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27 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Where Is Elmer Wayne Henley Now? Inside His Life Today, 5 Decades After Helping the 'Candy Man' Serial Killer
Elmer Wayne Henley assisted Dean Corll in killing six of his 28 victims NEED TO KNOW From 1970 to 1973, Dean Corll murdered at least 28 boys and young men in the Houston area He enlisted two teenage accomplices to help find his victims: David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley Henley shot and killed Corll in August 1973, and was later given six life sentences for his role in the murders Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. could have been one of Dean Corll's many victims. Instead, he became the serial killer's teenage accomplice. Dubbed the 'Candy Man' by the media, Corll — a seemingly friendly man known for handing out candy to kids in Houston — was responsible for the deaths of at least 28 boys and young men in the early 1970s. Henley — a teenager himself — and neighbor David Owen Brooks helped lure victims to Corll's Pasadena, Texas, home 'under false promises of fun,' per the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Once inside, Corll would torture, rape and kill them. Henley took part in at least six murders. All of Corll's victims were between the ages of 13 and 20. The crimes came to light in 1973, when Henley fatally shot Corll during a confrontation. He and Brooks were later sentenced to life in prison for their roles in the murders. Henley's story is explored in the Investigation Discovery (ID) documentary The Killer's Apprentice with forensic psychologist Dr. Katherine Ramsland, which debuts on Aug. 17. Reflecting on their first meeting, Henley said, 'I believe that I was originally taken over to Dean's as a victim. What scares me is, did Dean recognize a fellow psychopath?' So, where is Elmer Wayne Henley now? Here's everything to know about the convicted killer and his role in the infamous Houston mass murders. Who is Elmer Wayne Henley? Henley is a convicted murderer and former accomplice of Corll. While growing up, Henley said his father was abusive, once firing a gun at him, he told Texas Monthly in April 1976. Henley assumed the role of a surrogate father, working odd jobs to support his mother. Henley said he met Corll through his former classmate and neighbor, Brooks, he told Texas Monthly. Twice Henley's age, Corll impressed the teenager because he had 'a steady job ... wasn't a wild drunk, got along with kids and people in general.' Henley's mother told police that Corll was 'like a father" to Henley, according to the publication. 'Dean's front was wholesome and masculine,' Henley said. 'He was a loner in his own right. He could be around people, but still you never knew what Dean Corll was doing. No matter how much you talked to him, you didn't know him.' At first, Corll involved Henley and Brooks in petty thefts, per Texas Monthly. But soon, he asked them to procure boys he claimed to be selling to a nonexistent slave market in Dallas. Henley and Brooks were paid $200 for each victim. What was Elmer Wayne Henley accused of? In addition to luring many of Corll's victims to his home between 1970 and 1973, Henley murdered at least six boys throughout Corll's killing spree. He later told Texas Monthly that he was curious about killing before he began getting involved in Corll's crimes. 'I mean, you see people getting strangled on television and it looks easy,' he said. 'It's not. Sometimes it takes two people half an hour.' To keep his teenage accomplices from talking, Ramsland told PEOPLE in August 2025 that Corll used an 'idea of a larger sex trafficking network' that would go after them and their families if 'they did anything out of line.' How many victims were killed in the Houston mass murders? The three men were responsible for the deaths of 28 people between 1970 and 1973, some of whom were Henley's friends. Only one of Corll's victims hasn't been identified, and the true death toll will likely never be known, according to the NCMEC. What happened to Dean Corll? On Aug. 8, 1973, police responded to a 911 call at Corll's home and found him dead from multiple gunshot wounds. Henley, then 17, told officers he had shot the serial killer six times in self-defense after Corll tried to kill him and two friends, including a 15-year-old girl, per ID. He went on to reveal Corll's crimes and led investigators to several sites where victims' bodies were buried, according to the NCMEC. At the time of the murders, Corll was working as an electrician. He was 33 when he died, per The New York Times. What happened to David Owen Brooks? Brooks turned himself in to the police the day after Henley was arrested, per ABC13. Though he consistently denied participating in the murders, he was convicted of killing a 15-year-old boy in March 1975, per The New York Times. Brooks was sentenced to life in prison and died of COVID-19 complications in May 2020, according to ABC13. Where is Elmer Wayne Henley now? After pleading not guilty, Henley was convicted in 1974 of murdering six boys, per The New York Times, and was given six consecutive life sentences in prison. His multiple parole requests have been denied, with his most recent being in 2015. He'll be eligible for parole again in October 2025, per ABC13. Ramsland told PEOPLE that Henley has resigned himself to the possibility that he will die in prison, saying, 'He goes back and forth with recognizing the things that he did and that he has a just punishment." During his incarceration, Henley took up painting and even had his work featured in local galleries in 1997 and 1998, according to the Houston Chronicle. FOX 26 reported in January 2016 that the convicted murderer had a Facebook page that he used, through a third-party, to sell his artwork and handmade jewelry. Read the original article on People
New York Post
29 minutes ago
- New York Post
A day with the FBI: My perp walk, handcuffs, strip search and leg irons for a politically motivated misdemeanor
It is an interesting thing to suddenly lose one's freedom. It would be very interesting on this day, June 3, 2022. The first thing FBI agents do when they grab you is pull your arms behind you and put you in handcuffs. No matter how gently they might try to do it, it's still going to take a pretty good pull on your shoulder sockets. And in this case, they weren't particularly gentle. Advertisement I no doubt appeared to these five armed FBI agents to be a very dangerous hombre. After all, I was 74 years old, I weigh 145 pounds soaking wet and top out at a gargantuan 5'7″. Once I was handcuffed, they walked me out the back door of the gangway at Reagan National Airport and down some portable steps onto the tarmac, where they had a tiny car waiting to transport me first back to the FBI headquarters — it's across the street from my apartment — and then eventually to the courthouse. Advertisement At the time, Walt Giardina seemed to actually be a kind of pleasant fellow when not armed to the teeth. He presented as the quintessential 'Good Nazi' just 'doing his duty' without the courage to stand up to the FBI and Department of Justice. I would subsequently learn, however, from internal DOJ and FBI documents that Giardina was every bit a bad FBI seed who would willingly and willfully abuse power to advance partisan interests — think James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page. Giardina belongs right with them. Such behavior is in all likelihood an enduring vestige of an organizational culture of fear and intimidation that dates back to the days of J. Edgar Hoover. Let's remember that when Hoover wasn't crossdressing and putting on lipstick for his own private cameras, he was abusing the FBI to spy on American icons like Martin Luther King and John and Bobby Kennedy and to gather dirt on as many congressmen as possible to make sure he would never get fired. Advertisement 4 Navarro answers media questions after an absurd and grueling day with the FBI in June 2022. Getty Images Power has always corrupted, and the absolute power the FBI wields has always corrupted that anything-but-heroic agency. Once I arrived at the HQ, I got my first taste of a truly evil FBI pr-ck. Big bald dude with bulging biceps who told me to keep my mouth shut and do exactly what I was told. At least this dumb brute gave me my first of what would be three good laughs of my FBI day. It was indeed at least semi-hilarious, as said brute couldn't work his machine well enough to actually take my fingerprints. Advertisement My second laugh would quickly follow as Walt and his partner, who I nicknamed Clouseau, put me back in their Keystone Cops car and off we went to the District Court a few blocks away, where I would be arraigned. It would have been the simplest thing in the world for me to walk the few blocks down that morning from my apartment and simply report to the court and thereby avoid all the guns, terrorism of my fiancée and CNN theatrics. But of course that would miss the Biden regime's weaponized point — perp walk and punish a Trump official to boost its reputation in the eyes of this country's adoring left wing. The laugh came when these two clowns couldn't figure out just how to get into the building. They had to circle it a couple of times while they made some frantic phone calls. Finally, they found the magic engine at the back of the building that opens up into a big freight elevator that swallows up your car and takes you down to the dungeon. Let the humiliating strip search begin. First, it was off with my tie and belt so I wouldn't hang myself in the cell. Don't worry, I certainly wasn't that desperate yet. Second, there was the bend over and strip search. Hardly necessary unless you wanted to intimidate the prisoner, but hey, I was just along for their rough ride. Advertisement Third, and this is where the fun really began, they put me in a pair of 15-pound leg irons. They assured me this was just 'procedure' that everybody got; how could they treat me any differently? Fair enough. Why should I, a former White House official and senior adviser to the president, who had saved hundreds of thousands of lives and created hundreds of thousands of jobs and who had now been charged with a misdemeanor, be treated any better than the usual felonious parade of rapists, thieves, murderers, drug addicts, burglars, pimps and hookers they usually get to process in the court's dungeon? All I could wonder at the time is whether this was what they were going to do to Donald Trump if they ever got their hands and handcuffs on him. 4 Navarro served in President Trump's first term — and is also an adviser in his second. Getty Images Advertisement My last comic moment of the day would come when they walked me out of the strip-search area towards my cell. Here I am in leg irons, having been told to follow this big 6'2″ guard with a long and brisk stride down a long and dimly lit hallway; and at best, all I could do is shuffle off to Buffalo to the cell awaiting me at a snail's pace. When I finally catch up with the guy after almost pulling a hamstring — nice-enough fellow I thanked for his service sincerely — he leads me into what would be my jail cell for the next several hours. For whatever reason, he then goes out of his way to tell me this was the same jail cell John Hinckley sat in after he shot Ronald Reagan. Advertisement For the life of me, I couldn't find the moral equivalence there — a senior White House adviser who had failed to comply with a congressional subpoena out of duty to my country and my oath of office versus a deranged dude with a hard-on for Jodie Foster who thought trying to take out one of the best presidents in modern history would get him laid. 4 A prison guard told Navarro his was the same cell Hinckley sat in after shooting Reagan. I literally laughed out loud to the silence that now engulfed me. I got my first taste of prison life. Cold draft. Hard bench without padding. A crapper without a seat or toilet paper. Dim light and not a window in sight. No food at your fingertips. The total absence of any real colors of the rainbow. Advertisement Just a drab, dismal world without clocks, where you are free — and I use the term as ironically and cynically as possible — to contemplate your navel or the cosmos. If it doesn't kill you or bore you to death, it makes you stronger. Well F these Bidenites and jackboots, I thought, I choose stronger. So take your best shot. And that's exactly what they did. It would take more than 600 days. But eventually the bastards did indeed put me in a federal prison. Copyright 2025 Peter Navarro and Bonnie Brenner. Excerpted with permission from Skyhorse Publishing from 'I Went to Prison So You Won't Have To: A Love and Lawfare Story in Trump Land.'
CNN
30 minutes ago
- CNN
Police searching for multiple shooters who killed 3 and wounded 8 at a Brooklyn lounge overnight
Police are searching for multiple shooters who killed three people and wounded eight others in a shooting at a crowded Brooklyn lounge overnight. Multiple 911 calls came in around 3:30 a.m. reporting shots fired at Taste of the City in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood, New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in a news conference early Sunday morning. Officers arrived on scene minutes later and found 11 gunshot victims inside the lounge. Three victims, a 27-year-old man, a 35-year-old man and a male victim whose age is unknown, were pronounced dead, Tisch said. The victims, eight males and three females, range in age from 27 to 61, she said. The remaining victims were taken to area hospitals, Tisch said. Their conditions were unknown early Sunday morning, police told CNN. Detectives found at least 36 shell casings at the scene, Tisch said, along with a firearm in the vicinity – they are working to determine whether it was connected to the shooting. Police believe multiple shooters were involved in the incident, and no suspects are in custody as of Sunday morning. This is an ongoing story and will be updated.
