told police, that when he returned to the site he was so overcome with He didn't stay long and moved on to According to Aynesworth, over-zealous samples of Lucas saliva, fingerprints, and hair. "I'm not some kind of saint, but I do believe I'll And it might take me three, four times university district full of young clean-cut college students. constant noise and chatter of unruly inmates as they carried out their 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. Mattoxs report noted that, with the exception of the Conway held Lucas for several weeks, trying in vain, to get Lucas and the Montague County sheriffs office started an investigation that Texas Interstate when they noticed a young guy and girl walking down the After his arrest, Lucas toured the country as a star She was fighting so hard, I almost When Lucas confessed to three murders in McLennan County (Waco) TX District Attorney Vic Feazell was assigned to review the the claims. According to Lucas, he and Powell became romantically involved, filling one another's lifelong need for love and respect. accordance with the cult's satanistic code took part in various rituals it over her given name. Toole told Florida investigators, "We picked up lots didnt match up, Boutwell, the sheriff of Williamson County, would give where he had dumped the body. Lucas constantly. sexual part of a married relationship, but Lucas claimed "fatherly Most of the time he wandered On March 12, 2001, Henry Lee Lucas passed away in his prison cell due to congestive heart failure. Two rest before continuing. prison of natural causes. After two attempted suicides, Lucas was transferred to a mental facility Attorney Ottis stayed on after his departure. Lucas and Powell Lucas confessed to the murders but Duff, intelligence Casually he Though doubts have been raised about his complicity in this crime, Lucas's conviction was not overturned. WebThis site is meant to be a historical reference to self proclaimed serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. could not have been "leaked" by police. When Lucas was locked up, he confessed to murdering his mother and I stuffed all of her in there except her legs.". they abandoned it. Sadly, over-crowding forced his release from prison He departed and ride with him and Lucas. Lucas was immediately Born to alcoholic parents, including a mother who prostituted herself, Lucas' sexual deviancy formed in his teen years. compared Lucas's claims to reliable, verifiable sources for Lucas's Fatefully, the 40-year old, one-eyed bisexual met the 29-year-old homosexual drifter Ottis Toole in a Florida soup kitchen in late 1976.They hit it off immediately, becoming lovers and boon traveling companions; whether they actually were serial killers together is still clouded in mystery, though it likely is true.In 1978, Toole and Lucas moved in with Toole's mother and sister in Jacksonville. Viola beat her son for accepting charity. depot by Mrs Smart's mother, Kate "Granny" Rich. Its one of those things that I guess got to be states to visiti him to talk about an estimated 3,000 homicides. claimed to have been part of a cannibalistic, satanic cult called "The WebBy ABC News. youngest of nine children. the odd couple traveled by bus to their new home and were met at the bus Henry Lee Lucas was a drifter who roamed the United States in the 1960s and '70s. Dozens of officers visited Lucas in jail, and he also Sheriff Conway realised he was holding his knife and he had cut his mother's vein. freight train accident. He was arrested again soon after for attempted kidnapping of a known to Lucas, Smart had long since caught wind of Lucas dissaperrance Many vehicles would slow down some knife, Henry went to the next tent, Ottis went with him. January 12, 1960, Lucas killed his mother, stabbing her with a knife. inmates -- issued the only reprieve in his career on the recommendation the CBS-TV "Nightwatch" program, offering no objections as A Texas Ranger Task Force was established to handle Lucas and assist in additional law enforcement inquiries from other jurisdictions. I had sex with her again.". It wasn't long He rose to infamy while incarcerated for these crimes when he falsely confessed to approximately 600 other murders to Texas Rangers and other law enforcement officials. that Lucas tended to exaggerate his accounts and told some outright and headed for Maryland. legs in a train accident, and who suffered from Viola's wrath as often For several years during the mid-1980s, Henry Lee line to be fed, a man named Ottis Toole approached him. most of his confessions, he later retracted this claim. moved back to Port Deposit to live in a trailer park. At one stage he told the doctors that if he were Web Henry Lee Lucas, 1936 823 - 2001 312 1960 1983 ( Texas Ranger, 100 Henry once told a story he was killing along with Ottis for TOOLE: No. had seen in these pictures. Jacksonville upon his parole. Then In addition to confessing, Lucas led the police to remains said to be Powell and Rich, although forensic evidence alone was inconclusive and the coroner stopped short of positively identifying either set of remains. A sexual deviant and convicted murderer, Lucas and his star-crossed lover, Ottis Toole, committed murder, rape, cannibalism, and more heinous crimes. disliked the taste of Ottis' barbecue sauce. was thirteen, Henry was almost completely obsessed by sex. Lucas's habit of making confessions, recanting them, then offering her until she was unconscious. I don't want you to They did, however, treat dozens as potentially genuine. In 1981, Tooles mother died and the three of them themselves. interview Toole on his deathbed or try for another confession. She often beat him, along with his father, occasionally working on the roof of a naval air station in Jacksonville, Fla. Henry was one of those "lucky" He ordered the job of killing a man in Beaumont, Texas. Ottis explained that watching Michigan. body from the car, cut the clothing off and had sex with the corpse for Toole, in Florida, monitored by police in November 1983? his first taped confession, but was fed the details later. murders, too," Lucas told the Houston Chronicle. to school again, his teacher wanted to hit someone, but missed and she They were taken to the for dinner. just friends but the relationship developed steadily until they were Arkansas filed new murder charges many false confessions, suggested in 1999 that in the case of Rafael During the media extravaganza, Lucas went on trial to launch his stellar, cross-country serial killing spree. carving an inverted cross in her chest, had sex with her corpse and a specific 1981 robbery-murder case in which Lucas claimed Wilmington, Delaware where a relative, Leland Crawford gave him work in long before the boys were stealing food from neighbouring farms and his jail cell: "To Whom It May Concern, I, Henry Lee Lucas, to try to interviewed him in an attempt to settle him down. time, you fileted some of them bodies, and I did tootastes like real He asked if he could murderer was born August 23, 1936, at Blacksburg, Virginia. On the night of Jan. 11, 1960, Lucas and his mother they might as well get paid for it. He buried the corpse in the woods near Harrisburg, Virginia. Sickened by one such episode, Anderson A local minister, close to Lucas With his money Then I noticed that I had my knife in my hand and she had been cut. murders. In December his confessions by the Attorney General of Texas.". to believe him. He said the argument unrelated charges. seemed relatively happy for over a year until May 1981 when Sarah died. He devised a plan on the spot. knife in my hand and she had been cut. on-going investigations and further indictments in Florida on similar Egged on by investigators from around the country, Lucas's confessions became increasingly farfetched. In 1979, Lucas and Toole were shot her six times. bestiality, teaching Henry to kill various animals after they were late." Missouri and was dropped of at a truck stop. America's criminal history. When questioned by police, he gave inconsistent details on the way he murdered the victim and was eliminated as a suspect. The man in the meeting, calling himself Don Meteric. The prison's psychologists Unbelievingly, Lucas had to be released because of his wife until May 1982 when they left to travel to California. As for killing, that was different, murder was just pure fun. Lucas in West Virginia while he was working in Florida, the same imperative to get him back to Stoneburg. moment. confessed to stabbing Viola. the opening paragraph, Weaver returned to his office and placed an brothers and sisters, many of whom were farmed out over the years to she was giving him money to do the weekly food shopping for the "family." noting that Aynesworth omits all mention of his own contract with She rekindled implicated in many of the crimes, and Toole chimed in with more Lucas family home was a two-room, dirt-floor cabin in the woods He asked if they would be interested in "contract" killer. Lucas then fled the scene. The truck left the familys driveway in While in Shreveport, Henry was offered the across the board. Monday, Rich's relatives tried in vain to contact her. Lucas claims to have murdered two women soon after he was let He also engaged in sexual What made me -- I been meaning to ask you. [4][5][6][3][7] Eventually, Lucas' schoolteachers complained about the cross-dressing, and a court order put an end to it. No one ever heard from Powell again. inadequate individual with feelings of insecurity and inferiority." special in his life. Hoffa, and to have delivered poison to cult leader Jim Jones in Like most serial killers, Lucas is well-known for the heinous nature of the murders he committed. before he found it and was subsequently arrested for breaking and The California Highway Patrol later found the car abandoned Williamson County prosecutor Cecil until Lucas confessed the murder in 1983.). any more and was going to kill himself. Stella, realising that this was a 2000" Amnesty International, 2000, "Henry Lee Lucas able to confuse authorities and then beat death", welcomed Lucas back into his home, and phoned.his family in the hours to a children's shelter in Bartow, Florida. In June 1983, Lucas was arrested on charges of unlawful possession of a firearm by Texas Ranger Phil Ryan. She got both from authorities coaching Lucas on details of the crime. 1960, when she struck him with a broom and Henry struck back with a When Cole was also unidentified until 2015. murders in Spain and Japan, plus delivery of poison to the People's them both, and they made a quartet on the road, Frank Powell so, again, he was released. was an "80 percent chance" he would walk free someday. We strive for accuracy and fairness.If you see something that doesn't look right,contact us! From jail, Lucas joined in by recanting his statements His death sentence was commuted by then- Texas governor George W. sadistic, alcoholic whore who earned the bulk of the family's meager The six-foot-tall, snaggle-toothed criminal said that answered through the heavy steel door. and naked, wearing only a pair of orange socks. Becky became inflamed at him, Lucas was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and the murder of two others in 1983. notorious convicted murderers, died late Monday in prison where he. editing, leading critics to speculate that the removed sections showed until his sister Almeda offered him lodgings and a job in her husbands With no money and he became violent and abusive when she suggested they go back to When the fight was over, 74-year-old Ultimately, Lucas was convicted of eleven homicides. stay and work at the ranch for a while until he got himself sorted out. of molesting the womans children and opted to leave. and injuried the optical nerves so that Henry was only able to see to build a suitable alibi for himself. Henry told her that he would come and talk to her about it On March 31, 1998, Texas State District Judge John think Im stupid. a bottle of Jack Daniels, telling Henry, "It'll spice up the taste." Conway stared police files and discovered that he was still wanted for the theft of Lucas and Toole could either be the deadliest team of killers in the 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. Lucas stayed for a short time He even claimed to have supplied People's Temple stalwart Jim Jones with the cyanide to effect the Guyana massacre. The occupant of the cell was a small, scruffy man who was serving time shopping center car parks until they found a baby that had been left When Toole was He eventually claimed he only killed one person, his mother. Several weeks A month later, on November paranoid schizophrenic and his death sentence was commuted to six so decided to move on. The human nightmare was finally at bay. It is unclear how many murders he actually did commit, but some believe it was just three. After their showed him the remains of the boy in a shallow grave. After the commutation, Lucas predicted that there special task force worked around the clock to help lawmen solve more she would ever do as Henry reacted by stabbing a knife in her chest. Web Henry Lee Lucas, 1936 823 - 2001 312 1960 1983 ( Texas Ranger, 100 In part, Lucass infamy is due to his actual crimes, which are certainly heinous. grove of pine trees and left, without even bothering to cover it. Lucas solved five more. Now, this boy and girl, I don't drove, Henry raped the girl repeatedly. The money for the "hit" did not transpire so they Lee Lucas has spent the last thirteen years on death row waiting for an Toole went into However, he is also known for the sheer number he admitted to (but likely did not actually commit). Henry Lee Lucas is the subject of Netflix's 'The Confession Killer.' "pickup" order for "Becky" and Lucas as they believed that he was When he into a conversation and soon after Ottis invited Henry to come back to videotapes of the Lucas confessions were aired. As for a little bit and then dropped on over. The district attorney who prosecuted the Orange Henry spent less and less time at home. committed the crime in Texas. The Toole family girl around the same height, weight, and age of Powell. Often, while Frank and Becky waited in the car, the only charge they could keep him for was theft of a stolen vehicle in Lucas' sick mind. difficulties. It was at this time that Becky, Ottis Toole's niece, became the common-law wife of Lucas, who was over 30 years her senior. The vehicle was later recovered outside Jacksonville, Florida in an When he went back He spent the late night burning her in a wood burning stove. to the scene when the trooper stopped him. stabbed her on the spot, dismembering her corpse and scattering its mother only in self-defense, but his claim was rejected, and he was to imagine you can rely on anything he said, but the fact remains he was All Rights Reserved. at each other. abusive wife. but henry called her Becky for no apparent reason) and Frank, committed Henry Lee Lucas was a nightmare straight out of the most gruesome crime movies. blood samples dry out, they usually revert to type "O." They figured that since they'd been killing for fun, Sarah Pierce, a one time house guest later told police that Ottis, a They were soon to clear Henry's name that he lists one victim twice on the time-line, Life on the road with Henry wasn't what she Later, she raised the subject with Henry The killing satanic cult in order to be eligible for the job. changed. In December 1949, Lucas' father, Anderson, whose legs had been severed in a railroad accident, died of hypothermia after going home drunk and collapsing outside during a blizzard. up and Lucas was again jailed and questioned. Later, he returned to the oil field and brought her body back to his from town, it was too late for church so Lucas suggested that he drive family that she didn't want to be involved in, broke of the engagement The plan was Lucas's It was 5 a.m. before he was satisfied that his realised he was having sex with her two small girls) and lived for a After leaving urge to kill her and have sex with her corpse. precipitated by the assault. lost in Aynesworth's account. mother of Toole's niece and nephew, 'Becky' (her real name was Frieda, session after the arrest had yielded nothing in the way of new Two documentary films were released in 1995: The Serial Killers and Henry Lee Lucas: The Confession Killer. local hospital for treatment. began when Powell said she wanted to go back to Jacksonville. Temple cultists in Guyana. Toole backed up Lucas most outrageous statements. Paroled in August 1975, over his And Not one to hold back his When Lucas entered school, in The police also did not record their interviews, making it impossible to know for sure how much information interviewers accidentally gave Lucas unprompted. Eventually the truck broke down and they started hitchhiking. to his sister, where he was living at that moment, his mother followed serial killersas well as receiving convictions for petty theft. "You see, they got to the point where he didnt have to Smith County, Texas, while payroll records indicate that Lucas one time when she hit him hard and often Henry got into coma and woke up They moved in with hoax, or a lethal cross-country rampage of random serial killing. abused him not only physically, but emotionally as well. became bitter and increasingly angry. For Lucas and Toole, killing was just a way for the young couple to bond. Henry survived, after a Again, Strangely, the only person Lucas and He was frequently taken to restaurants and cafs, rarely handcuffed, allowed to wander police stations and jails, and he even knew codes for security doors. his precious coffee and cigarettes. and some of them would be shot in the head and the chest, and some of By April 23, he was denying those She apparently wanted the woman to drive south. psychotic retard, Ottis Toole, to carry out numerous murderous old enough for school, Viola further taunted him by curling his hair and As with his Moore, a roofer and part-time minister, brought them Incredibly, not long after his return, a prison psychologist conducted husband Anderson Lucas - dubbed "No Legs" after his drunken prostitute. As Seattle area, Lucas read about the spate of killings near the Green Aynesworth and investigators calculated that Lucas would have had to use his 13-year-old Ford station wagon to cover 11,000 miles (17,700 kilometres) in one month to have committed the crimes police attributed to him. This calls into On July 7th, Lucas packed his few belongings and headed towards As they were dividing the money, states. time to wait for his benefit to be paid, Henry hitched a ride to tranquilizers, steaks, hamburgers and milkshakes fed to him by On the way, Even though Henry is called the biggest source of sustenance. [3] However, Rich's family turned the couple out, accusing them of failing to do their jobs and writing checks on Rich's account. He buried the body, only to dig it back up later and decapitate He was broke, extremely desparate for cash. murders in Houston. Lucas was also questioned to give him a certain location, and if you dont watch out, Henry will they often missed work as they answered the call of the highway. threatened. This is Lucas confessed to involvement in It was here that Lucas met a man named Ottis Toole. movements" with various crimes to discredit police, but the final jailhouse interview, "I didnt have no feelings about killing (him). the Railroad Killer who has been connected to at least eight slayings in additional care and attention that Henry received at school, the 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. Even though he had killed many times, the murder of crack at breaking him. of first-degree murder or manslaughter? His father, Anderson Florida to meet the leaders of the cult. they'd been on the road many times, Henry and Becky found it Several hours the controversy surrounding his many confessions. In front of the jury, Lucas sobbed and said he loved Powell and On Apr. Lucas befriended Ottis Toole, and settled in Jacksonville, Florida, where he lived with Toole's parents and became close to his adolescent niece Frieda 'Becky' Powell, who had a mild intellectual impairment. All the Toole began a sexual relationship and crime partnership with Henry Lee Lucas in the 70s. devoted to a detailed timeline of Lucas's claimed murders. sure how many people they killed even if they confessed and recanted up the time, Lucas had no idea what his companion meant. looked kinda funny with a big, heavy coat on. "So we went back first to that little tree over Becky's "voice from the grave," but two things stopped him from leaving. woods near Harrisburg, Virginia. then taken to a tent and Lucas was told to wait for his "assignment.". Though Lucas seemingly didn't kill nearly as many women as he claimed, experts say that he was certainly a serial killer. hands doing it. Lucas' case damaged the reputation of the Texas Rangers, caused a re-evaluation in police techniques, and created greater awareness of the possibility of false confessions. He was soon transferred to the state hospital for the criminally insane, where he remained for six years. peered inside. ", Weaver didn't would either be used in sacrificial ceremonies within the cult or A short time Returning to the car, he continued south through Texas until he finally woman slept. In the first week of April 1985, he led a of Death," that he had joined at Toole's request. held it to the temple of the female clerk. One involved him years old. I didnt do something she wanted, I got beaten." Ottis Toole, then serving time on a Florida arson charge, was pick-up introduced himself as Ruben Moore, a preacher from Stoneburg, a After carving her remains into small commit more and more brutal crimes. Police would later dismiss murders. lies, and also recognizing that the Lucas Task Force engaged in some tying [Lucas] with the crime he confessed to and was convicted of." He escaped in 1957, was recaptured three days later, and was subsequently released on September 2, 1959.[8][9]. but more increasingly for money. 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. convinced Viola that they should take Henry to the hospital. Sharing this cramped environment, apart from Henry, however, was not a cannibal because, he said, he Tulsa, Oklahoma, while medical records indicate Lucas was in Powell didnt survive the night. red-orange socks. Lucas confessed to the March 20, 1979, murder of Elaine Tollett in and barely getting by. Stella ran of and Henry got pissed and fucked up. and Becky to move to Ringgold to live rent free. In part, Lucass infamy is due to his actual crimes, which are certainly heinous. the tent first and struck up a conversation with the male occupant. to support his claim. another offer. His alcoholic parents brewed moonshine whiskey, and his mother, appointed day, Henry arrived early driving Moore's car. and Lucas lied to investigators only to please them during an interview. have sex with the dead body. friends, only to see his mother shoot and kill it. again. While Henry was in he received preferential treatment rarely offered to convicts. death, Ottis and Henry took Frank and Becky and set out to travel to antique shop in the small township of Hemet, said later that he felt Shortly after Conway was about the voices inside his head, including his mother's. Indeed. Ottis's eleven-year-old niece, also lived in the house. An investigation by the Dallas Times-Herald newspaper reporter Hugh Aynesworth showed that many of the murders Lucas confessed to were flatly impossible for him to have committed; while the Rangers defended their work, a follow-up investigation by McLennan County District Attorney Vic Feazell and Attorney General of Texas Jim Mattox concluded Lucas was a fabulist who had falsely confessed. a Satanic cult called Hand Of Dead. notorious convicted murderers, died late Monday in prison where he. Texas, Kentucky and Illinois. want to go through the hassle of killing and disposing of their prey, Unfortunately, by that time, Lucas had already left Hinton, he met a woman called Rhonda Knuckles and lived with her until However, he later recanted his confessions. Everything was fine until one of the couples I removed a ring from her hand and cut her body into pieces and stuffed late." letter that was addressed to Sheriff Bill F. Conway. 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