THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1974
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HOUSTON — Defense at-
irneys tried unsuccessfully Mon-
lay to get onto the witness stand
,he only two known survivors of
louston’s mass murder-torture
•ing and continued to hammer
way at the question of civil
■ights of the defendant, Elmer
ayne Henley, 17.
Henley is charged in connection
with the death of Charles R.
jCobble, 17. He also faces five
]other murder charges.
Monday’s court activity was
part of a pre-trial hearing for
Henley, whose statements to po-
jlice, along with those bf another
Houston teenager, led officers to
the discovery of 27 bodies re
portedly killed during a three-
year period.
The murders came to light
when Henley called police from
a Pasadena, Tex., home to say
he had killed Dean A. Corll, 33,
the alleged ringleader.
The two survivors of the tor-
jture-homosexual ring are Rhonda
Williams, 15, and Timothy Ker-
ley, 20, who reportedly escaped
death when Henley shot Corll.
Defense Attorney Will Gray
had announced early Monday that
he would call Miss Williams to
||the stand, but later, after a 20-
minute conference in the judge’s
chambers, said that, “we are hav
ing a little trouble getting Miss
Williams.”
Miss Williams was reported to
: be in school Monday. She is on
^probation for “juvenile offenses,”
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the only official charge against
youngsters in Texas.
A juvenile court judge, Chris
Cole, issued an order forbidding
reporters to talk with Miss Wil
liams. Kerley has avoided news
men.
Gray said he also tried to get
Kerley on the stand, but was told
he was not feeling well because
of an attack of hepatitis he suf
fered last November.
Gray said he expected to have
Miss Williams and Kerley on the
stand Tuesday.
Gray questioned two Houston
detectives, T. E. Baker and K.
D. Porter, Monday. 'They told the
court how Henley led officers to
the places where the victims were
buried.
Gray asked Baker if he had
advised Henley that even if he
were guilty, it might be in his
best interest to have a lawyer.
The detective said he had not.
Dist. Atty. Carol Vance asked,’
“Did you ever hear the defendant
request a lawyer at any time?”
Baker said he did not.
Defense lawyers in the pre
trial hearing are trying to get all
of Henley’s oral and written state
ments — prosecutors call them
confessions — thrown out.
Henley’s lawyers want a six-
month delay.
Miss Williams and Kerley were
in Corll’s home at a sex and
paint-sniffing party the night
Corll was killed, testimony has
shown. Henley, who is accused of
procuring youths for $200 each,
said he shot Corll because Corll
was mistreating the pair.
Also during the Monday ses
sion, defense attorneys brought
to the stand Fred Edison of tele
vision station KPRC-TV.
Henley made a phone call using
Edison’s news radio telephone on
Aug. 8 from the boat shed where
police found some of the victim’s
bodies.
The court also saw a film clip
showing Henley making the phone
call. In it a crying Henley was
shown hiding his face from the
cameras and talking to his
mother.
“I killed Dean,” Henley said
over the phone. Then he said
three times: “It’s allright, it’s
allright, it’s allright.” His moth
er’s answers were not audible. At
one time he said: “You can’t come,
I’m with the police, momma.”
Henley and another defendant,
David Owen Brooks, 18, led offi
cers to 17 bodies buried under a
Houston boat shed, four in the
forests near San Augustine, Tex.,
and six on a beach near High Is
land, Tex.
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