The AUGUST, 19731 TWO BOYS CHARGED WITH MURDER -BOTH BOYS POINT FINGER AT CORLL'S SEX-MURDER PARTIES OVER TWO YEARS ion. He was thirty three and sen­ S. Harbers friends and called the police. sitive about his age. He has lived it is hard to believe that the Elmer Henley 17, Tim Kerley The Henley boy then took the in Houston since 1951 and w as remains were once living people . 19 and Ronda Williams 15 went police to a boat shed in south­ brought up by his mother. The As more bodies are found the vat­ to the home of Dean orll Tuesday west Houston where 17 bodies of house in Pasadena was given to tern is the same and this is lead­ night for a glue sniffing party. young boys were found to be bur­ him by his father and he had ing police to the judgment that Corll had been host to several ried. Who was this man who mur­ lived there for three months. His Corll, Henley, and Brooks were of these parties and was very much dered these boys? Did the Henley neighbors thought him a clean cut responsible for the murders. into having sex with young boys. boy help him kill them? Was the man with quiet habits. The mother The striking thing is that this The trio sniffed glue until they Henley boy the only one who help­ of the Henley boy talks of Corll trio got away with killings for two were unconscious, while they were ed Corll find, torture, murder, as a friendly person who treated years and were only caught be­ out Corl! bound and gagged Tim and burry these boys? According her boy like his own son. cause of the actions of one (Corl!) and Ronda. When he started to to police the boys were mostly Identification of the bodies found who got too weird. Houston police handcuff the Henley boy it brought from the northwest side of Hous­ so far has been dificult and parents receive many missing children him around. Corll then told him ton and many were friends or neigh­ with missing boys are anxiously reports. Something like this hap­ that he was going to kill all of bors of Henley's. waiting to see if their search is pens and in the words of Police them. Corll then dragged Henley , According to Henley's state­ over. At press time only three of Chief Short, "it is a sad thing, to the kitchen of the small frame ment Corll had offered him $1500 the bodies have been identified. but it happened," and their is little house in Pasadena, where accord­ for each boy he recruted, helped Early Thursday David Brooks, we can do about it. The victims ing to the boy he "sweet talked" kill and bury. Henley says that 18, also of Houston came forward were all young boys and were Corll into releasing him in order there are more bodies burried at and told the police that he and sexually assaulted in the course to help in killing the other two. High Island and Lake Sam Raburn, Henley had participated with Corll of their torture, this fact points They returned to the room where near Lufkin. The total goes as in at least thirty tourture killings. up a strange conclusion perhaps the two were bound to a special high as 25 or 30, and stretches The list of suspects in the k:ill­ these boys were looking for some­ plywood frame which had holes cut over a period of at least wo or ings. The list of suspects in the thing different, cheap thrills, but in it for hands and feet. There more years. Corll "liked children killings now has three names on it, the ready availability of these Corll told Henley to sexually as­ and was around them every chance but police are reluctant to say if boys tends to lead one to believe sault the girl while he was sex­ he got," said people who knew him. this is all of the people who took that they wanted to be hurt. As ually assualting Kerley. The boy He would take them for rides in park in the killings. The pattern the investigation goes on more and went to the bathroom for some his van and evidently picked up seems to be an indication that over more loose ends are being tied up lubricant and on returning picked some of his victims hitch-hiking. the two year period each victim ----- the only question is just up the gun from the table. The boy Corll was employed by Houston was a young boy and each one how these boys let themselves says that Corll came at him and Light and Power as an electrician had his hands tied behind his back. get in a position where their lives he shot him. He then released his at the Hiram Clark generating stat- I have seen the burial sight and were taken, and why? Another attitude which some the underground, "They're after would call unfeeling and unfair the (name omitted)." Business fell runs, "Wouldn't you know that off and before long it closed its .. something like this would happen A.ftermath off and before long it closed 1t:in a town which gave Jim Gar­ I I doors for good. Which way do we rison to the world?" Unfeeling want it? or not, it begins to nudge close There are, believe it or not, , to some very touchy questions. people who are so anti-bar as Such as can anyone feel really The Fire Upstairs to claim that gay bars merely safe, however supposedly sophist­ foster the neuroses of those who icated a city may claim to be? In reviewing all information about where. The principal reason for go there and encourage them in Doe& not past experience indicate the New Orleans fire the NUNTWS continuing to discuss the whole af­ putting off making adjustments that Society is like some sleep­ received from ONE LETTER Vol. fair is to see what can be learned putting off making adjustments ing animal which when rudely XV111 No. 6 the most complete from it. in their lives to the question of ing animal which when rudely .. ~ recap of all and therefore pass it For instance, how many gay bars what homophile living is all about. awakened is entirely capable of on to you who do not receive this are there around the country which While wishing no one any harm, turning suddenly into a wild beast? monthly letter from ONE) are in such violation of the fire they would argue that people who Should we be astonished at this? laws as to present comparable frequent these -bars simply reap Did not many of the quoted re­ Still more about the New Orleans hazards? Do those who operate the natural consequences of their marks and actions of city and fire? Why? Does not continued s~­ them very much care? For that behavior; that to waste emotion ecclesiastical officials smack all ing through the ashes of the tregedy matter, how many people would upon them is either sloppy senti­ too clearly of ill-concealed dis­ run the danger of sounding like really welcome the sort of fire mentality or the condoning oftheir aidn, intolerance and even some "injustice collecting" and mas­ inspections and official surveil­ self-destructive behavior and no "they got what they well deserv­ ochistic self-indulgence? lance that ordinary businesses kindness to anyone. To call such ed" feelings? To ask the question implies that regularly undergo for safety and attitudes smug and judgemental It would be very easy to take all ONE Members have ready insurance purposes? One bar pack­ says merely that one subscribes pious platitudes from some, an access to such publications as have ed to the hi! t was cleared by to a different set of value judge­ official's retraction of implusive given coverage to the New Orleans the police on the stated complaint ments and illustrates the vast dif­ statements and the few genuine story. Many Members do not, nor of overcrowding, then allowed to ferences in attitude to be found expressior:is of good will as evi- has all the information reprinted refill up to its approved capa­ throughout what is referred to as in these pages been covered else- city. War4 then went out through Our Community. PAGE 10 I 4 1000 EMBOSSED [ GAY PRIDE PARAD~] BUSINESS CARDS $8.95 4615 Mt. Vernon - IN '7 4?------- 524-5612 Will there be a Gay Pride the movement needs a unifying Parade next year? Yes. But national gay organization. NACHO probably not in Dallas. Chris failed. We were young. We :\lcKec. able organizer and tire­ learned. Perhaps this time we 1 will win. QUALITY PRINTING less worker of the fir~t two Ga, Pride Parades has said that she The National Gay Mobilizing will not head a parade committ­ Committee is a group of Gay author. director. and the entire quarter 'n two dimes 'n a nickel. ee for 19, ~- women and men in New York and orchestra (piano) for his produc­ Now they-uts whut I call a bar­ The 1973 Parade was a succ­ Illinois of various political ten­ tion. This time, though, he also gin, don't chew? ess in e\'ery way. but she feels dencys. who feel the necessity of appears as an actor; one is hard­ 'N on top of all they-ut, yew it was not quite as successful a nation-wide organization with a ly surprised to find that he's okay gits to meet all kindsa special as the first one.