Young Boys Victims: Slain Homosexual And 2d Youth Implicated

by Houston (UPI)

A teenager confessed to police yesterday that he, another youth and a homosexual friend killed “25 or 30” young boys over the past three years and disposed of their bodies at three burial sites in Texas. Police recovered 12 bodies in a rusty tin boat shed at Houston. Police Lt. Breck Porter said David Brooks, 18, told police that Dean Corll, 34, a bachelor electrician, and Elmer Wayne Henley, 17, a junior high school dropout, were involved in the mass murders.

“HE HAS ADMITTED to several of the murders, along with Henley and Corll,” Porter said of Brooks. “He admitted to taking part in practically all of the killings over a three-year period. Henley admitted that he knew of the slayings, but police said he blamed the murders on Corll, who Henley said was a homosexual. Henley told police he killed Corll during a paint-sniffing sex party Wednesday. Both Henley and Brooks told police that bodies of young boys sexually molested by -Corll before they were killed were buried at Lake Sam Rayburn, 120 miles northeast of Houston, and near High Island, up the Gulf Coast from Galveston.

“Henley has confessed and admitted to knowing where at least 25 or 30 bodies are located and officers are enroute to Sam Rayburn Reservoir with Henley to dig up more bodies,” Porter said. “They plan to dig there all night.” The police lieutenant said Brooks told him that a search for bodies would not be easy at High Island “because he doesn’t remember any markers and the graves will be difficult to find.” Police Inspector G. W. Wornick of suburban Pasadena said the confessions of Henley and Brooks are conflicting. We got hold of the end of the string we’re just rolling it in.”

DETECTIVE D. R. JAMES said more bodies were expected to be unearthed in the Houston boat shed. “We think there are more. We think there may be as many as 19 in there. We’re going in there with a front-end loader and see.” Henley first told police Corll bragged of killing his victims and revealed to him where they were buried. But later, he confessed to knowing of the mass slayings. Porter said all the victims were young males because Corll “never messed with anything but boys.” The biggest mass murderer in United States history was Juan V. Corona, 39, a farm labor contractor and Mexican national. Corona was convicted last January of slaying 25 drifters and burying their bodies in shallow graves along the Feather River near Yuba.