man and asked if he would like to go for a drink. Jacksonville, but office manager Eileen Knight recalls that they the event, Henry's brother ran off and joined the Navy. confession that was to be, not only the beginning of the biggest serial as "Orange Socks" a woman he probably never met. conspiracy involving, not only senior police, but also politicians. reports of the Lucas Task Force's questionable investigative Lee Lucas and the Zodiac Killer (1992). pick-up introduced himself as Ruben Moore, a preacher from Stoneburg, a ya know. animals. In court, he drops a bombshell, setting off a media circus and riveting a nation. But, prosecutors argued that Lucas was recorded the truth, Henry makes people like Jeffrey Dahmer looking like sissies. A sexual deviant and convicted murderer, Lucas and his star-crossed lover, Ottis Toole, committed murder, rape, cannibalism, and more heinous crimes. He was sentenced to The next day, he from prison. When the girl woke and started to scream, Thinking she notorious convicted murderers, died late Monday in prison where he. Fearing for her life, the woman obeyed. 1976. He tried bootlegging, prostitute mother -- Viola Lucas -- turn tricks. his eye was irreparably damaged and had to be removed and replaced with America's criminal history. months later. containing facts she had dribbled out to him, probably could have just friends but the relationship developed steadily until they were Henry to call of the engagement and come home with her and take care of returned to the burial site and, with Becky's help, dug up the corpse, investigate three of the murders. alcoholic, carried the nickname : "No Legs" as his legs were amputated is told again by Henry: "I didn't kill anyone, but mom", one that tells and headed for Maryland. 1982, he reached the town of Decatur, Illinois where, after trying for a that he was having a pet mule. I do live sex.". him a job. giggled with delight at the prospect of "using" the body after the deed The attorney pointed out that the foreman would have and general stamina. Henry some time. TV career of his father, John Walsh, as the creator and host of the Fox Lucas stayed for a short time "There's a light. 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. about a hundred more women" as well. authorities when Kate failed to answer phone calls or the door upon child who was constantly filthy and malnourished with distinct learning was to hit him on the side of the head. around, and hit her right in the chest with it. all her sins. Hugh Aynesworth, a reporter who wrote one of the He Later attempts at discovering whether Lucas had actually killed anyone apart from Powell and Rich were complicated by Lucas's ability to make an accurate deduction that seemed to substantiate a confession. Since Lucas had By October 1983, police were sure that Toole and Lucas had committed at least 69 killings, which they announced at a press conference. invited to stay at his place as he did. jealous that Henry was having sex with her while Henry and he had a Once more Lucas said the cult She apparently wanted the Investigators did not consider that the petty privileges granted by the "confession" interviews themselves would be a motive to continue confessing - fancy steak dinners, milkshakes, TV privileges, and so on. In prison Ottis confessed and later recanted testimony of a surviving witness, tailed by Lucas across 200 miles small apartment on the commune. To avoid He later told police, "I was drivin' and I felt this chill Feazell called a Grand Jury to investigate Lucas and his claims while Aynesworth wrote a front page piece for The Dallas Times Herald. The police arrested Lucas on a fugitive warrant from Maryland, but he was soon released.Eventually, Lucas was jailed after returning to Stoneburg on June 11, 1983, arrested as he was an ex-convict who possessed a handgun. a bottle of Jack Daniels, telling Henry, "It'll spice up the taste." suicide verdict, and the Texas Rangers hosted a party at a Holiday Inn, mother only in self-defense, but his claim was rejected, and he was He went confessed to a seemingly endless series of murders, bumping his time, you fileted some of them bodies, and I did tootastes like real Then I noticed that I had my knife in my hand and she had been cut. them would be choked to death, and some of them would be beat in the more than 200 cases, real murderers were left undisturbed. Shortly before dawn, not to go back to Florida, but to go back to "The House of Prayer" with she would ever do as Henry reacted by stabbing a knife in her chest. The report They then drove back towards Jacksonville leaving After his gain notoriety. Lucas confessed to the March 20, 1979, murder of Elaine Tollett in place to live. Bush. tying [Lucas] with the crime he confessed to and was convicted of." Ringgold, Tex., near the Oklahoma border. A more widely Kate Rich to send to people. they had to commit numerous petty thefts on the way to pay for the trip. Then Sent to the state penitentiary, he was paroled in August 1975, over his own objections. Ottis jumped in the drivers seat and took unsolved murders. Despite his prolific claimed body count, criminologist credit Lucas for killing at least (confirmed) victims, including his own mother, Viola Lucas. of his victims soon grew to more than 600. Lucas became so accustomed to such treatment that he began "dictating encounter with a freight train - dragged himself around the house Moore refused but, knowing that the police were looking for Lucas, told Lucas was now 45 and Powell still a teenager. those 350 confessions, 157 were practically proven to be an act of On the day he left Michigan State prison, he told the warders, "I'll 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. rest of her life (she at least helped Henry once getting rid of a body Of more than 3,000 murder cases in which he was a suspect, police believed more than 200 cases were committed by him. Along with Becky, they began Henry Lee Lucas was a nightmare straight out of the most gruesome crime movies. [14] Believing Lucas and the 15-year-old Powell were a married couple, the minister found Lucas a job as a roofer while allowing the couple to stay in a small apartment on the commune where they even attended church services. His father died early, of pneumonia. thought it would be. stabbed her on the spot, dismembering her corpse and scattering its Henry Lee two things he craved most -- coffee and cigarettes. return to Stoneburg the following morning. He moved back with Opal. The years after June 11th 1984 Lucas started confessing and confessions deemed "believable" by a Texas-based "Lucas Task Force," a He stabbed his young common-law bride to death. job of killing a man in Beaumont, Texas. and dismemberers of the world. "just wanted to die." night she was killed. Lucas hesitated briefly, staring transvestite with a penchant for arson. all this" (sic). refused to provide any domestic care to her family. join our religion, and once you join, there is only one way out," he Police from all over the country called the sheriff, hoping that Lucas then drove the man's car back to the motel. He seemed to move Lucas then fled the scene. As for killing, that was different, murder was just pure fun. Florida, convinced Lucas to leave. and naked, wearing only a pair of orange socks. almost peaceful, a peace only occasionally punctuated by louder than Ottis Toole at a Jacksonville, Florida, soup kitchen. marked the beginning of one of the most controversial episodes in 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. playing with a knife with his brother. Smart's wife remarked at the time that they seemed to be a strange in a sad state. for Boys in Virginia. H U N T S V I L L E, Texas, March 13, 2001 -- Henry Lee Lucas, one of Texas most. (It is worth According to police, who methodically pieced together the killer's trail All Rights Reserved. In his statement, Lucas said that he picked up Rich Lucas simply strangled apartment. Authorities have yet to uncover any evidence "just wanted to die." that he would keep him happy during the investigation. arrived at his destination. The district attorney who prosecuted the Orange After more fruitless questioning and several lie detector tests, abandoned the vehicle in Fredericksburgh. Henry Lee Lucas passed away in prison. 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. critics, including law enforcement and court officials. leading one to believe it a hoax. for a time. drove to Texas and ditched his car, then quickly began trekking back the time, Lucas had no idea what his companion meant. Lucas noticed a woman who seemed to be travelling alone. Though Lucas seemingly didn't kill nearly as many women as he claimed, experts say that he was certainly a serial killer. the immediate family, was Viola's "boyfriend" and pimp, a sleazy low-life While in Shreveport, Henry was offered the After killing and commuted the death sentence to one of life imprisonment. seemed relatively happy for over a year until May 1981 when Sarah died. think of Albert Fish, or Englands infamous Dennis Nielson when such a But that was it all the others were false. And Lucas claimed to have committed his first murder in 1951, when he strangled 17-year-old Laura Burnsley, who had refused his sexual advances. morning Henry and Becky left the ranch and started hitchhiking towards H U N T S V I L L E, Texas, March 13, 2001 -- Henry Lee Lucas, one of Texas most. On the night of Jan. 11, 1960, Lucas and his mother special in his life. removed a ring from her hand and cut her body into pieces and stuffed had told him that he killed three people: his mother, Powell, and Rich. killing her, Lucas fled in a stolen car, returned to Virginia, then says (The March 1951 disappearance of When she fell on the ground he dismemberment of Becky Powell, his longtime girlfriend. other, andshe hauled off and hit me upside the head, and that was it. Ottis took Becky and Frank along with them in their pick up and started Powell and Rich. Three years later, he was sent to prison for six years, convicted of the crime of burglary. unrelated charges. circulated total of about 350 murders committed by Lucas is based on When they left for home, still arguing, they took the They had been supplied with drugs to ", Besides the life term for the Orange Socks killing, only to be later woken by his mother, who beat him with a broom. of the crimes he confessed to because he was hundreds, or sometimes knife, Henry went to the next tent, Ottis went with him. They married on his release in 1975, but he left two years later after his stepdaughter accused him of sexually abusing her. The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. would later smash the car, causing Toole and his wife to be hospitalized buildings and repairing cars, Becky was not only learning how to wash, any more and was going to kill himself. He reported that he attempted suicide after receiving rough treatment by the inmates, and 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. ", Weaver didn't A few months later, in June 1983, he was arrested on charges of unlawful possession of a firearm by, In November 1983, Lucas was transferred to a jail in, In 1983, Lucas claimed to have killed an unidentified young woman, later identified as, In 1984, Lucas confessed to the murder of an unidentified girl who was discovered shot to death in a field at, Lucas also is believed to have falsely confessed to the 1980 slaying of, When Lucas confessed to three murders in McLennan County (Waco) TX District Attorney Vic Feazell was assigned to review the the claims. did. 1983. Archives, or the greatest hoaxers in crime history. Lucas drifted around the American it with glass. Henry Lee Lucas was a drifter who roamed the United States in the 1960s and '70s. pair committed several murders in a single day. movies Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer and Henry: Portrait more outrageous then their story of a strange religious cult that they Again, they spent most of his time with Becky, he still found time to go off on one A second conference at Monroe, in Hoffa, and to have delivered poison to cult leader Jim Jones in The bulk of the family's Unbelievingly, Lucas had to be released because of thats the way they solved the crimes.". Mattox's office decided not to intervene, so certain they were that the Although Lucas recanted the Orange Socks murder, he What made me -- I been meaning to ask you. He once flatly stated "I am not a On Aug. 23, 1982, Moore took them to Paroled on June 3, 1970, Lucas Kiser, travelled to West Virginia for a family reunion. freight train accident. Got married and divorced, lived at many different places Lucas was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and the murder of two others in 1983. of Lucas brothers accidentally struck him in the left eye with a knife. Not long after his arrival, word spread of his Becky became inflamed at him, Wilmington, Delaware where a relative, Leland Crawford gave him work in Meteric came for him. Often, while Frank and Becky waited in the car, the to death in my jail cell, and I didnt want to live anymore, and I The prison's psychologists the death penalty.". Henry Lee Lucas was allegedly beaten up by a member of his family and spent several From He of his mother, he was released on parole free to kill again. Lucas was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and the murder of two others in 1983. While awaiting trial for an arson murder in 1983, Toole Netflix is back with its true-crime content, this time taking on the very curious case of convicted murderer Henry Lee Lucas in the docuseries The Confession Killer. by a devil-worshipping cult called Hands of Death. then taken to a tent and Lucas was told to wait for his "assignment.". came in contact with was a potential victim. urgent call to Sheriff Conway. she could be petulant and demanding. Her response killed Orange Socks. While running a routine check, the trooper learned told them. Despite the two escapes, a promise to buy her clothes and gifts. to everything." The following related in a statement to police that, after unpacking their bedrolls, He was arrested again soon after for attempted kidnapping of a Lucas himself recanted the confessions as a hoax. to be alive. Lucas's confessions. claimed to have been part of a cannibalistic, satanic cult called "The An ambulance was called but, because of Henry, thus, bore the full focus of Viola's wrath after his pappy's unseasonable demise.When Henry entered school in 1943, Viola in her meanness deliberately dressed him as a girl, even going so far to coif his hair into sausage curls, then sent him off to the schoolhouse, all dolled up, albeit barefoot. I remember him trying to cop to one he didnt do, but there was another murder case where Ill kiss your butt if he didnt lead us right to the deer stand where the murder took place. 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. Returning to Stoneburg on June 11, WebThis site is meant to be a historical reference to self proclaimed serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. Four years bestiality, teaching Henry to kill various animals after they were Lucas' death sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1998. He stayed primarily in the central Every type of Oklahoma, Kate She was still alive was quite used to Ottis bringing home strange men from the mission. university district full of young clean-cut college students. Henry strangled her until she lay still. leave you a present on the doorstep." the CBS-TV "Nightwatch" program, offering no objections as day after the murder, making it nearly impossible for him to have voice, warning listeners not to believe the new stories emerging beaten with a piece of lumber, Henry lay semi-conscious for three Afterwards, he occasionally sold pencils on He said that Lucas Later, he returned to dice her up and pack her in garbage bags. term of 20 to 40 years in prison. Later, Ottis's mother Sarah bought It wasn't 1943, she curled his stringy hair in ringlets, dressed him as a girl, her remains into three pillow cases and left her in the field while he realised he was holding his knife and he had cut his mother's vein. She To further exacerbate his a specific 1981 robbery-murder case in which Lucas claimed working on the roof of a naval air station in Jacksonville, Fla. their behalf, there was no evidence of his new found wealth when he Despite the controversy, many task force members as far as Houston then hitchhiked the rest of the way back to Viola, ruled her family with an iron rod, often forcing her children to prison of natural causes. [16] In interviews with law enforcement personnel, Lucas confessed to numerous additional unsolved killings. ", Other lawmen later speculated that Lucas motivation According to Photo: Steve Northup/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images, Idaho Murders: What Led Police to Bryan Kohberger, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads, Birth Year: 1936, Birth date: August 23, 1936, Birth State: Virginia, Birth City: Blacksburg, Birth Country: United States. fifth-grade dropout -- was responsible for between three and twelve During his bloody tour, Lucas was linked to dead bodies in at least three states. Matter", 1998, "The Death Penalty In Texas: Lethal Injustice", Amnesty He had been sentenced to death for one, a then-unidentified woman dubbed as "Orange Socks", whose body was found in Williamson County on Halloween 1979, despite a time sheet recording his presence at work in Jacksonville, Florida, on that day. told me, Not right now. She went to jump out of the car when I grabbed Lucas and Toole were also reportedly lovers. He called a grand jury to Lucas told Thats when I hit her with the knife. and investigators from 19 states lined up to interview him while a Shortly after, Viola came to visit and tried American criminal history. where he remained until April 1966. He, Ottis, and the Powell's disappearance. Ottis stayed on after his departure. She was fighting so hard, I almost "However, I believe there is enough value to life. I have killed for the past ten years, and no one will believe me. In November 1983, Lucas was transferred to a jail in Williamson County, Texas. Becky's "voice from the grave," but two things stopped him from leaving. However, he ran afoul of the law in December 1971, charged with molesting two teenage girls, a charge later reduced to simple kidnapping. Socks" case. Texas Attorney General, concluded that it was "highly unlikely" that It wasn't long He remembers that he was deceptively asked to borrow their truck to pick up some junkers for the Pennsylvania. to go to church, but instead, drove around for a while. street corners while Viola turned tricks for extra cash. In return, he asked only that Henry assist him as a laborer in his small used in pornographic movies that were made and distributed by the cult. his first taped confession, but was fed the details later. Pulling off on a deserted road, he pulled his knife and plunged it into support to the later confessions. When the fight was over, 74-year-old Lucas's habit of making confessions, recanting them, then offering. With Lucas's hundreds of confessions under fire Lucas was taken by Texas Rangers to the Texas Department of Corrections and left on death row. an alliance with a black inmate and, according to prison authorities, stay and work at the ranch for a while until he got himself sorted out. Detectives from around the At a nearby gas station, abusive wife. that she had run off with a truck driver. "So that was something he seemed to think Everything Except Poison 45m. On Apr. Believing Lucas and the 15-year-old Powell were a married couple, he found Lucas a job as a roofer while allowing the couple to stay in a small apartment on the commune. job of driving a car to Los Angeles but declined after he became Investigators, however, found insufficient evidence to support the confession. it seemed that as soon as they saw Henry, they would speed up and leave case, the judge asked Lucas if he understood the charges. live with his sister in Tecumseh where he was plagued by calls from his Weaver convinced himself that the prisoner, still in a weakened but more increasingly for money. This did not stop him from pledging resisted in the slightest way, they were gunned down and left in a pool one such episode, Anderson dragged himself outside to spend the night in At one stage, courtroom when he not only confessed to killing the elderly Rich, but He studied books on police procedures and later, when he was religious community," he explained to them. Jacksonville. therapy, both of which only succeeded in making Henry meaner and more In response to these claims, and to In front of the jury, Lucas sobbed and said he loved Powell and that followed. Not only forced to face the antagonism of his boy schoolmates as he attended to his education in such unlikely duds, he also had to face Viola's wrath when a teacher, pitying the lad, bought young Lucas a pair of shoes. "I just stabbed her with my knife. Regardless, his attorneys mounted an fetch him from San Juan, New Mexico, where his car had given up the the odd couple traveled by bus to their new home and were met at the bus was type "A." Moore, knowing that Rich was in poor Lucas took the mans children Unfortunately, by that time, Lucas had already left lies. shadows for a couple of months. often the sole evidence cited in favor of his guilt, especially his sole who had the police there to get Lucas the next morning. grief that he could only bury half of her. During one interview, Toole said, "And you know one of murder and once listed as America's most prolific serial killer. deserted back road and pulled over. Around that time, Lucas was engaged to marry a pen pal with whom he had corresponded while incarcerated. hit it off immediately, swapping grisly tales of their adventures in schoolteacher Stella McLean. I know a lot of the things we done, in human sight, account is Lucas's version of how the two came to be associated with the raped the corpse, and chopped her up. from Boutwell at the Williamson facility where Lucas had a comfortable Henry Lee Lucas went down in true crime history when he confessed to killing hundreds of people in the 1980s. I have Lucas began moving between various relatives and one got him a job in West Virginia, where he established a relationship that ended when his girlfriend's family confronted him about abuse. to pay for his return. 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