed "Oh well,They've done run off with their Hippie friends.Probably headed to California."
Ive come to the conclusion that although there are a few promising simularities to a few listed missings the other two Houston UID's probably arent on anyones list either.
Its hard to find clues as David Brooks' statement accounts for only about less then half of the victims as far as sparse details of the killings go and to my knowledge no one has ever set down and interviewed Brooks or Wayne Henley in any depth aside from the brief 'What the hell has been going on here,you little freak??" interview Detectives gave Henley on the morning after they shut down digging for the first night in the Boat stall.
Of course they shortly lawyered up and after their convictions neither one of them has been volunteering information not that appears that anyone has been asking until quite recently.
KivaSupporter
10-28-2008, 05:08 PM
The victim was located August 8, 1973 in Houston, Harris County, Texas. He was identified in October 2008 as 15-year-old Randell Lee Harvey, missing since March 11, 1971. Harvey was 1 of 27 victims of Houston serial killer Dean Corll.
http://www.doenetwork.org Identified victims
kline
10-31-2008, 04:14 AM
I thought it kind of strange that David Brooks identified Randel Harvey as 'The Tall Skinny Guy' in his statement.
He claimed he was a victim that 'Dean and Wayne got by themselves'
Yet Randal dissappeared in March of 1971 and Wayne Henley didnt become associated with Dean Corll until late that same year.
Nyla4
11-04-2008, 05:25 PM
Hello, I'm new to posting here but have been a long time reader. Can anyone link to David Brooks's statement to the police? I would love to read it. Also Wayne Henley's statement. I've been having trouble finding info about them on the Internet. I also would love to hear all your opinions on what happened. (not the torture details) Just who was involved first Brooks and Henley and how did they get involved with Corll? Can you all believe that Henley want's parole! That makes me sick!
kline
11-07-2008, 04:25 AM
Hello, I'm new to posting here but have been a long time reader. Can anyone link to David Brooks's statement to the police? I would love to read it. Also Wayne Henley's statement. I've been having trouble finding info about them on the Internet. I also would love to hear all your opinions on what happened. (not the torture details) Just who was involved first Brooks and Henley and how did they get involved with Corll? Can you all believe that Henley want's parole! That makes me sick!
You can find David Brooks statement in the book 'The Man With The Candy' by Jack Olsen.
Im pretty sure they have it on Amazon.
Henley's full statement has never been published to my knowledge though Author Jack Olsen paraphrases the basic content in the book.
John Gurwell wrote a book called 'Mass Murder in Houston'in 1974 personally I think its better then Olsen's but its been out of print for decades and hard to find unless you want to pay 50 bucks for a used copy on Amazon.
Those are the only two books on the subject to my knowledge.
Its hard to find info on the case even though it recieved massive publicity at the time.
Investigative reporters were not very welcome either by people in the Heights or by the powers that be in Houston.
Of course other attrocoites soon came along in the 70's and it kind of receded in peoples collective memories.
To answer your question David Brooks became friends with Dean Corll in the 60's as an elementary school child.
Dean began molesting him at an early age and paying him money.
Brooks supposedly found Dean in his home with two victims strapped to his 'torture board' Brooks said Corll bought him a car to insure his silence.
At some point Brooks started helping Dean obtain his victims and was present when many of them were abused and murdered.
At some point he introduced Wayne Henley to Corll(Henley says he believes he was an intended victim) instead Corll offered him 200 dollars for every boy he brought him.
Henley took him up on the offer and soon was participating fully in the Torture and Murder and burying of bodies.
Both boys spent much of their time with Corll who apparently kept them supplied with spending cash drugs and alchohol.
I seriously doubt either one of them will ever be paroled.
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