7 (including Corll, which was ruled to be self-defense)
Span of crimes
March 24, 1972 – July 25, 1973
Country
United States
State(s)
Texas
Date apprehended
August 8, 1973
Imprisoned at
Telford Unit
Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. (born May 9, 1956) is an American serial killer incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) system. Henley was convicted in 1974[1]: 219 for his role as a participant in a series of murders known colloquially as the Houston Mass Murders in which a minimum of 28 teenage boys and young men were abducted, tortured, raped and murdered by Dean Corll between 1970 and 1973. Henley and David Owen Brooks (Corll's other teenage accomplice), together and individually, lured many of the victims to Corll's home. Henley, then 17 years old, shot Corll dead on August 8, 1973.[2]
Henley is serving six consecutive terms of 99 years for his involvement in the Houston Mass Murders,[3] which at the time were characterized as "the deadliest case of serial murders in American history". As a result of Henley killing Corll and Brooks dying in prison in 2020 from COVID-19, Henley is the only one of the trio still alive.
^Olsen, Jack (1974). The Man with the Candy. New York City: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-1283-0.
^Serial Killers ISBN 0-7835-0000-9 p.111
^Kurth, Austin (August 2011). "The Houston Mass Murders: What Really Happened". Texas Monthly. Archived from the original on February 14, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2012.
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