[3] O'Bryan's sister-in-law and brother-in-law testified that on the day of Timothy's funeral, he spoke of using the money from Timothy's insurance policy to take a long vacation and buy other items. In school, Corll was reportedly a well-behaved, yet solitary, young boy. [55]:31 Despite the assault, Brooks continued to assist Corll in the abductions of the victims. [193] Waldrop stated that on one of the many occasions when he visited the HPD,[194] the police chief had simply told him, "Why are you down here? Corll told Henley he was mad about bringing a girl to the house, adding: "I'm gonna kill you all! Some victims had been shot, others strangled,[160] the ligatures still wrapped tightly around their necks. A few days later, the Scott family received a postcard, which was supposedly written by Mark. O'Bryan continued to maintain his innocence. Whenever he visited his father in Houston, he also visited Corll, who allowed him to stay at his apartment if he wished. Forensic scientists subsequently deduced that the youth had died of asphyxiation caused by manual strangulation and a cloth gag that had been placed in his mouth. From the very start, Corll played a crucial role in the company. Everett Waldrop, the father of Donald and Jerry Waldrop, complained that shortly after his sons had disappeared in 1971, he had informed police an acquaintance had observed Corll burying what appeared to be bodies at his boat shed. I can't have you kill all my friends! [78], One month later, on March 24, 1972,[79] Henley, Brooks, and Corll encountered an 18-year-old acquaintance of Henley's named Frank Aguirre leaving a restaurant on Yale Street, where the youth worked. Shortly thereafter, he and his family moved to the northern outskirts of Houston so that the family candy business could be closer to the city where the majority of their product was sold. But while Corll started to torture Kerley, Henley grabbed Corll's gun and shouted: "I can't go on any longer! After they had spent several hours beating each other, Jones was tied to a board and forced to watch Cobble again be assaulted, tortured, and shot to death before he himself was again raped, tortured, and strangled with a Venetian blind cord. The three used Corlls Plymouth GTX muscle car or his white van to lure the boys, often using candy, alcohol, or drugs to get them inside the vehicle. After finding the 26th and 27th bodies, tied together, at High Island Beach on August 13, the search for any further victims was terminated,[294] despite Henley's insistence that two further bodies had been buried on the beach in 1972. [186] On August 13, both Henley and Brooks again accompanied the police to High Island Beach, where four more bodies were found, making a total of 27 known victims the worst killing spree in American history at the time. The group drank heavily and huffed paint to get high before they all fell asleep. "Its unconscionable what Brooks was responsible for. Brooks was convicted of one murder and received a life sentence as well. At the time of Konen's disappearance, Corll lived in an apartment on Yorktown Street, near the intersection with Westheimer Road. [185] That afternoon, both Henley and Brooks accompanied police to High Island Beach, leading police to the shallow graves of two victims. UPC. And Brooks apparently agreed. Kerley had been stripped naked. He and Brooks soon made official confessions stating their involvement in the crimes and offered to show police where the victims were buried. How that man was able to go out to that storage shed, time after time, and bury one more dead boy is something I'll never understand. The parents rushed upstairs to find their son asleep, holding the unconsumed candy. ", 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY | YOUR AD CHOICES | SITEMAP, Dean Corll became known as the 'candy man' killer for his horrific spree in the early 1970s, Searching one of Corll's mass graves in 1973 - the object in the wheelbarrow is a skull, Elmar Wayne Henley in 2008 at the Mark W. 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Also, to anyone I have offended in any way during my 39 years, I pray and ask your forgiveness, just as I forgive anyone who offended me in any way. She eventually remarried a traveling salesman, and the family settled in Vidor, Texas. Candyman is a 1992 American gothic supernatural horror film, written and directed by Bernard Rose and starring Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, and Vanessa E. Williams.Based on Clive Barker's short story "The Forbidden", the film follows a Chicago graduate student completing a thesis on urban legends and folklore, which leads her to the legend of the "Candyman", the . Texas EquuSearch announced Sunday it will soon begin searching for the. Henley fired three additional bullets into his lower back and shoulder as Corll slid down the wall in the hallway outside the room where the two other teenagers were bound. "[132][n 7], Henley then asked Corll whether he might take Williams into another room. Its unconscionable what Brooks was responsible for. [225] Brooks's defense attorney, Jim Skelton, argued that his client had not committed any murders and attempted to portray Corll and, to a lesser degree, Henley as being the active participants in the actual killings. However, he eventually confessed that he, Corll, and Brooks, worked together to kill at least 28 young men and boys. Corll is known to have suffered from a hydrocele[103] in early 1973, which may have contributed to this period of inactivity. Brooks had also stated in his confession that Scott was likely buried at High Island. This horrific crime spree would later be dubbed the Houston Mass Murders. And it wasnt until Corlls death in 1973 that the truth came to light. [39], Corll's victims were usually lured into either one of the two vehicles he owned (a Ford Econoline van and a Plymouth GTX)[30] or a 1969 Chevrolet Corvette[40] he is known to have purchased for Brooks in early 1971. [128] Henley calmed Corll, promising to participate in the torture and murder of both Williams and Kerley if Corll released him. In addition, neither mentioned having seen any of the victims either filmed, photographed, or released from the devices Corll restrained his victims to until after their rape, torture, and murder. [125], Noting Henley had awoken, Corll removed the gag from his mouth. AETNUK. He was aided by two teenaged accomplices, David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley. [21] In the ten years preceding the crime, O'Bryan had held 21 jobs. He was executed by lethal injection in March 1984. And many who knew him probably want to forget that they ever did. [27], In 1965,[28] Corll Candy Company relocated to 22nd Street, directly across the street from Helms Elementary School. He said. [25] In January 1974, he had taken out $10,000 (equivalent to $54,946 in 2021) life insurance policies on both of his children. [52], Brooks led police to Konen's body on August 10, 1973. [20] The same year, one of the teenaged male employees of Corll Candy Company complained to Corll's mother that her son had made sexual advances towards him. Henley, a high school dropout, had spent years luring young boys to their ultimate demise at Corll's. Have you ever wondered what might have happened if serial killers John Gacy and Dean Corll met Charles Manson? In his call, Henley blurted to the operator: "Y'all better come here right now! The body was buried at High Island Beach. After nearly three years and 28 known murders, Dean Corll turned on Elmer Wayne Henley on August 8, 1973. [192] The families of the murdered youths asserted that the police should have noted an insidious trend in the pattern of disappearances of teenage boys from the Heights neighborhood;[30] other family members complained the HPD had been dismissive of their adamant insistence that their sons had no reasons to run away from home. Ronald Clark O'Bryan (October 19, 1944 - March 31, 1984), nicknamed The Candy Man and The Man Who Killed Halloween, was an American man convicted of killing his eight-year-old son Timothy (April 5, 1966 - October 31, 1974) on Halloween 1974 with a potassium cyanide -laced Pixy Stix that was ostensibly collected during a trick or treat outing. [15] In high school, Corll's only major interest was the brass band, in which he played trombone. But behind his sweet smile, Dean Corll had a dark secret: He was a serial killer who murdered at least 28 young men and boys in the early 1970s. Bettmann/Getty Images (l.) / Netflix (r.)Elmer Wayne Henley (left) leaving a Texas courthouse in 1973, and Robert Aramayo (right) playing Elmer Wayne Henley in the Netflix crime drama Mindhunter. If you wasn't my friend, I could have gotten $200 for you. Of the sixteen individuals depicted within the films and photos, eleven of the individuals appeared to be among Corll's known victims who had been identified by this date;[309] other individuals in the cache were underage at the time the images and films had been taken, but had reached the legal age of consent by the time of the discoveries and their questioning by authorities, indicating the material had been accrued over many years. [8] After tasting the candy, Timothy complained that it tasted bitter. [72] Henley subsequently assisted Corll and Brooks in Aguirre's burial at High Island Beach. Dean Corll in 1973, months before he was shot to death by his 17-year-old accomplice, Elmer Wayne Henley. All Rights Reserved. [101][n 5]. O'Bryan entered a plea of not guilty to all five counts. [166][167], Accompanied by his father, Brooks presented himself at HPD headquarters on the evening of August 8 and gave a statement in which he denied any participation in the murders,[168] but admitted to having known that Corll had raped and killed two youths in 1970. [6] He eventually caught up with the group and produced five 21-inch (530mm) Pixy Stix, which he would later claim he was given from the occupant of the house that had not answered the door. An 81-year-old man survived being stuck in a snowbank for nearly a week by eating only candy, croissants and biscotti. In this confession, Henley readily admitted to having personally killed approximately nine[170] youths and to have assisted Corll in the strangulation of others. [58] An electrical cord with alligator clips attached to each end was buried alongside Yates's body. The two exited the vehicle and Henley, hearing commotion across the street emanating from the home of his 15-year-old friend Rhonda Louise Williams, walked toward her home. Henley has insisted that he only accepted the offer because of his familys financial hardship. Henley himself has stated that the picture must have been taken after he had acquired a Polaroid camera in 1972although he is adamant that he has no idea who this boy is. [275][300] The earliest of Corll's victims known by Brooks were two teenage boys killed at 3300 Yorktown, where Corll lived after moving out of his Judiway Street apartment. The boy had been unable to open the staples that sealed the wrapper shut. [CDATA[// >