HOUSTON (AP) — One after another, as a steamy summer evening faded from dusk to darkness, the bodies of young boys were pulled from the dirt floor of boat stall No. 11. By night’s end on Aug. 8, 1973, eight corpses had been recovered from makeshift graves. The next day, nine more were discovered inside the corrugated metal shed in southwest Houston. Another 10 bodies were found on remote High Island beach, 80 miles east of Houston, and in a … Continue reading
I see from reading Henley’s Facebook that he is up for parole this year and that he is asking for people to send the parole board letters in his support. I really can’t believe there are people out there that think this POS should be set free. We do not know the entire story and until he tell the complete truth he should not be released.
What does she know other than the night
she was there? I personally don’t believe 1/2 of what comes out of her mouth. Convenient she waits until Tim has passed. The only witness she had to verify or contradict her story. Look on Face Book she is personal friends with Wayne Henley to this day.
I smell $$$$ Blood Money for Wayne & Rhonda. That is pure D Evil,alive & well& contrived. Wonder if she donates the proceeds to the families of those poor boys?? or will it be split with Henley & his family? Tortured for hours?? I believe it was horrific for you & may GOD grant you peace. I really do feel for you as I can see that you are still truly tortured to this day.
All you gorey detailed & picture seeking freaks out there that want to buy this book, need to wake up & smell the coffee. YOU are being taken in.
If you haven’t done so already, you can ctc Ms. Derrick directly by phone.She wants to solve this & identify these children more than anyone. (Other than their folks that is)Bless you.
To krickitt: I was a friend of Danny Yates and I remember his friend Jim Glass. I remember when they went missing & how the police assumed they were runaways. I never heard my friend ever mention a desire to run away, and he told me just about everything – he was very outspoken even at that young age. He was also very close to his brother & he never heard from him. That in itself was a huge clue that something was wrong. Neither of them, or any of the victims, “fit” the typical runaway M.O.
When the news broke in ’73 I knew right then what had become of them. Broke my heart into a thousand pieces. I’m in my 50s now and it is still very painful. It’s taken me this long to start talking about it a little. None of us knew how to handle it back then…
I LIVED IN THE PASADENA NEIGHBORHOOD THAT SO MUCH OF THIS KILLING MUST OF HAPPENED AND REMEMBER ALL THE GORY DETAILS. I OFTEN WONDER WHY THIS STORY IS NOT BEING PUBLISIZED MORE ;SEING AS HOW EVERY OTHER SHOW YOU SEE ON TV IS SOME KIND OF MURDER MYSTERY.THIS WAS TRULY MURDER IN MASS BEFORE PEOPLE WOULD EVER SAY ANYTHING ABOUT SERIAL KILLLERS!
John I just found this site and I had a very similar experience that you did. I was about 13 at the time and it was around 1970 or 1971. I was walking to my grandmothers on Waugh Dr. coming from a little store when a car pulled over and the door open. The started asking weird questions like my pants size and did I like to drink. My mom pulled up behind him and he took off. When the story broke on the news and showed Correl’s picture, I told my mom that was the guy who tried to pick me up.
Dear Rhonda, I would be very interested in meeting & speaking with you. I am a sibling of one of the perps. Let me know if you are interested?
Rhonda, I can’t wait to read your book and read about your side of the story and such. Will there be photos and such in the book? I hope so. Try to get some of the victims too and of Wayne and David.
I’m so sorry what you had to go through with that monster named Dean Corll. How has your life been in the last 35 years now?
I remember the horrible feeling of hearing that three of my greatest friends, Billy and Tony Balch and Johnny Delome were tortured and murdered by these freaks My best friend, Gloria found out they killed her cousin and they had called her Aunt and said “too bad you will never see your son again’ this was a terrible part of my childhood
thanks
I remember when this all happened and as it turned out i was 14. At that time we hitch hiked wherevever we needed to go. Just to think someone like this did cross our minds but, at that age people who offered up dope were likely to get kids high then it was over for them. At that age gettin high was the thing and it didn`t matter if you knew who you were gettin high with. We were stupid. We lived out in Decker Prarie outside of Tomball and there had been a blacktopping company who had done 2 convenience stores drives in that area right off of 149. I walked across the hiway to the store and one of the workers had John Lennon glasses on and hair like that and I thought that dude was cool(meaning he got high)He waved at me and I waved back. Later the next day they caught the guys doing all the killing. My mom told me David Brooks was one of the guys doing the black topping up the road at the Chumleys gas station. I think I was fairly close to being a potential victim. None of this was ever proved or looked into but, it is something that actually happened although nothing happened fortunately
I have lived in the heights for the past 30 years and this is really sickening to know this happended here in such a beautiful area of town. my heart goes out to the families of the victims
To all who have posted here, my heart, thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies goes out to all of you! I don’t think I personally knew any of the perpetrators or victims themselves but time has blurred my memory somewhat so I can’t be sure. I could have been one of Dean’s victims if not for fate, divine intervention or the simple grace of God.
I posted the following statement in the reply section at about.com after an article by Charles Montaldo entitled “Flashback: Dean Corll and the Houston Mass murders”. I truly hope that this helps in any tiny way possible. A very recent event in my life brought all of this ugliness back to the forefront once again and I felt compelled to finally tell my little piece of this nightmare to those who are the closest to it:
“Rhonda, my heart and all my sympathy goes out to you for what you’ve had to endure and relive all of these years. I can only imagine what you’ve been through.
I was one of Dean Corll’s “almost” victims. I was about 14-15 at the time around the 1970-1971 time frame. I was standing outside of a dentist’s office on 20th Street near Yale waiting for my sister-in-law to pick me up. He drove by in a car (I haven’t found any mention of a car anywhere) rather than the white van indicated in the stories. He waved and smiled almost frantically as he drove past…..like he knew me and I waved back thinking it must have been a relative or family friend.
He apparently turned around somewhere near Heights Hospital and came back and pulled to the curb beside me. He immediately slid halfway over in the seat and told me I was such a “pretty” boy. I literally froze on the spot. I was so totally shocked at that kind of statement coming from a man to me that I couldn’t move. He kept talking to me, wanting to know if I liked boys or men, as he continuing to slide over in the seat while disgustingly rubbing his crotch the whole time. Soon he was right up against the door talking about fun parties with lots of other boys there, alcohol, marijuana and whatever else I wanted if I would only get in the car with him now.
Suddenly, he caught something out of the corner of his eye and immediately slid back over to the driver’s side and nervously looked forward. A Houston Police car had just turned onto 20th from a cross street near where we were and the 2 officers were intently staring at us as they passed very slowly by. As soon as they were about a quarter block past, Dean stepped on the gas and was gone in a flash just like he had appeared. I didn’t know who he was until the story broke in 1973 and I saw his picture!!!
By fate or grace of God, those police officers most probably saved my life that day. The worst part of this is I kept this a total secret from everyone until about a couple years ago when something came on tv about one of the unidentified victims possibly being identified and I finally told my wife about it. If I had only told somebody back then that a man had approached me in that manner…..if I had only thought to run after the police car and gotten their attention……lives may have been saved. Even if nobody would have listened to me or believed me, I should have TOLD SOMEBODY! I will forever regret not doing SOMETHING other than to just bury it deep in my mind! If only I could do it over…………………………………………………………………”
christen scheeval can you tell me the victim that you married.
you can see my e mail on top two blogs leine.h.p@gmail.com
dear, timothy spangenberg i would like to know about james s. dreymala
what school did he go to? im not sure if he was the youngest victim or one of the waldrop brothers.I want to help one of the victims with research. of the two i know of she is the only one left that i know of.
leine.h.p@gmail.com
i also went to school with a victim they need to be remembered always.
dear friend of glass did you also know yates? what school did they go to? iknow they weren’t from the heights area neither was my friend.
I was a friend of Jimmy Glass, one of the first victims. We were always talking about running away. It was the times, you know. Then he disappeared. We all thought he ran without us. I never believed it when I heard he was one of the first victims, until a few days ago I thought to google it, and saw his name. Tragic. Yeah, those evangelical revival things were in style back then. I went to several. Poor Jimmy. Poor boys. I hope the 2 in jail stay forever. While I can feel for their horrible lives, lots of people have horrible lives, but they do not do this kind of stuff. I hope they die in jail. No mercy.
I am interested in talking to anyone who has any type of knowledge of the victims or friends/relatives of the victims. I am the last remaining surviving victim to have ever spent time on the torture board. Thanks! Rhonda Williams aka texasraven69
I have been thinking real hard about the last two boys. Was on HPD’s butt for year’s about Mark Scott’s cause. It drives me crazy at night sometimes. I need to hear from anyone knowing the following people. Alice,Donna or Darlene Holland, Kathy or Stephanie Kocheck, Anyone knowing Keith Delome or Hughe Moore AKA Hippy, anyone hanging at the Colonia House coffee shop at 19th and Ashland across from Harold’s menswear in the Height’s in the early 70′s ….THANK U.
we must never forget,the victims and their families.The killers must never be set free…
James (Stanton) Dreymala was my best friend. We were both 13 at the time and enjoyed camping, riding bikes, watching wrestling with his dad (James) on Saturday nights etc. I think about you often and protect our church youth from the type of people that took your life. God bless the Dreymala family I will never forget their kindness and the time we spent together.
I will be 54 in May 2009; the day that Marty Jones and Charles Cobble(room mates) went missing I was suppose to move in with them to share the apartment, I was 18 at the time. Although I never met Marty and Charles I have had night mares of the event for the past 35 years. God bless the victims’ families and I always thank God that I wasn’t a day earlier.
Next month I am marrying one of Henley’s and Corll’s victims….. we will never know why his life was spared, but the pain he has sufferred over the last 40 years have haunted him for a lifetime.
Marty Wayne Jones was my cousin and I hope elmer suffers dearley.. he ruined my family greatly
hopefully this message will get to miss derrick. I was there when one of the victims dissapeared. mark scott was his name. two other close friends also were killed. to this day houston homicide ignores my statement’s even after repeated attempt’s to help them resolve the id of the remaining souls.