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Interrogations, prison interviews, courtroom tapes. True crime, no filter.

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@x_cha1n The most impressive part isn’t the 6.45x return. It’s knowing when NOT to trade. Discipline beats prediction.

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@Jinxtory Exactly. They had a chance to prevent this, and they ignored every warning sign. Six women paid the price.

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At 15 Edmund Kemper shot both his grandparents and told police he just wanted to see what it felt like. Doctors at a state mental hospital treated him for five years and warned he should never live with his mother again. At 21 the state released him to his mother. Over the next year he picked up six young women hitchhiking around Santa Cruz and killed them. Then he killed his mother.

He sat in prison and explained every step of it like he was giving a lecture.

In the video below is Kemper’s 1981 prison interview. He walks through the grandparents, the hitchhikers and the day he decided to stop. Listen to what he says right after.

He was 6'9" with an IQ of 136. He drank at the same bar as the local cops, who called him Big Ed. He picked up the women wearing thick black glasses he figured made him look harmless.

In September 1972 a panel of state psychiatrists examined him so his juvenile record could be sealed. They decided he was no longer a danger. According to Kemper, the head of a 15-year-old girl he had just killed was in the trunk of his car outside.

Months later he picked up two girls and let them go.

“I said, no, it’s gotta stop. And a week later, I murdered my mother.”

He killed her in her sleep with a hammer, then killed her best friend. He drove to Colorado and called the police from a phone booth to confess. The first officer thought it was a prank.

He asked for the death penalty. He got life, and at 77 he is still in a California prison.

Who failed those six women: the man who killed them, or the doctors who sent him home to the one person they said he should never see again?

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@venmilxbt The scariest part is how calm she seemed after taking a life.

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@venmilxbt The real question is how many people profited from her silence.

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@darkmatrx A great story doesn't need the biggest budget. It needs the right vision.

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@Jinxtory Greed has a price. Sometimes, it's everything.

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@Jinxtory yeah

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In 1973 a 17-year-old in Houston shot the man the neighborhood kids called the Candy Man, then called the police himself. Within days they had dug up 27 bodies of teenage boys. For two years Elmer Wayne Henley had been bringing those boys to Dean Corll for $200 apiece. Their parents had been told the boys were probably just runaways.

Eighteen years later he sat in prison and told a TV crew he wasn’t a serial killer.

In the video below is the real recording of Henley calling his mother after the shooting, and his prison interview. Watch his face when the reporter asks if he sees himself as a victim.

Corll was 33, worked at the power company and handed out free candy to neighborhood kids. Henley met him at 15. Corll offered him $200 for every boy he brought over.

Henley said he ignored the offer for months. Then he brought one.

He shot some of the boys himself and helped choke others. By the time he confessed, there were victims he couldn’t remember killing.

“We killed a boy by the name of Billy Lawrence. I don’t remember how we killed him.”

It ended when Corll tied Henley up in a rage. Henley talked his way loose, grabbed Corll’s .22 and shot him six times.

“I was a boy in a madman’s world.”

He got six 99-year sentences and has been denied parole more than 20 times, most recently in November 2025.

Was Elmer Wayne Henley a victim who finally stopped a monster, or a killer who only turned on Dean when his own life was on the line?