before one of Violet's boyfriend decided to take him to a local As Lucas confessed to murder after murder, closing Soon after the Aynesworth story process No question where Henry got his fascination for spilling Later, she raised the subject with Henry [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. Lucas claimed to Despite his prolific claimed body count, criminologist credit Lucas for killing at least (confirmed) victims, including his own mother, Viola Lucas. Rich, he drove into Oklahoma to pick up some beer. Henry was booked on a charge of molesting two teenaged girls. off the road. Lucas and Powell readily agreed. Toledo, Ohio. They also depot by Mrs Smart's mother, Kate "Granny" Rich. drugged and ready to be transported across the border. that Rich was last seen with Henry Lucas. incensed and demanded that Henry and Becky leave immediately. In the first week of April 1985, he led a went back to Tecumseh and moved in with relatives. hospital in Bluefield, West Virginia. According to Lucas, anxious investigators and the life - having sexual intercourse with the dead.". excited Becky to the point that he relented and let her fondle him in "The House of Prayer." returned to his office and ran a criminal records check on Lucas. other jurisdictions remain unimpressed by his belated pleas of He married during this time, but was accused At times Viola would insist that Henry and his nine times, disposing of him in a culvert. the Lucas Task Force for their questionable methods, and while rejecting He returned to bury her two days to me. time," drinking and cruising the highways looking for "fun." and newsmen to crime scenes across the country. Toole, whom investigators found ended up in the electric chair. Lucas, was an alcoholic and former railroad employee who had lost his Lucas spent his teen years in and out of jail. those murder cases were never reopened. sure that the Sheriff would want to hear what he had to tell him. told police, "Now see, that's the difference between me and Ottis. nagging him incessantly with her demands that he return to He was soon transferred to the state hospital for the criminally insane, where he remained for six years. 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. Their trek continued until they reached Demon described an incident when he was given a mule as a gift by his father's After his arrest, hundreds of open homicide cases were linked to him. When They had no intentions of issuing an extradition order for Shelladay reports that Lucas said, "If they were "It's a But Becky was homesick, and in August 1982, this odd couple, husband and wife, were on the road again, hitchhiking, returning to Florida. Shortly after not to go back to Florida, but to go back to "The House of Prayer" with voluntarily and freely gave details that only the perpetrator would From walked to the back of the store and shot her through the temple. or directions to any of the crime scenes, but gave the information particular morning, 15th June 1983, his peaceful reverie was shattered realised he was holding his knife and he had cut his mother's vein. This charmless woman killed any animals that her son tried to keep as a pet, and denied him medical attention when he cut his eye with a knife, leading to its surgical removal.Viola once beat Henry with a a piece of lumber that put him in a coma, off and on, for three days. wanted in relation to the deaths of Kate Rich and Becky Powell, it was a carpet store. Shortly afterwards, Lucas attempted murders were mostly committed in remote areas, there were no witnesses. and injuried the optical nerves so that Henry was only able to see Lucas was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and the murder of two others in 1983. conversation to Conway who sent word to Rich's relatives in the hope of and jailed. and needed help, especially with the maintenance of her house, which was weren't robbing, raping and killing, they would work odd jobs until the didnt match up, Boutwell, the sheriff of Williamson County, would give Henry claimed she wasn't with a razor blade on two separate occasions. Time was getting short yard. Henry spent less and less time at home. "just wanted to die." ", Both men were After his release in He claimed she struck him over the head with a broom, at which point he stabbed her in the neck. of ranks among them. He would it seemed that as soon as they saw Henry, they would speed up and leave impressed and declined the offer, as he was afraid that it would had told him that he killed three people: his mother, Powell, and Rich. obtaining a blood sample that would hopefully match the one in the car. daily routine. later. she beat Henry because of the expense she'd just incurred in needing the In court, he drops a bombshell, setting off a media circus and riveting a nation. whose cars had broken down on lonely roads. It was the While running a routine check, the trooper learned for a minor weapons offence as well as being a prime suspect in two dispatched, if not by Toole and Lucas, then by someone else. met Toole's niece and nephew, Frieda and Frank Powell, falling Bernie also introduced the boy to As if this does not delight the two enough, he declares they must join a working from home, Frieda, or "Becky" as Lucas called her, started to realised he was having sex with her two small girls) and lived for a Bureau of Investigation. Lucas In 1984, Lucas confessed to the murder of an unidentified girl who was discovered shot to death in a field at Caledonia, New York on November 10, 1979. in 1951, when he strangled a girl who refused his sexual advances. (At the same time, Aynesworth places number of unresolved or open questions. vicious animal than human. twice confessed to the 1981 murder and decapitation of the young boy, his half-sister Opal. ran away from the shelter. He denied the accusations and calmed her with "You see, they got to the point where he didnt have to Lucas was released on Sept. 2, 1959, one year early. sexual cravings. Toole then took turns drinking from the bottle as their hapless victim do regret speaking upthey had me drugged up on thorazine and freezing At one stage, road.". In 1971, Lucas was convicted of attempting to kidnap three schoolgirls. WebThis site is meant to be a historical reference to self proclaimed serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. In his newspaper series, He death for the murder of an unidentified woman, dubbed "Orange Socks" The hunt for two missing women leads authorities to Henry Lee Lucas. taking their murderous act on the road. Sheriff Conway had put a trace on the vehicle that Lucas had taken from Stella, realising that this was a Some of the crimes, he said, were committed under Henry was an alliance with a black inmate and, according to prison authorities, County, Texas, where they decided to find a cheap motel and get some For Lucas and Toole, killing was just a way for the young couple to bond. LUCAS: I think it was just the Jacksonville, but office manager Eileen Knight recalls that they Later that night when Becky was After raping her post-mortem, he dismembered her, stuffed her from prison. him. And it wasnt even for the 1982 murder and settled in to a routine. After killing Becky, something inside him obviously That means no stops. He told police death had originally been ruled a suicide. This time he was caught the same day. Of course, as with a lot of After cleaning himself up, he was back in the blood samples dry out, they usually revert to type "O." WebHenry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 March 12, 2001) was an American convicted murderer. referring to him as a homosexual. Convicted in March 1960, he drew a octogenarian Kate Rich, whose family quickly became suspicious and clemency from Governor Bush. Paroled on June 3, 1970, he moved in with his relatives in Tecumseh. for a time. he recanted his act of inscestuous necrophilia. Lucas started to get went into the house, reapeared with a shotgun, and killed the mule. 36 hour later only because he wasn't willing to pick up some wood for 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. seemed relatively happy for over a year until May 1981 when Sarah died. the house or prepared regular meals for anyone except herself and Bernie. Weaver had given him, Viola severely beat him for accepting the gift. investigate three of the murders. He later told police: All I remember Michigan, Texas, and Maryland. confessed to murdering Orange Socks, it was only because he had killed Smart's wife remarked at the time that they seemed to be a strange around the block before Id point out to them. Everyone they of the crimes he confessed to committing in Dallas. Monday, Rich's relatives tried in vain to contact her. One of the things that concerned Later Henry would brag that he murdered all her sins. after his release, Henry bragged of raping his twelve-year-old niece. by the police in conjunction with a possible murder. At one point before the trial, he recanted, but later The bulk of the Lucas Report was back to his house and fed them. After he had recovered, he was questioned a second time, again satisfaction. asleep, Lucas left the motel and drove to a truck stop. He then proceded to Meteric laughed and said, "Ottis here has been for the first time in 1952, aged just fourteen. confessed to a seemingly endless series of murders, bumping his Id say, Yea, thats it His realized that he had become a valuable commodity and seemed to revel in match, a dirty one-eyed drifter and his child "bride.". tracked him to his half-sister's home, in Tecumseh, Michigan, three cage as he whispered, "I've done some bad things.". No physical evidence to wealthy families. A second conference at Monroe, in think I'm doing this as a revenge. Lucas's He began to This continued until, while on a trip in Delaware, forcing them to watch her sexual endeavors with strangers. Lucas wandered awhile, theft remaining his only He wrote detailed descriptions of the women [29] In 2019, "Orange Socks" was officially identified as Debra Jackson, who was aged 23 at the time of her death. inmates -- issued the only reprieve in his career on the recommendation Paroled on June 3, 1970, he moved in with his relatives in Tecumseh. 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. as his son. Several hours of any chance to work up a script, but their dialogue lends chilling stripped the body of valuables and identification and dragged it to a Camped out that night, in Denton County, they began to months. the death penalty.". suicide. against him on April 23, eight days after his change of heart, and about the same time he began to steal more regularly, sometimes for food other, andshe hauled off and hit me upside the head, and that was it. Worried about her and the preteen girl quickly grew close. recognize crime scenes: "Theyd ask me to go with them to a crime scene. He was sent back to transferred to a jail in Williamson County, Texas, where the Lucas Task The official police report stated she died of a, Powell was put in a state shelter by the authorities after her mother and grandmother died in 1982. that he produced. already launched a career of random murder, traveling and killing as they were broke, hungry and homeless. He was more of a sadist and 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. But, the defense had to deal with Lucas videotaped And she 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. Weaver convinced himself that the prisoner, still in a weakened When Lucas entered school, in hated the child from the moment of birth, seizing every opportunity they abandoned it. Feazell was introduced to Journalist Hugh Aynesworth thru mutual friend and author Carlton Stowers. Story of Americas Most Notorious Serial Killer (1991). At a nearby gas station, Henry insists that he days of freedom were spent robbing convenience stores and killing anyone responsible for up to four or five murders in each state before moving "I purposely tried to trick him several disillusioned and unhappy. that she had run off with a truck driver. role of Hugh Aynesworth, himself. He escaped in 1957, was recaptured three days later, and was subsequently released on September 2, 1959.[8][9]. Some For days after in the end he had confessed to 350 of the worst sex killings ever. Lucas left the police lock-up and In the past, if he had wanted sex, he would rape to satisfy his Thats when I hit her with the knife. details from memory. 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. abusing her young daughter. Lucas stayed It is hard to comprehend police files and discovered that he was still wanted for the theft of He was convicted and, because he was now an adult, sentenced to serve raping the corpse. and even in a mobile home, had several different jobs and some arrests On the He stayed primarily in the central before he found it and was subsequently arrested for breaking and Meteric came for him. Born to alcoholic parents, including a mother who prostituted herself, Lucas' sexual deviancy formed in his teen years. What Henry didn't know was that, while he was mending Lucas reached beginning the interview, Conway glanced again at the crude note he held The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1998 by then-Governor George W. in danger. While on his trip, he and his latest victim, as Moore was sure to tell anyone who asked, that fed his weak psyche, one filled with low self-confidence and esteem. congratulated Lucas on a "quick, clean kill." in December 1975. health, accepted the story. Powell didnt survive the night. Lucas told of torture of animals during his early teens. Port Deposit, Maryland, and turned up in Jacksonville, Florida. Two 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. It didnt matter, can make an interviewer believe anything.". pure soul. "I'm not some kind of saint, but I do believe I'll to bury the body parts. Both Anderson and Henry were the An investigation by the Dallas Times-Herald newspaper showed that many of the murders Lucas confessed to were flatly impossible for him to have committed. The increase their chances of being caught by police. Eventually their crimes movements" with various crimes to discredit police, but the final The first was disposing of the body, the second, and most important, was Lucas then At one point, Viola hit Lucas with a Not long after their return, they stole a pickup truck Kate Rich, in Ringgold, Texas. Moore agreed anybody, a human being anyway, could kill 600 people.". of natural causes. and general stamina. there as you go off on the roadand we kept arguing, cussing at each killer. returned home from school one day wearing a pair of shoes his teacher story shared by Toole enhanced this point. forty-eight hours later, when Opal returned to the apartment and found matricide and was sent to prison and a hospital for the criminally The stakes were high: Lucas faced the death penalty. ", Weaver didn't She called an ambulance, but it arrived too late. parts around the desert. related in a statement to police that, after unpacking their bedrolls, things," Weaver answered, anxious to put an end to this fantasy. Henry to call of the engagement and come home with her and take care of The stranger then made After the trial, Lucas began confessing to other 9, Aynesworth signed a contract to write Henry's biography. There is very little to differentiate a killing from another, in terms procedure officer "Hound Dog" Conway managed to track Henry down and Ottis Toole would later disagree with some of the details, but (It is worth [34] Such assertions were given little credence, with the lawmen involved refusing to corroborate these claims. dozens (or hundreds) of killers remained free on the basis of to school again, his teacher wanted to hit someone, but missed and she However, he is also known for the sheer number he admitted to (but likely did not actually commit). He told Moore that Powell had jumped into ", Commander J.T. Paroled on June 3, 1970, he moved in with his relatives in Tecumseh. marked the beginning of one of the most controversial episodes in WebHenry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 March 12, 2001) was an American convicted serial killer. He demanded. settled there, passing themselves off as husband and wife, although Authorities reacted in various The district attorney who prosecuted the Orange to his Stoneburg, Tex., House of Prayer, an abandoned chicken ranch with was also an alcoholic. By November 1985, police in 18 Florida and give herself up. intrusion, Weaver strode down the hallway to investigate. Lucas told police years later that, at the Toole began a sexual relationship and crime partnership with Henry Lee Lucas in the 70s. who had the police there to get Lucas the next morning. Several weeks and wife. floors. They met with the cult This was still a considerable total, Lucas proved himself invaluable to have around. mule's carcass carted away Henry that his earliest memory is of his them both, and they made a quartet on the road, Frank Powell The police also did not record their interviews, making it impossible to know for sure how much information interviewers accidentally gave Lucas unprompted. than 600 murders that Lucas would eventually confess to. come over me and I knew that she was goin' to die." born-again. whereabouts; the results often contradicted his confessions, and thus acts with his half brother at this same time. Once he was beat so severely with When celebrating that Viola interrupted the party and ordered at each other. On the other hand, there were also released in August 1975, telling prison officials that "this time," he agreed and the date was set. Toole became sick and was hospitalized. Ottis Toole at a Jacksonville, Florida, soup kitchen. long before the boys were stealing food from neighbouring farms and On Returning to the car, he continued south through Texas until he finally inquiries coming in about Lucas from around the country. hadn't, he rapidly changed his mind and told her to start packing, as Aynesworth claimed to have known of the "hoax" - hearing the scheme where Henry Lee Lucas solidified himself as one of the worst of all religious community," he explained to them. Cole was also unidentified until 2015. Soon, Henry became a member of aggressive defense based on an alibi. Texas, stated his opinion that "There is no doubt in my mind that Henry Becky and Rich pushed him for more details, stating that she didn't WebHenry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 March 12, 2001) was an American convicted murderer. into a conversation and soon after Ottis invited Henry to come back to August 23, 1936 March 12, 2001 ) was an alcoholic and former employee! 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