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Henley and agreed
Henley invited Rhonda to spend the evening at Corll's home: Rhonda agreed and climbed into the back seat of Kerley's Volkswagen.
Corll agreed and untied Henley, then carried Kerley and Williams into his bedroom and tied them to opposite sides of his torture board: Kerley on his stomach ; Williams on her back.
" Henley agreed and looked up the number for the Pasadena Police in Corll's telephone directory.

Henley and accompany
Henley later claimed that he had not known of Corll's true intentions towards Aguirre when he had persuaded the youth to accompany him to Corll's home: In a 2010 interview, he claimed to have attempted to persuade Corll not to assault and kill Aguirre once Corll and Brooks had bound and gagged the youth.

Henley and police
In the statement Henley gave to police following his arrest, the youth stated that he and Corll picked up a youth at the corner of 11th and Studewood, and lured him to Corll's home on the promise of smoking some marijuana.
Henley later informed police he and Brooks had spotted the two youths as they walked towards Hembree's home.
Henley suggested to Kerley and Williams that they should simply leave, to which Kerley replied " No ; we should call the police.
As Kerley, Williams and Henley waited upon Corll's porch for the police to arrive, Henley mentioned to Kerley that he had " done that ( killed by shooting ) four or five times.
" Kerley later informed detectives that before the police officer had arrived at Lamar Drive, Henley had informed him: " I could have gotten $ 200 for you.
Henley gave a statement admitting he had assisted Corll in several abductions and murders of teenage boys, informing police that Corll had buried most of his victims in a boat shed in Southwest Houston, and others at Lake Sam Rayburn and High Island Beach.
Henley was quite insistent, however, and upon his recalling the names of three boys — Cobble, Hilligiest and Jones — whom he and David Brooks had procured for Corll, the police accepted that there was something to his claims, as all three teenagers were listed as missing at Houston Police headquarters.
On August 9, 1973, police accompanied Henley to Lake Sam Rayburn in San Augustine County, where Henley had told police that Corll had buried four victims he had killed that year.
On August 10, 1973, Henley again accompanied police to Lake Sam Rayburn, where two more bodies were found buried just ten feet apart.
That afternoon, both Henley and Brooks accompanied police to High Island Beach, leading police to the shallow graves of two more victims.
On August 13, 1973, both Henley and Brooks again accompanied the police to High Island Beach, where four more bodies were found, making a total of twenty-seven known victims-the worst killing spree in American history at the time.

Henley and Corll's
In the winter of 1971, Brooks introduced Elmer Wayne Henley to Dean Corll ; Henley was likely lured to Corll's address as an intended victim.
Henley later stated that, for several months, he completely ignored Corll's offer ; however, in early 1972, he decided to accept the offer as he and his family were in dire financial circumstances.
Henley called Aguirre over to Corll's van and invited the youth to Corll's apartment on the promise that he could drink beer and smoke marijuana with the trio.
Henley was again paid for luring the victim to Corll's home and subsequently assisted Corll and Brooks in Aguirre's burial at High Island Beach.
In Brooks ' confession, he stated that both youths were tied to Corll's bed and, after their torture and rape, Henley manually strangled Baulch, then shouted " Hey, Johnny!
The youths were offered a ride by Brooks and Henley: Simoneaux and Hembree accepted and were driven to Corll's Westcott Towers apartment where, the following morning, Hembree was accidentally shot in the mouth by Henley.
Nonetheless, from June, Corll's rate of killings increased dramatically and both Henley and Brooks later harked to the increase in the level of brutality of the murders committed while Corll resided at Lamar Drive: Henley later compared the acceleration in the frequency of killings and the increase in the brutality exhibited by Corll towards his victims to being " like a blood lust ;" adding that he and Brooks would instinctively know when Corll was to announce that he " needed to ' do ' a new boy " due to the fact that he would appear restless: smoking cigarettes and making reflex movements.
On July 7, a 15-year-old named Homer Garcia, whom Henley had met at his driving school, phoned his mother to say he was spending the night with a friend ; he was shot and left to bleed to death in Corll's bathtub before he was also buried at Lake Sam Rayburn and on July 12, a 17-year-old Orange County youth named John Sellars was shot to death and buried at High Island Beach.
In July 1973, David Brooks married his pregnant fiancée, and Henley temporarily became Corll's sole procurer of victims: assisting in the abduction and murder of a further three Heights youths between the ages of 15 and 18 between July 19 and July 25.
On the evening of August 7, 1973, Henley, aged 17, invited a 19-year-old youth named Timothy Cordell Kerley to attend a party at Corll's Pasadena house.
At approximately 3 a. m. on the morning of August 8, 1973, Henley and Kerley arrived back at Corll's home accompanied by Rhonda Williams.
Noting Henley had awoken, Corll removed the gag from his mouth: Henley protested in vain against Corll's actions, whereupon Corll informed the youth that he was furious he had brought a girl to his house and that he was going to kill all three teenagers after he had assaulted and tortured Kerley.
Corll ignored him and Henley then grabbed Corll's pistol, shouting " You've gone far enough, Dean!
" Henley fired at Corll, hitting him in the forehead: the bullet, however, failed to fully penetrate Corll's skull.

Henley and boat
In the summer of 2002 the Marist men's varsity eight boat advanced to the semifinals of the Temple Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta.
In the nineteenth century the various Trinity boat clubs were very strong and regularly won events in Cambridge, at various regattas around the country, notably the Henley Royal Regatta, and regularly contributed rowers to the Cambridge boat for the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.
The crew rowed in a boat named the Black Prince, the bow section of which is still owned by the First and Third Trinity Boat Club but which is on loan to the River & Rowing Museum in Henley.
At a public meeting in Henley town hall on 26 March 1839, Captain Edmund Gardiner proposed " that from the lively interest which had been manifested at the various boat races which have taken place on the Henley reach during the last few years, and the great influx of visitors on such occasions, this meeting is of the opinion that the establishing of an annual regatta, under judicious and respectable management, would not only be productive of the most beneficial results to the town of Henley, but from its peculiar attractions would also be a source of amusement and gratification to the neighbourhood, and the public in general.
For 2011 London Members Club Mosimann's will be at Remenham Farm with a 70 seater River Restaurant and Champagne Bar as well at the Start Enclosure by Mosimann's with a Grandstand view of the start of racing and The Mosimann's Henley and Champagne Picnic s. Remenham Farm is open to the public and entrance fees apply for certain enclosures, boat moorings are also available.
The clubhouse and grounds of Leander Club is situated on the Berkshire side of the river beyond the finish line of the regatta course, between the boat tents and Henley Bridge.
The identity of this victim is not conclusively known, although it is possible the youth was Willard Branch, a 17-year-old Oak Forest youth known to both Corll and Henley who disappeared on February 9, 1972 and was found buried in the boat shed.
One of these three victims, Michael Baulch, was strangled and buried at Lake Sam Rayburn and the other two, Charles Cobble and Marty Ray Jones, were abducted together on the afternoon of July 25. Henley himself buried both youths in the boat shed.
Wayne Henley outside Corll's boat shed on August 8, 1973.
Henley initially insisted that there were two more bodies to be found inside the boat shed, and also that the bodies of two more boys had been buried at High Island Beach in 1972.
In rowing the school has won The Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta as well as having had a number of rowers row for Great Britain at junior level before going on to compete in the annual Oxbridge boat race or at Ivy League Universities.
One of the highlights for visitors to the Schwarzenbach International Rowing Gallery is an interactive exhibit In the Cox's Seat that allows visitors to sit in a rowing boat and experience a race at Henley Royal Regatta

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