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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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 believe. 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 believe. 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. Henley at first painted himself is Aorida and Texas murders have nothing an innocent victim of Corll's ad- in common with gay S&M subculture, vances and said he shot the older expert Townsend says .. . . • Page 3 man to save himself and two young friends whom Corll had threatened Ute sentencefor sodomy .•. Page 10 to kill. But under questioning, he Ma Bell's bigotry spreads, ... Page 14 broke down almost immediately New Orleansfund tops $7200 . Page 19 and told a story indicating that he Faggot fails to please ...... Page27 had been participating in Corll's DavidSummers,new boy ... Page27

United Press International Photo thrill-kill activities for some time. Baconwas a right~ genius . . Page39 He also implicated another REMORSE friend, 18-year-old David Brooks, in TRES GAY: Ad in the Chattanoog/l> theslayings. Police said Brooks, an Times: Some lucky couple will Elmer Wayne Henley, 17, tells reporters how he shot and killed Dean Carll, 34, to prevent himself from ex-roommate of Corll, has signed a spend ... three days in Las statement admitting involvement Vegas... dimaUIg with Elvis onstage being sexually rnolested., He later changed his story and admitted that he and another youth had taken "in practically all ofthe killings." at the SaharaHotel. part in the murders by Carll of many other teenagers in the Houston, Tex., area. As of Aug. 10, police had Continued on Page 3 found 19 bodies and feared the total murdered may reach 40.

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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 ~'

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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. Diary reveals Miami killer's obsessions

MIAMI-The recently released Brust's sexuality or what. he did or are still seeking the identity of a the house such as women's -panties a psychedelic black light diary of Albert Brust, who killed didn't do in the well-equipped tor- husky former seaman who report- and an empty pantyhose package. Police described Brust early in and dismembered an Ohio youth ture chamber in his neat brick home edly had been a frequent visitor at His sado-masoch-istic bent their investigation as "a sexual de- and sexually abused a IS-year-old here before the final incident with Brust's home, emerged clearly in the pornography, viate" who appeared to have "en- Kentucky girl for nearly 24 hours the teenagers, According to a, The diary, however, while indicat- books by French philosopher tertained other people with similar before releasing her and killing motorcycle shop owner who said ing that Brust was looking for sex, Marquis de Sade also found in the tastes," The torture chamber- ap- himself; reveals a hate-drenched Brust had propositioned him, Brust doesn't make clear what kind, and house, and the steel and concrete peared to have been built shortly af- personality obsessed with death and "hung around with a bunch of there was considerable evidence of torture chamber itself---complete ter Brust bought the house last Oc- a dread of age and infirmity. ' Gays" and described himself as a his heterosexual interests in the por- with sound-proofing, whips, chains tober, But a diary entry July 12, "no It casts little light. however, on bisexual who preferred boys, Police nography and other items found in and padlocks, stereo speakers, and sex yet," raised the possibility that the episode with the two teenagers was his first chance to use the chamber. Texeskiller 'loved to be around kids' Whatever Brust's own warped predilections, his case and a series MACAsREMlJRDER. Men carry out the body ofT6-year-olcH7iarKMatson from tl1e" :PICture""1'lt'TrglTt~Toregrounaruna~72Te-elOlccrncr-ete~rne-murag,..eT;--A;rm~~rn:srust, 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. Diary reveals Miami killer's obsessions

MIAMI-The recently released Brust's sexuality or what. he did or are still seeking the identity of a the house such as women's 'panties a psychedelic black light. diary of Albert Brust. who killed didn't do in the well-equipped tor- husky former seaman who report- and an empty pantyhose package. Police described Brust early in and dismembered an Ohio youth ture chamber in his neat brick home edly had been a frequent visitor at His sado-masochistic bent their investigation as "a sexual de- and. sexually abused a l Ssyear-old here before the final incident with Brust's home. emerged clearly in the pornography. viate" who appeared to have "en- Kentucky girl for nearly 24 hours the teenagers. According to a. The diary. however. while indicat- books by French philosopher tertained other people with similar before releasing her and killing motorcycle shop owner who said ing that Brust was looking for sex. Marquis de Sade also found in the tastes." The torture chamber ap- himself; reveals a hate-drenched Brust had propositioned him. Brust doesn't make clear what kind. and house. and the steel ana concrete peared to have been built shortly af- personality obsessed with death and "hung around with a bunch of there was considerable evidence of torture chamber itself=-complete ter Brust bought the house last Oc- a dread of age and infirmity. ' Gays" and described himself as a his heterosexual interests in the por- with sound-proofing. whips. chains tober. But a diary entry July 12. "no It casts little light, however, on bisexual who preferred boys. Police nography and other items found in and padlocks, stereo speakers. and sex yet." raised the possibility that the episode with the two teenagers was his first chance to use the chamber. Texas"killer 'loved to ·-be around kids' Whatever Brust's own warped predilections. his case and a series of unsolved mutilation murders in Continued from Page 1 .into the bathroom for lubricant and 13 to 19. Most were in an advanced Long Beach. Calif-s-, have focused at- Although the two teenagers' stor- returned to the bedroom. state of decomposition, andone was tention on the growing S&M ies indicated that Corll tortured his "I picked up a gun from the ta- only a skeleton. Some appeared to phenomenon in the gay world itself. victims. few details were released. ble. I told him to back off and stop have been buried naked. others in The final episode in Brust's Police said "sadistic equipment." whatever he was doing. He said bathing suits. unhappy life. in which his grim fan- including boards. handcuffs. and something and came at me. and I One of the bodies is thought to be tasies were to be bared in bloody knives. had been uncovered. Investi- shot him." . that of 13-year-old David Hilligiest. reality. began when he stopped his gators theorized that at least some Corll was hit six times in the chest who disappeared in 1971 after leav- recently purchased white Dodge van of the young victims had been with bullets from a .22 calibrere- ing his home to go swimming: His in Fort Lauderdale July 14 and strangled or bayonetted. but one po- volver. parents spent thousands of dollars lice source said. "You name it. it Henley later indicated he had picked up 16-year-old Mark Ber- trying to find him. nard Matson and, the 15-year-old happened .•.• known what was going to happen In Henley's first account to po- when he. took Kerley and Williams Henley apparently became in- girl whom newspapers here have Iice."which he has not substantially to Corll's house. police said. He ap- . volved with Corll about a year ago dubbed "Mary Ellen" while with- altered, the youth said he took Tim peared grief-stricken. when Brooks introduced him to the holding her true identity. , older man. Mark, from Washington Court- Kerley. 19, and Rhonda Williams. As police reconstructed the story "; 15. to Corll's Pasadena home Aug. from statements by Henley. and ap- Henley's mother described Corll house. Ohio.' had met "Mary 7. The three sniffed glue until they parently also by Brook's. teenage as "a polite 'man [whoJloved to be Ellen." a runaway from Frankfort. passed out. boys were enticed to Corll's house around kids." She said that "Dean Ky.•on the beach the day before. Next morning. Henley related. United Press International Photo for sex "and drug parties on a fairly treated Wayne like a son. and Brust. a 43-year-old ex-convict "he woke us up, and was tying and DEAN CORll regular basis over the past three Wayne loved him like a father. I originally from New York. had been handcuffing us. He said he was go- years. The boys were tortured and know Dean must have done some- working as a Metro housing inspect- ing to kill us all, but first he was go- He said he "sweet-talked" Corll killed. and their bodies wrapped in thing terrible to Wayne to make or here for about 18 months. He got ing to have his fun." into untying him after "I promised I plastic bags and buried in a ..boat Wayne shoot him." the two errant teenagers to come home with him by promising to pay K~rley and the girl were gagged would torture and kill them [his two shed leased by Corll in 1971. as well A co-worker at Houston Lightec friendsj if he'd let me go. So he them a few dollars for doing some with \ape. stripped naked. and fast- as at an East Texas fishing resort on Power Co., where Corll worked as did." chores around his house. "Mary ened to a basketball backboard Sam Rayburn Lake and on High an electrician, said he had a·"good Ellen" said later. which had been converted to a tor- Henley said Corll toldhim to sex- Island off the Texas coast. personality. Everybody liked him. But when he got them into the ture rack with holes for hands and ually attack the girl while he (Corll) The bodies found so far are all of He would help you if .you needed feet, Henley said. would attack Kerley. Henley went boys in an apparent age range from help. And he was intelligent." house. she said. Brust took them in- Continued on Page 17 ,-MURDERS DON'TINDICT WHOLE COMMUNITY- Gays shouldn't feel gui~overkilling~!__~&Mwriter says .., i••••indicated that t:oill-tbrtlfre, ''tse' ••• victims, few details were released. ble. I told him to back off and stop have been buried The final episode in Brust's Police said "sadistic equipment," whatever he was doing. He said bathing suits. unhappy life, in which his grim fan- including boards, handcuffs, and something and came at me, and I One of the bodies is thought to be tasies were to be' bared in bloody knives, had been uncovered. Invest]- shot him." . that of 13-year-old David Hilligiest, reality, began when he stopped his gators theorized that at least some Corll was hit six times in the chest who disappeared in 1971 after leav- recently purchased white Dodge van of the young victims had been with buJlets from a .22 calibre re- ing his home to go swimming. His in Fort Lauderdale July, 14 and strangled or bayonetted, but one po- volver. parents spent thousands of doJlars picked up 16-year-old Mark Ber- lice source said, "You name it, it Henley later indicated he had trying to find him. nard Matson and \the IS-year-old happened." known what was going to happen girl whom newspapers here have when he took Kerley and Williams Henley apparently became in- In Henley's first account to po- volved with Corll about a year ago dubbed "Mary EJlen" while with- lice, which he has not substantially to Corll's house, police said. He ap- holding her true identity. \ peared grief-stricken. when Brooks introduced him to the altered, the youth said he took Tim older man. Mark. from Washington Court- Kerley, 19, and Rhonda Williams, As police reconstructed the story house, Ohio,' had met "Mary from statements by Henley, and ap- Henley's mother described Corll IS, to Corll's Pasadena home Aug. EJlen," a runaway from Frankfort, parently also by BrOOKS,teenage as "a polite 'man [who] loved to be 7. The three sniffed glue until they Ky., on the beach the day before. ' boys were enticed to Corll's house around kids." She said that "Dean passed out. Brust, a 43-year-old ex-convict United Press International Photo for sex 'and drug parties on a fairly treated Wayne like a son, and Next morning, Henley related, originaJly from New York, had been regular basis over the past three Wayne loved him like a father. I "he woke us up, and was tying and DEAN CORll working as a Metro housing inspect- years. The boys were tortured and know Dean must have done some- handcuffing us. He said he was go- or here for about 18 months. He got He said he "sweet-talked" Corll killed, and their bodies wrapped in thing terrible to Wayne to make ing to kill us all, but first he was go- the two' errant teenagers to come into untying him after "I promised I plastic bags and buried in a .boat Wayne shoot him." ing to have his fun." home with him by promising to pay would torture and kill them [his two shed leased by Corll in 1971, as weJl Kerley and the girl were gagged A co-worker at Houston Light & them a few doJlars for doing some friends] if he'd let me go. So he as at an East Texas fishing resort on with tape, stripped naked, and fast- Power Co., where Corll worked as chores around his house, "Mary did." Sam Rayburn Lake and on High ened to a basketball backboard an electrician, said he had a "good EJlen" said later. which had been converted to a tor- Henley said Corll toldhim to sex- Island off the Texas coast. personality. Everybody liked him. But when he got them into the ture rack with holes for hands and ually at(ack the girl while he (Corll) The bodies found so far are all of He would help you if you needed house, she said, Brust took them in- boys in an apparent age range from help. And he was in'teJligent." feet, Henley said. would attack Kerley. Henley went Continu'ed on Page 17 ,~MURDERS DON'TINDICTWHOLECOMMUNITY- Gays sIIouldn't feel guilt over killings~S&M writer says

Larry Townsend. past president of Just as most human beings pos- paraJlels the old dilemma: Why do : mate aspect of S&M behavior-not Corll's having had any gay social HELP. Inc .. has written extensively' sess the emotional potential to be ei- so many sweet little old ladies enjoy i that form of behavior as practiced aspects in his life; that is, he is not' on the subject of S&M. He also ther homosexual or heterosexual, so the murder and mayhem of Mickey i by many thousands (perhaps mil- characterized as having been in- holds a Master's Degree in clinical do most of us retain the residual ele- Spillane? . 'lions) of people, both gay and het, volved in any adult activities with and industrial psychology and has ments of a more primitive sexuality. In the case of Albert Brust, I 'throughout the world., Brust was as other Gays. worked as both a counselor and spe- Because the sex drive is the only think we have an individual with a much a maverick to this group as he This would seem to point up the cialist in personnel motivation. He component' of our personalities to (fortunately) unique sexual per- was to the balance of society. In basic inadequacy within his ego comments here. at the ADVO- be seriously restricted by society, it sonality. Whereas he 'incorporated ! fact,.I feel it is a serious misnomer structure, a typical inability to re- CATE's request. on' the Dean Corll is the one most likely to emerge in elements common to many other \ to c~!1 these crimes "S&M mur- late to a peer group. Like the dirty and Albert Brust killings in Texas . strange or distorted form. And even people, he compounded these ele- , ders . old man who seduces little girls, and Florida and a series of unsolved this is a subjective statement, based, ments into his own peculiarly lethal In Dean Corll (Houston), we have Corll sought release by using kids. mutilation murders in the Long upon the arbitrary standards estab- admixture. '.' a much grosser amplification of the His behavior pattern relates about Beach. Calif., area. lished by our social conditioning. In my opinion, he was no more same, basic syndrome .. Following as closely to a gay S&M person's as When a crime of unusual, bizarre "gay" than "het." He murdered the does that of a heterosexual murder- by LARRY TOWNSEND the classic pattern of heterosexual circumstances takes place, it is boy and mutilated him (although, er-rapist to the style of the het When we read about these grue- . child molesters, Corll utilized a viewed with horror, but also with a apparently, not sexually); he then younger fellow to lure his victims in- "family man." some mutilitation murders, it seems strongly morbid fascination-as raped the girl. This is certainly not to the web and physically used or As Gays, we are easily embar- only natural to ask ourselves, witnessed by the flocks of curious consistent with a purely homosex-. abused them; then, probably moti- rassed by sensationalized bizarre "Could this creep reaJly be gay?" onlookers who gathered outside the ual syndrome--S&M or otherwise. vated more by fear of discovery than behavior on the part of any homo- The answer, I think, is much more home of Albert Brust in Miami. Neither is rape, kidnaping, murder, anything else, he murdered them. sexual. But in neither Corll's nor complex than a simple "yes" or Why this fascination? In a way, it . nor enforced imprisonment a legiti- As yet, we have seen no indication of Continued on Page 16 "no." August 29. 1973 Page 3

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"" son by another. As I have been at Dean Corll, after all, are dead and tones. In Texas, at least, we seem to vated crime would be as likely to oc- TOWNSEND some pains (no pun intended) to ex- gone. Whatever harm they have have encountered the reverse. I cur in a culture where we accepted plain in my own writings, the S, or done, they will do no more. This nut know that a.great many of our peo- the existence of diverse sexual appe- Continued from Page 3 topman, is never going to derive the who is murdering, torturing and ple are extremely upset that one of tites as readily as we acknowledge Brust's case should we feel a kin- full pleasure he is seeking unless he dismembering the living bodies of the largest mass murders in the the varied tastes for food and drink. dred humiliation. Without being provokes an appropriate response' his victims along the coast- from history of the United States should able to interview either of them, and from his subject., ' Long Beach to Oceanside remains a appear to.have been committed by a c having only the sensationalized In other words, the S&Mex- fearsome threat. Adding to this con- homosexual. Iconcur completely in news stories to go on, I am loath to change is just that-c-an exchange, cern is the apparent factor of 'these feelings, but I must also note TRADER attempt any sort of in-depth analy- basically seeking the same sensual misconception on the part of in- that the same "uniqueness" which b) .- sis. I can, however, point up the experience as any other sexual inter- vestigating officers. I understand makes it a Front-Page story reflects DICK'S GREl gross inconsistencies between the action. If the M is to be subjected to thatthey have been questioning pa- its infrequency. It also leaves me to Gets Results!! the fi apparent behavior of these two men pain, or whatever, it is only with his trons of gay leather bars, and have wonder if this type of sexually moti- rapid and that of the normal S&M or express or implied consent. If the been looking into the lives and SquU/ "gay leather" people within our own scene is carried beyond the limits of habits of people who are active in male community. For most who are ac- the M, it becomes quite a different the S&M scene. In my opinion, this is ca tively involved in the scene, it is a matter. Those outside the "leather is an extremely unfertile line of playe game to be played on the weekend, _ inquiry. People who are able to ex- MEN'S H~IRSTYLING <: circle" may not understand why or make with the largest percentage being in- how such a relationship can come "press their sexuality ... to act out by Playg terested in the role of bottom man, into being, or how it can be enjoy- their desires in 'a non-destructive ex- peers or M. This is just as true of the het ~b.le; but they should realize that it change, are the least likely to com- GEORGE ST~RK ready S&Mers as it is with ours. Ism no way lethal. '\ mit this sort of crime. Even if the maga In the true S&M relationship, ,~, Of more concern to me, is the se- 'components for violence lie within For that long, full or new Greek God look .... If you dare to be the n "'- there is a good deal more involved ries of unsolved murders in South- them, the very act of sex play tends different! nude than the physical abuse of one per- ern California, Albert Brust and to become the "safety valve", per- and 8453 BEVERLY BLVD. PINZONE'S mitting the steam of passion to posur Sl)MMIT CON FERENC): escape before it causes an explosion. -Los Angeles (213) 653-9224 millic The most appropriate place to seek and c this murderer is deep within some dark and hidden closet. The pattern for this California killer may be visible in both the / .. lIoyalty' frozen out From A Company of Leathermen Texas and the Florida situa- tions-although, again, I must indi- by PHYLLIS McINTIRE Council of Emperors and Empress- The crowned heads of Greater Los es, which held its first summit meet- cate my hesitancy to analyze on the FINE S&M ART basis of the minimal and probably Angeles have formed an imperial ing Aug. 6. Not unexpectedly, the distorted information available We proudly announce a limited edi- alliance to repeal a threat to their council announced that the Valley Still, in Brust and Corll we can see tion of outstanding maleS&M art. royal prerogatives from a bunch of "pretenders" would not be the silhouettes of two men who were Only 100 copies of each original will upstarts in the San Fernando recognized. probably: extremely inhibited and Valley. ' "It's part of Los Angeles," Em- be made, Each is matted for fram- repressed socially as well as sexually peror I Luigi de Los Angeles ex- ing. Each is numbered and signed by To understand what it's all about, (one of them somewhat brutalized a smattering of Los Angeles geogra- plained. "We just couldn't by his prison experiences), each the artist. They are extremely de- . recognize them." phy is necessaryt The Valley, as it's emotionally incapable of admitting tailed and graphic. Each is in excel- known locally, i~ that part of the However, as the United Nations his desire for "socially unaccept- lent taste. Authentic and impressive, L.A. megalopolis lying north of the and other international bodies have able" partners. Brust's tendency to Santa Monica Mountains, which discovered, possession is nine parts long, esoteric rationalizations in 'his Quality work by and'tor quality peo- cut through the city from east to of the territorial imperative. journals would seem to substantiate ple. west about a third of the way down, "Their excluding us is no reason such a contention. I would expect for us to give up and quit," said j-- from the northern fringes of Greater some type of similar exposition in Catalog with. reservation form, only Emperor I Puff. "We're going to L.A. The biggest part of it is inside Corll's case, as such is so typical in $5- 112 the cost of the catalog de- hold our titles, and we're going to the city limits of Los, Angeles any of these sensational sex-murder ducted from order, proper. work, and if they wish not to recog- stories. , nize us, then that's their choice. But Mostly fields and orange groves In summary, then, it would be my Original art, we will still recognize the oth~r as late as the mirl-'30s, its vast ex- , opinion that these, dreadful, violent custom , ;,~r,~y).~'· ~ )'., panse is now one of the bedroom courts. " crimes have come into being as the designed, is h'JIct;nnc Af th.,::. T A -::tor~":l 'c ",hitp. Another potential contender in result of thr~~ inrlividu a ls-c-two A\fAiIAhl", ,~/~~ t>fly IS neceslslary: I "hlOValley, as It'g-recognH Ize trrerrr: th Unit d N ti e:notion:lly incapable of ad';'i~i~~ t ta iled and graph Ic·.• Eack '" PJ ,,~_21 4 91 known loca y, .IS t. at part of the oweve~, as ~ OJ e . a IOns his desire for "socially un accept- L.A. megalopolis lying north of the a?d other InternatI?nal. bO~les have able" partners. Brust's tendency to Santa Monica Mountains, which dlscovere~, P?Ss~sslon I~ rune parts long, esoteric rationalizations in his Quality work by and'tor quality peo- cut through th~ city from east to of~.he t~rntonal ~mpera~lve. journals would seem to substantiate ple. west about a third ~f the way down. Thejr e~c1udIng us IS n? ~,eas~n such a contention. I would expect from the n~rthern fnnges .0f.G~ea.ter for us to give up .,and, qUit,. said some type of similar exposition in Catalog with. reservation form, only L.A. ~he b~gg~st part of It IS inside Emperor I. Puff. We ~e gOl.ng to Corll's case, as such is so typical in $5- 1/2 the cost of the catalog de- the city limits of Los Angeles hold our titles, and we re gOIng to any of these sensational sex-murder ducted from order. proper. work, and if they wish not to recog- stories. Mostly fields and orange groves nize u~, the~ that's th~ir choice. But In summary, then, it would be my Original art, as late as the mid-'30s, its vast ex- we wIl,I, stili recognize the other . opinion that these. dreadful, violent panse is now one of the bedroom courts. . . crimes have come into being as the designed, is bastions of the L.A, area's white Another potential contender In result of three individuals-two available, middle class. The other is Orange the imper!al lists, Entertainment dead, the other still on the loose as County to the south, Along the West publisher and ?all pro~oter of this writing-who were unable to Send statement Valley's southern boundary runs Cal Coburn, was a bit more diplo- find socially acceptable outlets for Ventura Boulevard, which is dotted matic. When the first stor~ clouds their sexual urgings. With society's or age, .~. with gay bars and restaurants. began to app~ar on t~e horizon, he . cap screwed down so tightly, we can /1"' '''''.~ About three years ago, the idea of changed the titles of his new Emper- expect that the weakest will some- Morgan Associates a drag "empress," dreamed up in or and Empress .de Valley to Czar times explode. LI. 310 Franklin St., #248 San Francisco in the mid-'60s, took and Czarina. This appears to hav,e Until now, the violence has come reer. hold in the glitter and tinsel world mollified the royal courts" bU,t It from. hetero,sexual psychopaths, Boston, MA 02110 Lyl of female impersonation in Los -nay make protocol a touch tIcklish,. sometimes WIth homosexual over- game and Angeles. Since then, crox Vfl_e?heads F ~ ~ Septe have been sprouting like cabbages. ~ know The first "empress' of Los Fabul Angeles was a drag ball promoter, ~ Affiliate clubs" in: Ces Larry Morrow, known profession- ~ Boston, Honolulu, Houston, I have .•.. ally as LaRey, Now the reigning crisis' dowager, Empress I LaRey de Los ~ Miami, St. Louis, San Diego, Angeles was not at.all pleased when ~ Washington, D.C. & Toronto tion: Lew Schirtzinger, who owns EI futur Poquito restaurant in the Valley, . 'dCa"1s decided it was time the Valley pro- I that claimed its independence, Schirt- NOON TIME SPECIAL I coaxes zinger staged a contest July 2 at '/ VIid son! which two bartenders from a place ~ $1.00 cente~ called Forsooth the Dragoon were ~ Everyday except holkl8ys crowned Empress I Veronica I I & Vavoom de San Fernando Valley ~ 12 Noon-3PM·(3 Hours) ~DHEAT AIR CON- CAST and Emperor I Puff de San Fer- G FOR COMFORT man I nando Valley. ~ MEMBERS ONLY ,ETE,GYMEQUlPMENT Max 1 Not long after, Schirtzinger and . ~ Plctufj LaRey found themselves at the same ,RGESTEAM ROOM I ~ Join the area's fastest-growing der. function in San Diego. According to ~ private club baths.... Ma~ witnesses, words were exchanged Amen . . and Schirtzinger poured a drink puppe: over the coiffed hhd of the dowager I produi empress. LaRey promptly' snatched Bar! the shirt from Schirtzinger's back. ing he "I would've wiped the floor with Streisa '..- him if I didn't have a dress on," La- Instrui Rey said later in confirming the in- I $ I lumbie cident. shootit Determined not to let such a next m gross affront to her' royal dignity 4109 BURBANK BLVD. Desi and prerogatives go unchallenged, (4 blocks East of Cahuenga Blvd.) drums . LaRey got on the phone to the royal I LOS ANGELES WE NEVER CLOSE! I ing .' courts of Long Beach, the Inland minus Empire, and South Bay. The terri- CONSIDERATION GIVEN t t 843-2311~ __ ~ • = tor ies of the latter two include he I 849-2700 I The solution evidently entailed that ~e had almost married a Brust locked in an inescapable grip BRUST. picking up the two teenagers and "blonde woman who was dumb and when he-began his diary in 1970. On taking them back to the house for big in the bosom and bottom" be- Apr. 10 of that year. he wrote: ~~ Continued from Page 3 'the sexual outlet he craved. i cause she "would be like a servant "RAPE, MURDER, SUICIDE. to the bedroom where the torture I and do whatever he wanted." These thoughts are constantly with 1'r! After the episode with Matson I I chamber' was located and forced and the girl, the diary entries show. Brust lived "like a hermit," she me. Not a day passes without some \" them at gunpoint to perform what no remorse, only a regret that he said. "He didn't say anything except autistic thinking along those lines. \' police later described as "perverted had freed the girl. The next day, a , grievances. He. disliked everything Of course. this is not mentally acts," while he took photos. intensely. He always smirked and 'healthy'-there is 110doubt that by II Tuesday, after driving "Mary ) Matson eventually jumped Brust, Ellen" back to Fort Lauderdale,: looked sarcastic. When you talked present standards I am mentally ill, who shot the boy three times and a hopeless sociopath. 'Hopeless' be- ~~ Brust wrote: to him, you didn't want to stay near ,W' ~1 dragged his body into a spare him." cause there is no changing me with- "My own capacity for empathy )~ bathroom. He cut off Matson's Cocky About Jews out changing the social context I has proved my undQing-? Has it /. head, feet, and hands and buried On the other hand, Brust was de- exist in. At the age of 40. the die is cracked my shell permanently?" J ,him under three and a half feet of scribed as "very happy, cocky even. cast ... " Two days later, he told a co-work- 'concrete in a shower stall. As far as talking like a magpie" about what er, Gerald Court, 63, "The pain of could be learned 'from police, young he would like to do to Jews. by Carl life far outweighs the joys of living." Matson was not sexually mutilated, Erdvig, 29, owner of the Outrider By this time, the odor of Matson's however. Motorcycle Shop in North Miami ..•. ALBERT BRUST' body was permeating Brust's home. "Mary Ellen" was manacled in Beach where Brust took his SOOcc Back in 1970, he had written in the, the torture chamber for almost 24 went b}\. before neighbors investi- BMW for servicing before buying ELROSE' diary, "The straw that breaks the I hours and raped repeatedly, she gated and.called police, who found the van. camel's back and precipitates my fi- said. But though Brust slapped her the house reeking with the odor of a Erdvig. who was the source of the nal act will probably be emo- around some, he apparently didn't decomposing body and fluids ooz- information that Brust preferred OCIAL tional ... " ~ use his torture devices on her. ing- from the hastily cemented boys. said Brust had talked on 'a And so it was. On July 19, the Girl Released . shower stall. . couple of occasions about having same day he spoke so gloomily to 'L U B,(formerly Finally, saying, "I have taken a Until they broke it apart with "disposed of somebody in the East Court, Brust wrote in his diary: Lionheart Baths) life, so now I'm going to give ote jackhammers, police suspected River" in New York, and another , "I have miscalculated. However, 1 back," Brust drove the terrified girl more bodies might be inside a 16- time claimed to have "concreted know I could save the situation by a back to Fort Lauderdale and re- inch thick concrete wall adjoining somebody." ISVERY lot of disagreeable work, but I see leased her. She went immediately to the torture chamber, but none were , "I thought he was joking, but 1 no good reason for going on. What police, but her hysterical account found. Police checked out the possi- wasn't sure." , SOCIABLE!!f would come next? The whole busi- was greeted withskepticism. "Mary bility that Brust had had something Brust's diary indicates admira- ness is not worth it; life is not worth Ellen's". mother, contacted .in to do with the deaths of two teenage tion. if not for the Nazis, at least for the trouble after all, death comes Frankfort, described her as a sisters from New Jersey, whose the cyanide suicides of Hitler, sooner or later, so why not sooner A PRIVATE CLUB "pathological liar," confirming the bodies were found in Key Largo two Heinrich Himmler, Herman Goe- and save yourself all the trouble and officers' suspicion that she had months before the Matson killing, ring, and Joseph Goebbels. OPEN7DAYS pain of living. 'Once born make made up the bizarre story. but later said they thought the boy Erdvig said Brust also hated 24 HOURS ADA Y haste to pass the gates of Death.' Five days later, Brust stretched was the only person Brust had lawyers, politicians, children, "One factor in my decision is my out in a lawn chair in the yard of his killed. "Catholics, cats and dogs, almost _1..1 ---- NOW ACCEPTING clearly declining health. I now suf- home and drank chocolate milk 'The Ultimate Solution' everything ..• MEMBERS- fer foot pain=-both feet-plus laced ':,"ith cyariide. Two more days Brust's diary, in a notebook He also said Brust talked about shoulder pain, probably bursitic. In labeled "The Ultimate Solution," suicide and about growing old. Mrs. addition, there is 'the vascular was found inside the house. Police Gompers said' he complained of problem in my right arm, the 'pins 'Victim' 'willing, kept a tight grip on it before releas- headaches, but Dr. Charles L. Gar- and needles' sensation that indi- ing its contents Aug. 1. rett, chief deputy medical examiner cates a circulatory disorder. Add to Begun in April 1970, the diary's for Dade County. said there was no it all my diabetic tendency and the but educator theme is a continual yearning for evidence from the autopsy of a brain death, never fully explained. It re- inevitability of insulin dependency. tumor or any other physical cause of d69MELROSE fers continually to "the events of Fuck it all!" his behavior. Hollywood ~' still convicted August and September 1968" which That was the last entry. Whatever the source of his obses- 937-2122 WOODLAND, Calif.-In one of led to a nearly successful suicide at- Mild- Mannered sions, they apparently already had the strangest cases in California tempt, but never. says what they Neighbors and acquaint- history, a consenting adult has been were. Brust apparently never re- ances-he seemed to have no real allowed to go free-without any le- ferred to them in talking to anyone friends-found Brust an aggravat- I . o~J c.b..!-l_t:.ae...c;;..-.ne.ndino~wh11e... his. uestioned by police here. ing man but didn't seem to suspect was greeted witll.Sk~pticism. "Mary bility that Brust had had something wOUl~oTJTeTTl·exr.-hr:l~e:vlToTe-rou"-'h Brust's diary indicates admira- I I ,. . . do wi h h d h f t tee ness IS not wort it: tre IS not wort . . . Ellen's" mother, contacted In to 0 Wit t e eat so wo eenage h bl ft 'II d h non. if not for the Nazis. at least for Frank fort d escn ibed her as a S.ISters from New J ersey, whose t e trou eI a er a, h eat comes th e cyarnid e SUlC' iIdes 0f H'ItIer, .... '.. . b di f d i K L t sooner or ater so wynot sooner .. . A PRIVATE CLUB "pathological .h~r," confirming the 0 lethswebret:oun m e y ark~ollwo' and save yourse'lf all the trouble and ~el11nch Himmler, Herman Goe- officers' SUSpICIOn that she had mon s e ore th e Ma tson I mg, . . . , rmg. and Joseph Goebbels. OPEN7DAYS made up the bizarre story. but later said they thought the boy parn of living. Once born ~ake Erdvig said Brust also hated 24 HOURS A DA Y Five days. later, Brust stretched was the only person Brust had haste to pass th~ gates of~~ath: lawyers. politicians, children. out in a lawn chair in the yard of his killed. ; I "OlnedfacI~o: in hmYldhecllslOnIS m y "Catholics. cats and dogs. almost-a, ---- NOW ACCEPTING . "Th Ultl t sir ' c ear y ec mmg ea t. now su f- hinz." home and drank chocolate milk e una e 0 u IOn c c t . b th f tIs everyt mg. MEMBERS- laced with. cyanide... Two more days Brus r' s diiary, tn a no teb 00 k ler 100 p. atH- 0 ee .-p. u He also saidirl Brust taalk ed about labeled "The Ultimate Solution," sho~lder pain. pro?ably bursitic, In suicide and about growing old. Mrs. was found inside the house. Police additIOn,. there. IS the vas:u!ar Gompers said' he complained of 'Victim' .willing, , kept a tight grip on it before releas- problem 111~y right .arm, the 'p1~S headaches, but Dr. Charles L. Gar- ing its contents Aug. I. and nee?les sensa~lOn that indi- rett. chief deputy medica'! examiner Begun in April 1970, the diary's ~ates a clr~ulat~ry disorder. Add to for Dade County. said there was no but educator theme is a continual yearning for ~t al,l m~ .dlabet.lc te?dency and the evidence from the autopsy of a brain death, never fully explained. It re- l11evlt~blht~. of I11sull11dependency. tumor or any other physical cause of ~ 7269 MELROSE fers continually to "the events of Fuck It all! his behavior. Hollywood still convicted August and September 1968" which That was the last entry. Whatever the source of his obses- 937-2122 WOODLAND, Calif.-In one of led to a nearly successful suicide at- Mild-Mannered sions, they apparently already had the strangest cases in California tempt. but never. says what they Neighbors and acquaint- history, a consenting adult has been were. Brust apparently never re- ances-he seemed to have no real allowed to go free-without any le- fer red to them in talking to anyone, friends-found Brust an aggravat- gal charges pending=-while his questioned by police here. ing man but didn't seem to suspect alleged sex partner remains in jail In 1951. he was sentenced to his capacity for murder without bail, convicted of oral copu- three to 10 years in prison in New I just 'can't believe what's in lation and sodomy. York on charges of kidnap, assault. there." said Mrs. Ruth Court. the robbery. and grand larceny. He was -wife of Brust's co-worker. as police A jury in this small town near paroled in 1957. The diary reveals extracted Matson's body from the Sacramento took only two hours to that his prison experience remained shower stall. "He talked big. but he find former Woodland School Su- in; his thoughts. and' at times he was a mild-mannered little man." perintendent David Reeves guilty of seemed to have a masochistic urge Brust was about 5 feet. four inches "sexual perversion." Reeves. 40. to return: .' tall. was accused of having a tryst with But above all, he seemed to be As 'she talked. a steady stream of 19-year-old Robert Carling in a afraid of age and ill-health. Shortly cars, their passengers gawking. Palo Alto motel on Feb. 7. After the after starting the diary. while stay- drove slowly along the normally alleged sex acts took place. Carling ing with a younger sister in Astoria, quiet street. An ice cream truck did reported the incident to the police, N.Y .• he wrote this passage. perhaps a booming business. selling Cokes and Reeves was arrested at the motivated by his 40th birthday: for a quarter to curious onlookers motel. "I notice that my memory and and swarms of children gathered

What was bizarre was that thinking power has deteriorated in . around the house. '-I.. Carling admitted that he was not the last two years ... I fear in- Mrs. Court's husband, who often afraid of Reeves and that he had sanity. I fear prison. I fear the loss drove Brust to work. was impressed done nothing verbally or physically of my intellectual and sexual by his co-worker's brain, if not his to remove himself from the situa- powers. and I fear death. But of philosophy. tion. The willing, healthy 6-foot them all. I fear death the least ... I "He knew more than anyone else youth, a college student, was clearly don't want to be an old fool, a dod- I ever met. He had 'a marvelous "consenting," according to Reeves' dering wreck of feeble powers. a memory and was self-educated. I'm attorney, Earl Stokes. remnant of the Brust that repelled a college graduate. and he made me . and won a round against this stupid feel stupid." The' attorney is confident that a society. You might say that I wanted Mrs. Gaye Gompers, 28, who higher court will overthrow the jury to die with my intellectual boots lived directly behind Brust and was decision and also rule that the judge on." the closest thing to a confidant he erred in refusing to grant Reeves. a 'The Brustian Solution' had in the neighborhood, said he well-established educator. bail. In late 1970, entries in the diary seemed to consider himself superior During the trial one police officer trail off and do not begin again un- to everybody. She said he told her was even permitted to give testi- til July 12,1973, less than 48 hours mony although he had sat in the before. he picked up Matson and PROFESSIONAL courtroom and heard other witness- "Mary Ellen." Here he writes that es before him. . although "I have successfully changed my life-style drastically: Reeves made headlines in 1972 from lathing to housing inspection, 'Iall tl_V~fl , W"'&h~~ .• ftd-~;"~ A jury in this small town near paroled in 1957. The diary reveals e~~~~~e~i.1~'t~~;;··~dys· t-~rrt1n:he ~ • .,. Sacramento took only two hours to that his prison experience remained shower stall. "He talked big, but he find former Woodland School Suo in his thoughts, and' at times he was a mild-mannered little man." perintendent David Reeves guilty of seemed to have a masochistic urge Brust was about 5 feet, four inches "sexual perversion." Reeves, 40, to return. • . tall. was accused of having a tryst with But above all, he seemed to be As 'she talked. a steady stream of 19.year.old Robert Carling in a afraid of age and ill-health, Shortly cars. their passengers gawking. Palo Alto motel on Feb. 7. After the after starting the diary, while stay- drove slowly along the normally aIIeged sex acts took place, Carling ing with a younger sister in Astoria, quiet street. An ice cream truck did reported the incident to the police, N.Y., he wrote this passage, perhaps a booming business, selling Cokes and Reeves was arrested at the motivated by his 40th birthday: for a quarter to curious onlookers motel. "I notice that my memory and and swarms of children gathered What was bizarre was that thinking power has deteriorated in . around the house. ...• Carling admitted that he was not the last two years ... 1 fear in- Mrs. Court's husband. who often afraid of Reeves and that he had sanity. I fear prison, 1 fear the loss drove Brust to work, was impressed done nothing verbaIIy or physicaIIy of my inteIIectual and sexual by his co-worker's brain. if not his to remove himself from the situa- powers, and 1 fear death. But of philosophy. tion. The wiIIing, healthy o-foot them all, 1 fear death the least: .. I "He knew more than anyone else youth, a coIIege student, was clearly don't want to be an old fool, a dodo I ever met. He had -a marvelous "consenting," according to Reeves' dering wreck of feeble powers, a memory and was self-educated. I'm attorney, Earl Stokes. remnant of the Brust that repelled a college graduate, and he made me . and won a round against this stupid feel stupid." The attorney is confident that a society. You might say that 1 wanted Mrs. Gaye Gompers. 28, who higher court wiII overthrow the jury to die with my intellectual boots lived directly behind Brust and was decision and also rule that the judge on." . the closest thing to a confidant he 'erred in refusing to grant Reeves, a 'The H~stian Solution' had in the neighborhood. said he well-established educator, bail. In late 1970, entries in the diary seemed to consider himself superior During the trial one police officer trail off and do not begin again un- to everybody. She said he told her was even permitted to give testi- til July 12, 1973, less than 48 hours mony although he had sat in the before he picked up Matson and PROFESSIONAL courtroom and heard other witness- "Mary EIIen." Here he writes that es before him. . / although "I have successfully changed my life-style drasticaliy: Reeves made headlines in 1972 from lathing to housing inspection, when he became the first person in from bike to van, from apartment to California to be appointed as school house, from New York City to Flor- , '1111SII'~CI superintendent without first obtain- ida." his thinking has remained the AND LANDSCAPING ing an education degree. The popu- same. • REMOVAL • SHRUB & lar educator hired persons with "I note how much I actually enjoy hard business sense to run the • TOPPING . HEDGE WORK solitude the last few years-even schools and was rewarded with a more than 1 did in prison. After • SPRAYING, • PRUNING $28,500 a year salary. work 1 always get home as soon as • PLANT & TREE INSTALLATION The school board in conservative possible to enjoy my solitary sanctu- LICENSED Woodland retained Reeves in his ary and its music and books and position for three months after the TV. No sex yet, but I'm working on-c. Call Ask for original charges were made as a it-slowly but with determined reo demonstration of their confidence solve. I know what I want. 1 need (213) 463·0329 RON or JOHN in Him. In' May, under public someone for sex, yes, but not an pressp're, the board was forced to idiot I have to cater to. FREE ESTIMA TES "a very friendly service" dismiss him. "Enter the Brustian solution-!" ANAUGUST 0 PRICE SALE (INDLDFRIBND) to Aug. 1-29, 1973. Reservations suggested. 1830 E. Racquet Club Rd., Palm Springs, Ca. (714) 327-1812 . I August 29.1973 THE ADVOCATE Page 17