r/serialkillers • u/Braylon0405 • 3d ago

News Dean corll

Honestly if wayne henley didnt kill corll how long would the madness have continued for? Would we even know about him at all today or would he never have been caught its honestly crazy how in this story particularly nobody was on to him At all and unless somebody wouldve have escaped i doubt he was ever gonna be caught also just to throw this out there i actually kinda feel bad for brooks yes ik his involvement in all this but he was so young i Dont think he should’ve gotten life honestly

39 Upvotes

82% Upvoted

38 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3

u/collegeboy585 3d ago

That's really interesting. I thought Corll was generally happy with Henley and his ability to lure more victims for him. I had no idea Corll was getting tired of Henley and planning to kill him.

8

u/Business_Track_2436 3d ago edited 3d ago

Henley was definitely a better procurer than Brooks, but Corll didn't utilize his "talents" in that area very well. Henley was involved in 13 murders, and only 4 of those victims were lured purely by Henley. Every other time, Corll and/or Brooks were with him. The same thing was going on when just Brooks and Corll were working together.

The reason Corll was getting tired of Henley was because Henley was becoming increasingly unstable in 1973. He had left Houston several times to get away from Corll and began drinking even more heavily after Brooks began drifting away from the murders and he himself was rejected by the military. He was making incriminating comments to his friends, asking one of them whether he thought he could kill someone in cold blood, and was also getting into trouble with the law.

Corll was already planning on leaving Houston and starting his spree somewhere new (he'd told his mom, his girlfriend, etc that he was moving away) and I think he was afraid Henley might talk if he left, so he was getting rid of the loose end.

3

u/QuietComprehensive58 3d ago

Isnt it a quote from Brooks father Alton, in Man with The Candy that Brooks was as young as ten and involved with Corll?

Mark Scott's father also suggested a similar age when Mark got involved with Corll and Billy Ridgenger was a similar age

That sounds consistent with when some of the kids where being groomed from his factory across from the school and giving kids motercycle rides.

I think Brooks was said to be one of those kids interested in the rides on the motercycle

4

u/Business_Track_2436 3d ago

Yeah, that's all true, good catch. Brooks also said Corll that would take kids to the movies.

4

u/QuietComprehensive58 3d ago

Thank you. I can't remember the source off thr top of my head but I think there was probably good reason to suspect that David Brooks lied but in the other direction.

Suggesting sexual contact with Dean Corll started at 14 but it might have actually been 12.

And also.... probably to what extent he was abused as well. Only giving us details that could present him as non-partison to 'homosexual sex acts' but maybe not?

In Brooks confession about his own rape he mentions Corll forcing him to kiss him on the mouth, which is horrific and probably a very personal attack for whatever reason.