Editing Dean Corll (section)

== August 8, 1973 ==
On the night of August 7, 1973, 17-year-old Henley invited a 19-year-old named Timothy Cordell Kerley to attend a party at Corll's house in Pasadena. Kerley, who intended to be Corll's next victim, accepted the offer. David Brooks was not present at the time. The two young men arrived at Corll's home, where they smelled paint smoke and drank alcohol until midnight before leaving the house to buy sandwiches. Henley and Kerley then drove back to Houston Heights, and Kerley parked his vehicle near Henley's home. Henley got out of the vehicle and headed toward the home of Rhonda Williams, a 15-year-old friend of hers, who had been beaten up by her drunken father that night, and who had decided to temporarily leave her home until her father of her getting sober. Henley invited Rhonda to spend the night at Corll's house, which Rhonda accepted and climbed into the backseat of Kerley's Volkswagen. 

The trio then drove to Corll's residence in Pasadena. At approximately 3 a.m. on the morning of August 8, 1973, Henley and Kerley returned to the Corll home accompanied by Rhonda Williams. Corll was furious that Henley had brought a girl to his house, privately telling her that she had "ruined everything." Henley explained that Williams had argued with her father that night and that she did not want to go home. Corll seemed to calm down, and offered him the trio of beer and marijuana. The three teens began drinking and smoking marijuana, and Henley and Kerley also smelled paint fumes as Corll watched intently. After about two hours, Henley, Kerley, and Williams passed out. betrayal and death Henley awoke to find himself lying face down and Corll putting handcuffs on his wrists. His mouth had been gagged with duct tape and his ankles had been bound together. Kerley and Williams lay next to Henley, bound tightly with nylon rope, gagged with duct tape, and face down on the floor. Kerley had also been stripped naked. Realizing that Henley had woken up, Corll removed the gag from her mouth. Henley protested Corll's actions to no avail, after which Corll reiterated that he was angry at Henley for bringing a girl into his home and that he was going to kill the three teenagers after he had assaulted and tortured Kerley. He then dragged Henley into his kitchen and placed a .22 caliber pistol against his stomach, threatening to shoot him. Henley calmed Corll down, promising to participate in the torture and murder of both Williams and Kerley if Corll released him.

Corll agreed and untied Henley, then brought Kerley and Williams into his room and strapped them to opposite sides of his torture board: Kerley face down; Williams on her back. Corll then handed Henley a hunting knife and ordered him to cut off Williams' clothing, insisting that while he raped and killed Kerley, Henley would do the same to Williams. Henley began cutting Williams' clothing as Corll undressed and began assaulting and torturing Kerley. Both Kerley and Williams had woken up at this point. Kerley began to writhe and scream as Williams, whose gag Henley had removed, raised her head and asked Henley, "Is this real?" to which Henley replied, "Yes." Williams then asked Henley, "Are you going to do something about it?" Henley asked Corll if he could take Rhonda into another room. Corll ignored him and Henley then grabbed Corll's gun, yelling, "You've gone far enough, Dean!" 3 Henley said, "I can't go on anymore! I can't make you kill all my friends!" Corll walked over to Henley and said, "Kill me, Wayne!" Henley took a few steps back as Corll continued toward him, yelling, "You won't!" Henley shot Corll, hitting him in the forehead (the bullet did not fully penetrate Corll's skull). Corll continued to lurch towards Henley, after which the young man fired two more bullets, hitting Corll in the left shoulder, Corll turned and staggered out of the room, hitting the corridor wall. Henley fired three additional bullets into his back and shoulder as Corll slid down the wall in agony in the hallway outside the room where the other two teens were tied up. [[File:Executed Corll.jpg|thumb|227x227px|The victimary, murdered ]]Corll bled to death where he fell, his naked body lying face down against the wall. 456 Henley would later recall that, after he had shot Corll, the only dominant thought in his mind in the moments immediately following was that Corll would have been proud of the way he had reacted to the confrontation, adding that Corll had been training him. to react quickly and react a lot, and that's what he did. Police Call At 8:24 a.m. on August 8, 1973, Henley called the Pasadena Police. His call was

All of the victims found had been sodomized and most victims found bore evidence of sexual torture: pubic hairs had been plucked out, genitals had been chewed, objects had been inserted into their rectums, and glass rods had been inserted into their urethrae and smashed.Cloth rags had also been inserted into the victims' mouths and adhesive tape wound around their faces to muffle their screams. The tongue of the first victim uncovered protruded over one inch beyond the tooth margin; the mouth of the third victim unearthed on August 8 was so agape that all upper and lower teeth were visible, leading investigators to theorize the youth had died with a scream on his lips.After the recovery of the eighth body from the boat shed was completed at 11:55 p.m., the investigation was discontinued until the next day.