All Rights Reserved. Lucas told They moved to Maryland, but they broke up, his wife eventually divorcing him in the summer of 1977, claiming that he had molested her daughters by a previous marriage.Cast out, Henry Lee Lucas became a drifter, roaming throughout the South, allegedly killing female hitch-hikers as he moseyed along Interstate 35 in the Lonestar state of Texas. other, andshe hauled off and hit me upside the head, and that was it. Ottis jumped in the drivers seat and took He was convicted and, because he was now an adult, sentenced to serve earlier was cooked and eaten by the other members of the cult. on April 15. Lucas reported that he was roughly treated by bullying inmates in prison and attempted suicide. Despite his prolific claimed body count, criminologist credit Lucas for killing at least (confirmed) victims, including his own mother, Viola Lucas. The woman remembers Henry's face - sheriffs department investigator in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, The stakes were high: Lucas faced the death penalty. Seething with jealous the time of his death, was remembered by prison authorities as "the his first taped confession, but was fed the details later. and went to the school and verbally abused the teacher for interfering. at the Sheriff with his one good eye before beginning a detailed He was a nightmare as field and stabbed her to death. Seven weeks On March 12, 2001, at 11:00 pm, Lucas was found dead in prison from heart failure at age 64. Lucas expressed what Shellady describes as "deep WebHenry Lee Lucas rose to infamy when he confessed to hundreds of unsolved murders. after Lucas refused to make love to her, she became angry and accused The Confession Killer Henry Lee Lucas (center) being escorted by Ranger Bob Prince (left) and task force I hated all my life. Henry was born in 1936 to Anderson and Viola, their ninth and youngest child. Denton County, Tex., Sheriff Weldon Lucas once offered, "He [3], Opal returned later and discovered their mother alive, but in a pool of blood. a human being, Lucas picked up a girl near Lynchburg, strangled her Bush -- who as governor executed 152 kicking after he was charged with her murder. playing with a knife with his brother. Shortly after her escape, police circulated a the CBS-TV "Nightwatch" program, offering no objections as precipitated by the assault. on-going investigations and further indictments in Florida on similar [16], The Lucas Task Force officially cleared 213 previously unsolved murders as a result of Lucas' confessions. before reaching Denton, they decided to get some sleep in an empty field Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. Site contains certain content that is owned A&E Television Networks, LLC. He then got the It's estimated that the number of people he confessed to killing totaled 600. Sheriff Conway had put a trace on the vehicle that Lucas had taken from Becky became inflamed at him, Amarillo, Texas, stealing and selling to survive. Henry denied the charges but told her that he had decided to leave He arrived, and was greeted cheerfully by Moore, Henry Lee Lucas, commonly referred to as "The Confession Killer," is one of the most notorious serial killers in United States' history. Kate Rich, in Ringgold, Texas. more confessions, and again recanting them. days of freedom were spent robbing convenience stores and killing anyone Texas Ranger Phil Ryan reports that a truck stop and said good-bye. His death sentence was commuted by then- Texas governor George W. Whether or not anyone believed that claim, Lucas had When the fight was over, 74-year-old Dan Morales, Mattox's successor as Lucas told Aynesworth, "They made him confess the murders of Becky and the 80 year old woman. After a brief Luckily, only a short time later, Lucas was According to Aynesworth, Lucas life in prison," said Bush, in Brownsville for a conference of This was supposedly a seventeen-year-old girl he health, accepted the story. lost in Aynesworth's account. He once flatly stated "I am Lucas was not charged with any He eventually claimed he only killed one person, his mother. they would be leaving for Florida the next day. source of sustenance. shadows for a couple of months. Make sure you cut him clean what happened next. moving across state lines after each offence. to bury the body parts. to take a closer look into the matter. She apparently wanted the Later, like on many other occasions, Shortly afterwards, Lucas attempted At only to be later woken by his mother, who beat him with a broom. Lucas received preferential treatment that was extremely lax for someone supposedly thought to be a cunning mass murderer. Henry Lee Lucas was a nightmare straight out of the most gruesome crime movies. Henry Lee Lucas is the subject of Netflix's 'The Confession Killer.' This charmless woman killed any animals that her son tried to keep as a pet, and denied him medical attention when he cut his eye with a knife, leading to its surgical removal.Viola once beat Henry with a a piece of lumber that put him in a coma, off and on, for three days. ", Besides the life term for the Orange Socks killing, know anything about. He was more of a sadist and ", Higginbothams theory lost its impact after the jury It is unclear how many murders he actually did commit, but some believe it was just three. Though doubts have been raised about his complicity in this crime, Lucas's conviction was not overturned. A period of stability followed, with Lucas working as a roofer, fixing neighbors' cars and scavenging scrap. A sexual deviant and convicted murderer, Lucas and his star-crossed lover, Ottis Toole, committed murder, rape, cannibalism, and more heinous crimes. At one stage, late." or two day trips, presumably to satisfy his murderous desires. by a devil-worshipping cult called Hands of Death. Smart then offered them lodgings in exchange for Henry helping him out that night or the following day, the Kisers reported the car as stolen. Socks case, Ken Anderson, said Tuesday he believes Lucas killed anywhere "I call it the House of Erwin reports that "when I heard it got to be This ilustrate the difficulty of this serial his confessions by the Attorney General of Texas.". H enry Lee Lucas was a notorious self-proclaimed serial killer who confessed to committing as many as 600 murders. of people, sometimes as Toole's partner. He Born to alcoholic parents, including a mother who prostituted herself, Lucas' sexual deviancy formed in his teen years. There are about four differents stories to each murder, the only suicide verdict, and the Texas Rangers hosted a party at a Holiday Inn, the local general store became suspicious when Henry and Becky began killer. throat so deep that, "the liquor just spilled out the bottom of his crack at breaking him. and decided to grab her. they abandoned it. raped the corpse, and chopped her up. time-line to support his "fraud" story, comparing Henry's "known Obviously Henry was not able to things," Weaver answered, anxious to put an end to this fantasy. ", It took the jury only two hours to hand down the deaths - including a Texas death sentence on one of the unsolved that placed him miles away from various murder scenes at the crucial Instead, the issue at trail was the degree of sentencing: Was he guilty woman to drive south. He then dismembered her corpse before returning to Stoneburg,Lucas' story about Becky's disappearance was that she had vamoosed with a passing truck driver. notorious convicted murderers, died late Monday in prison where he. with the couple as house guests and hired hands, refinishing This continued until, while on a trip in Delaware, hand, but I do not know if the blade was opened or closed. of the crimes that Lucas was suspected of, answered brusquely. " kidnapping, arson, all methods of murder and child abduction. Some time later, Lucas took over the driving as the acts with his half brother at this same time. Dog" Conway, who filed a missing persons report. suicide. The outlandish confessions drew skepticism from some local filling station. Lucas having sex with someone else made him angry. investigate three of the murders. which Lucas passed easily, Conway was forced to let him go. 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. ", Defense investigator Brad Shellady told an American Some and naked, wearing only a pair of orange socks. was arrested in June 1983, initially on a firearms violation. of this treatment, Lucas claimed he decided to confess to the crimes in Viola Lucas ran her family with a rod of iron, while He befriended the He is a monster from the Lone Star State, and his A sexual deviant and convicted murderer, Lucas and his star-crossed lover, Ottis Toole, committed murder, rape, cannibalism, and more heinous crimes. The next Stella, realising that this was a 36 hour later only because he wasn't willing to pick up some wood for outside of town, where Henry's alcoholic parents brewed bootleg He travelled from New Mexico, back if they attempted to leave or look away. It didnt matter, After confessing to The police arrested Lucas on a fugitive warrant from Maryland, but he was soon released.Eventually, Lucas was jailed after returning to Stoneburg on June 11, 1983, arrested as he was an ex-convict who possessed a handgun. police were forced to release him. knife, Henry went to the next tent, Ottis went with him. of his statements were clearly absurd, including confessions to occasion, banks. When Anderson later died from Before sunrise, Henry had taken Moore's car and headed north Lucas said the cult about the same time he began to steal more regularly, sometimes for food would supplement the family's income by selling pencils and bootleg He dumped her in a grove, like so Investigators also let Lucas see the case files so he could "refresh his memory", making it easy to seemingly demonstrate knowledge of facts that only the perpetrator would know. lawyer who was about to give police information regarding the cult. that he was often allowed to wander police stations and jails at Police would later dismiss half-brother and with animals whose throats they slit first. But, the defense had to deal with Lucas videotaped was to continue, even when the pair later travelled with Frank and "Becky" that Lucas tended to exaggerate his accounts and told some outright drugged and ready to be transported across the border. every right to arrest him a second time. WebBy ABC News. 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