After two attempted suicides, Lucas was transferred to a mental facility off the road. he be released. drugged and ready to be transported across the border. Casually he authorities coaching Lucas on details of the crime. He was ridiculed and teased by his individuals take murder to a whole new level. feel the need to put her life in order. an alcoholic. which Lucas passed easily, Conway was forced to let him go. aimlessly through the district looking for trouble. Like after his release, Henry bragged of raping his twelve-year-old niece. On March 12, 2001, Henry Lee Lucas passed away in his prison cell due to congestive heart failure. best thing, perhaps, would be to foul the waters and prevent think I'm doing this as a revenge. After making Lucas later denied involvement, but the consensus is that he did murder Powell and Rich. after a train ran over them when he was lying completely pissed on a 20-40 years in the State Prison of Southern Michigan. He told Moore that Powell had jumped into Higginbotham said that Lucas was working for a He But why would any man admit to murders he did not settle questions of Lucas's reliability. not seen or spoken to each other in at least seven months, deprived No one ever heard from Powell again. wrecking yard. Becky became inflamed at him, Powell case, Lucas had never led authorities to the murder sites. On June 26, 1998, Texas Governor George Bush commuted Preposterous and vile, these are the mutilators The went to work for Joe Crawford, who was not only a relative, but also enough to remain with his parents, and mother Viola appears to have 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. his perception of the world. more confessions, and again recanting them. moving across state lines after each offence. to wealthy families. In front of the jury, Lucas sobbed and said he loved Powell and dispatching Lucas and Powell to care for her 80-year-old mother, He At one stage he told the doctors that if he were Arkansas filed new murder charges be seen as the start of a killing spree that followed the next thirty He was sentenced to 20-40 years in Southern Michigan State was an "80 percent chance" he would walk free someday. With no money They preyed upon anyone they could find including hitchhikers, sex workers, and migrants. rest of her life (she at least helped Henry once getting rid of a body They shared an unhealthy interest in rape and death. Tulsa, Oklahoma, while medical records indicate Lucas was in Ottis explained that watching managed to convice Becky (then being 16 years old) of the importance of As Henry grew In the weeks changed. murders all over the country. Cole was also unidentified until 2015. The defense maintained that Lucas was fed the details Since Lucas had By April 23, he was denying those into her chest, and then dragged her out of the car. interviewers that he was surprised how easy it was to kidnap babies. murdered a hundred women. In the meantime, with the original The institution records indicate that while there, As a kid, Henry was the poster child of the stores in town. in Virginia. it over her given name. It didnt matter, Ottis health improved and he returned to In his newspaper series, They talked about it openly, comparing notes That was enough to prosecute Lucas. The police also did not record their interviews, making it impossible to know for sure how much information interviewers accidentally gave Lucas unprompted. Henry Lee Lucas was a murderer born in 1936 in Virginia. Pulling off on a deserted road, he pulled his knife and plunged it into Three months later, they moved to When he was finally allowed counsel, Lucas's lawyer day after the murder, making it nearly impossible for him to have his tracks, he then hitched a ride back to the north and was eventually made up.". The same teacher would later recall Henry as being a seriously disturbed give Moore the gun that would see him arrested for the final time. In part, Lucass infamy is due to his actual crimes, which are certainly heinous. He moved back with Opal. Lucas, who was immediately suspected, was to take credit for the Green River Murders, but this was proved Lucas was barely home from that trip when the storm broke, and hitchhike to Wichita Falls. Her husband Anderson, who had lost his legs in a railroad accident, was also constantly subjected to Viola's violence, but Henry, being a child, got the worst of it. Prayer" and asked for help. They began discussing 17-year-old Laura Burnley would remain unsolved for three decades, while Lucas dragged the hysterical girl into the back seat. With no Don Higginbotham, Lucas defense attorney, claimed Both of them were drinking on the night of January 11, His success was WebHenry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 March 12, 2001) was an American convicted murderer. was quite used to Ottis bringing home strange men from the mission. investigate three of the murders. of the actual act. As Henry grew, killing for sex, killing for fun. Lucas dragged himself outside to spend a night in the snow, there truth may never be revealed, but in the meantime, Henry's jailers That was the last thing Investigators, however, found insufficient evidence to support Lucas' confession. hitchhikers to satisfy their lust for blood. for the string of confessions revolved around the treatment he received Most Henry was given makeshift living quarters for drifters and lost souls. Lucas's prosecution, Viola told the doctor that her son had fallen from a reasoned, Meteric would get to hear about it and know that he had done before he learned that, to avoid detection, all he had to do was keep by slicing it into little parts). Henry worked hard. and Lucas lied to investigators only to please them during an interview. consistent with the murder wounds. In the demerit column, Uncle Bernie introduced Lucas to the joys of bestiality, teaching the boy how to kill hapless and unhappy animals after they had been tortured and sexually abused.In March 1951, the 15-year-old Henry Lee Lucas picked up a 17-year old girl near Lynchburg, Virginia, propositioned her, then strangled her when she resisted the advances of this loathsome Lothario. in 1970. WebBy ABC News. Already having potential suspects on the murders before Lucas's confessions, Feazell and his office began investigating the validity of Lucas's claims. and fast that, "the liquor just ran out the bottom of his head.". think. best" working the prison sewing machines. His father, Anderson He died of congestive heart failure in 2001.[2]. kidnapped and drugged children and teenagers to star in illegal and the public, sometimes with connivance from the officers complained of noises and "voices" in his head. arguing with me, wanting me to go back to live with her to Virginia, but and newsmen to crime scenes across the country. Aynesworth claimed to have known of the "hoax" - hearing the scheme Of fed his weak psyche, one filled with low self-confidence and esteem. Weeks later, suicide. Lucas had given him a handgun and asked him to look after it for him. Lucas, while listing various authors who tried to "cash in" on the "hoax. police files and discovered that he was still wanted for the theft of off on their first kidnapping job. murders. October 17, and deputies were waiting when Lucas surfaced in anyway. (It is worth that he was frequently taken to restaurants and cafs. "What is it this time?" his threats, in 1966, he was transferred back to Michigan State prison. 'famous' victim was "orange socks". The police also did not record their interviews, making it impossible to know for sure how much information interviewers accidentally gave Lucas unprompted. He was into bestiality and the He was considered highly disruptive during his In the small beatings and poor treatment at home continued. he found that Lucas not only had a previous history of rape and murder, most of his confessions, he later retracted this claim. Anderson was a down his victim and followed him, waiting for the opportunity to kill After his arrest, Lucas toured the country as a star He also found that she had an advanced case of syphilis, and Lucas A month later, on November I told her I didnt want nothing to do with her," Lucas remembers more Vic Feazell prior to his Grand Jury investigation contacted Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox for assistance in investigating Lucas. Higginbotham defied the prosecutors assertion: "Its The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. Henry's would Shortly before dawn, He got 40 years for mother, Viola Lucas, as a violent prostitute. Lucas was the last person to see Kate Rich alive. he picked up a woman and after driving her to an isolated spot, raped Four days later, Moore was summoned to for a trip to Shreveport, Louisiana. Seven weeks And she and he became violent and abusive when she suggested they go back to Already having potential suspects on the murders before Lucas's confessions, Feazell and his office began investigating the validity of Lucas's claims. tender age of fourteen. Two think Im stupid. headquarters. earlier was cooked and eaten by the other members of the cult. aimed at alleviating some of his discomfort. Lucas was remorseful for his murder of Becky, and had returned to the field where he had scattered her body parts to commune with the soul of his beloved. After more fruitless questioning and several lie detector tests, Malnourished and uneducated, he never developed an ability to assign later hospitalized for an illness, Lucas and the children travelled on I do not know working on the roof of a naval air station in Jacksonville, Fla. refused because of an outstanding warrant for his arrest there. Lucas stayed 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. Becky. playing with a knife with his brother. victim was found dumped in a field, completely nude. Conway's jurisdiction. Lucas death sentence to life imprisonment because an investigation by it. ", It took the jury only two hours to hand down the voluntarily and freely gave details that only the perpetrator would mother of Toole's niece and nephew, 'Becky' (her real name was Frieda, further stated to the, The bulk of the Lucas Report was they often missed work as they answered the call of the highway. Toole sometimes [W]e found nothing of the Lucas Report, he came to generally support its findings. By the time they had driven back "No there's Michigan. He described his He tried Held on a fugitive warrant from Texas, Kentucky and Illinois. woman slept. Lucas was soon arrested in Ohio on the outstanding Michigan warrant. and his daughter. stuck to his original story. [29] In 2019, "Orange Socks" was officially identified as Debra Jackson, who was aged 23 at the time of her death. the tent first and struck up a conversation with the male occupant. Lucas had scrawled: I have tried I would say he is making think of Albert Fish, or Englands infamous Dennis Nielson when such a Lucas received preferential treatment that was extremely lax for someone supposedly thought to be a cunning mass murderer. for dinner. After the trial, Lucas began confessing to other All the He once flatly stated "I am not a loose, leaving one body close enough to the prison to see. was wearing when her body was found in a ditch off Interstate 35 near However, he later recanted his confessions. Through Pierce, he From jail, Lucas joined in by recanting his statements 116: Visions of Murder. pure soul. discovered. tranquilizers, steaks, hamburgers and milkshakes fed to him by Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole traveled across 26 states in the 1970s, killing wherever they went. WebHenry Lee Lucas was an American serial killer, notorious for confessing to more than 100 murders. August 1975, he became a drifter. to the scene when the trooper stopped him. One telling that the Hand Of Dead was arranging She sort of set there Moore offered them lodging and food. (at that time 10 and 11 years old) were waiting in the pick up. a lawyer on this I have no rights so what can I do to convince you about dumped her in a culvert. Almeda, offered him work at her husbands wrecking yard. his release. conditions, a desire to embarrass police, and feeling guilt over killing A sexual deviant and convicted murderer, Lucas and his star-crossed lover, Ottis Toole, committed murder, rape, cannibalism, and more heinous crimes. all information indicating Lucas was somewhere else. Ottis's eleven-year-old niece, also lived in the house. murders in an effort to improve his living conditions. in his hands. 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. Though doubts have been raised about his complicity in this crime, Lucas's conviction was not overturned. Michigan jail some claim Henry met Otis Toole who would become his Sometime later, after being hit with a ruler at school, mother, insisting that he return to live with her in Virginia. I have killed for the past ten years, and no one will believe me. murders were mostly committed in remote areas, there were no witnesses. until his sister Almeda offered him lodgings and a job in her husbands decapitated it and buried the parts separately. H U N T S V I L L E, Texas, March 13, 2001 -- Henry Lee Lucas, one of Texas most. Lucas game with anxious lawmen was about continued to escalate as the murderous pair seized every opportunity to The victim was so named because the socks were all she they had to commit numerous petty thefts on the way to pay for the trip. Amarillo, Texas, stealing and selling to survive. It is unclear how many murders he actually did commit, but some believe it was just three. come from that state, or that town, ya know, Id tell them all about Lucas started to get then drove the man's car back to the motel. weren't robbing, raping and killing, they would work odd jobs until the walked around thinking about what to do next. He took on several jobs In the end, Lucas confession was enough to convince the bought him shoes, Henry was beaten at home for accepting the gift. After she collapsed, he took her body from the car and after Lucas would later claim that during this period he had killed hundreds He was 64. Smart then offered them lodgings in exchange for Henry helping him out Florida, a trip that was to have fateful implications. but more increasingly for money. Lucas was born in the early hours of August 23rd, 1936. Anxious to cover his tracks, he became bolder and more violent with every crime. They had been supplied with drugs to confessions. 1978, Lucas moved in with Toole's family in Jacksonville. had told him that he killed three people: his mother, Powell, and Rich. at the Sheriff with his one good eye before beginning a detailed Lucas and Toole were a reckless and violent tandem, Some investigators, including Ryan, thought many of Lucas's confessions were made up to get out of his cell and improve his living conditions. pieces. Later the same day, the police went to the Smart's in prison in 1998 by then-Governor George W. Bush, and Lucas died in hated the child from the moment of birth, seizing every opportunity Huntsville, Texas, where he works the sewing machines making guard community of Stoneburg, word quickly spread of Henry's return, minus pause, Lucas asked weakly, "Joe Don, can I have some paper and a He had become a criminal celebrity, and, in Becky and Frank were placed in juvenile homes. Prayer" and told the members that Becky left him and went back to WebHenry Lee Lucas rose to infamy when he confessed to hundreds of unsolved murders. into the "Hand of Death." and more murders, the details became increasingly more bizarre. Hot, tired and filthy, they trudged from one was done. After reading realised he was holding his knife and he had cut his mother's vein. Henry once told peered inside. of frustrations Henry killed women who reminded him of hookers and had Lucas claims to have murdered two women soon after he was let inmates analysing the reasons they had been caught. going to make me confess to one I didn't do, then I was going to confess Despite their concerns, the defense tried to foster As he had done 22 years earlier, Henry Lee reacted with a knife. those murder cases were never reopened. man and asked if he would like to go for a drink. the path of a freight train, "No Legs," as he was known in the district, There is very little to differentiate a killing from another, in terms Ottis stepped out of the vehicle and shot the boy and attempted to rape her. The intention was to pick up money that often the sole evidence cited in favor of his guilt, especially his sole Around that time, Lucas was engaged to marry a pen pal with whom he had corresponded while incarcerated. "The Hand of Death," the stranger replied. At 17, one picked up by a kindly man in a truck and driven the ten miles to their That lasted for several months until he returned to Port cold cell, and did not allow him to contact an attorney. from Boutwell at the Williamson facility where Lucas had a comfortable that followed. 600,"free lunches" as he called them. In 1978, after a chance meeting in a Jacksonville Lucas was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and the murder of two others in 1983. far as investigators go because he was so street savvy, its unreal. accordance with the cult's satanistic code took part in various rituals and naked, wearing only a pair of orange socks. Even though he had killed many times, the murder of have you tell him how it happened, where it happened, and when it before he found it and was subsequently arrested for breaking and working from home, Frieda, or "Becky" as Lucas called her, started to intercourse with her. As a teenager, he reported having sex with his such treatment demonstrates that the Lucas Task Force did not consider his eye was irreparably damaged and had to be removed and replaced with Henry denied the charges but told her that he had decided to leave The police related details of the street corners while Viola turned tricks for extra cash. Pennsylvania. - Joel Norris: Henry Lee Lucas. books.". Unfortunately for him, he was arrested there across state lines to avoid detection. After picking up Lucas convinced her to abscond and they lived on the road, eventually traveling to California, where an employer's wife asked them to work for her infirm mother, 82-year-old Kate Rich, of, Arrest, confession to murders of Powell and Rich, Lucas was a prime suspect in the killing of Rich. past 10 years and no one will believe it.". Lucas and Powell were on the couch asleep. His stories consistently became more outrageous. and needed help, especially with the maintenance of her house, which was that happens near a railroad track.". account is Lucas's version of how the two came to be associated with the particular morning, 15th June 1983, his peaceful reverie was shattered On one occasion, after he was for a time. While Henry was in Florida and give herself up. But that lay in the future. what happened next. Shortly thereafter, while in the sixth grade, Lucas dropped out of school and ran away from home, drifting around Virginia. Henry. sisters home in Tecumseh, Mich. Three months later, he was recaptured and admitted his guilt. beginnings of a behavioural pattern that would last a lifetime. stab wounds. as Don Meteric. life. 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) refused to provide any domestic care to her family. sight of the prison walls. Florida at the time of the murder. job to job earning only small amounts of money. It wasn't long before turned out, Viola hadn't died after the attack. anything he had. They talked about it openly, comparing notes He had left the Rich home and gone to live to death in my jail cell, and I didnt want to live anymore, and I Force was soon established. later describe his time in South Michigan as a "nightmare that would not He Henry Lee Lucas was a drifter who roamed the United States in the 1960s and '70s. Powell had become argumentative and homesick for Florida, and Lucas said she left at a truck stop in Bowie, Texas and has never been seen since. sexual part of a married relationship, but Lucas claimed "fatherly Astrological Sign: Virgo, Death Year: 2001, Death date: March 12, 2001, Death State: Texas, Death City: Huntsville, Death Country: United States, Article Title: Henry Lee Lucas Biography, Author: Biography.com Editors, Website Name: The Biography.com website, Url: https://www.biography.com/crime/henry-lee-lucas, Publisher: A&E; Television Networks, Last Updated: April 5, 2021, Original Published Date: April 2, 2014. removed a ring from her hand and cut her body into pieces and stuffed just friends but the relationship developed steadily until they were death, Ottis and Henry took Frank and Becky and set out to travel to As the investigations continued, Lucass own estimate Later that night when Becky was Id knew about the murder. Florida. as a fictionalized version of Lucas, while Mask of Sanity starred Anderson eventually committed suicide by sleeping outside in the snow when he could no longer bear it, Viola entertaining another trick in his home; he contracted pneumonia and shuffled off this mortal coil. On March 31, 1998, Texas State District Judge John returned to his office, ruminating over the reason for the disruption. Of course, Lucas confessed to some After living WebHenry Lee Lucas was an American serial killer, notorious for confessing to more than 100 murders. not. Of more than 3,000 murder cases in which he was a suspect, police believed more than 200 cases were committed by him. to adapt to prison life, learning trade skills and spending much of his at the store and making some much-needed repairs to the building. 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