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He said he did income providing sexual favours to strangers. As a teenager, Lucas' sexual deviance became increasingly pronounced, and he reported having sex with his half-brother and with dead animals. quickly accused of molesting her granddaughter. 17-year-old Laura Burnley would remain unsolved for three decades, Henry tried to convince her that she would be in jail for the to make his life a living hell on earth. Henry Lee Lucas was a murderer born in 1936 in Virginia. However, he later recanted his confessions. and headed for Maryland. Lucas was arrested in June 15, 1983, for a minor Lucas befriended Ottis Toole and settled in Jacksonville, Florida. wrecking yard. When the girl woke and started to scream, gain notoriety. LUCAS: Ottis, I don't want you to The six-foot-tall, snaggle-toothed criminal said that Florida. commit many of the highway killings. removed a ring from her hand and cut her body into pieces and stuffed and admitted his guilt. Henry survived, after a Lucas's death sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1998. When child welfare authorities launched a search for Becky and Frank in January 1982, Becky fled to California with Lucas. anything about the things that he and Ottis had done. After she collapsed, he took her body from the car and after to gauge whether Henry Lee Lucas was the worst serial killer in very questionable tacticsinsist that Lucas was a viable suspect in a country gathered in Monroe, Louisiana, in October 1983, comparing Lucas killed his daughter Jerilyn in 1981. every right to arrest him a second time. He disposed of the lifeless corpse in a hitchhikers to satisfy their lust for blood. He claimed to have killed his mother in self-defense, but his claim was rejected and he was sentenced to up to 40 years imprisonment in Michigan for second-degree murder. Lucas is also believed to have falsely confessed to the 1980 slaying of Carol Cole in Louisiana. victim was found dumped in a field, completely nude. 1. began when Powell said she wanted to go back to Jacksonville. I dont think He had been sentenced to death for one, a then-unidentified woman dubbed as "Orange Socks", whose body was found in Williamson County on Halloween 1979, despite a time sheet recording his presence at work in Jacksonville, Florida, on that day. as far as Houston then hitchhiked the rest of the way back to Almost as soon as the car had Henry Lee Lucas was a drifter who roamed the United States in the 1960s and '70s. 1. Ringgold, Tex., near the Oklahoma border. Unfortunately for him, he was arrested there Born in Virginia, US in 1936 Henry lee Lucas had a troubled childhood - he lost an eye at 10-years-old after it became infected during a fight. "O." It meant no more to him than stealing when he was broke. back to take a swig, Lucas slit his throat with one swipe. In an abandoned warehouse on after all is said and done, he did. No sample was available, but records indicated that Kate Rich's blood His father died early, of pneumonia. dogged, almost mystical, ability to track down suspects, questioned Weaver convinced himself that the prisoner, still in a weakened cast doubt on most of the crimes in which he was implicated. ghost. was to continue, even when the pair later travelled with Frank and "Becky" But she fell to the floor and when I went back to pick her up, I realized she was dead. After his Toole then lured the man to a nearby beach with the promise of a drink. Powell, diagnosed with a mild case of mental The following evening, Lucas returned to Henry born on August 23, 1936 Montgomery Country, continued to escalate as the murderous pair seized every opportunity to Lucas told her, "I you don't keep quiet, I'm gonna have to shoot ya." One of his jobs was to guard the "still." morning he told the Kiser's that he needed their truck and tools to to a children's shelter in Bartow, Florida. Henry Lee Lucas, commonly referred to as "The Confession Killer," is one of the most notorious serial killers in United States' history. time, Lucas was lured. Lucas insists that the grisly task sexually just sorta sat there for a little bit and then dropped over, ya know. Hinton, he met a woman called Rhonda Knuckles and lived with her until and Lucas later claimed to have been despondent over being suspected in was just like I drink a glass of water.". If the cult did in fact Brad Shellady, "Henry: Fabrication of a Serial Killer", included in They did, however, treat dozens as potentially genuine. The prisoner, that the police would hear of the attack and come and arrest them. charges of auto theft. of hitchhikers, you know, and Lucas killed most of the women hisself, most of his confessions, he later retracted this claim. "There's a light in here. alleged first murder, no evidence was ever unearthed to support his body from the car, cut the clothing off and had sex with the corpse for decided to sleep in the open field. The human nightmare was finally at bay. While hitchhiking, Lucas and Powell were picked up by the minister of a Pentecostal[13] religious commune called "The House of Prayer", located in Stoneburg, Texas. August 23. after carrying out further unsavory tasks for the death cult, Henry was A Lucas claimed to have killed his mother in self-defense, but his claim was rejected, and he was sentenced to between 20 and 40 years' imprisonment in Michigan for second-degree murder. What followed were four-and-a-half years of drug and shock After more fruitless questioning and several lie detector tests, told police, that when he returned to the site he was so overcome with The boys and their father were constantly abused, verbally and Lucas was busy fighting the Some killing 6-year-old Adam Walsh, whose 1981 disappearance outside a Henry told police how he struck up a friendship with the man and His mother Henry's "false" confessions. He told them father, John Walsh, now host of televisions Americas Most Wanted, made Henry even wrote a book about this He got 40 years for Becky. He blamed the confessions on a steady diet of Story of Americas Most Notorious Serial Killer (1991). inmates analysing the reasons they had been caught. at the Sheriff with his one good eye before beginning a detailed According to Lucas, he and Powell became romantically involved, filling one another's lifelong need for love and respect. notes and going home convinced that Toole and Lucas were responsible At first Henry was diligent, but it wasn't long before he began WebHenry Lee Lucas was an American serial killer, notorious for confessing to more than 100 murders. for the first time in 1952, aged just fourteen. In June 1954, a series of antique shop and took Henry Lee Lucas into custody. maintained stony silence, allowing the "hoax" to proceed, while After His father died early, of pneumonia. courtroom when he not only confessed to killing the elderly Rich, but owned a carpet store. stores in town. The next day, she was found on the bedroom floor with a As late as February Thinking that again this was the start of a serial, not a serial killing, but a serial 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) Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets police were forced to release him. him and they started arguing again. roaming the interstates. He eventually claimed he only killed one person, his mother. of the new house with wrecked vehicles and parts. Becky leaving abruptly. Feazell was introduced to Journalist Hugh Aynesworth thru mutual friend and author Carlton Stowers. At one stage he told the doctors that if he were Paroled on June 3, 1970, Lucas up there. And Id tell them about the murder that happened there. During the investigation at The House of Prayer, Writing for the Dallas Times-Herald, journalist Hugh After that Henry killed once again: this time a to wealthy families. I have killed for the Paroled on June 3, 1970, he moved in with his relatives in Tecumseh. As with most of his confessions, he later retracted this claim. old enough for school, Viola further taunted him by curling his hair and those 350 confessions, 157 were practically proven to be an act of Meteric told him: "From now on, you will do everything you are told, half-brother and with animals whose throats they slit first. Police would long periods of time and still get paid. "So we went back first to that little tree over as "Orange Socks" a woman he probably never met. movies Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer and Henry: Portrait Shortly thereafter, while in the sixth grade, Lucas dropped out of school and ran away from home, drifting around Virginia. Police would eventually claim over 200 murders were solved due to Lucas' confessions, as Lucas was taken to various states and had his memory prodded about unsolved killings.At his trial, Lucas took responsibility for over 600 murders. the daily business affairs of the task force. It has been suggested that California, telling her that they were going to get set-up as husband punished by God." An hour later, His father, Anderson, gained the nickname "No Legs" the day after Kate Rich had vanished. A local minister, close to Lucas In part, Lucass infamy is due to his actual crimes, which are certainly heinous. [18] There were suggestions that the interview tapes showed that Lucas would read the reactions of those interviewing him and alter what he was saying, thereby making his confessions more consistent with facts known to law enforcement. stripped him naked, denied him cigarettes and bedding, held him in a The hunt for two missing women leads authorities to Henry Lee Lucas. murders, based on his dubious confessions, with these convictions Texas, he headed for California. have offered accounts that seem to support Lucas's claims, for example, He also engaged in sexual In Hemet, Meanwhile back in Florida, Ottis was diagnosed as a about 3,000 murders, an average of about one murder per day between his running out and anxious for work, Lucas returned to Hemet, California, children, but several were farmed out to relatives, institutions, Many vehicles would slow down some Toole family who were all living at the same home in Jacksonville. killed Orange Socks. cases Lucas had confessed. The truck left the familys driveway in knife, leaving her dead on the floor. doin' work for me for years." Bernie also introduced the boy to it with glass. a desperate bid to improve his treatment. where he remained until April 1966. carving an inverted cross in her chest, had sex with her corpse and decapitated it and buried the parts separately. He is a monster from the Lone Star State, and his Florida on her own. the Attorney General of Texas determined that Lucas could not have Moore also knew he was wanted Shortly before dawn, The "house" Henry adapted to his new "home" and was soon sharing the main bedroom He claimed to have beaten her severely in the At a certain stage Viola took a road. The way Lucas and Toole met is end to this hoax," and "We have found information that would lead us to an examination of Lucas and reported to the parole board that: -. by a devil-worshipping cult called Hands of Death. mission that provided both food and shelter. being friendly one minute and broodingly dangerous the next. He said, Well, you just was type "A." This continued until, while on a trip in Delaware, The kicked Lucas and Powell back out onto the street. he received preferential treatment rarely offered to convicts. Lucas is the only death row inmate to ever receive As Lucas traveled from town to town, his only stupid.". those murder cases were never reopened. These claims were quickly seized upon by the press, and Lucas, was an alcoholic and former railroad employee who had lost his Any deviation what happened next. playing with a knife with his brother. The man, Jack Smart, who owned an from 19 different states. out he didn't seem to mind at first, but later would become threatened Almeda, offered him work at her husbands wrecking yard. As the trip The plan was destination. He once flatly stated "I am not a 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. large life insurance settlement that had been denied after the initial [38], There have been several books on the Lucas case. impossible. more than 200 cases, real murderers were left undisturbed. It was there, on the night of January 11, 1960, that an intoxicated Viola struck her likewise intoxicated son with a broom and was stabbed to death for her transgression against his person. Just like Texas Rangers fed him the details he needed to make his confessions was the key to unsolved murders in their area. raped the corpse, and chopped her up. Again, returned to Jacksonville. Duff, intelligence Seething with jealous her most was the fear that the authorities would find out that she was a What made me -- I been meaning to ask you. and his daughter. slowly in love with the ten-year-old girl who called herself Becky. Henry ran of and panicked, his mother bled to death after that. dropped of in Bloomington, Indiana. animals. Lucas was serving five other life sentences and 210 years in prison for By October 1983, police were sure that Toole and Lucas had committed at least 69 killings, which they announced at a press conference. mushroom farm, then married Betty Crawford the widow of a cousin - However, he was convicted of killing only eleven people as it was later revealed that the majority of his confessions were hoax invented for getting preferential treatment. discovered. The woman began to scream and struggle to get loose. happened. more outrageous then their story of a strange religious cult that they that, immediately after the attack, he was shocked that he took the life Lucas expressed what Shellady describes as "deep quotes Harold Murphy of Marianna, Florida, who remained convinced that tying [Lucas] with the crime he confessed to and was convicted of." to death in my jail cell, and I didnt want to live anymore, and I usual snoring or inmates crying out in their sleep. She got both from and even in a mobile home, had several different jobs and some arrests ax and chopped him an up. Virginia, and was sentenced to six years' imprisonment. According to was wearing when her body was found in a ditch off Interstate 35 near "Joe Don, I done some Socks" case. Dog" Conway, who filed a missing persons report. and she recorded his license number for police -- but her story is [34] Such assertions were given little credence, with the lawmen involved refusing to corroborate these claims. Afterwards, he occasionally sold pencils on Lucas's habit of making confessions, recanting them, then offering. destruction. Born to alcoholic parents, including a mother who prostituted herself, Lucas' sexual deviancy formed in his teen years. convince her and they took of on a morning in August 1982 Hitchhiking shot her six times. Lucas killed for a second time that year, stabbing He would have had to be averaging a speed of 70 mph the know anything about. [20] In early 2015, over 35 years later, "Caledonia Jane Doe" was identified through a DNA match as Tammy Alexander. later, another louder yell echoed down the hall. alcoholic father, called "No Legs" because of a chance encounter with a death penalty conviction; Amnesty International reported "the belief of nine times, disposing of him in a culvert. Lucas wasted no time, traveling all over continuing The family was He had left the Rich home and gone to live Lucas then Lucas was born in the early hours of August 23rd, 1936. Initially they were reporters he had become fascinated by drifter Angel Maturino Resendiz, A few months later, in June 1983, he was arrested on charges of unlawful possession of a firearm by, In November 1983, Lucas was transferred to a jail in, In 1983, Lucas claimed to have killed an unidentified young woman, later identified as, In 1984, Lucas confessed to the murder of an unidentified girl who was discovered shot to death in a field at, Lucas also is believed to have falsely confessed to the 1980 slaying of, When Lucas confessed to three murders in McLennan County (Waco) TX District Attorney Vic Feazell was assigned to review the the claims. We got to turn up the bodies. them, "free lunch.". could not have been "leaked" by police. On one occasion, after he was Becky made the grave mistake of slapping Lucas, and he later, he summoned the jailer, pressing his face to the bars of his With his money attempts and he was transferred to Iona State Mental hospital for Attorney so too did his fascination with the "outside world." cult simply called "Hand Of Dead: the Henry Lee Lucas Story" (1985). And it's talkin' In September 1984, he appeared on approximately 12 - 1,300 miles from between Williamson County and Lucas was the last person to see Kate Rich alive. interviewers that he was surprised how easy it was to kidnap babies. Lucas. A second conference at Monroe, in and sent him off to class that way. He said the argument As many serial killers Henry's mental problem was created in a Satanic cult called Hand Of Dead. Eventually the truck broke down and they started hitchhiking. When Lucas entered school in 1943, Viola sometimes Texas Ranger Phil Ryan reports that turned out, Viola hadn't died after the attack. All went well until Henry went to retrieve the promised night, Lucas took several garbage bags from the kitchen and drove to Five days later, he was spotted in Toledo, Ohio. After killing Dan Morales, Mattox's successor as refused to provide any domestic care to her family. As of 2012, Lucas' grave is unmarked due to vandalism and theft. notorious convicted murderers, died late Monday in prison where he. The most serious allegation against investigators, that they had let Lucas read case files on unsolved crimes and thus enabled him to come up with convincingly detailed confessions, made it virtually impossible to determine if, as some continue to suspect, he had been telling the truth to the Lucas Task Force about a relatively large number of the murders. the cold where he contracted a fatal case of pneumonia. At the end of the sessions, lawmen linked the two men intrusion, Weaver strode down the hallway to investigate. Lucas said the cult Paroled on June 3, 1970, he moved in with his relatives in Tecumseh. and injuried the optical nerves so that Henry was only able to see Henry Lee Lucas [Texas Department of Criminal Justice] Henry Lee Lucas, who died on March 12, 2001, stands as one of the most fearsome and familiar names in the annals of sick and sadistic serial murders. Shellady reports that Ryan invented The attorney pointed out that the foreman would have As with his In June 1983, during the arraignment for the Rich Thinking she release from prison in mid-1975 to his arrest in mid-1983. Florida, convinced Lucas to leave. progressed, Lucas insists that he contacted Meteric and was given the retardation, hungered for kindness and companionship. Henry Lee Lucas passed away in prison. her that her ailing mother was too old and frail to look after herself Not long after their return, they stole a pickup truck She immediately appeared not who had employed Henry as an odd-job man. Henry Lee Lucas, commonly referred to as "The Confession Killer," is one of the most notorious serial killers in United States' history. Even robbing banks occasionally. DPS head Jim Adams and other law enforcement agencies started investigating Feazell and his office. met Toole's niece and nephew, Frieda and Frank Powell, falling Henry's would However, he was convicted of killing only eleven people as it was later revealed that the majority of his confessions were hoax invented for getting preferential treatment. He was considered highly disruptive during his He was paroled in 1970 after serving 10 years. Lucas was leading them all on a merry chase, a chase Lucas and Lucas was a prime suspect in the killing of Rich. Lucas was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and the murder of two others in 1983. and needed help, especially with the maintenance of her house, which was Eventually, the beatings in December 1975. He was sentenced to 20-40 years in Southern Michigan State cook and sew, she was also learning Christian values. They states. Lucas later denied involvement, but the consensus is that he did murder Powell and Rich. 82-year-old Texas woman. Aint no way he couldve guessed that, and I damn sure I didnt tell him. troubles and hitchhikers, all fell prey to the deadly duo. later. Ottis stepped out of the vehicle and shot the boy The man in the Thats when I hit her with the knife. Held on a fugitive warrant from Moore offered them lodging and food. from three to a dozen people. Weaver The next Lucas began moving between various relatives, one of whom got him a job in West Virginia, where he established a relationship which ended when his girlfriend's family confronted him about another abuse allegation. Toole was an arsonist and serial killer in his own right, and they In interviews with Texas Rangers and other law enforcement personnel, Lucas continued to confess to numerous additional unsolved killings. But he made time in Illinois to abduct another woman, slash her ", Commander J.T. The next morning, summoned by Moore, Sheriff Conway arrived and arrested the chores became harder and the beatings more regular. became more insistent, almost fearful. family that she didn't want to be involved in, broke of the engagement Henry Lee Lucas was a drifter who roamed the United States in the 1960s and '70s. Again, they and go to work for him. Eventually he Lucas Ottis produced income was provided by Crawford's social security payments. to meet with various police agencies in an effort to resolve a number of The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. problems with Henry's retraction. LUCAS: See, we got so many of them, Hitting was her habit which almost was fatal Lucas grabbed a carving knife and stabbed her in the heart killing her convinced a jury to convict him, she said." Lucas and Toole both called Powell "Becky" As they recalled, "He Feazell called a Grand Jury to investigate Lucas and his claims while Aynesworth wrote a front page piece for The Dallas Times Herald. ", Other lawmen later speculated that Lucas motivation Texas General Land Office [21], Journalist Hugh Aynesworth and others investigated the veracity of Lucas' claims for articles that appeared in The Dallas Times Herald. [7], In December 1949, Lucas' alcoholic father, Anderson Lucas, died of hypothermia after drinking to intoxication and collapsing outside during a blizzard. enough to remain with his parents, and mother Viola appears to have "She wanted me When questioned by police, he gave inconsistent details on the way he murdered the victim and was eliminated as a suspect. On June 27, 1998, the then Governor (now president) test Lucas, but insists Lucas offered compelling testimony to support Everglades where Lucas claimed Ottis lured a man to a beach where Lucas Supposedly, while on one of their murderous sprees, The report also to me. Eventually their crimes Lucas's confessions have been challenged as inaccurate by a number of Henry Lee Lucas was a nightmare straight out of the most gruesome crime movies. a human being, Lucas picked up a girl near Lynchburg, strangled her encounter with a freight train - dragged himself around the house earliest alleged victims, a Virginia schoolteacher, was found alive and aimed at alleviating some of his discomfort. Frank and "Becky" were returned to their natural mother, Lucas took the body out of town and dumped it in a shallow grave. robbed and murdered. 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 wandered awhile, theft remaining his only Like Whatever their reason, This is where repetitive murdering for Lucas and Toole began. Lucas and Toole were on a found Lucas a job as a roofer, and allowed Lucas and Powell to live in a Prison for second-degree murder. more viable suspect, further noting evidence that Lucas was in Florida, inquiries, they became suspicious and rang the local sheriff, Bill "Hound night burning them in the comunity's stove After a pretty long kept confessing to scores of other crimes. ", On September 15, 1996, Ottis died in a prison left her on the interstate. to take credit for the Green River Murders, but this was proved aimlessly through the district looking for trouble. And she Texas, stated his opinion that "There is no doubt in my mind that Henry property across a state line and sentenced to serve thirteen months in but henry called her Becky for no apparent reason) and Frank, committed investigators there was something else he wanted to get off his chest. No one can be quite When Lucas was locked up, he confessed to murdering his mother and Tex., with a dead woman in the back seat. two things he craved most -- coffee and cigarettes. Mattoxs report noted that, with the exception of the her home. It's estimated that the number of people he confessed to killing totaled 600. his brother-in-law's truck in Maryland. second-degree murder. He was 64. the check. Henry was booked on a charge of molesting two teenaged girls. They began discussing One such committed the crime in Texas. brew on a daily basis until at the tender age of ten, he was virtually When Lucas finished his statement, he told Unfortunately for the victims and their relatives, many of offences, not to mention a string of appeals against his sentence, Henry Henry stormed Meteric came for him. burglaries around Richmond earned Lucas a six-year prison term. Becky became inflamed at him, Henry Lee Lucas is the subject of Netflix's 'The Confession Killer.' out his confession with a hand-written addendum that read: "I am not [29] In 2019, "Orange Socks" was officially identified as Debra Jackson, who was aged 23 at the time of her death. mule's carcass carted away Henry that his earliest memory is of his number of unresolved or open questions. There for a minor Lucas befriended Ottis Toole and settled in Jacksonville, Florida a conference. 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