Murders by SCOTT HARBERS HOUSTON-As Many As 40 Teenage Boys May Have Died to Satisfy the Sadistic Sex Cravings of a 34-Year-Old "Nice Guy," Police Here Be- Lieve
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HORROR IN HOUSTON Newspaper of America's Homophile Community So. Calif. 35C Issue 119 50C T~DVDCATE Elsewhere -\, ',. the r» y NEWSPAPER OF AMERICA'S HOMOPHILE COMMUNITY Copyright © 1973 ISSUE 119 Advocate Publications. Inc. AUGUST 29, 1973 Bays victim of gay' sadist • Toll may reach 40 inTexas murders by SCOTT HARBERS HOUSTON-As many as 40 teenage boys may have died to satisfy the sadistic sex cravings of a 34-year-old "nice guy," police here be- lieve. Nineteen bodies had been found as of Aug. 10. If the, number is anywhere near correct, it will be the nation's highest known toll of indisputably homosexual sex killings. Cali- ..• fornian Juan Corona is serving a life term for the murders of 2S men in 1971. but though those killings had INS IDE strong homosexual overtones. it was • • • never definitely established that . ~~:':i~a was homosexually moti-' AROUND TOWN Page38 r; Toll may reach 40 inTexas murders by SCOTT HARBERS HOUSTON-As many as 40 teenage boys may have died to satisfy the sadistic sex cravings of a 34-year-old "nice guy," police here be- lieve. Nineteen bodies had been found as of Aug. 10. If the, number is anywhere near correct, it will be the nation's highest known toll' of indisputably homosexual sex killings. Cali- -: fornian Juan Corona is serving a life term for 'the murders of 2S men in 1971, but though those killings had INS IDE ' strong homosexual overtones, it was ' '. • • never definitely established that ' Corona was homosexually moti-' AROUND TOWN Page 38 vated. The gruesome torture deaths at- AUNTIE LOU COOKS Page 29 tributed to Dean Corll of Pasadena, BODY BUDDY Page 31 a Houston suburb, over the past three years could prove a major set- BOOKS , .. Page 26 back to the Gay Liberation Move- EDITORIALS Page 36 ment. HAROLD'S CORNER Page 32 They surfaced when Corll was shot and killed early Aug. 8 by 17- JEANNIE'S LAMP Page 3S year-old Elmer Wayne Henley, later LETTERS Page 36 identified by friends as Corll's young lover. ' PRISON RAP Page 30 Henley then phoned his mother REELING 'ROUND Page 33' and both of them called Pasadena TRADER pICK'S ,Page 40 police. Henley later led police to a southwest Housto~ boat storage Stonewall's island provides a retreat to yard, where the bOdl.esof 17 teenage heIp Gayssolve problems ... Page 2 boys were found buried. 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HAROLD'S CORNER Page 32 They surfaced when Corll was shot and killed early Aug. 8 by 17- JEANNIE'S LAMP Page 35 year-old Elmer Wayne Henley, later LETTERS Page 36 identified by friends as Corll's young lover. PRISON RAP Page 30 Henley then phoned his mother REELING 'ROUND Page 33· and both of them called Pasadena TRADER pICK'S Page 40 police. Henley later led police to a southwest Houston boat storage Stonewall's island provides a retreat to yard, where the bodies of 17 teenage help Gayssolve problems ... Page 2 boys were found buried. Henley at first painted himself as FloridaandTexas murdershave nothing an innocent victim of Corll's ad- in common with gay S&M subculture, vances and said he shot the older expert Townsendsays . Page 3 man to save himself and two young friends whom Corll had threatened Life sentencefor sodomy Page 10 to kill. But under questioning, he Ma Bell's bigotry spreads Page14 broke down almost immediately New Orleansfund tops $7200 . Page19 and told a story indicating that he Faggot fails to please . Page27 had been participating in Corll's DavidSummers,new boy ... Page27 thrill-kill activities for some time. Baconwas a right-on genius .. Page39 He also implicated another \REMORSE friend, 18-year-old David Brooks, in TRES GAY: Ad in the Chattanoogll> the slayings. Police said Brooks, an Times: Some lucky couple will Elmer Wayne Henley, 17, tells reporters how he shot and killed Dean Corll, 34, to prevent himself from ex-roommate of Corll, has signed a spend ••. three days in Las being sexually rnolested., He later changed his story and admitted that he and another youth had taken statement admitting involvement Vegas... dimaxilg with Elvis onstage "in practically all of the killings." at the Sahcn Hotel. part in the murders by Corll of many other teenagers in the Houston, Tex., area. As of Aug. 10, police had found 19 bodies and feared the total murdered may reach 40. Continued on Page 3 Nation's laWyers call.for consent laws by THOMAS COLEMAN The rights section of the ABA . Stanford University School of Law, .vision was secured by the efforts of legal counsel for the Episcopal Dio- WASHINGTON- The American recommended its passage at this heard testimony and recommended the Gay Law Students Association cese of New York; and Sen. 1. Fer- Bar Association in its Aug. 5-9 an- year's annual meeting. passage by the council of the section and the National Committee for nandez Sanchez (D-Puerto Rico). nual meeting here adopted a resolu- . An identical resolution was intro- on criminal law. Sexual Civil Liberties. Debate on the resolution was in- tion which urges the states to repeal duced into the assembly of the ABA The council, of which Joseph Additional support for this year's .terrupted by the late arrival of U.S. all laws prohibiting private sexual at its 1972 annual meeting in San Busch, district attorney of Los resolution. was received by the Atty. Gen. Elliot Rich.ardson, who behavior between consenting adults, Francisco by William Thom, an- Angeles County, is a member, voted Young Lawyers section ofthe ABA. addressed the assembly on the im- saving only those portions which are other New York attorney. to adopt the resolution and report it Extensive Debate pact of Watergate on the trust of the necessary to: protect minors or The ABA membership succeeded back to the assembly for adoption at At this year's meeting the resolu- citizens and the Department of public'decorum., in bucking the issue last year by the 1973 annual meeting here. It is tion was extensively debated. Justice and reported new guidelines The adoption of this resolution sending the resolution to the section not known how Busch voted at the Speakers for the resolution on the for the department. was the product of extensive efforts on criminal law for further .study meeting. foor of the assembly included Bab- After Richardson's address, sev- and lobbying by several individuals and consideration. A similar resolution, which also cock; E. Carrington Bogan, now eral well-established members of and groups over the past 18 months. At the mid-year meeting of the called for decriminalization of chairman of the equal protection the ABA opposed the adoption of The resolution was first intro- ABA in Cleveland in February 1973, :prostitution, was introduced in the committee of the section on individ- the resolution on the grounds that it . duced.18 months ago into the see- an ad hoc subcommittee of the law student division of the Ameri- ual rights' this writer, who is past would promote "promiscuity, tion on individual rights and re- criminal law section was appointed can Bar Association at its annual chairman of the Gay Law Students adultery, and undermine the fam- sponsibilities by E. Carrington Bo- to consider the resolution. That sub- meeting in San Francisco in August -Association and member of the ily." gan, a New York attorney for that committee, chaired by Barbara 1972. House of Delegates of the law stu- However, even after these pleas to city's Gay Activists Alliance. Babcock, associate professor at Its passage in the law student di- dent division' the. Rev. John Corn, Continued on Page 21 ~' ~~~~~~'''~C~- 1./. ;;4 ( _/ ,tU~ ","'-- /«. ""' . -' :,'j Photos by the'Miami News Herald MACABRE MURDER. Men carry out the body of 16-year-old Mark Matson from the (picture at right, foreground) under 3% feet of concrete. The murderer, Albert Brust, Miami house where he was murdered, dismembered, and buried in a shower stall then raped Matson's female companion repeatedly, freed her, and took his own life.