Elmer Wayne Henley Texas

Status: Incarcerated

Frank Aguirre

Elmer Wayne Henley is a serial killer in the United States. They were active from 1970–1973 . They currently have 6 victims, though they are suspected of 6 . According to Wikipedia, Crimes referred to as the "Houston Mass Murders" . According to Wiki,
Houston Mass Murders in which a minimum of 28 teenage boys and young men were abducted, tortured, raped and murdered by Dean Corll between 1970 and 1973. Henley and David Owen Brooks (Corll's other teenage accomplice), together and individually, lured many of the victims to Corll's home. Henley, then 17 years old, shot Corll to death on August 8, 1973

This happened primarily in Texas. He was sentenced to Sentenced to life imprisonment .

Marty Ray Jones

His appeal includes:

On December 17, 1973, approximately four months after appellant was indicted by the Harris County grand jury for six of the highly publicized mass, homosexual rape and torture murders, Honorable William M. Hatten, Judge of the 176th District Court, Harris County, commenced hearings on appellant's numerous pretrial motions in Cause No. 198,892. Appellant did not file a *68 motion for change of venue from Harris County but filed a motion for continuance asserting that "Because of the massive dissemination of potentially prejudicial material by all elements of the news media .. the defendant cannot obtain a fair trial at this time." Finding "too great a prejudice" existing against appellant in Harris County and all adjoining counties, Judge Hatten on his own motion[1] ordered a change of venue in Cause No. 198,892.[2] Judge Hatten transferred the case to the 175th Judicial District in San Antonio, Bexar County, where it was assigned No. 74CR-424.

Dean Corll

Honorable Preston H. Dial, Judge of the 175th District Court began pretrial hearings on April 8,
1974. The following day appellant filed a motion for change of venue in compliance with Article 31.03, V.A.C.C.P. Appellant's motion was supported by his sworn affidavit and sworn affidavits of nine Bexar County citizens, all of which asserted that "there does in fact exist in said Bexar County, Texas so great a prejudice against him that the said ELMER WAYNE HENLEY, JR., Defendant, cannot obtain a fair and impartial trial of said cause in said County." On April 22, 1974, following the State's filing of four sworn affidaits controverting appellant's motion for change of venue,[3] the trial court advised appellant that:

Victim

His victims include six t.eenage boys he lured to the home to be killed. Henley was found guilty and sentenced to six consecutive 99-year terms of imprisonment. The.ir names were Frank Aguirre, Johnny Delone, Billy Ray Larence, Homer Garcia, Charles Cobble, Marty Ray Jones, and Dean Arnold Corll

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Teenager Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. Aided One Of History’s Worst Serial Killers — Before Shooting Him To Death

 

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2664 Farm to Market Road 2054
Tennessee Colony, TX 75886

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