He died in prison of COVID-19 in May 2020. Henley was never prosecuted for the murder of Dean Corll because that was considered self defense.ĭavid Brooks was tried in February 1975 for the murder of Billy Ray Lawrence and the following month was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. That conviction was overturned on appeal in December 1978, but he was retried in June 1979 and again convicted and sentenced to six life sentences. Henley was originally convicted on six murders on July 16, 1974, and sentenced to six consecutive 99-year sentences. Many of the victims had been friends or acquaintances of Henley and Brown. Henley directed officers to an area near the south end of Sam Rayburn Lake where they found four bodies, and to a beach on High Island, where they found six more bodies. Henley then led officers to the boat storage facility Corll rented and in which he had buried 17 of his victims. Henley said Corll had paid him and Brooks $200 for each victim they brought to him. Corll agreed, but then Henley took Corll’s gun and shot him to death.Īfter Corll’s other teenage accomplice, 18-year-old David Brooks, turned himself in and confessed, Henley acknowledged that for nearly three years he had been participating in luring teenage boys to Corll’s home where Corll had tortured, raped and killed them, and that he and Brooks had participated in at least some of the murders. At first Henley claimed that he was one of Corll’s intended victims but that he escaped by convincing Corll he would help him torture and kill two other teens - 19-year-old Timothy Kerley and 15-year-old Rhonda Williams, who survived - if Corll would take the handcuffs off him. Read Elmer Wayne Henley, Mass Murderer : An Anthology of True Crime by Ruth Kanton available from Rakuten Kobo. 8, 1973, when he shot and killed Corll and then called the police. He should stay where he is until he dies!” He does NOT deserve to have any compassion for any illness as my brother was not even treated with basic humanity. Wilson, the sister of the trio’s last known victim, 13-year-old James Stanton Dreymala, told the Observer via email that she and her family “feel that can be treated in prison for whatever is wrong with him. Texas Observer explained that “Texas officials rarely grant compassionate release,” noting that The state Board of Pardons and Paroles approved only 76 compassionate release requests in 2019 and 60 in 2020.įamily members of several of the victims have voiced their opposition to Henley’s request. Officials have said they cannot comment on the conditions under which Henley is asking for compassionate release because such medical information is confidential. Dean Corll, left, shortly before he was killed by Elmer Wayne Henley Jr., and Dean Brown at age 18 in 1973
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