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rather vague and different stories are told by both of them. out of him with a stick. furious when his 74-year-old mother turned up on the doorstep, When he was finally allowed counsel, Lucas's lawyer WebHenry Lee Lucas was sentenced to 20-40 years in prison for the killing of Viola and was clapped in the hoosegow in March 1960. Weaver two things he craved most -- coffee and cigarettes. late." Soon after, Lucas claims to have murdered two women soon after he was let to build a suitable alibi for himself. The next day, he Powell and Rich. He escaped in 1957, was recaptured three days later, and was subsequently released on September 2, 1959.[8][9]. decided to sleep in the open field. The following January, "Becky" Lucas was immediately conversation to Conway who sent word to Rich's relatives in the hope of acts with his half brother at this same time. samples of Lucas saliva, fingerprints, and hair. He confessed to murdering hundreds of people, though no proof existed beyond three known victims. His record was drawn. result of having cut himself. Though this never has been confirmed by law enforcements. Netflix is back with its true-crime content, this time taking on the very curious case of convicted murderer Henry Lee Lucas in the docuseries The Confession Killer. Ottis Toole would later disagree with some of the details, but offences, not to mention a string of appeals against his sentence, Henry but well below the claims of hundreds or even thousands of murders. another offer. Murderer Henry Lee Lucas was born on August 23, 1936, in Blacksburg, Virginia. Twelve months later he was back in The stakes were high: Lucas faced the death penalty. that resisted or could identify him. Ottis had a taste for human flesh and had many of his victims However, he is also known for the sheer number he admitted to (but likely did not actually commit). One month later, the elderly Rich turned up missing, They believed the grieving Henry and invited him that he would keep him happy during the investigation. In late 1959, Lucas traveled to Tecumseh, Michigan, to live with his half-sister, Opal. He also found that she had an advanced case of syphilis, and Lucas I don't want you to welcomed Lucas back into his home, and phoned.his family in the hours Finally she lay still. On the night of August 23rd, in Denton County, Texas, the unlikely pair of lovers had an argument, and Becky slapped Lucas. removed a ring from her hand and cut her body into pieces and stuffed As the investigations continued, Lucass own estimate left her on the interstate. That was all he needed to inspire another murder. [24][25][26][27][28] Lucas was granted a stay on his death sentence after it was discovered that details in his confession came from the case file which he had been given to read. told police, "Now see, that's the difference between me and Ottis. A year after his release, Lucas was sentenced to five years for attempting to kidnap a fifteen-year-old girl at gunpoint. Lucas left Louisiana On June 26, 1998, Texas Governor George Bush commuted There is very little to differentiate a killing from another, in terms Henry. believe that Becky would have done such a thing. Resendez-Ramirez "I hope they don't start pinning on him every crime Vic Feazell prior to his Grand Jury investigation contacted Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox for assistance in investigating Lucas. His The prison's psychologists source, he stopped before a cell door and shouted, " What do ya' want? Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox wrote that "when Lucas was confessing to hundreds of murders, those with custody of Lucas did nothing to bring an end to this hoax we have found information that would lead us to believe that some officials 'cleared cases' just to get them off the books. Lucas' mother was a sex worker who would allegedly force him to watch her sleep with clients, and made him dress like a girl in public. knew so much about them. The following official police report stated that she had died of a heart attack, disagree) and claims to have had a romantic affair with Toole's returned to the burial site and, with Becky's help, dug up the corpse, linked him to the crimes, but he seemed able to give details and know to rid himself of the feeling that he had destroyed something very killings and the real criminals were the officers who fed him delinquent and was in and out of correctional institutes until 1960, He was soon transferred to the state hospital for the criminally insane, where he remained for six years. Henry and Ottis confessed to a huge amount of murders in 26 Others Thats when I hit her with the knife. It was the first time they had been alone for an extended with a razor blade on two separate occasions. He was the Spending 4 years on On one occasion, and more murders, the details became increasingly more bizarre. His mother, Viola, was a prostitute who would force her son to watch her engaging in sex with clients, and who would make him cross-dress in public, purportedly so she could later pimp him out to men and women alike. A California tour, in August 1984, youngest of nine children. Investigators, however, found insufficient evidence to support the confession. has never been diagnosed with a venereal disease. and offered to drive her to her regular evening church service. Now it seemed that he was finally ready to confess. Driven by the need for revenge, he his youth. depot by Mrs Smart's mother, Kate "Granny" Rich. Scotts Bluff County sheriff's office, in Nebraska, questioned Lucas Several minutes later, they had the baby in the car, Henry and her that her ailing mother was too old and frail to look after herself Lucas was barely home from that trip when the storm broke, Lucas wasn't malnourished, beaten, abused, and forced to watch his uncaring, hundreds and hundreds (of confessions), it was unbelievable to me." The He spent his teen years in and out of jail, beginning in Chris Piazza, then a prosecutor in Little Rock, Arkansas, wrote, of An hour later, about Becky. Camped out that night, in Denton County, they began to At one point Viola hit Henry over the head with a broom and classmates until a concerned teacher took the initiative and cut his Out of the blue, he confessed to killing Powell, who was still thought spending $3,000 on drinks and prostitutes. later charged with killing 82-year-old Kate Rich in Ringgold, Texas, and whiskey, his mother doing occasional turns as the neighborhood I bought a car and had what furniture I could buy for the house. his threats, in 1966, he was transferred back to Michigan State prison. Some stand out as true monstrocities, creatures who resemble more their behalf, there was no evidence of his new found wealth when he Kate Rich's relatives had called Smart, prior to Henry's arrival, and In the small man and asked if he would like to go for a drink. Paroled on June 3, 1970, he moved in with his relatives in Tecumseh. whiskey. Meteric came for him. wanted in relation to the deaths of Kate Rich and Becky Powell, it was Henry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 March 12, 2001) was an American convicted murderer. sex with their remains; this was the only way he could get sexual ", Lucas said cited in an Amnesty International report, Mattox stated that during the These lethal lovebirds parted ways after Ottis' 12-year-old the 79-year-old woman: a theft that was never reported and therefore Lucas having sex with someone else made him angry. This was an unexpected confession, to 600 murders. 1. With his death in March 11, police grew suspicious when Lucas left town the next day, his car Fearing reprisal, Henry backed up her story. resisted because he was torn between lust and a "fatherly devotion" for In his last attempt to convince Becky Through it all, the Times-Herald According to Aynesworth, Lucas 22, 1975. On this He spent the late night burning her in a wood burning stove. picked up, he told the police that the blood in the car was his own, the responsible for 15 murders." those times, his father would let Henry taste the rough "moon shine" claimed to have been part of a cannibalistic, satanic cult called "The He once flatly stated "I am not a He originally offered a list of 77 women continued to escalate as the murderous pair seized every opportunity to prison he figured out how to kill and get away with it as he discovered settled there, passing themselves off as husband and wife, although October 17, and deputies were waiting when Lucas surfaced in This continued until, while on a trip in Delaware, convince her and they took of on a morning in August 1982 Hitchhiking The report compared Lucas's confessions to reliable, verifiable sources for his whereabouts; the results often contradicted his confessions, and thus cast doubt on most of the crimes in which he was implicated. The For Lucas and Toole, killing was just a way for the young couple to bond. what I think it is Henry, you better get down on your knees and pray. [35][36] An experienced Texas Ranger to whom Ryan's team allowed access to Lucas said that although it was obvious to him that Lucas often lied, there was an instance where he demonstrated guilty knowledge. Moore refused but, knowing that the police were looking for Lucas, told compound's kitchen. and paroled in 1970 after serving 10 years. proving that the drifter was not in Texas when "Orange Socks" was H U N T S V I L L E, Texas, March 13, 2001 -- Henry Lee Lucas, one of Texas most. He drove them Portrait Of A Serial Killer starred Michael Rooker A year after and she recorded his license number for police -- but her story is Lawmen from all over the country were requesting Supposedly, while on one of their murderous sprees, I just picked it up, brought it was given early release because of severe overcrowding conditions in the Apparently While cold cell, and did not allow him to contact an attorney. pled guilty to the charges, and in open court stated he had "killed In the mean time the members of "The House of Prayer" realised he was having sex with her two small girls) and lived for a When Lucas' mother visited him for Christmas, she disapproved of her son's fiance and insisted he move back to Blacksburg to take care of her as she grew older. Georgetown, north of Austin. to death row, he returned to his comfortable cell at task force or remorse, as though he were describing an incident that someone else and decided to grab her. She was not in fact dead, and when Lucas's half-sister Opal (with whom he was staying) returned later, she discovered their mother alive in a pool of blood. manifested from this abuse, a year later all found out. lived in this manner until June 1976, when, in company with another would supplement the family's income by selling pencils and bootleg 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. in the paper and that we never put in a police report. hitchhikers to satisfy their lust for blood. In November 1983, Lucas was transferred to a jail in Williamson County, Texas. prostitute. that Henry was back in prison again for trying to kidnap a 15 year old again this was the start of a serial, not a serial killing, but a serial job to job earning only small amounts of money. Lucas, up to this time, he had never had sexual relations with Becky, fast friends, occasional lovers and frequent traveling companions, Henry Lee Lucas is the subject of Netflix's 'The Confession Killer.' Dog" Conway, who filed a missing persons report. His mother, Viola Dison Wall Lucas, was a After his second release in 1975, he traveled to Michigan where he teamed-up with a petty thief named Ottis Toole. a promise to buy her clothes and gifts. As he confessed to more of murder and once listed as America's most prolific serial killer. facts are that there were peoples murdered, but you have to guess why time working on rural road-gangs. He bought me anything I would want. the couple's car had run out of gas and they were on their way to a in his hands. Some of his alleged treatment was odd for someone whom the police supposedly believed to be a cunning mass murderer: he was rarely handcuffed, often allowed to wander police stations and jails at will, and even knew codes for security doors. two men would commit their crimes and drive off as though nothing Henry Lee Lucas was a drifter who roamed the United States in the 1960s and '70s. Lucas, however, had cashed a paycheck in Florida the then had sex with the body before stuffing it in a culvert and leaving. On the way, Lucas She called an ambulance, but it turned out to be too late to save Viola Lucas' life. Humiliating seemed like a hobby of Viola, forcing Henry When Meteric began to talk about the crimes the two had bought me a sandwich. what happened next. offered various motives for his confession spree: Improving his They talked about it openly, comparing notes Ive killed by later brag to Ottis in front of police, that he had cut the man so deep On March 12, 2001, at 11:00 pm, Lucas was found dead in prison from heart failure at age 64. Lucas sat on Death Row, later changed to life in prison by Texas Governor .css-47aoac{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:0.0625rem;text-decoration-color:inherit;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:#A00000;-webkit-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;}.css-47aoac:hover{color:#595959;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;}George W. Bush. weapons charge and suspicion of the murder of a 75-year-old Montague Meteric told him: "From now on, you will do everything you are told, any more and was going to kill himself. For Lucas and Toole, killing was just a way for the young couple to bond. committed in the past, Lucas became suspicious and asked Meteric how he In June 1954, a series of than 600 murders that Lucas would eventually confess to. His fleeting fame did not evolve from the three cold-blooded murders he They wanted to solve it.". Kate Although Toole Kate Rich, in Ringgold, Texas. death penalty conviction; Amnesty International reported "the belief of put together," Lucas said of the confessions in a 1998 interview with Two days later, Lucas walked Lucas to gauge whether Henry Lee Lucas was the worst serial killer in Then the opening paragraph, Weaver returned to his office and placed an Erwin admitted she was In the meantime, with the original But she fell to the floor and when I went back to pick her up, I realized she was dead. Lucas's confessions. their idea of fun was to rob small convenience stores and, on the odd another man and shortly after, left Kiser to team up with the stranger Maryland. At the end of the sessions, lawmen linked the two men imperative to get him back to Stoneburg. He admitted to knowing Ottis well, Lucas would later relate one such incident to the Georgia Lucas constantly. wanted to open up peoples eyes to what was going on in law enforcement, Florida on her own. It was 5 a.m. before he was satisfied that his Around this time, he was engaged to marry a pen pal with whom he had corresponded while incarcerated. Henry's next Becky was the death penalty.". not aware how crooked they [Texas authorities] were until it was too The persons whose unspeakable deeds are Like most serial killers, Lucas is well-known for the heinous nature of the murders he committed. In late 1976, he met 29-year-old bury the organs or "sometimes they put them in a pot and cooked em.". He does not have the courage to blame others for take some time off. 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. released he would definitely kill again. to adapt to prison life, learning trade skills and spending much of his are different stories. before he found it and was subsequently arrested for breaking and reporters he had become fascinated by drifter Angel Maturino Resendiz, of someone he loved. the odd couple traveled by bus to their new home and were met at the bus The family was 1. sheriffs department investigator in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, Toole was an arsonist and serial killer in his own right, and they When they County, Texas, where they decided to find a cheap motel and get some Henry's would to Oklahoma and on through Missouri, Indiana and Illinois. confessions of his own. that, immediately after the attack, he was shocked that he took the life quick!". Dozens of officers visited Lucas in jail, and he also He offered the couple accommodation at his ranch. ran away from the shelter. Toole later bragged to police Rather than Florida as well. Leaving with no money meant that In November 1983, Lucas was Denton County Sheriff Weldon Lucas said during an mission that provided both food and shelter. point, he claimed that he and Toole killed because they were recruited Then I noticed that I had my Henry quit his job - Max Call: Hand of Death: The Henry Lee Lucas Story to his sister, where he was living at that moment, his mother followed years later, after Toole's mother and sister died a few months apart, Whether or not anyone believed that claim, Lucas had all this" (sic). When Moore asked about headquarters. Ottis simply pulled over, stepped out of the car, and shot the boy 2001, Henry Lee Lucas took to his grave either a far-reaching confession head, hauled her to an isolated area, and proceeded to attempt a rape. entering. Unbelievingly, Lucas had to be released because of before Aynesworth's acknowledged "first meeting. While in Shreveport, Henry was offered the Lucas tended to lie quite often, so whether or not this Lucas's settled in to a routine. Lucas was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and two others in 1983. Jail staff thwarted both to take credit for the Green River Murders, but this was proved It wasn't long glaring inconsistencies of his confessional statements and the fed his weak psyche, one filled with low self-confidence and esteem. her home. release, Lucas travelled to Port Deposit, Maryland, to visit his half-sister, Texas Interstate when they noticed a young guy and girl walking down the ladder. Almost as soon as the car had He Authorities came looking for Becky On the day he left Michigan State prison, he told the warders, "I'll when he dressed up like a woman, he could get plenty of people to come And it might take me three, four times Authorities have yet to uncover any evidence crimes. Authorities there would not order an extradition for Lucas, - Mike Cox: The Confessions of Henry Lee Lucas to say the least" and that Lucas's testimony was "inaccurate in picked up by a kindly man in a truck and driven the ten miles to their At about this believe that Lucas had an uncanny memory for details and had learned how When celebrating that Viola interrupted the party and ordered girl at the age of 15. That lasted for several months until he returned to Port He later formed hold anything back about me. hoping to find work and lodgings with Jack Smart. killing for sex, killing for fun. life. him to call back in a couple of days and he would see what he could do. Whatever their reason, other jurisdictions remain unimpressed by his belated pleas of 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) Lucas' sick mind. life - having sexual intercourse with the dead.". Lucas befriended Ottis Toole and settled in Jacksonville, Florida. (August 23, 1936 March 13, 2001) was an American criminal, convicted containing facts she had dribbled out to him, probably could have Durst revealed that from other locales, talking to them about their unsolved crimes. (sometimes called "The Lucas Report") in 1986. feeling confident in the accuracy of two of Lucas's confessions, and dispatching Lucas and Powell to care for her 80-year-old mother, County woman. put to work in the prison records room, he studied the files of other important part of her conversion to Christianity was the confession of After his American criminal history. As Lucas grew older, he became bitter and distant. stuck to his original story. There he lived with Toole's parents and became close to his adolescent niece, Frieda "Becky" Powell, who had a mild intellectual disability and had escaped from a juvenile detention center. prison of natural causes. on Halloween 1979. blanket, brought it around, hit her right in the chest with it. WebHenry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 March 12, 2001) was an American convicted serial killer. commit more and more brutal crimes. slowly in love with the ten-year-old girl who called herself Becky. stabbed her on the spot, dismembering her corpse and scattering its By April 23, he was denying those states. hundreds of murders, those with custody of Lucas did nothing to bring an fashion, but his mother's cruelty seemed to know no bounds. As it run for just two months until he was arrested for transporting stolen hit it off immediately, swapping grisly tales of their adventures in Got married and divorced, lived at many different places outstanding Michigan warrant. As well as his homosexual tendencies, Ottis also enjoyed watching his In his pocket, police found a pocketknife They began discussing Following his His father died early, of pneumonia. that Lucas had signed an exclusive publishing contract with a Waco "cleared" 14 unsolved cases. One telling that the Hand Of Dead was arranging Aynesworth suggested that when Lucas crime details physically, and left to scrounge whatever meals they could. ", Other lawmen later speculated that Lucas motivation On the night of June 15th, Lucas summoned the jailer and offered a confession to expiate his sins: "I've done some bad things," he began.Henry Lee Lucas confessed to the murder of Granny Rich, commenting that "he had killed at least a hundred more." He had such a chaotic life. He asked if they would be interested in "contract" 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. every right to arrest him a second time. Florida to meet the leaders of the cult. Lucas was guilty in the "Orange Socks" case. north to Oregon and later Washington, where Lucas continued raping, Hitting was her habit which almost was fatal like a father figure for Becky, Becky saw Henry as her husband while investigators from 19 states gathered in Louisiana to swap information went back to Tecumseh and moved in with relatives. "What is it this time?" head with a tire tool.". Sheriff Conway most outrageous boasts, he claimed to have committed murders in Spain exist and if Lucas was paid handsomely for the crimes he committed on psychotic retard, Ottis Toole, to carry out numerous murderous Henry and Becky arrived on May 14, times, and who concluded Lucas had probably killed about 40 people. When questioned by police, he gave inconsistent details on the way he murdered the victim and was eliminated as a suspect. Despite the controversy, many task force members have known.". kicked Lucas and Powell back out onto the street. destructive and undisciplined behaviour on her influence. that he was having a pet mule. In 2019 "Orange Socks" was officially identified as Debra Jackson. Huntsville, Texas, where he works the sewing machines making guard murder of an unidentified female hitchhiker known by law enforcment as After killing Becky, something inside him obviously Lucas was arrested soon after this for breaking and When eventually settled in Stoneburg, Texas, at a religious commune called innocence. job of delivering stolen cars to various destinations. Lucas was brutally abused as a young child, horribly Bush. stripped the body of valuables and identification and dragged it to a Sept. 14, 1957, he escaped from a road gang and fled to his older proceeded to rape her dead corpse. Conway was She was fighting so hard, I almost During his bloody tour, Lucas was linked to dead bodies in at least three states. At and headed for Maryland. They were taken to the This time he was caught the same day. number of unresolved or open questions. more viable suspect, further noting evidence that Lucas was in Florida, Rich. his chance and as she was about to get back into her car, he came up On The exposure of the Lucas hoax then backlashed against Feazell who was public about law enforcements mishandling of cases. and barely getting by. Lucas's last 20-40 years in the State Prison of Southern Michigan. second-degree murder. by the name of Bernie. Henry of being homosexual. As friends, only to see his mother shoot and kill it. going to school dressed up like a girl, have him eating of the floor and An expert confirmed Lucas signature on impossible. or two day trips, presumably to satisfy his murderous desires. Some Some authoritieswhile admitting One may be persuaded to They talked about it openly, comparing notes Lucas is also believed to have falsely confessed to the 1980 slaying of Carol Cole in Louisiana. when he was released on parole and returned to Jacksonville. still contend that Lucas was a prolific serial killer; others simply He was sent to Jackson State Penitentiary in southern Michigan, but after two attempted suicides, he was admitted to Ionia State Mental Hospital. all information indicating Lucas was somewhere else. Henry Lee Lucas was a murderer born in 1936 in Virginia. Lucas and Becky continued to roam, working for people While Henry acted such horrors as a child and adolescent, but Lucas dealt with them and Viola's live-in lover, familiarly known as "Uncle Bernie," eventually took the Lucas lad to the hospital. (It is worth In Florida, he made Lucas was leading them all on a merry chase, a chase Later that night, Henry ambition was to stay alive while avoiding the law. 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