{"id":39993,"date":"2025-11-07T19:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/39993\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:37:07","slug":"accomplice-of-houstons-infamous-candy-man-serial-killer-denied-parole-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/39993\/","title":{"rendered":"Accomplice of Houston\u2019s infamous \u2018Candy Man\u2019 serial killer denied parole once again"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON \u2013 The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied parole for Elmer Wayne Henley,<\/a> according to Andy Kahan with Crime Stoppers of Houston. <\/p>\n

Kahan shared the message he received from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, stating Henley will not be eligible for parole for another 10 years. <\/p>\n

Elmer Wayne Henley, 69, helped serial killer Dean Corll lure, torture and murder at least 28 teens and young men between 1970 and 1973. <\/p>\n

Kahan provided KPRC 2\u2019s Robert Arnold with the following statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of over 25 victims of Serial Killer Elmer Wayne Henley we deeply appreciate the Texas Parole Board listening to us and ultimately not only denying parole but to once again grant a 10-year set-off. Bottom Line, Henley deprived over 20 boys of their lives and all we can do in return is deprive him of his liberty and that was accomplished today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henley was convicted of six of the murders. A third man, David Brooks, helped Henley kidnap victims for Corll. Brooks died in 2020 while serving six life sentences. <\/p>\n

Henley and Brooks were convicted during a time the death penalty was on-hold in the United States and Texas had not yet passed life without parole as a punishment in capital murder cases. This created a cycle for families of victims periodically preparing for, and fighting against, Henley\u2019s and Brook\u2019s release.<\/p>\n

\u201cSleepless nights, thinking, reliving things,\u201d said Elaine Dreymala about the anxiety leading up to parole hearings.<\/p>\n

Stanton Dreymala, 13, was Corll\u2019s last victim and his parents are believed to be the last surviving parents of the victims of the \u201cHouston Mass Murders.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know it\u2019s coming,\u201d said James Dreymala. \u201cYou might as well prepare for it mentally, but what are you going to say? What are you gonna do? You\u2019re going to tell the parole board exactly how you feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple keeps a binder of pictures, news articles and other documents they review in preparation for protesting Henley\u2019s potential parole.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Stanton we have to do it, even though it hurts. We just have to,\u201d said Elaine Dreymala.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we will till the day we die,\u201d said James Dreymala.<\/p>\n

Head of the Victims\u2019 Rights Office for Crime Stoppers of Houston, Andy Kahan, said Henley has come up for parole 25 times during his decades in prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cHenley was the one, as we like to say, who found Corll\u2019s victims and then basically lured them to Corll\u2019s house under pretenses of getting food, candy, beer, marijuana,\u201d said Kahan.<\/p>\n

Henley killed Corll during a fight in 1973 and then led police to all the bodies he helped bury. As police were excavating many of the bodies, Henley used former KPRC 2 reporter Jack Cato\u2019s radio phone to call his mother and tell her, \u201cMama, I killed Dean.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only reason Elmer Wayne Henley took down Dean Corll was to save his own skin, period. I mean, if you want to give yourself a pat on the back, you know, you\u2019re more than welcome to it. But you didn\u2019t give yourself a pat on back for 28 other young boys that you stood back silently and watched sadistic, insidious, torturous sexual abuse,\u201d said Kahan.<\/p>\n

The Dreymalas said Henley may have confessed to his role in the murders, but he\u2019s never taken responsibility for his own actions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he looks at himself as a victim because he was young as well, but he had every opportunity to get out of that situation if he had wanted to,\u201d said Elaine Dreymala. \u201cHe was liking what he was doing and had no remorse about doing it, or he would have figured a way to get away from it.”<\/p>\n

Henley applied for compassionate release in 2022 but was denied. Compassionate release can be granted to inmates with severe medical problems or other hardships. Citing privacy laws, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice would not release the basis for Henley\u2019s request or the reason for denial.<\/p>\n

Henley\u2019s last parole review before Friday was in Oct. 2015. The decision to deny his parole came one month after a new state law took effect giving the parole board the option of waiting up to ten years before conducting another parole review in cases involving capital felonies.<\/p>\n

Kahan was instrumental in getting that law passed and said Henley was the first inmate subject to the new rules. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t feel he deserves to ever be free,” said Elaine Dreymala.<\/p>\n

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