Elmer Henley was still a teenager when he became an accomplice to notorious serial killerDean Corll. Elmer Henley would be paid by Corll to bring victims to the home of Corll where they were tortured and murdered. In the end Elmer Henly would murder Dean Corll. This teen killer was eventually arrested and sentenced to 6 consecutive 99 year sentences.
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SID Number: 01924387
TDCJ Number: 00241618
Name: HENLEY,ELMER WAYNE JR
Race: W
Gender: M
DOB: 1956-05-09
Maximum Sentence Date: LIFE SENTENCE
Current Facility: MICHAEL
Projected Release Date: LIFE SENTENCE
Parole Eligibility Date: 1980-04-29
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More than four decades have passed, but the horror, shock and grief over the events that unfolded in Houston in 1973 have not diminished.
It all started on the morning of August 8th, 1973, when the Pasadena Police Department received a call from Elmer Wayne Henley, who told police he had just shot a man.
Pasadena police detective David Mullican responded to the scene.
“It started out as any other homicide,” Mullican said, but it soon turned into the worst serial killer case in Houston history.
The man Henley shot was Dean Corll. Henley told police Corll had tortured and murdered six teenagers at Corll’s home.
Later that day, Henley led police to a boat storage shed in southwest Houston on Silver Bell Street, where police dug up eight bodies. The next day police uncovered nine more bodies at the shed.
Henley also led authorities to a location near Lake Sam Rayburn, where four bodies were uncovered.
The day after Henley’s arrest, another man, David Brooks, turned himself into police for his role in the deaths. Both Henley and Brooks then led police to a location on High Island, where six bodies were discovered.
Elmer Wayne Henley was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. He was last denied parole in October of 2015. His next scheduled parole review date is October of 2025.
David Brooks was convicted of murder and is serving a life sentence. He was last denied parole in December of 2017.
Holly Harvey and Sandra Ketchum were young lesbian lovers and when Holly Grandparents tried to end their relationship the two teenage girls decided to murder them.
According to court documents Holly and Sandra would stab the elderly couple several times each causing their death. The teen killers would take off in the couple’s vehicle and would be picked up by police a short time later. Both of the girls were sentenced to multiple life terms however each was eligible for parole. As of this writing in 2021 both are still in prison
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MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: ARRENDALE STATE PRISON MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: LIFE
Sandra Ketchum 2023 Information
MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: PULASKI STATE PRISON MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: LIFE
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Two teenage girls accused of stabbing one of the girls’ grandparents to death pleaded guilty Thursday to murder during a court hearing, ending a case that garnered national headlines. Holly Harvey, 15, was sentenced to two life sentences in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of malice murder. Because of her age, she was not eligible for the death penalty. She will not be eligible for parole until after she serves 20 years in prison.
Sandy Ketchum, 16, who has been described as Holly’s lover, was sentenced to serve three life sentences to be served consecutively. At the end of her hearing, which lasted less than 10 minutes, Fayette County Superior Court Judge Johnnie Caldwell sentenced her to three life sentences for murder and armed robbery, to be served concurrently — meaning she could be eligible for parole in 10 years.
During the court proceeding, the girls spoke about the stabbings, and the blood, which Harvey said felt like a bucket of hot water. Carl Collier, 74, and his wife, Sarah, 73, were each stabbed multiple times Aug. 2 inside the couple’s house in north Fayette County.
The girls then allegedly fled in the Colliers’ truck and were arrested the next day in Tybee Island. As part of her plea, Harvey detailed how she killed the couple. For half an hour, she choked back sobs and spoke softly as she recounted the killings to Fayette County Superior Court Judge Pascal English. Harvey and her friend had stayed out all night and spent the morning of the killings listening to music in the basement bedroom of her grandparents’ north Fayette home.
That was when Ketchum suggested stealing the grandparent’s truck “to get something to calm us down,” Harvey said. “‘We’ll have to kill them to do that,”‘ Harvey said she responded. “But I didn’t mean nothing by that,” she told Judge Pascal English. Ketchum suggested hitting them in the head with a lamp, and then suggested getting a knife, Harvey said. “I got the biggest knife I could find out of the kitchen,” she said, adding that they practiced stabbing a mattress to see if the knife was sharp enough. When the grandparents came downstairs to get a suitcase, Harvey said she stabbed her grandmother. “My eyes were closed the whole time,” she said.
Her grandfather then pinned her down and Harvey said she stabbed him in the chest. She pursued him as he ran upstairs and tried to call for help, pulling the phone out of the wall, Harvey said. “He grabbed the knife and I thought he was going to stab me,” Harvey said, adding she took the knife from him and started attacking him. When the judge asked Holly Harvey why she did it, the teen said, “For Sandy,” and added, “So that we could be together.”
Judge English asked Holly Harvey after sentencing her if 20 years in prison “was a good deal” for killing her grandparents. She answered no. When he asked what she thought should happen to her, Harvey replied, “I think I should be dead.” The judge muttered, “We both agree on that.” Ketchum’s hearing was much shorter. She was not forced to detail the crime because she was immediately cooperative with authorities, showed remorse and was prepared to testify against Holly Harvey at trial — factors which justified a lighter sentence, Prosecutor Scott Ballard said during her hearing.
Outside the courthouse, Tim Ketchum, her father, said she did the right thing. “I can’t explain it. I’m not that type of person,” he said. “I didn’t raise her to be that type of person. I want to say to the community I’m very sorry this happened.” The teens had faced two counts of felony murder, two counts of malice murder and one count of armed robbery. The maximum sentence the girls could have received was life in prison without parole. The girls were to be tried as adults in the killings.
Holly Harvey had been living with her grandparents while her mother served a prison term. Police said the girls were lesbian lovers and killed the Colliers because they disapproved of the relationship and refused to let the girls go to the beach together. The girls were arrested 17 hours after the slayings at a beach house on Tybee Island, about four hours away. Police say they found a sort of to-do list scrawled in ink on Harvey’s arm: “kill, keys, money, jewelry.”
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Holly Harvey is sentenced to life in prison however she is eligible for parole in 2024
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The two teenage girls arrested on Tybee Island for the murder of an elderly couple appeared in court yesterday. Sixteen-year-old Sandy Ketchum and 15-year-old Holly Harvey were led into a Fayette County courtroom wearing shackles and bulletproof vests.
The girls are facing murder charges for the stabbing death of Harvey’s grandparents, Carl and Sara Collier. Investigators say the Colliers disapproved of the girls’ romantic relationship, and they also say Harvey manipulated Ketchum to get her to help.
“I found a poem written, I don’t remember the date, the poem talked about Holly’s depression and the fact she cried herself to sleep at night,” said Lt. Bruce Jordan of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office. “And she wished for everyone to suffer the way she suffered, and all she wanted to do was kill.”
Investigators released photos of the girls’ arrests and say the teens had a bag with them containing bloody clothing and the knives believed to be used in the killings. The teens are being held in separate detention centers under suicide watch.
Jason Hartley was fifteen years old when he murdered a teenage girl for making fun of him. According to prosecutors Jason Hartley paid the victim to have sex with him and after it was over Hartley refused to pay the girl and she made fun of the fact that he was a virgin. The teen killer would strangle the fourteen year old girl to death. Jason Hartley would tell police it was an accidental strangling however they would not believe him. Jason Hartley would be sentenced to twenty years in prison
The virgin Fort Lauderdale teen who paid a girl to have sex with him and then killed her when she made fun of him will be spending the next two decades behind bars.
Jason Hartley, 17, struck a deal with prosecutors Monday that will put him in jail for 20 years, with five years of probation after that.
Wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and sporting thin patches of facial hair on his still boyish-looking face, Hartley said little as the sentence was handed down in a Broward Circuit courtroom
Hartley was 15 when he agreed to pay 14-year-old Neica Marie Gibbs $50 to have sex with him in his family’s Fort Lauderdale trailer home on June 28, 2008, according to police.
But after performing the act, Hartley didn’t pay up, Gibbs reportedly began to make fun of Hartley for being a virgin, and an altercation ensued.
By the end of the fight, Gibbs was strangled to death, in what Hartley called an accident. Hartley wrapped the body in a tarp and hid it next to a dumpster near the trailer home.
After three weeks and a missing persons report by Gibbs’ family, the body was found after the strong odor tipped neighbors off.
Hartley’s mother had said the teen had some anger issues.
Hartley had pleaded not guilty to the second-degree murder charge at first, claiming that Gibbs had hit her head on a treadmill in the fight. He admitted his guilt Monday.
“The totality of the evidence proves this was not an accident,” prosecutor Maria Schenider said, according to the Sun-Sentinel.
Hartley thanked Judge Cynthia Imperato as he was led away in shackles.
Some members of Gibbs’ family were in court, where they wore shirts with photos of the slain girl.
“I’m very glad it’s over and I think he should have got more time than 20 years because he destroyed my family,” said aunt Regina Gibbs after the hearing. “That was my niece, she was a good kid, great grades, went to school everyday, never bothered anybody, so I’m just really hurt right now but I’m glad it’s over.
“His family can still see him, I can never see my niece again, never.”
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Fort Lauderdale teen who confessed to strangling a 14-year-old girl after they had sex and she made fun of him for being a virgin was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday after admitting to the judge in a soft voice that he was guilty.
Jason Hartley, now 17, had initially pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. He changed his plea Monday morning, and under terms of a deal agreed to by prosecutors, Broward Circuit Judge Cynthia Imperato sentenced him to the prison term, to be followed by five years of probation.
Hartley confessed to strangling Neica Marie Gibbs, a fellow middle school student, on June 28, 2008, then wrapping her body in a blue tarp and stashing it next to a garbage bin less than 90 feet from his home in the Azalea Trailer Colony in Fort Lauderdale.
Gibbs’ body rotted beneath a heap of garbage for three weeks before a rank smell led two women to discover the Sunrise Middle School student’s corpse.
Barbara Queer, Gibbs’ grandmother, reported her granddaughter missing after she did not return from a sleepover in the same trailer park.
In a videotaped confession to police, the pudgy, sobbing boy, then 15, said he had agreed to pay $50 to Gibbs in exchange for his first sexual encounter.
Gibbs mocked him afterward and turned violent because he didn’t have any money, Hartley said. He accidentally killed her while fighting off her attack, he told police.
According to prosecutor Maria Schneider, “the totality of the evidence proves this was not an accident.”
Gibbs’ paternal aunt said Monday that she was disappointed in the sentence meted out by Imperato.
“She was just a beautiful kid. I don’t know why he did this to her,” said Regina Gibbs, 46, of Fort Lauderdale. “It’s disgusting. It hurts, it really hurts.”
She said she was glad to put the ordeal behind her and her family but resented that Jason Hartley would one day be able to resume his life after coldly cutting short her young niece’s life.
Hartley’s attorney, Assistant Public Defender George Reres, lamented seeing one life forfeited for another. His client, he said, had a long-term crush on the victim, and came from a troubled family.
“This was a tragically confusing and emotional conflict with the young lady,” Reres said. “He came from a situation of hopelessness. There was never any consistency, there was never any stability, there was violence in the home.”
Reres said Hartley’s confession was the only evidence prosecutors had against his client. But fearful that he might be convicted at trial and face a life sentence, he said Jason Hartley opted for the 20 years and “a future” beyond prison.
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Montoya Harris was fourteen years old when she stabbed a thirteen year old girl to death. According to court documents Montoya Harris confronted the victim about stealing her boyfriend and soon after a fight broke out where the victim was stabbed ten times dying from her injuries. This teen killer would plead no contest to murder and was initially sentenced to the juvenile program however her behavior would see her sent to the adult system where she would be sentenced to life in prison.
Tulsa County teenage killer Montoya Harris will stay in the adult prison system, the state Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Thursday.
The state’s high court for criminal matters denied a request to let Harris return to the juvenile system to complete a treatment program.
Harris pleaded no contest in February 2009 to the first-degree murder of Sydney Dailey, 13, whom she stabbed 10 times on March 15, 2008. Harris was 14 and pregnant at the time of the killing.
Both girls attended Madison Middle School in Tulsa.
Harris said she stabbed Sydney with a knife after they talked about Sydney’s “allegedly stealing” Harris’ boyfriend, a police officer said.
Tulsa County District Judge William Kellough found Harris guilty in 2009 and imposed a life term for murder, with the understanding that as a youthful offender she would not serve anywhere near that amount of time if she complied with a treatment plan.
As a youthful offender, she could not have been kept in Office of Juvenile Affairs custody beyond her 20th birthday, which is April 12, 2013.
Kellough denied one request to bridge Harris into the adult system after multiple reports of misconduct while in OJA custody, but the judge granted a later request.
Harris entered Department of Corrections custody Feb. 1. She is housed at the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center in McLoud.
Her attorney, Robert Jackson, asked the appeals court during oral arguments Thursday to find that the district judge abused his discretion in sending Harris to the adult system.
He said she still has a year to complete the program as a juvenile.
But Harris “doesn’t seem to get it,” Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Gary Lumpkin said.
Jackson disagreed, saying, “She’s made progress.”
Tulsa County Assistant District Attorney Julie Doss said Harris was given “chance after chance” in the juvenile system before she was ordered to serve a life sentence as an adult.
Doss said Harris threatened another female inmate the same way she threatened Sydney and chalked up numerous rule violations.
Doss said that even if Harris were returned to the juvenile system, it wouldn’t make a difference because she does not have the capacity for empathy for her victim.
Harris showed a chronic pattern of defying authority while in the juvenile system, Doss said, creating disruptions that interfered with others’ ability to have their treatment programs work for them.
“The only way to treat her now is to bridge her and keep her away from others,” she said.
Harris filed a lawsuit in November in federal court in Oklahoma City against the Central Oklahoma Juvenile Detention Center, employee Kizell Brown and the state Office of Juvenile Affairs, alleging that Brown had raped her while he was employed at the Tecumseh facility as a youth guidance specialist.
Brown has been charged with two counts of second-degree rape in Pottawatomie County in connection with assaults that are alleged to have taken place in May 2010, court records indicate.
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Daniel Hamilton was sixteen when he murdered his stepfather. According to court documents Daniel Hamilton walked up behind his stepfather and would shoot him six times in the head. For some reason after he was arrested for the murder he would be let out on bond and when his relatives would later revoke his bond due to personal safety, Daniel Hamilton plotted with another inmate to murder them as well. This teen killer would be convicted and sentenced to life in prison
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A man who was 16 when first accused of shooting his stepfather to death in their Covington home was found guilty of second-degree murder on Friday, said Warren Montgomery, District Attorney for Louisiana’s 22nd Judicial.
Daniel Hamilton, now 19, was also found guilty on two counts of solicitation for murder, after plotting to have his aunt and uncle killed in 2016 after they pushed to have his bond revoked, sending him back to prison.
The St. Tammany Parish jury assigned to Hamilton’s case deliberated for about an hour and a half Friday before finding the man guilty of the solicitation charges and for slaying his stepfather, James “Kenny” Hamilton on March 4, 2016.
According to prosecutors, Daniel Hamilton shot James six times in the back of his head with a .22-caliber gun after James had refused to let him borrow his truck.
James was in their family room eating dinner when he was shot from behind and killed, prosecutors said.
“You’re dealing with a cold-blooded killer,” Assistant District Attorney Angad Ghai said. “That’s not what I’m saying. That’s what the evidence shows.”
After killing his stepfather, Daniel Hamilton took his truck and debit card and met friends at a pizza parlor in Abita Springs, after failing to use the debit card at a Wal-Mart because he didn’t know the pin, prosecutors said.
Daniel Hamilton spent the next two days drinking with friends at a hunting camp, then returned to his home to take a PlayStation gaming system out to sell at a GameStop store with friends.
In that process, he walked past his father’s body, “casually, comfortably, with his friends outside,” Ghai said.
James’ body was not discovered until three days later, after family members checked on him when he didn’t show up to work that Monday.
After the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office’s investigation into the death opened, detectives found the .22-caliber gun Daniel used to kill his stepfather at the hunting camp where he had been that weekend.
Daniel Hamilton was arrested and booked in connection to the murder but posted bond. James’ brother and sister-in-law, however, requested his bond be revoked and he was sent back to prison later that year, officials said.
Once he was back in jail, evidence found that Daniel Hamilton had plotted with his girlfriend and another inmate to have his aunt and uncle killed for the request.
He also told an inmate that his only regret was that he did not look James in the face when he killed him, prosecutors said.
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A state court judge sentenced an Abita Springs-area teenager to life in prison Monday (May 20) for shooting his stepfather to death as the man ate his evening meal in 2016.
A jury in March convicted Daniel T. Hamilton, 19, of second-degree murder in the death of James “Kenny” Hamilton, 51.
Judge Alan Zaunbrecher ordered the sentence to be served with the possibility of parole, based on new sentencing guidelines for offenders who were juveniles at the time of the crime, District Attorney Warren Montgomery’s office said in a news release. Daniel Hamilton was 16 at the time of the crime.
“This was a heinous crime that was especially shocking because of the defendant’s age and relationship to the victim,” Montgomery said. “I am proud that my assistant district attorneys obtained justice on behalf of the victim’s family members. I hope they are now able to close this painful chapter of their lives.”
Zaunbrecher also sentenced Hamilton to 20 years in prison for each of two counts of solicitation for murder for planning to have the victim’s brother and sister-in-law killed. Hamilton was angry at the couple at the time because they had requested a revocation of his pre-trial bond after he was found in possession of a firearm in another parish, the DA’s office said.
The judge ordered one of the 20-year sentences to be served consecutive to the murder sentence; the other 20-year-sentence is to be served at the same time that Hamilton is serving the sentence for murder.
Zaunbrecher acknowledged receiving several letters, including two from the murder solicitation victims, but they did not speak in court Monday. Hamilton also chose not to speak.
Abita Springs-area teen convicted of murdering stepfather in 2016
Sheriff’s deputies went to the Lenel Road home Daniel and James Hamilton shared on March 7, 2016, after James Hamilton failed to show up for work and a relative found his body, authorities said.
The elder Hamilton had been shot multiple times in the back of the head with a .22-caliber gun three days earlier as he sat in a chair in the family room and finished his evening meal.
Daniel Hamilton surrendered two days after the body was found
After the killing, Daniel Hamilton spent two days drinking and partying with friends at a hunting camp, authorities have said.
During trial, prosecutors presented text messages showing that Hamilton had refused his stepson’s request to borrow his truck the week before the killing
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