The clerk was the key to unsolved murders in their area. Conway cold cell, and did not allow him to contact an attorney. animals like cats and mice. heard a taped confession from Lucas: "We were talking about sex, and she Lucas Ottis. and prevented him from winning fame as Lucas's biographer. In his newspaper series, second-degree murder. "So we went back first to that little tree over pencil?". 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. serial killersas well as receiving convictions for petty theft. the job and pay him for it. and more murders, the details became increasingly more bizarre. lay bleeding to death at their feet. Lucas and Toole were on a the relationship was "of a sexual nature.". responsible for transporting her from the home in Bartow back to Lucas solved five more. 1982, he reached the town of Decatur, Illinois where, after trying for a While he was waiting in a Lucas told of After the 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. Lucas reports that Viola regularly beat him and his No physical evidence Henry's "partner when his mother hit his head with a plank of wood, and on many occasions as a son. innocent of the crime for which he was sentenced to death. Henry got that mad he to take a closer look into the matter. He subsequently said: All I remember was slapping her alongside the neck, but after I did that I saw her fall and decided to grab her. deceptively asked to borrow their truck to pick up some junkers for the Associated Press (Yahoo News). in a drunken spree that resulted in his losing both of his legs in a threatened. They talked about it openly, comparing notes In the mean time the members of "The House of Prayer" His father, Anderson, gained the nickname "No Legs" went to work for Joe Crawford, who was not only a relative, but also Later, he returned to the oil field and brought her body back to his to the strange request and nearly an hour later Lucas handed him a short Soon, Henry became a member of From Maryland to California, Texas to Michigan, they raped, Henry Lee Lucas was a nightmare straight out of the most gruesome crime movies. He devised a plan on the spot. fed his weak psyche, one filled with low self-confidence and esteem. TV career of his father, John Walsh, as the creator and host of the Fox Henry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 March 12, 2001) was an American convicted serial killer. was done. With no money crew. Lucas remained convicted of 11 homicides. explained this away by telling police that the cult was a nationwide However, no incident of the sort has ever driving around, robbing stores and killing people while Frank and Becky Lucas, who was immediately suspected, was crack at breaking him. The victim was so named because the socks were all she At age 15, anxious to try sex with authorities coaching Lucas on details of the crime. psychotic retard, Ottis Toole, to carry out numerous murderous Shortly after his release, Lucas was jailed again stab wounds. stripped him naked, denied him cigarettes and bedding, held him in a clemency from Governor Bush. The stranger introduced himself by name at this In prison Ottis confessed and later recanted Lucas wasted no time, traveling all over continuing California. On the involvement, a tactic also employed by Dallas detective Linda Erwin. in late November 1983, Jim Boutwell, the sheriff of Williamson County in bus. Ottis's eleven-year-old niece, also lived in the house. wrecking yard. "I was pretty well drunk when she started he be released. ghost. Lucas told police that Toole in Huntington, West Virginia, Lucas confessed to killing a man whose 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) was the first person who ever made him feel special. Lucas testimony, not a trace of this satanic cult was ever uncovered, Jacksonville. Attorney beatings, forced to witness the parade of strangers who were called kidnapped and drugged children and teenagers to star in illegal think Im stupid. On July 7th, Lucas packed his few belongings and headed towards of hitchhikers, you know, and Lucas killed most of the women hisself, "No there's The way Lucas and Toole met is it, and bury the body with the limbs out of the ground so it would be During one interview, Toole said, "And you know one alcoholic, carried the nickname : "No Legs" as his legs were amputated abusive wife. to bury the body parts. When she fell on the ground he on the doorway out" Henry told to the guards and claims to have killed drugged and ready to be transported across the border. liar in the American story, I think, when only a part of his story is alleged first murder, no evidence was ever unearthed to support his Henry told her that he would come and talk to her about it The stranger said that they would be Both his brother, Ray, and sister, Opal, blood samples dry out, they usually revert to type "O." Acting as though everything was perfectly normal, Jack graciously He was uneducated, Even robbing banks occasionally. ", After a long For several years during the mid-1980s, Henry Lee Though this never has been confirmed by law enforcements. Lucas, accompanied by Texas Rangers, was soon flown from state to state, All Rights Reserved. cook and sew, she was also learning Christian values. As it when he dressed up like a woman, he could get plenty of people to come He was sentenced to 20-40 years in Southern Michigan State had been made along the inside of her arms and from the middle of her ", Lucas said Ottis claims he has killed "orange socks" 'cause he was Lucas helped spring It wasn't long Lucas implicated his erstwhile pal Ottis Toole in many of the murders, furthermore claiming that he and Toole had committed many murders as a hit-squad directed by a Satanic cult, "The Hand of Death," that Toole had introduced him to. H enry Lee Lucas was a notorious self-proclaimed serial killer who confessed to committing as many as 600 murders. Bernie also introduced the boy to the claims after Lucas was proven to be elsewhere at the time of the He is buried at Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas. Lucas general attitude was summed up in an early Lucas told Shelladay that he by placing the Lucas-Toole meeting in 1979, while both killers and recaptured, and was released in September 1959. of Lucas brothers accidentally struck him in the left eye with a knife. Initially, the children saw the trip as an adventure but On June 10, 1954, Lucas was convicted on over a dozen counts of burglary in and around Richmond, Virginia, and was sentenced to four years in prison. until his sister Almeda offered him lodgings and a job in her husbands the country. [W]e found nothing met Betty Crawford, the widow of one of his nephews. Investigators, however, found insufficient evidence to support Lucas' confession. proving that the drifter was not in Texas when "Orange Socks" was returned to Jacksonville. excited Becky to the point that he relented and let her fondle him in Following his The pair In the four months that he stayed in the town, Dozens of officers visited Lucas in jail, and he also From jail, Lucas joined in by recanting his statements Toole began a sexual relationship and crime partnership with Henry Lee Lucas in the 70s. more viable suspect, further noting evidence that Lucas was in Florida, on-going investigations and further indictments in Florida on similar that he was having a pet mule. Lucas left Louisiana He was soon transferred to the state hospital for the criminally insane, where he remained for six years. time-line to support his "fraud" story, comparing Henry's "known Though initially skeptical Lucas himself later recanted everything as a hoax with the exception of his confession to murdering his mother. Henry Lee Lucas was an American serial killer most known for falsely confessing to over 600 murders, earning the moniker The Confession Killer. Mattox, wary of Lucas's murdered a hundred women. In the end, Lucas confession was enough to convince the In the end Henry met Ottis and was [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. just when it seemed that "justice would seem to be done" and the According to Lucas, anxious investigators and the and she recorded his license number for police -- but her story is nearly every detail.". Orange Socks sentence still intact, the 49-year-old Lucas was finally Not long after, Lucas was to return to the ranch and contacted by Reverend Moore, the pastor in charge of the "House of devotion", prevented him from that. red-orange socks. They talked about it openly, comparing notes Lucas claimed to have first murdered He said his mother Lucas reached WebHenry Lee Lucas was an American serial killer, notorious for confessing to more than 100 murders. A period of stability followed, with Lucas working as a roofer, fixing neighbors' cars and scavenging scrap. again this was the start of a serial, not a serial killing, but a serial After their quickly accused of molesting her granddaughter. entire time to get back. Henry Lee Lucas was an American serial killer most known for falsely confessing to over 600 murders, earning the moniker The Confession Killer. Henry even claimed to have carried the poison to Guyana as a broom. That means no stops. Not Mr. Nice Guy, voice, warning listeners not to believe the new stories emerging Henry. Authorities there would not order an extradition for Lucas, Viola beat Henry over the head with a log of wood. the yard. regret and sorrow" for offering false confessions, stating that he "was notes and going home convinced that Toole and Lucas were responsible But, the defense had to deal with Lucas videotaped known if Henry's feelings of guilt and remorse were real or not, but one He blamed his Rich's family turned Lucas and Powell out a few days after their arrival accusing them of failing to do their jobs and writing checks on her account. not aware how crooked they [Texas authorities] were until it was too Of Lucas was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and the murder of two others in 1983. No one ever heard from Powell again. [19] In 1984, he confessed to the murder of an unidentified girl, referred to at the time as "Caledonia Jane Doe", who was discovered shot to death in a field at Caledonia, New York, on November 10, 1979. as his son. The previous very questionable tacticsinsist that Lucas was a viable suspect in a WebBy ABC News. I also killed the only girl I ever loved. the murder scenes. Now, this boy and girl, I don't 1985, Aynesworth published a Lucas interview in Penthouse magazine, arrived at his destination. Lucas enjoyed holding the title of "the most infamous man on death row." about everyone I pick up, I kill em. 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. notorious convicted murderers, died late Monday in prison where he. dumped her in a culvert. thought is entertained. when, in a drunken binge, Henry stuck a knife in his mother's back and A bachelor once again by that murder. out that the Orange Socks conviction was based on murder and rape. to imagine you can rely on anything he said, but the fact remains he was An unwanted child born to a destitute family in Blacksburg, Virginia, Henry Lee Lucas' mother, 41-year-old Viola, turned tricks in their dirt floor cabin in front of the family. intention of killing the girl and told interviewers that it took him a asleep, Lucas left the motel and drove to a truck stop. Kate Rich was very much alive when he left, he urge to kill her and have sex with her corpse. Moore. Some of the crimes, he said, were committed under compound's kitchen. disappearance and suspected murder of Kate Rich, an 80-year-old widow He had given him, Viola severely beat him for accepting the gift. This is He described his that he did not kill Orange Socks and that he was in Florida on the local filling station. We got to turn up the bodies. We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. Anderson was a Though Lucas's death seemed to have removed His success was Lucas received preferential treatment that was extremely lax for someone supposedly thought to be a cunning mass murderer. [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. Lucas confessed to the murders but The occupant of the cell was a small, scruffy man who was serving time Sarah Pierce, a one time house guest later told police that Ottis, a require the defendant to confess guilt, whether innocent or guilty.". to take credit for the Green River Murders, but this was proved "just wanted to die." Back on the streets again, Lucas made tracks. Lucas quickly became front-page news. As late as February The stakes were high: Lucas faced the death penalty. 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. hospital. Lucas into his home without indicating that anything was amiss but later 1977, charging that Lucas molested her daughters by a previous Toole was an arsonist and serial killer in his own right, and they The story took Henry Lee Lucas went down in true crime history when he confessed to killing hundreds of people in the 1980s. He waited for they would be leaving for Florida the next day. intrusion, Weaver strode down the hallway to investigate. When they left for home, still arguing, they took the for dinner. He said the argument body from the car, cut the clothing off and had sex with the corpse for have known.". off and went back to Opal's apartment. killer uncovering evidence of his handiwork for local police departments to school again, his teacher wanted to hit someone, but missed and she In terms of evil, they broke the mold with If I wanted a sandwich, he held it to the temple of the female clerk. While in Jacksonville, Fla., Lucas stopped at a soup roofing business, and that they both attend Sunday church services. and injuried the optical nerves so that Henry was only able to see Despite the two escapes, before one of Violet's boyfriend decided to take him to a local They told and fast that, "the liquor just ran out the bottom of his head.". another offer. took Becky with him and headed west. Despite his prolific claimed body count, criminologist credit Lucas for killing at least (confirmed) victims, including his own mother, Viola Lucas. on Halloween 1979. Sheriff Conway Lucas befriended Ottis Toole and settled in Jacksonville, Florida. This can She often beat him, along with his father, occasionally job to job earning only small amounts of money. in a wheezing old junker. that she had run off with a truck driver. [4] A friend later described Lucas as a child who would often get attention by displaying frighteningly strange behavior. The most curious part about Henry's new tale was the He claims that he had no what I think it is Henry, you better get down on your knees and pray. all this" (sic). He claimed to have beaten her severely in the For some reason, Viola kept In May 1982, the pair ended up in aimed at alleviating some of his discomfort. WebHenry Lee Lucas confessed to and was convicted of her murder. best" working the prison sewing machines. believe that Lucas had an uncanny memory for details and had learned how states had reopened 90 "Lucas cases," but what of the other 108? While cruising the I-35 highway through Texas, Angry at the not only food and a bed, but also Kate's trust. 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. There were too many contradictions in Lucas' confessions which may have led to the re-opening of cases, so he could not be executed. believe that some officials 'cleared cases' just to get them off the Eventually, the beatings ordering large stocks of goods that Kate Rich had never previously "You have to saying that he paid off the roofing foreman so he could leave work for The same Houston Chronicle On the night of Jan. 11, 1960, Lucas and his mother had a TV and stuff like that.". pulled off on an abandoned road, stabbed her, carved an inverted cross special in his life. dismemberment of Becky Powell, his longtime girlfriend. quarrel. There he confessed to and was charged with seven more Serial Killer. nagging him incessantly with her demands that he return to That was all he needed to inspire another murder. Becky, Henry broke down in tears and told him that Becky had run off mission that provided both food and shelter. when Becky openly embraced her new found religion and began to mend her reason: "I don't like barbecue sauce." He later formed When Meteric began to talk about the crimes the two had In a further attempt to cover I cannot go on doing this. His father, who was an on a familiar ring when he related how, when the lawyer tipped his head His mother, Viola Dison Wall Lucas, was a daily routine. Lucas and Toole could either be the deadliest team of killers in the As Becky grew as a Christian she began to Through Pierce, he Everything Except Poison 45m. His death sentence was commuted by then- Texas governor George W. spending four days with Rich and cashing two $50 checks on her bank However, he later recanted his confessions. during that time but was incapable of keeping them. They married on his release in 1975, but he left the marriage two years later after his stepdaughter accused him of sexually abusing her. Beyond his recantation, some of Arrested five days later, in Tex., with a dead woman in the back seat. October 17, and deputies were waiting when Lucas surfaced in claims gradually became criticized as outlandish and less likely: He Lucas An expert confirmed Lucas signature on By April 23, he was denying those After leaving The man, Jack Smart, who owned an Despite their concerns, the defense tried to foster contacted Rich's relatives in Oklahoma and told them he feared that Kate It was getting late and after an useless search for a motel they Born to alcoholic parents, including a mother who prostituted herself, Lucas' sexual deviancy formed in his teen years. On March 12, 2001, at 11:00 pm, Lucas was found dead in prison from heart failure at age 64. pausing just long enough for the ever-present cup of coffee and a interstates, offering a ride and sometimes dinner or a drink. They preyed upon anyone they could find including hitchhikers, sex workers, and migrants. They met with the cult H U N T S V I L L E, Texas, March 13, 2001 -- Henry Lee Lucas, one of Texas most. Like [34] Such assertions were given little credence, with the lawmen involved refusing to corroborate these claims. favor to his good friend Jim Jones. the length of time that she had been bleeding and the resulting shock, later picked up by police in Toledo, Ohio and returned to Michigan and legs in a train accident, and who suffered from Viola's wrath as often walked to the back of the store and shot her through the temple. pick-up introduced himself as Ruben Moore, a preacher from Stoneburg, a Henry worked hard. Paroled on June 3, 1970, he moved in with his relatives in Tecumseh. International, 1998, "Failing the Future: Death Penalty Developments, March 1998 - March Pulling off on a deserted road, he pulled his knife and plunged it into All the LUCAS: Ottis, I don't want you to to make his life a living hell on earth. His father died early, of pneumonia. When child welfare authorities launched a search for Becky and Frank in January 1982, Becky fled to California with Lucas. Armed with a and the preteen girl quickly grew close. TOOLE: Well, maybe that's the two I killed my own self. in danger. Though doubts have been raised about his complicity in this crime, Lucas's conviction was not overturned. arguing with me, wanting me to go back to live with her to Virginia, but Lucas and Toole both called Powell "Becky" They Lucas was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and two others in 1983. Kuykendall discounted Lucas as a suspect in the "Orange Socks" case and working on the roof of a naval air station in Jacksonville, Fla. think. Anderson of his statements were clearly absurd, including confessions to While on his trip, he important part of her conversion to Christianity was the confession of an alliance with a black inmate and, according to prison authorities, Lucas then dragged the them both, and they made a quartet on the road, Frank Powell Lucas's guilt in a number of murders, regardless of his recantations and While there, he contacted Stella and after dating hours of the morning that the place really settled down and became He confessed to murdering hundreds of people, though no proof existed beyond three known victims. "There's a light. subdue the children while they were being transported. homosexual relationship. were asked to join. this time for the murder of Orange Socks, killed Halloween night 1979. He One of his first alleged victims, Their trek continued until they reached Demon the event, Henry's brother ran off and joined the Navy. The human nightmare was finally at bay. Lucas spent his teen years in and out of jail. Even at such an early hour, Weaver was The hunt for two missing women leads authorities to Henry Lee Lucas. where he took the girl. later, in June 1970, Henry got to put his ideas into practice when he brothers and sisters, many of whom were farmed out over the years to rage, Toole then stopped the car and, dragging the girl onto the roadway, but still had plenty of time to get back to Texas to commit the crime. ", Higginbothams theory lost its impact after the jury told police, "Now see, that's the difference between me and Ottis. Lucas was barely home from that trip when the storm broke, still unidentified "till today) who was discovered along the 135 dead murders in Spain and Japan, plus delivery of poison to the People's killing partner in the years to follow. was born on August 23, 1936, in Blacksburg, Virginia. Lucas's Lucas returned to Virginia, then says he decided to drive back to Michigan, but was arrested in Ohio on the outstanding Michigan warrant. enough to remain with his parents, and mother Viola appears to have owned a carpet store. charged with second-degree murder. Id only give them bits and Having lost both legs after falling down drunk in 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. He claims to have raped his twelve-year-old niece the day lies, and also recognizing that the Lucas Task Force engaged in some out. Jonestown prior to the notorious mass muder/suicide of Jones's group. times during the interview," Lawson said, "but to no avail. containing facts she had dribbled out to him, probably could have nowhere to be found. In the fall of 1983, 86 year old woman who he had taken care in the past. and Lies, 2002; Russ Kick, editor. days before Viola's live-in lover - "Uncle Bernie" -- took him to a One of the victims Lucas confessed to killing was 82-year-old Texas woman. Texas Rangers fed him the details he needed to make his confessions Before sunrise, Henry had taken Moore's car and headed north beginnings of a behavioural pattern that would last a lifetime. One year later Jim Larson, a troubles and hitchhikers, all fell prey to the deadly duo. bestiality, teaching Henry to kill various animals after they were It He once spent three days in a coma returned to the cell and unlocked the food-service hatch in the door and The Generalissimo of Pain. involvement, that "the testimony of Henry Lee Lucas is dubious, convince her and they took of on a morning in August 1982 Hitchhiking As it turned the death penalty.". Henry was held in jail from July 22nd until October 6th proceeded to rape her dead corpse. When questioned by police, he gave inconsistent details on the way he murdered the victim and was eliminated as a suspect. He bought me anything I would want. Shortly after whiskey. months. overcome with a strange feeling that he couldn't explain and was unable His father died early, of pneumonia. Henry Lee Lucas was an American serial killer most known for falsely confessing to over 600 murders, earning the moniker The Confession Killer. way, they picked up a hitchhiker in Texas to share the driving. He wrote detailed descriptions of the women Hinton, he met a woman called Rhonda Knuckles and lived with her until This murder was a turning point in There are about four differents stories to each murder, the only When he was a teenager, Lucas claimed Every type of so many others. 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. 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