He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment on March 4. I just found that, this show still continues to amaze me a few years after. Serial Killers - Dean Corrl & Elmer Wayne Henley - YouTube Texas has the nations largest prison population, with more than 140,000 people incarcerated in 2022. He had brought enough people to Corll to know what would happen. 15-year-old Michael Baulch was the younger brother of Billy Gene Baulch Jr., who was murdered the previous spring. Twenty-eight young boys killed in all, from 1970 to 1973. As they made their way further into the house, investigators found a catalog of disturbing items, including Corlls torture board, handcuffs, and various tools. I shot him once in the forehead; my hand went down, and I shot him twice in the shoulder. Corll provided him inspiration, and a program, but at some point the apprentice seems to have surpassed the master. The term serial killer had not yet been invented. So when I did something, I enjoyed it, and didnt dwell on it later., It is not incidental that one of Henleys favorite books is Robert Heinleins Stranger in a Strange Land. Emily McCullar is a senior editor covering pop culture, news, and Texas history. That some things are best left under rocks is not a sentiment appropriate for journalists; yet is there any point in plumbing the random, insane horror known as the Houston Murders? Wayne seemed to enjoy causing pain, Brooks told police, a fact Henley readily admits. Porras was reluctant to say whether she considered Henley sincere in his thoughts, saying simply, "I think (the documentary) sends a powerful message. I mean, you see people getting strangled on television and it looks easy. Henley then fired a further three rounds into the rear of his right shoulder and upper back, killing him. Dad was always beating up on my little brothers. At the time, the so-called Houston Mass Murders were described as the most lethal in modern U.S. historythe Pope sent his condolences and Truman Capote considered writing about the case as a sequel to his book In Cold Blood. Wikimedia CommonsDean Corll was viewed as a friend to many children in Houston. He said, Theyre never going to let me out, and Im OK with that.'. So Corll not only provided an addressa curious sense of belonging to his fictitious crime ringhe was also an inspiration, an intimation that life held some mystery beyond the Heights. Because Holden and Bill were in Atlanta working on another case, Wendy and Gregg went to interview him themselves. Texas officials rarely grant compassionate release, though people who are terminally ill, permanently disabled or elderly are potentially eligible for whats called medically recommended intensive supervision. Henley pleaded for his life, promising to participate in the torture and murder of the other youths if Corll released him. The State of Texas presented a total of 82 pieces of evidence . Seated with us in the dentists officeit affords the only privacy in the ward, where Henley is considered safest from the two dozen people who have vowed to kill himis one of his defense attorneys, a retired army officer in owlish spectacles. On June 4, a 15-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.
