Tracy Ullman

Psikhologicheskij portret odnogo iz samykh neobychnykh manjakov - Dina Korlla po prozvischu Kendimen. Ubijtsa 27 malchikov godami vovlekal dvukh podrostkov v svoi prestuplenija. 9 avgusta 1973 goda v politsiju goroda Khjustona postupil zvonok ob ubijstve. Na vopros: "Kto ubit?" byl dan otvet, chto pogib khozjain doma, Din Korll. Zvonivshij nazvalsja Elmerom Khenli i skazal, chto budet zhdat politsejskikh pered domom, v kotorom proizoshlo ubijstvo. Kogda pribyli politsejskie, podrostok priznalsja, chto zastrelil manjaka Korlla iz-za strakha, chto sledujuschej ego zhertvoj stanet on sam. A zatem Khenli pokazal im mesta, gde khoronil zhertv Korlla - takikh zhe junykh malchikov... "Ucheniki serijnogo ubijtsy" - eto porazitelnaja istorija odnogo iz samykh neobychnykh manjakov. Kak emu udavalos godami podchinjat sebe dvukh podrostkov, kotorye iskali emu novykh zhertv i zakapyvali ikh tela? Eta kniga nagljadno raskryvaet psikhologiju seksualnykh khischnikov i ikh smertonosnoe zhelanie dominirovat nad temi, kto slabee. "Kniga Ketrin Ramslend i Trejsi Ulman - blestjaschee issledovanie razuma i motivov seksualnykh khischnikov. Eto v ravnoj stepeni i zakhvatyvajuschij kriminalnyj narrativ, i vazhnyj vklad v sudebnuju psikhologiju". - Garold Shekhter, tru-krajm-pisatel "Intimnoe rassledovanie o pechalno izvestnom serijnom ubijtse... Kniga ne dlja slabonervnykh, no ljubiteli tru-krajma otsenjat etot dinamichnyj rasskaz". - Kirkus Review

Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr. was only fourteen when he first became entangled with serial rapist and murderer Dean Corll in 1971. Fellow Houston, Texas, teenager David Brooks had already been ensnared by the charming older man, bribed with cash to help lure boys to Corll's home. When Henley unwittingly entered the trap, Corll evidently sensed he'd be of more use as a second accomplice than another victim. He baited Henley with the same deal he'd given Brooks: $200 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.