Wait, Is ‘The Serial Killer’s Apprentice’ Going Full ‘Mindhunter’?

Wait, Is ‘The Serial Killer’s Apprentice’ Going Full ‘Mindhunter’?

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Following in the footsteps of the very real serial-killer study project that inspired Mindhunter , The Serial Killer’s Apprentice a relatively restrained and fairly self-aware documentary about a victim turned killer.

The spine of the short documentary is the interviews that serial killer expert Dr. Katherine Ramsland conducted over the course of years with Elmer Wayne Henley. In the early 1970s, a teenaged Henley was groomed by serial killer Dean Corll and helped Corll commit what would later be called the Houston Mass Murders. Dr. Ramsland carefully unfurls Henley’s story. He wasn’t Corll’s only accomplice; David Owen Brooks, then a boy Henley’s own age, was apparently unintereste