Elmer Wayne Henley

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... called Elmer Wayne Henley, who would recruit young men to go to this guy who was killing them, go to his house.

Uh-huh.

And so partially based on that.

Obviously, you have the inspiration of, of Ed Gein.

Um, you've also got the inspiration of another guy who was, uh, kind of prolific at this time, whose name was Elmer Wayne Henley.

He- his job was much like the hitchhiker, although the hitchhiker wasn't successful.

But his job was to lure people in to this other older man to, uh, uh, let him murder them.

Starving children in America.

Yeah.

Hey, you know, I did read a little bit on Elmer Wayne Henley.

That was a very, very interesting story.

Hmm.

A man by the name of Elmer Wayne Henley, who, uh, he was in, uh, TDCJ for a long time.

He passed away.

Um, it's interesting that we would talk about the Candyman given that it is Halloween season because Dash Beardsley, the ghost man of Galveston, the man who started ghost tours, my profession, in the city, ah, he was almost one of his victims.

He was almost one of the Candyman's victims.

Yes, he was.

He was friends with Elmer Wayne Henley, and Elmer asked him to go with him to this guy's house in Pasadena, and Dash got an extremely overwhelming sense of dread and decided to listen to his gut instinct and not go.

So he was almost set up.

Like I wanna dive deeper." And also it feels a little bit like a guy, uh, getting interested in like true crime too, which I feel like is very interesting considering Tobe Hooper did a lot of research about Ed Gein when he was writing, co-writing this movie, right? He did have sort of a hyperfixation on a guy who did a lot of fucked up shit, and I sort of feel like Franklin's a little bit of a self-insert by Tobe Hooper and, uh, and Mike Hinkle who was ...

Uh, or sorry, Kim Hin- Hinkle, my bad, um, who was the co-writer on the script and, uh, was very obsessed with Dean Corll and his accomplice, uh, Elmer Wayne Henley, um, who were another pair of serial, serial killers.

Um, both of them kind of had their separate serial killer obsessions wh- as they were writing this script.

Um, so I kind of feel like Franklin talking about the hitchhiker in this way and being like, "It takes something to do that, to just like cut yourself like that," you know, is sort of them being like, we, there is something darkly attractive and seductive about a mind like this.

But back then, It was really guys like Ed Gein.

You wrote down Elmer Wayne Henley, and thank goodness I don't know who that is.

Yeah, I heavily recommend to the audience, don't search him up.

He is disgusting.

But anyway, during his murder spree, Dean Corll had two young accomplices.

And their names were David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley.

And I've got pictures of both of them.

That's Brooks right there.

And if you'll scroll down, that is Elmer Wayne Henley.

And

typically what I find kind of strange about a lot of these, uh, sidekicks of some of these guys is a lot of these pedophiles, serial killers are very, uh, homely type looking individuals.

John David Norman is the guy who's like the fucking Michael Jordan of pedophiles.

Okay, ballistics and victim profiling, that is how you are going to catch that killer.

Aileen Wuornos is the only female serial killer that I've mentioned in this, um... story to date so as you see there are examples of how there are people who are just committing crimes where there's this giant web of issues that could go wrong and one other serial killer that is mentioned in m j corvin's book is dean corll the candy man now with dean corll again he's a prolific serial killer the crimes are committed in his home those are the big two things that seem to have been shutting down almost everybody that i've been talking about here but with dean corll he had accomplices And one of the accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley, would ultimately be going against him later on.

Having direct accomplices creates a stronger amount of ways in which these serial killers can get captured because there are more people that can talk.

And some people say that, you know, they think that people can keep a secret.