Henley jury told details

of torture

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SAN ANTONIO, Tex. A police detective de scribed yesterday how teenagers in the Houston mass murders were spread-eagled on a wooden board, their mouths taped to stop their screams, and then brutally tortured and killed.

Testimony of Sgt. David Mullican of Pasadena came in the second day of the trial of Elmer Wayne Henley, 18, accused in six of the deaths of 27 teen-age boys whose bodies were discovered last August in Houston.

Mullican told the jury about details of the torture deaths of the young men as told to him by Henley in three days of questioning in August.

In a written statement introduced Monday by the state, Henley admitted complicity in the deaths of the six persons he is charged with murdering.

He also told of procuring youths for Dean A. Corll, 33, the man police say was the leader of the homosexual murder ring.

Henley shot Corll to death last Aug. 8.