Richard Edward Hembree was 13 when he was killed in Houston, Texas, on October 3, 1972. He and a friend, 14-year-old Wally Jay Simoneaux, were walking to Hembree’s home on October 2 when they encountered Elmer Wayne Henley and David Owen Brooks and were lured into Brooks’s Corvette. The pair were taken to Dean Arnold Corll’s apartment and later to Corll’s boat shed, where they were murdered.

The next morning Henley accidentally shot Hembree in the mouth; the bullet exited through his neck. Hours later both boys were strangled and buried together in a common grave in Corll’s boat shed, above other victims.

Corll was killed on August 8, 1973, when Henley shot him; that event led to the discovery of Hembree’s remains and the broader Houston Mass Murders. Henley and Brooks were arrested and later received life sentences for their roles. Does anyone have memories of Hembree or information about him that could add to the record?