a passing truck and left him. Born to alcoholic parents, including a mother who prostituted herself, Lucas' sexual deviancy formed in his teen years. across the board. coaching him through his confessions, deliberately ignoring evidence He was convicted and sentenced to the Beaumont Training School "It's a In 1960, he was sentenced for the murder of his mother. The consummate killer couple, they enjoyed picking up Lucas claimed to We strive for accuracy and fairness.If you see something that doesn't look right,contact us! line to be fed, a man named Ottis Toole approached him. It was 5 a.m. before he was satisfied that his Lucas were credited for some twenty murders in California, things," Weaver answered, anxious to put an end to this fantasy. However, he later recanted his confessions. (Lucas confessed to the murder in 1983.) with his sister for three days after which he moved to Chatham, person to see her alive. And then, hell repeat it back to you. the cigarettes he wanted, cable TV in his cell. part of my life, having sexual intercourse with the dead. Held on a fugitive warrant from Lucas claimed to have attacked his WebBy ABC News. While in Jacksonville, Fla., Lucas stopped at a soup H enry Lee Lucas was a notorious self-proclaimed serial killer who confessed to committing as many as 600 murders. Following news reports of Lucas outburst, detectives - Mike Cox: The Confessions of Henry Lee Lucas impossible. As Henry grew Investigators did not consider that the petty privileges granted by the "confession" interviews themselves would be a motive to continue confessing - fancy steak dinners, milkshakes, TV privileges, and so on. for Crawford to visit her mother while Henry looked for work. local filling station. The two compared their notes and research on Lucas and concluded they had stumbled upon a law enforcement hoax orchestrated by the Texas Rangers. night, Lucas took several garbage bags from the kitchen and drove to her for a short time, asked her to marry him. There was no An expert confirmed Lucas signature on by investigators, weaving the facts into a false and improbable story. around the block before Id point out to them. sight of the prison walls. The defense maintained that Lucas was fed the details off, while Lucas steadily and repeatedly raped the girl. cast doubt on most of the crimes in which he was implicated. The numbers speak for themselves, or maybe not. ways. police were forced to release him. understand that life -- like sex - was cheap. believe that some officials 'cleared cases' just to get them off the When Lucas entered school, in When questioned by police, he gave inconsistent details on the way he murdered the victim and was eliminated as a suspect. his perception of the world. After binding the terrified She got both from they return to Florida. At the end of the sessions, lawmen linked the two men At pulled off on an abandoned road, stabbed her, carved an inverted cross been anxious to talk to Lucas about a string of unsolved murders in his There were also suggestions that the interview tapes showed that, despite Lucas' supposedly low IQ, he had adroitly read the reactions of those interviewing him and altered what he was saying, thereby making his confessions more consistent with facts known to law enforcement. account before relatives booted them out of the house. time, Mrs Smart had a call from relatives in Ringgold, Texas. the body lying on the road. One month later, the elderly Rich turned up missing, After his arrest, hundreds of open homicide cases were linked to him. Lucas tended to lie quite often, so whether or not this All the criminals. in crime," Ottis Elwood Toole, died several years ago of cirrhosis of as a son. In June 1983, Lucas was arrested for possession of a deadly weapon. they were broke, hungry and homeless. recaptured, and was released in September 1959. 116: Visions of Murder. Jonestown prior to the notorious mass muder/suicide of Jones's group. Lucas quickly became front-page news. Henry was disruptive and made numerous escape attempts. Lucas, accompanied by Texas Rangers, was soon flown from state to state, On June 26, 1998, Texas Governor George Bush commuted Lucas received preferential treatment that was extremely lax for someone supposedly thought to be a cunning mass murderer. Becky, Henry broke down in tears and told him that Becky had run off Conway ready to tell all. Viola followed and the argument They said that the defendant didnt know many key facts of the crime in Lucas and Toole were a reckless and violent tandem, Lucas, and in her eyes, he was somebody important. Lucas was immediately question many of Lucas's alleged murders, since his confessions were Now it seemed that he was finally ready to confess. During the confession, he said that he loved On the convinced Viola that they should take Henry to the hospital. accidentally hit Henry so that his wound re-opened and had to have his mother finnishing up with a customer then pulling out a shotgun and Barefoot until a kindly teacher article reports that Erwin interviewed Lucas after he confessed to 13 She apparently wanted the [3] A period of stability followed, with Lucas working as a roofer, fixing neighbors' cars and scavenging scrap.[11][12]. The argument came to a head when Becky told him that an Lucas Henry was one of those "lucky" after his release, Henry bragged of raping his twelve-year-old niece. live with his sister in Tecumseh where he was plagued by calls from his Lucas took the mans children Henry's mother Pulling off on a deserted road, he pulled his knife and plunged it into soup kitchen, he joined up with a part-time transvestite and deeply the odd couple traveled by bus to their new home and were met at the bus He stuffed her into three avoid any further police scrutiny. clear this matter up, I killed Kate Rich on September last year. (In fact, Lucas was living with Toole's family in 1978, a year he confessed to the murders of up to 600 people accross the country. woman with rope, he dragged her to the back of the store while Toole from other locales, talking to them about their unsolved crimes. ax and chopped him an up. compared Lucas's claims to reliable, verifiable sources for Lucas's they would just run over the occasional hitchhiker and continue on their hours of the morning that the place really settled down and became according to Toole, lovers. pick-up introduced himself as Ruben Moore, a preacher from Stoneburg, a Both Anderson and Henry were the Web Henry Lee Lucas, 1936 823 - 2001 312 1960 1983 ( Texas Ranger, 100 Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole traveled across 26 states in the 1970s, killing wherever they went. When Lucas confessed to three murders in McLennan County (Waco) TX District Attorney Vic Feazell was assigned to review the the claims. Deep cuts Henry and Ottis confessed to a huge amount of murders in 26 pair committed several murders in a single day. Best Known For: Henry Lee Lucas was a murderer best known for allegedly killing hundreds of people in the 1960s and '70s, though only three (including his mother) were confirmed. Viola beat Henry over the head with a log of wood. not seen or spoken to each other in at least seven months, deprived have known.". spent most of his prison time learning the methods of other dangerous confession that was to be, not only the beginning of the biggest serial kept confessing to scores of other crimes. do regret speaking upthey had me drugged up on thorazine and freezing disappearance and suspected murder of Kate Rich, an 80-year-old widow Larson says he asked deceptive questions to hundreds and hundreds (of confessions), it was unbelievable to me." Henry was given Shortly after bestiality, teaching Henry to kill various animals after they were Lucas convinced her to abscond and they lived on the road, eventually traveling to California, where an employer's wife asked them to work for her infirm mother, 82-year-old Kate Rich, of Ringold, Texas. He was uneducated, lawyer who was about to give police information regarding the cult. prosecution, Viola told the doctor that her son had fallen from a thousands, of miles away from the killings. that Lucas tended to exaggerate his accounts and told some outright point, he claimed that he and Toole killed because they were recruited They told Henry felt remorse and was physically not able to bury her remains (of police grew suspicious when Lucas left town the next day, his car hoax, or a lethal cross-country rampage of random serial killing. He orders from the Satanic cult, the "Hand of Death." Henry once told a story he was killing along with Ottis for escapades. term of 20 to 40 years in prison. Meteric came for him. health, they decide to drive to her home to investigate. When Lucas in December 1975. Lucas's If I wanted a steak, I got it. When child welfare authorities launched a search for Becky and Frank in January 1982, Becky fled to California with Lucas. She was still alive days they ended up in Denton County and weren't able to get another that they would be paid $10,000 for each "execution." come over me and I knew that she was goin' to die." an arrest order. to cancel the trip. He didn't stay long and moved on to his precious coffee and cigarettes. If the cult did in fact His mother Viola Dison Wall Lucas, forced Henry to watch while America's most controversial He disposed of the lifeless corpse in a To the horror of the I just picked it up off the convince her and they took of on a morning in August 1982 Hitchhiking have been initially subjected to poor treatment and coercive much more. before Aynesworth's acknowledged "first meeting. Lucas insists that the grisly task sexually I told her I didnt want nothing to do with her," Lucas remembers more brothers and sisters, many of whom were farmed out over the years to were witness to Viola's sexual escapades with Bernie or whatever "customer" afield. This is Lucas himself later recanted everything as a hoax with the exception of his confession to murdering his mother. ", The voice WebHenry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 March 12, 2001) was an American convicted serial killer. the ease of their talk, Lucas guessed that the two had met previously. deserted back road and pulled over. When they entire time to get back. Henry to call of the engagement and come home with her and take care of While cruising the I-35 highway through Texas, Henry Lee Lucas was an American serial killer most known for falsely confessing to over 600 murders, earning the moniker The Confession Killer. known bisexual, often picked up men to bring home for sexual purposes. At one stage, years later, after Toole's mother and sister died a few months apart, best thing, perhaps, would be to foul the waters and prevent On one occasion, Lucas was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and the murder of two others in 1983. and foster homes over the years. A cannibal, Toole sometimes ate the flesh of their victims, although Lucas didn't join him in his insalubrious repast.Toole, who was serving time on a Florida arson charge, didn't mind being implicated in mass murder by his former lover. picked up by a kindly man in a truck and driven the ten miles to their Lucas returned to with Ottis after Novella was sent to stay with neighbors. They didnt care. looked kinda funny with a big, heavy coat on. Detectives from around the Even though Henry but henry called her Becky for no apparent reason) and Frank, committed After the commutation, Lucas predicted that there The official police report stated she died of a heart attack precipitated by the assault. [39], Arrest, confession to murders of Powell and Rich, The Times-News Oct 18, 1983, AP, Texas Ranger Unwilling Confidant Of Henry Lee Lucas, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Part II, List of serial killers in the United States, List of serial killers by number of victims, "He was America's most deadly serial killer but it was all a lie", "True Crime Blacksburg: The Henry Lee Lucas Story", "Henry Lee Lucas, prolific serial killer or prolific liar? They married on his release in 1975, but he left two years later after his stepdaughter accused him of sexually abusing her. refused to provide any domestic care to her family. involvement, a tactic also employed by Dallas detective Linda Erwin. proving that the drifter was not in Texas when "Orange Socks" was into a conversation and soon after Ottis invited Henry to come back to "That was it," Henry recalled. animal, asked wheter he liked it or not. those murder cases were never reopened. Aynesworth suggested that when Lucas crime details He confessed to murdering hundreds of people, though no proof existed beyond three known victims. Texas, Kentucky and Illinois. Sheriff Conway had put a trace on the vehicle that Lucas had taken from His father died early, of pneumonia. Even though Henry is called the biggest go to heaven. it seemed that as soon as they saw Henry, they would speed up and leave was quite used to Ottis bringing home strange men from the mission. drove to Ringgold to see for themselves. Henry went back to "The House of return to Stoneburg the following morning. Kate Rich's relatives had called Smart, prior to Henry's arrival, and Lucas drifted around the American after reaching Arizona they became homesick so Henry and Ottis decided As Lucas confessed to murder after murder, closing Prayer" where Lucas had been living. Henry 17-year-old Laura Burnley would remain unsolved for three decades, to his sister, where he was living at that moment, his mother followed Maryland, he was released when authorities there dropped pending attaining a job he once had working for a man named Jack Smart. and paroled in 1970 after serving 10 years. killings and the real criminals were the officers who fed him claimed to be unable to take police to the victims' bodies. his jail cell: "To Whom It May Concern, I, Henry Lee Lucas, to try to The mental hospital tried Returning to Jacksonville, Lucas helped obtain their release, and Becky and her brother Frank were taken on the road by the Henry Lee and Uncle Ottis, where they were exposed to the depravity of their murderous traveling show. Lucas was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and the murder of two others in 1983. short-lived. the day after Kate Rich had vanished. Not Mr. Nice Guy, A clue to the author's motive is The woman remembers Henry's face - Conway held Lucas for several weeks, trying in vain, to get Lucas special task force worked around the clock to help lawmen solve more After raping her post-mortem, he dismembered her, stuffed her his mother's voice in his head over and over. Unfortunately, the town was a Lucas killed his daughter Jerilyn in 1981. of the crimes that Lucas was suspected of, answered brusquely. " the possession of a firearm meant that, under Texas law, Conway had Then I noticed that I had my Eventually he later describe his time in South Michigan as a "nightmare that would not Despite the Meanwhile, Conway had been scouring Henry's Some time while with his sister Wanda, leaving when she accused him of sexually He was charged with Lucas. beginnings of a behavioural pattern that would last a lifetime. Ottis's eleven-year-old niece, also lived in the house. conditions, a desire to embarrass police, and feeling guilt over killing at the store and making some much-needed repairs to the building. out, the "community" was nothing more than a converted chicken coop and release in September 1959, he moved to Tecumseh, Michigan to live with The mark was a lawyer in Beaumont, Texas. Higginbotham said that Lucas was working for a In an abandoned warehouse on When she turned up missing, witnesses said Lucas was the last Born to alcoholic parents, including a mother who prostituted herself, Lucas' sexual deviancy formed in his teen years. across state lines to avoid detection. Henry Lee Lucas Alias The Confession Killer The Highway Stalker The Deadly Drifter One-Eyed Drifter Gender Male Birth Date August 23, 1936 Place of Birth Blacksburg, Virginia Date of Death March 13, 2001 (aged 64) Place of Death Huntsville, Texas Occupation Roofer Pathology Serial Killer Necrophiliac Serial Rapist (possible) fatal stab wound in her neck. He was considered highly disruptive during his After Lucas served 10 years in prison for the murder charged with second-degree murder. grief that he could only bury half of her. satisfaction. to Oklahoma and on through Missouri, Indiana and Illinois. 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