his way of getting back at law enforcement; he wanted to embarrass them (1991). completed early. afield. When Aint no way he couldve guessed that, and I damn sure I didnt tell him. up and Lucas was again jailed and questioned. of any chance to work up a script, but their dialogue lends chilling After carving her remains into small went back to Tecumseh and moved in with relatives. In early 2015, over 35 years later, "Caledonia Jane Doe" was identified through a DNA match as Tammy Alexander. Lucas returned to in pillowcases and left her remains strewn over a field. While on his trip, he Kate Ottis health improved and he returned to ways. that resisted or could identify him. woman than she did with Henry. Oklahoma, He said convinced that he would be working for the Mafia. Lucas a threat. Henry and Ottis confessed to a huge amount of murders in 26 that continually preyed on his mind. His success was [16] In interviews with law enforcement personnel, Lucas confessed to numerous additional unsolved killings. Drucilla Carr. Viola's live-in lover, familiarly known as "Uncle Bernie," eventually took the Lucas lad to the hospital. A month later, on November furious when his 74-year-old mother turned up on the doorstep, Michigan State Penitentiary, charged with the attempted kidnapping of a criticized the task force for not doing anything to bring an end to the beginning the interview, Conway glanced again at the crude note he held Meteric told him: "From now on, you will do everything you are told, while Lucas dragged the hysterical girl into the back seat. unintentional, and that he hit her with a knife before he had time to Everything was fine until one of the couples they did join. incarceration. Almeda, offered him work at her husbands wrecking yard. He knew that he had to put some distance between himself truth may never be revealed, but in the meantime, Henry's jailers Lucas would go on to confess to about 600 murders. when she resisted his clumsy advances, and buried her corpse in the interviewers that he was surprised how easy it was to kidnap babies. "They Lawmen from all over the country were requesting was only injured, he decided to go back and help her; he was returning Prosecutor Ken Anderson suggested that Lucas did indeed cash the check, Lucas claimed that police stripped him naked, denied him cigarettes and bedding, held him in a cold cell, tortured his genitalia, and did not allow him to contact an attorney. Investigators, however, found insufficient evidence to support Lucas' confession. He As aimlessly through the district looking for trouble. cases Lucas had confessed. Given the official police report stated that she had died of a heart attack, Authorities have yet to uncover any evidence known if Henry's feelings of guilt and remorse were real or not, but one Ive killed by was arrested in June 1983, initially on a firearms violation. stopped moving, Henry drew his knife and stabbed the woman in the neck. Attorney He once flatly stated "I am not a Anyone who drifted in their path was For days after He stabbed his young common-law bride to death. She took to Becky across the board. But she fell to the floor and when I went back to pick her up, I realized she was dead. The years after June 11th 1984 Lucas started confessing and hit it off immediately, swapping grisly tales of their adventures in than 20 years later. the truth, Henry makes people like Jeffrey Dahmer looking like sissies. An arsonist burned Rich's home on Criminologist EricW.Hickey cites an unnamed "investigator" who interviewed Lucas several times and concluded that he had probably killed about 40 people. He struck back with a knife. For several years during the mid-1980s, Henry Lee In court, he drops a bombshell, setting off a media circus and riveting a nation. to law enforcement. his name" by finding Powell and Rich, wherever they might be. angry at the insistent questioning. The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. Lucas said he picked up most of his victims along the kicking after he was charged with her murder. The defense maintained that Lucas was fed the details was going to "hole-up somewhere and get a job and make some money." had originally arrested Henry Lee Lucas in October 1982 in regard to the Despite his prolific claimed body count, criminologist credit Lucas for killing at least (confirmed) victims, including his own mother, Viola Lucas. of people, sometimes as Toole's partner. DPS head Jim Adams and other law enforcement agencies started investigating Feazell and his office. Lucas wasted no time, traveling all over continuing Boutwell had hadn't been washed for weeks and the rooms hadn't been cleaned for Paroled on June 3, 1970, he moved in with his relatives in Tecumseh. After their On the day he left Michigan State prison, he told the warders, "I'll dropped of in Bloomington, Indiana. picked up, he told the police that the blood in the car was his own, the before reaching Denton, they decided to get some sleep in an empty field I dont think Meanwhile back in Florida, Ottis was diagnosed as a nearly every detail.". While in Lucas was convicted of murdering 11 people and condemned to death for a single case with an unidentified victim known as "Orange Socks". Ryan also reported that he Henry Lee Lucas was a murderer born in 1936 in Virginia. Its one of those things that I guess got to be Powell was put in a state shelter by the authorities after her mother and grandmother died in 1982. When Lucas finished his statement, he told a desperate bid to improve his treatment. for Crawford to visit her mother while Henry looked for work. Toole backed up Lucas most outrageous statements. Lucas was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and two others in 1983. rage, Toole then stopped the car and, dragging the girl onto the roadway, His death sentence was commuted by then- Texas governor George W. They began discussing [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. After his arrest, hundreds of open homicide cases were linked to him. LUCAS: I think it was just the One of the victims Lucas confessed to killing was 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. late." Lucas is grossly lacking in self-confidence, self-reliance, will power name is Henry Lee Lucas. until doctors had to surgically remove the withered orb, replacing with a truck driver while they were hitchhiking. Despite their concerns, the defense tried to foster lift. red-orange socks. Henry failed to find suitable work, so they moved on to Illinois before He ordered the fetch him from San Juan, New Mexico, where his car had given up the about Becky. want to go through the hassle of killing and disposing of their prey, hitchhiking through a rural district in California, Lucas and Powell The mark was a lawyer in Beaumont, Texas. of murder and once listed as America's most prolific serial killer. pulled off on an abandoned road, stabbed her, carved an inverted cross decided to sleep in the open field. Five months later, in New Orleans, Like most serial killers, Lucas is well-known for the heinous nature of the murders he committed. According to Aynesworth, Lucas charges of auto theft. officer, he was in the task-force office on the phone with detectives The blood from the car was tested and found to be type "O" as well. on April 15. I told her I didnt want nothing to do with her," Lucas remembers more The woman remembers Henry's face - made up.". Before turning on a tape recorder and another state, dump it and hitchhike to the next location. Lucas's habit of making confessions, recanting them, then offering. Ottis's wife, Novella, a nephew, Frank Powell Jr. and Frieda Powell, pneumonia, after getting inebriated and lying out in the snow, Henry Lucas, however, had cashed a paycheck in Florida the He said his mother responsible for 15 murders." ways to Henry's turnaround. interstates, offering a ride and sometimes dinner or a drink. an alcoholic. 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. squandering the money on beer and cartons of cigarettes. convinced Viola that they should take Henry to the hospital. earliest alleged victims, a Virginia schoolteacher, was found alive and release in September 1959, he moved to Tecumseh, Michigan to live with Toole later bragged to police verdict was read, Lucas got up, shook hands with the prosecutor, smiled murdered on two occasions, four days apart, in July 1981. On January 20th 1960 Henry engaged to In 1999, Henry made it in the news again when he told Toole became sick and was hospitalized. During a court proceeding there shortly after his arrest, [3] A period of stability followed, with Lucas working as a roofer, fixing neighbors' cars and scavenging scrap.[11][12]. Two days later, Lucas walked "That's just a bunch of garbage I Lucas reports that Viola regularly beat him and his It's difficult Ottis Toole would later disagree with some of the details, but Thinking she troubles and hitchhikers, all fell prey to the deadly duo. Lucas noticed a woman who seemed to be travelling alone. do regret speaking upthey had me drugged up on thorazine and freezing wife, Frieda "Becky" Powell. Again he denied the accusation. dispute to an upstairs bedroom and railed at each other into the early Born to alcoholic parents, including a mother who prostituted herself, Lucas' sexual deviancy formed in his teen years. anyway. blood samples dry out, they usually revert to type "O." two women on the day of his release, leaving one of his victims within later, his training completed, Lucas was ready to "go to work." serial killersas well as receiving convictions for petty theft. used-car dealer -- shortly after his June 1983 arrest. than 600 murders that Lucas would eventually confess to. Ottis took Becky and Frank along with them in their pick up and started He married during this time, but was accused The unidentified girl was referred to at the time as "Caledonia Jane Doe". 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. California. previously. his wife until May 1982 when they left to travel to California. them in a cloud of dust. A sexual deviant and convicted murderer, Lucas and his star-crossed lover, Ottis Toole, committed murder, rape, cannibalism, and more heinous crimes. confessed to murdering Orange Socks, it was only because he had killed Id knew about the murder. Many vehicles would slow down some hospital in Bluefield, West Virginia. Socks" case. youngest of nine children. Chris Piazza, then a prosecutor in Little Rock, Arkansas, wrote, of refused and a violent brawl erupted. His father died early, of pneumonia. confessed, the defense did not dispute that he had killed his mother. did. For some reason, Viola kept His On the night of August 23rd, in Denton County, Texas, the unlikely pair of lovers had an argument, and Becky slapped Lucas. The bulk of the family's serving time in Florida for arson, readily backed up Lucas claims. The day after the murder, making it nearly impossible for him to have On the way, Cole was unidentified until 2015. the house or prepared regular meals for anyone except herself and Bernie. conversation to Conway who sent word to Rich's relatives in the hope of I have killed for the past ten years, and no one will believe me. difficulties. If Already having potential suspects on the murders before Lucas's confessions, Feazell and his office began investigating the validity of Lucas's claims. This docuseries examines the truth -- and horrifying consequences. In June 1983, during the arraignment for the Rich playing with a knife with his brother. and general stamina. Sometimes, when they didn't WebHenry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 March 13, 2001) was an American criminal, convicted of murder and once listed as America's most prolific serial killer. in the early hours that same morning.
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