CORLL, DEAN & DAVID BROOKS & ELMER WAYNE HENRY: Crime Stories TV - Houston Chronicle - The Clown & the Candyman TV - True Crime Recaps 2023 -
In August 1973 a terrified teenager reported a fatal shooting just outside Houston, Texas. The discovery exposed a series of crimes so vile that even hardened homicide detectives were appalled by the brutality. Crime Stories: Dean Corll, 2007
The story of the Candy Man. ibid.
The teenagers were shackled hand and foot … the shooting seemed to be a simple case of self-defence. ibid.
Eight bodies had been recovered and sent to the County medical examiner for identification and post-mortem. ibid.
The hero of the hour was teenager Wayne Henley who led the police to the storage shed. ibid.
His connection to the case was not incidental. ibid.
David Brooks admitted helping Wayne Henley procure local teenagers for Dean Corll. ibid.
The police uncovered nine more bodies in the boat-shed bringing the total to 17. ibid.
Both boys related terrible stories of the abuse and cruelty inflicted by Dean Corll. ibid.
Bringing the body count to a possible 27. ibid.
One of two men convicted for helping Houston serial killer Dean Corll lure 28 teenage boys to his home is up for parole.
David Owen Brooks had a parole hearing Thursday in Angleton to decide on his release from state prison.
The hearing was attended by the parents of Stanton Dreymala, who was 13 at the time of his death and generally considered to be Corll’s last victim. The Dreymalas are the only surviving parents of the young victims caught up in Corll’s notorious crime spree, Kahan said. Houston Chronicle online article 5th December 2014, ‘Houston serial killer Dean Corll’s accomplice David Brooks could be paroled’
One of America’s worst serial killers – Dean Arnold Corll, otherwise known as the Candyman. The Clown & the Candyman s1e1, Sky Crime 2021
Evidence they [Corll & Gacy] were linked to a secret nationwide [paedophile] network. It was a massive network and one of its masterminds a shadowy figure – John David Norman: ‘He’s a paedophile and he ran a ring.’ ibid.
Body after body, hour after hour, the more they dug, they more they found. ibid.
[Elmer Wayne] Henley [victim] said that the murders took place at a torture chamber in this house. And he killed Corll yesterday afternoon in self-defence after a paint-sniffing sex party. ibid.
Between 1971 and 1973 more than 400 kids were reported missing in the heights, an area 2 miles wide and 3 miles deep. ibid.
Police compiled the names of thirty juveniles from thirteen states who were allegedly procured as companions for older man known as sponsors. It was a nationwide child trafficking ring discovered one week after the Dean Corll mass murders in Houston made headlines. The Clown & the Candyman s1e3
Child pornography and prostitution operating across the country: it was organised, profitable and much of it was on film. ibid.
The longer they talk, the deeper Randy [White] digs into the victims and the details of the case, the stronger his suspicion grows that there’s more here than meets the eye. The Clown & the Candyman s1e4
He is one of America’s scariest serial sociopaths. Back in the early ’70s the bodies of 28 boys were unearthed, the work of Dean and his two teenage accomplices. True Crime Recaps: The Forgotten Sociopath of Houston: Dean ‘The Candy Man’ Corll, Youtube 14.38, 2023
CORNICK, WILLIAM: When Kids Kill: Schoolboy Slayer TV - Crimes that Shook Britain TV -
Nearly 400 children have been convicted of murder in the UK in the last 2 decades. The youngest was just 11 years old. When Kids Kill s1e3: Schoolboy Slayer, Channel 5 2017
I’m in Leeds investigating what drove a 15-year-old schoolboy to kill his teacher in a frenzied knife attack in the middle of a lesson.. ibid.
He hated his teacher Ann Maguire so much he wanted to kill her. ibid.
‘Personality disorder … marked psychopathic traits.’ ibid. brief
‘He was impassive.’ ibid.
Between April 2015 and March 2017, 2,579 weapons were seized in British schools. Of these almost 500 were knives. Crimes that Shook Britain s8e2: Ann Maguire, CI 2017
The murder of Ann Maguire was a crime that shook Britain … A normal working day at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds … Will Cornick: His aim that day was to commit an act of unspeakable savagery. ibid.
Her attacker Will Cornick comes after her in pursuit. ibid.
There was a 2-month period in 2011 when he self-harmed. ibid.
‘Everything I’ve done is fine and dandy.’ ibid. Cornick
CORNS, MARTIN: Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV -
Cliff: There’s a piece of CCTV footage and you’ll see two characters. One wearing blue in front and she’s walking towards us – that’s Heather. And at the back, we have someone in the shadows in dark clothing with a hood over his head, and that’s Martin Corns. He was lurking in the background. He’s like the Grim Reaper. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s7e1: Martin Corns
Heather Jordan leaves home for her early-morning cleaning shift at a nearby shop. Her route takes her through the local park. ibid. captions
‘She was overpowered and she was strangled.’ ibid. man
Martin Corns was 52, so 18 years older than Heather, and he was divorced, and he also rented out a room to Heather’s father. ibid. Kerry
He continued to pursue her in ways that were fixated and intrusive. So he sent her over 2,000 text messages. ibid. Kerry
And then Martin Corns’ behaviour became even more disturbing. ibid.
He strangles her to death. ibid. Kerry
CORONA, JUAN: Killers Behind the Myth TV -
One piece of evidence revealing his true identity will prove to be his downfall. Killers Behind the Myth s3e3: Juan Corona, BBC 2016
May 20th 1971: ‘The victim is a drifter named Kenneth Whittaker.’ ibid.
The Orchard of Death: all of these bodies had the same markings on them. ibid.
Corona: ‘A farm labour contractor’ … Corona is the prime suspect. ibid.
Corona had a troubled past. ibid.
Bringing the total to 25. ibid.