The Candyman – Dean Corll and the Houston Mass Murders

The Candy Man- Dean Corll and the Houston Mass Murders Victims 1. Billy Baulch, 17 2. Billy Ridinger-survived 3. Danny Yates, 14 4. David Hilligiest, 13 5. Donald Waldrop, 15 6. Frank Anthony Aguirre, 18 7. Gregory Malley Winkle, 16 8. Homer Garcia, 15 9. James Dreymala, 13 10. James Glass, 14 11. Jeffrey Konen, 18 12. Jerry Waldrop, 13 13. tin Sellars, 17 14. Johnny Delone, 16 15. Joseph Lyles, 17 16. Mark Scott, 17 17. Marty Jones, 18. 18. Michael Tony Baulch, 15 19. Randall Harvey, 15 20. Rhonda Williams -survived 21. Richard Kepner, 19 22. Ruben Watson, 17 23. Steven Sickman, 17 4. Tim Kerley-survived 25. Wally Jay Simoneaux, 14 26. Willard Rusty Branch, Jr. , 17 27. Charles Cary Cobble, 17 28. Richard Hembree, 13 F make a motions Dean Coril was a 33-year-old electrician living in Houston, Texas, who with ii teen accomplices was responsible for kidnapping, torturing, raping and execution of instrumenting at least 27 immature male childs in Houston in the early 1970s. Dean Co rll was an electrician for Houston Power and Light, unless nigh of Henleys friends knew him as the Candy Man, so named because he had labored for days in the candy manufacturing plant that he and his m separate had once owned.Corll was celebrated for giving away candy to the kids. Coril had an odd choice of friends, who were mostly puppyish male teens. Two, who were spellicularly close to Coril, was a 14-year-old son named Elmer Wayne Henley and a 15-year-old boy named David abide. The common chord spent such(prenominal) time hanging around at Corils house or driving with him in his van. That was until appalling 8, 1973, when Henley speculation and killed Coril at his home. While in law force custody, Henley began to tell ab come out of the closet his relationship with Coril. He said Coril paid him $200 or to a greater extent for each boy that he could lure to Corils house.After searching Corils house, the police sight a bedroom that looked as if it was designed for to rture and murder. There was a board with handcuffs attached, ropes, sex toys and plastic c all overing the carpeted floor. Coril was tearing when Henly brought his recent girlfriend, Rhonda Williams over to the house with another friend, Tim Kerley. The group drank and did drugs until they fell asleep. When Henley awoke, his feet were bounds and Coril was handcuffing him to his torture board. His girlfriend and Tim were also bound with electrical tape over their mouths.He managed to convince Corll to free him by promising to participate in the torture and murder of his friends. Once free, he went along with some of Corlls instructions, including attempting to itch the Rhonda Williams. Corll meanwhile, was trying to rape Tim, but the young boy fought so much Corll, frustrated, left the room. Henley agilely went for Corlls gun which he left behind. When Corll returned, Henley shot him sestet times, killing him. Over the next few days, Henley readily talked about his part in the at rest(predicate)ly activity in Corlls house.He led the police to where many of the victims were buried. The inaugural location was a gravy holder vomit Corll rented in southwest Houston, buy the farm 11. There police uncovered the remains of 17 of the boys Corll had murdered. Ten more bodies were plunge at various other burial sites in or near Houston. Altogether there were 27 bodies recovered. Henley confessed to knowing about Corlls roughshod crimes and also participating in murdering one of the boys. bear told police that he had no knowledge of the crimes. When tried, Brooks was found guilty of one murder and sentenced to life in prison.Henley was convicted of six of the murders and sentenced to six 99-year-terms. Because Henley acted in self-defense, he was not convicted of killing Corll. The Crime Scene Around 830 a. m. that Wednesday morning, the Pasadena, TX, police department got a telephone call from a hysterical Wayne Henley. pes planus A. B. Jamison raced over t o the address, 2020 Lamar Drive, a green and white frame house. Three teenagers, two boys and a girl stood in front of the house when Jamison responded to the call. The officer mention the . 22 caliber pistol on the driveway near the trio.Henley certain the officer that he was the private who had made the call and indicated that Corll was lying dead inside the house. After confiscating the pistol and placing Henley, Williams and Kerley inside the patrol car, the officer entered the bungalow and discovered Corlls dead body inside the hallway. In custody, Henley explained that, for almost three years, he and David Brooks had helped procure teenage boys some of whom were their own friends for Corll, who had ravaged and murdered them. Corll had paid $200 for each victim he or Brooks were able to lure to his apartment.Henley gave a statement admitting he had aided Corll in several abductions and murders of teenage boys, informing police that Corll had buried most of his victims in a gravy boat shed in Southwest Houston, and others at Lake surface-to-air missile Rayburn and High Island marge. Henley agreed to accompany police to Corlls boat shed in Southwest Houston, where he claimed the bodies of most of the victims could be found. Inside Corlls boat shed, police found a half-stripped car, which turned out to have been stolen from a used car lot in March, a childs bike, empty bags of lime, and a box full of teenage boys clothing.Police begin to excavate Corlls boat shed on August 8, 1973. Police began digging through the soft, shell-crushed downstairscoat of the boat shed and soon uncovered the body of a young blond-haired teenage boy, lying face up and encased in exonerate plastic, buried beneath a layer of lime. Police continued digging through the earth of the shed, discovering the remains of more victims in varying stages of decomposition. roughly of the bodies found were wrapped in thick, clear plastic sheeting. Some victims had been shot others s trangled the chords and ropes still wrapped tightly around their necks.All of the victims found had been sodomized and most victims found bore evidence of sexual torture. On August 8, 1973, a total of eight corpses were uncovered at the boat shed. David Brooks presented himself at the Houston Police Station on the evening of August 8, 1973, and gave a statement denying any betrothal in the murders, but admitting to having known that Corll had assail and killed two youths in 1970. On August 9, 1973, police accompanied Henley to Lake Sam Rayburn in San Augustine County, where Henley had told police that Corll had buried four victims he had killed that year.Two extra bodies were found in shallow graves. Police found nine redundant bodies in the boat shed on August 9, 1973. David Brooks gave a full confession that evening, admitting to being present at several killings and assisting in several burials, although he continued to deny any direct participation in the murders. He agreed to accompany police to High Island Beach to assist in the search for the bodies of the victims. On August 13, 1973, both Henley and Brooks again accompanied the police to High Island Beach, where four more bodies were found, qualification a total of twenty-seven known victims.Rule Sec. 19. 01. TYPES OF CRIMINAL HOMICIDE. (a) A person commits criminal homicide if he intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence causes the closing of an singular. (b)Criminal homicide is murder, capital murder, manslaughter, or criminally negligent homicide. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg. , p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. amend by Acts 1973, 63rd Leg. , p. 1123, ch. 426, art. 2, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974 Acts 1993, 73rd Leg. , ch. 900, Sec. 1. 01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Sec. 19. 02.MURDER. (a) In this surgical incision (1)Adequate cause means cause that would unremarkably produce a degree of anger, rage, resentment, or terror in a person of ordinary temper, sufficient to render the mind incapable of composed reflection. (2)Sudden passion means passion directly caused by and arising out of provocation by the separate killed or another acting with the person killed which passion arises at the time of the rudeness and is not solely the final result of former provocation. (b)A person commits an annoyance if he 1)intentionally or knowingly causes the death of an individual (2)intends to cause serious bodily psychic trauma and commits an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of an individual or (3)commits or attempts to commit a felony, other than manslaughter, and in the business line of and in furtherance of the commission or attempt, or in immediate flight from the commission or attempt, he commits or attempts to commit an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of an individual. (c)Except as provided by Subsection (d), an detestation on a lower floor this section is a felony of the first degree. d)At the punish ment stage of a trial, the defendant may touch the issue as to whether he caused the death under the immediate persuade of sudden passion arising from an adequate cause. If the defendant proves the issue in the affirmative by a preponderance of the evidence, the offense is a felony of the second degree. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg. , p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1973, 63rd Leg. , p. 1123, ch. 426, art. 2, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974 Acts 1993, 73rd Leg. , ch. 900, Sec. 1. 01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. air division 15. 31 CRIMINAL SOLICITATION OF A small(a) (a) A person commits an offense if, with intent that an offense listed by share 3g(a)(1), Article 42. 12, Code of Criminal Procedure, be committed, the person requests, commands, or attempts to throw a baby bird to engage in specific conduct that, under the circumstances surrounding the actors conduct as the actor believes them to be, would constitute an offense listed by Section 3g(a)(1), Article 42. 12, or make the minor a ships company to the commission of an offense listed by Section 3g(a)(1), Article 42. 2. (b) A person commits an offense if, with intent that an offense under Section 21. 02, 21. 11, 22. 011, 22. 021, or 43. 25 be committed, the person by any means requests, commands, or attempts to induce a minor or another whom the person believes to be a minor to engage in specific conduct that, under the circumstances surrounding the actors conduct as the actor believes them to be, would constitute an offense under one of those sections or would make the minor or other believed by the person to be a minor a party to the ommission of an offense under one of those sections. (c) A person may not be convicted under this section on the uncorroborated testimony of the minor allegedly solicited unless the solicitation is made under circumstances strongly validatory of both the solicitation itself and the actors intent that the minor act on the solicitation. d) It is no defense to pro secution under this section that (1) the minor solicited is not criminally responsible for the offense solicited (2) the minor solicited has been acquitted, has not been prosecuted or convicted, has been convicted of a diametric offense or of a different type or coterie of offense, or is immune from prosecution (3) the actor belongs to a class of persons that by definition of the offense solicited is legally incapable of committing the offense in an individual capacity or (4) the offense solicited was actually committed. e) An offense under this section is one category lower than the solicited offense. (f) In this section, minor means an individual younger than 17 years of age. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg. , ch. 262, Sec. 79, eff. Jan. 1, 1996. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg. , ch. 1415, Sec. 22(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Section 21. 06 HOMOSEXUAL CONDUCT (a) A person commits an offense if he engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another individual of the same sex. (b) An offen se under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.