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Din KorrlSerial maniac
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Content:
- American Serial Killer
- A Charming Neighbor
- Aid from Unlikely Suspects
- The Unveiling of the Grim Truth
- Source: The Most Dangerous Maniacs
American Serial Killer
As a rule, mass murderers eventually fall into the hands of the police, despite all the precautions they take. Sometimes, they are "turned in" by their own accomplices. This is exactly what happened in the case of the horrifying string of murders of over thirty teenagers in Houston. The climax came on August 8, 1973, when seventeen-year-old Elmer Wayne Henley walked into the Houston police headquarters and confessed to just having killed his friend, thirty-three-year-old Dean Allen Corll. He stated that this occurred during another orgy in which eighteen-year-old David Owen Brooks also participated. The police went to the specified address and indeed found the bodies of Corll and the boy and girl he had killed earlier. An investigation began, during which many interesting facts came to light.
A Charming Neighbor
First and foremost, it was once again confirmed that reputation and appearance can often be deceiving. This was the case with Dean Allen Corll. Neighbors and acquaintances spoke highly of the 33-year-old electrician from Houston: "Dean was a wonderful neighbor, a truly good guy. Witty, funny... He took care of his lawn and never meddled in other people's business." "He always had candies in his pocket, which he would share with the kids." "Such a sweet, polite man! Always well-groomed and dressed nicely... He had such an inviting smile. And how he loved children! Sometimes in the evenings, he would take them for rides on his motorcycle. And in his truck, he even installed seats to take the kids to the beach on Sundays." However, it turned out that this "sweet and polite" electrician, sometimes alone and sometimes with the help of two underachieving high school students - seventeen-year-old Elmer Wayne Henley and eighteen-year-old David Owen Brooks - had killed around 40 teenagers.
Aid from Unlikely Suspects
"He was a very polite young man," said a pastor of a church next to Corll's bungalow when asked about Henley. "He helped me with the youth congregation." "Brooks is just an ordinary guy, tall and calm," said someone who knew him. "Henley was a loving son and brother," his family said. "He always helped everyone and never forgot to call if he was running late..." What were these three up to?
"For three years," Elmer Henley recounted, "I helped Corll organize orgies. I was tasked with finding new victims, and I had more of them than needed. I knew all the guys in our neighborhood. Just drive up to the highway, and you could easily find boys who needed a ride. I promised them a great party with drinks and drugs, and they immediately agreed... Corll promised to pay me $200 for each new recruit I brought, but he only paid $10-20 irregularly... That night, I brought a twenty-year-old guy and a fourteen-year-old girl to Corll. He got really mad because he couldn't stand women. But then he seemed to calm down, and the four of us got high on drugs. When I woke up, I saw that the guy and the girl were already bound and lying on the sacrificial table. But I was also handcuffed. I pretended to take it as a joke and convinced Corll to remove the handcuffs. He freed me but threatened that he wouldn't spare me next time if I dared to bring another girl. I immediately helped him send both of them to the other side. Then, taking advantage of the moment when he was distracted, I grabbed his revolver and shot him five times in the head..."
Henley detailed how his senior accomplice lured teenagers into his home, tied them to a "torture board", tortured them, and then killed them. Each year, over a million boys and girls run away from home for various reasons, and a significant portion of Corll's victims were classified by the police as belonging to this category. This is why decent sadists like them remained unpunished for so long - their victims were not reported missing.
The Unveiling of the Grim Truth
Henley not only confessed to the police but also showed them the locations where they buried the bodies of the murdered teenagers. One of these places was a beach in Galveston, on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, where kind-hearted Corll would take the children for swimming and sunbathing on Sundays.
Henley led the police to a shed, used to store a motorboat, where fifteen bodies were unearthed.
The number of discovered corpses then rose to twenty-seven. Subsequently, searches for bodies began in southern Texas.
The killers' portraits appeared in newspapers and on television screens. They were interviewed.
Eva Furnier, a special correspondent for the newspaper "Franssuar," concludes: "Wayne put an end to Corll's monstrous orgies not out of mercy for his victims, but out of fear for himself."
