Whatever Happened To Elmer Wayne Henley And David Brooks??

[Leana76]

Does anyone know how Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks are doing? Are they still alive and such??

(they had killed Dean Corll in Houston, Texas. Dean Corll had killed at least 27 boys and buried them in his boat shed).

[Leana76]

Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks were 2 teenage boys that were accomplices with Dean Corll (this was the Houston Mass Murders in 1973). Dean would pay Wayne (he likes to be called by his middle name) and David to lure boys into his home. While there he would drug the boys and then kill them. Wayne and David helped him carry the bodies to the beach shed, that Dean owned, and bury them.

Well, Wayne and a couple of friends were passed out, after a "glue sniffing party" with some other kids, and Dean Corll had tied them up. Well, Wayne got angry and they got into a fight. So, Wayne killed Dean Corll. Later on the police arrested him and David. Then Wayne told the cops about the buried bodies. And so they sent out a team and uncovered 27 males, most in their early teens, from the beach shed of Dean Corll.

Wayne and David both received life sentences. Nowadays, Wayne is an artist. I don't know anything about David...If anyone knows, please post a reply...Thanks...

[HollyDolly]

:shrug: Haven't heard anything on these two in years,and as far as I know,they are still in prision.

[USN_RM1]

Elmer Wayne Henley was in a prison unit near Palestine, Texas for sometime and then at the Telford Unit in New Boston, Texas, near Texarkana for about 6 years and according to one article, he is now at the Michael Unit about an hour south of Dallas.

As for David Brooks, Cant seem to find any new information on him. He doesnt get the same attention as Elmer Wayne Henley.

[odette]

nydailynews.com - BY MARA BOVSUN - Saturday, June 28th 2008

Lost Boys of Texas

In the early 1970s, roughly 1 million young people per year went missing in the United States.

Many were runaways who landed in communes, or carved out new lives and became strangers to their families. Most eventually wandered back home.

Twenty-seven of them ended up as corpses in makeshift graves all around Texas, victims of Dean Arnold Corll, the worst mass murderer the nation had ever seen.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/06/28/2008-06-28_lost_boys_of_texas.html

[odette]

David Brooks -- (murderer)

David Brooks (born 1955) was the first of two known teenage accomplices of serial killer Dean Corll. Brooks was born in Beaumont, Texas.

His parents divorced when he was five. Afterwards, his time was divided between his father's home in Houston and that of his mother in Beaumont. In elementary school, Brooks was noted as an excellent student, but in junior high school his performance plummeted. In 1970, Brooks met Corll.

It was only later on during the initial investigation of Corrl's death that Brooks would shed light on to Corrl's life.

Brooks, although not a serial killer, admitted to killing one boy and was initially sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison. Since then, he has been denied parole.

Although Brooks was regarded as a small accomplice who would somehow help lure boys for Corrl's sexual advances, he was the one who introduced Corll to the boy that would not only kill many boys, but take Corrl's life, Elmer Wayne Henley. In addition to this, Brooks helped the police officers identify many of the twenty-seven victims. Brooks, although an accomplice, was the one who led officers to believe

Elmer Wayne Henley was not just an innocent boy who had killed Corll out of self-defense; it was Brook's confessions that not only put the finishing touches on the already hard case but led police to their prime suspect. In addition to this, Brooks confessed out of his own accord, which eventually led the jury to sentence him to the ninety-nine years as opposed to the six consecutive ninety-nine year terms Elmer Wayne Henley had received.

To this day he and Wayne remain in prison with little or no chance of parole.

http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/David_Brooks_(murderer)