The phrase “Elmer Wayne Henley is Houston’s most prolific living serial killer” is a sentence that requires an asterisk at the end big enough to bury six bodies.
Henley is a rarity in the world of serial murder in that he was an accomplice, not the primary instigator of violence. From 1972 to 1973, he worked as the procurer and executioner for Dean Corll, sometimes known as the Candyman, who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 29 teenage boys and young men in the Houston Heights and Pasadena. Corll’s reign of terror only ended when Henley shot Corll after Corll tried to make Henley kill his female friend, Rhonda Williams.
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