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He baited Henley with the same deal he'd given Brooks: 200 dollars for each boy they could bring him. Henley didn't understand the full extent of what he had signed up for at first. But once he started, Corll convinced him that he had crossed the line of no return and had to not only procure boys but help kill them and dispose of the bodies, as well. When Henley first took a life, he lost his moral base. He felt doomed. By the time he was seventeen, he'd helped with multiple murders and believed he'd be killed, too. But on August 8, 1973, he picked up a gun and shot Corll. When he turned himself in, Henley showed police where he and Brooks had buried Corll's victims in mass graves. Twenty-eight bodies were recovered - most of them boys from Henley's neighborhood - making this the worst case of serial murder in America at the time. The case reveals gross failures in the way cops handled parents' pleas to look for their missing sons and how law enforcement possibly protected a larger conspiracy. The Serial Killer's Apprentice tells the story of Corll and his accomplices in its fullest form to date. It also explores the concept of 'mur-dar' (the predator's instinct for exploitable kids), current neuroscience about adolescent brain vulnerabilities, the role of compartmentalization, the dynamic of a murder apprenticeship, and how tales like Henley's can aid with early intervention. Despite his youth and cooperation, Henley went to trial and received six life sentences. He's now sixty-five and has a sense of perspective about how adult predators can turn formerly good kids into criminals. Unexpectedly, he's willing to talk. This book is his warning and the story of the unspeakable evil and sorrow that befell Houston in the early 1970s.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303978676597,"sku":"9781613164952","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781613164952_21993563-0644-4f2f-aa51-40e97c4ef772.jpg?v=1786023308"},{"product_id":"9781454939375","title":"How to Catch a Killer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere are two parts to every crime story: how they did it and why they got caught.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is about the second part, and how it changes the way we catch serial killers. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e No two stories about the capture of a serial killer are the same. Sometimes, the killers make crucial mistakes; other times, investigators get lucky. And the process of profiling, hunting, and apprehending these predators has changed radically over time, particularly in the field of criminal forensics, which has exploded in the last ten to 15 years. Laser ablation, video spectral analysis, cyber-sleuthing, and even DNA-based genetic genealogy are now crucial tools in solving murders, including the recent capture of the so-called Golden State Killer. This book in the new Profiles in Crime series tells the history of forensics through the “capture stories” of some of the most notorious serial killers, going back almost a century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe killers include:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRodney Alcala, a serial rapist and murderer sometimes called “\u003ci\u003eDating Game\u003c\/i\u003e killer” for his appearance on that TV show. No one knows the exact number of his victims.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTakahiro Shiraishi, the suicide killer from Zama, Japan, who dismembered nine victims and stored their bodies in his refrigerator.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAileen Wuornos, one of the rare female serial killers. She shot seven men in Florida and was turned in by an accomplice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJeffrey Dahmer, the “Milwaukee Cannibal,” and Bobby Joe Long, both identified by survivors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTed Bundy and David Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”), who both made mistakes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLudwig Tessnow, who killed several children in Germany, and was caught through new methods in forensic investigation that could distinguish human from animal blood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312410472821,"sku":"9781454939375","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781454939375_5c2f244f-9fdb-4d5f-b1fd-253b65fadfb1.jpg?v=1786020462"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-katherine-ramsland.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}