Terrifying & True | Henry Lee Lucas - The Confession Killer

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A single man steps forward and says, I've killed over six hundred people,

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and not only did I get away
with it for twenty years, but it

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was easy. This statement captured the
imagination of an entire country. But was

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it even true? Or is the
truth even more fascinating and far more lucivious.

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We're telling that story tonight. What
you were about to the spurs based

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on witness accounts, testimonies, and
public record, this is terrifying and true

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true. As a child of the
eighties and really more so the nineties,

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Henry Lee Lucas was quite a legend
in many ways. He was the folk

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villain of America, a man who
simply got on the highways of this great

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country and drove on and on and
on, picking up women hitchhikers, killing

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them and leaving them on the side
of the road. And that was all

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it took for him to get away
with it. I myself, as a

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child, were terrorized by thoughts of
murder and mayhem thanks to the movie Henry

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Portrait of serial Killer, as well
as the less known and far more terrifying

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Confessions of a serial Killer. This
story has always fascinated me, and the

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truth behind it I feel is far
more fascinating than the fiction. So we're

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going to dive into that story and
all it entails. After these quick words,

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one man, six hundred murder.
The numbers are staggering and the brutality

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is unimaginable. But is it all
true? Can one person really be responsible

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for so much death and destruction?
Yes, we are talking about Henry Lee

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Lucas. His story is filled with
textbook examples of serial killings, shocking pathological

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lying, and a trail of evidence
that exposes just how flawed our justice system

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can be. So brace yourself as
we take a bone chilling ride into the

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twisted mind of one of America's most
prolific and notorious serial killers. In the

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late nineteen fifties, Henry was convicted
as a burglar and already had a reputation

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in the criminal world. However,
it wasn't until nineteen sixty that he would

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become known to the public as a
murderer. The victim of his heinous act

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his own mother. But to better
understand Henry and his actions, we need

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to explore his upbringing and personal background. It's clear that his childhood was anything

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but normal. Born in a one
room log cabin in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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Henry's life took a turn for the
worst when he lost his left eye in

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a fight with his brother at the
tender age of twelve. From then on,

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he used his physical appearance to scare
other children, making them tremble with

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fear. But it was his mother, Viola who truly shaped Henry's twisted psyche,

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a prostitute who forced her son to
watch her engage in sex with clients.

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Viola would make Henry cross dress in
public so she could later pimp him

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out to men and women alike.
As Henry grew older, his sexual deviance

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only grew more perverse. He began
having sex with his half brother and even

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the bodies of dead animals. It
was clear that he was spiraling out of

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control. Henry's father, Anderson Lucas, died of hypothermia after drinking to intoxication

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and collapsing outside during a blizzard.
Henry's first murder, if his account is

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to believed, was committed when he
was just a teenager. He claimed that

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at age fourteen or fifteen, he
murdered seventeen year old Laura Burnsley when she

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denied his romantic advances. However,
he later withdrew this confession. The law

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finally caught up to Henry in nineteen
fifty four when he was sentenced to six

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years in prison for twelve counts of
robbery, but even that couldn't keep him

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down. Escaped in nineteen fifty seven, only to be recaptured two days later

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and released in nineteen fifty nine.
So it should be clear to everyone that

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Henry wasn't on very good terms with
his mother for obvious reasons, she wanted

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Henry to come live with her and
look after her as she grew older.

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In January of nineteen sixty, they
were having an argument over this very issue.

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His mother hit him on his head
with a broom. This made Henry

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furious. He picked up a knife, stabbed his mother in the neck,

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and then fled the scene. Henry's
relationship with his mother had always been strained,

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but the argument they had in January
of nineteen sixty took things to a

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whole new level. After fleeing the
scene of the crime, Henry was later

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arrested in Ohio. Henry's attempt to
claim self defense fell on deaf ears,

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and he was swiftly charged with second
green murder. The court found him guilty,

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and he was sentenced to spend the
next twenty to forty years behind bars.

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But fate had other plans for Henry. Just ten years into his sentence,

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the overcrowded prison system led to his
early release in nineteen seventy. Just

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eighteen months after his release, he
found himself back in jail, this time

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for attempting to abduct three young girls. Following his release in nineteen seventy five,

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Henry married one of his prison pen
pals, but the marriage was short

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lived. His stepdaughter made allegations of
sexual abuse against him, and Henry left

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the marriage in shame. He moved
to Jacksonville, Florida, where he met

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oddas Toole, another drifter, and
they became friends and lovers. Soon they

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met Toole's niece, Freida Powell,
who was just ten years old at the

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time, and she and Henry became
romantically involved. However, their relationship was

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indeed tumultuous. They often argued about
their future plans. In nineteen eighty two,

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they traveled to Ringold, Texas,
where they worked as hired hands for

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Kate Rich, an elderly woman,
but when Rich accused them of cashing bad

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checks. They relocated to a religious
commune called the House of Prayer in Stoneburg,

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Texas. Despite Powell's desire to return
to Florida, Henry had other plans.

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He brutally murdered her and dismembered her
body in an isolated field, leaving

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her remains undiscovered to this day.
He then convinced Rich to come with him

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under the guise of searching for Powell, but he had other motives. He

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murdered Rich and hid her body in
a drainage pipe, and ringled. Despite

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his heinous crimes, Henry Lee Lucas
remained living in Texas, continuing his life

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of crime. In nineteen eighty three, he was taken into custody on an

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illegal weapons charge, which ultimately led
to his confession of the murders of Kate

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Rich and Freida Powell. In a
chilling videotaped account, Lucas described how he

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had brutally murdered Powell and dismembered her
body, stuffing her remains into three separate

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pillow cases. Remarkably, the authorities
were able to locate Powell's remains exactly where

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Lucas had told them to look.
Lucas was found guilty of his crimes and

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received multiple sentences of seventy five years
and life imprisonment. The horrifying events we

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have recounted are a stark reminder of
the depths of depravity that human beings are

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capable of sinking to, and while
Henry's story is tragically all too from millier

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in the world of serial killers,
what happens next will leave you shocked and

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even more horrified. By October of
nineteen eighty three, he declared that he

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had murdered one hundred and fifty women
in brutal sexual assaults during his hitchhiking travels

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through seventeen states. This confession caused
a media frenzy, cementing Henry's reputation as

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one of the most heinous serial killers
in America. Additionally, he implicated oddas

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Tool as his accomplice in the crimes
and accused him of being responsible for a

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nineteen eighty two fire that claimed a
woman's life. Tool himself admitted to kidnapping

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and killing six year old Adam Walsh
in nineteen eighty one. For a little

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context, Adam Walsh was the six
year old son of John Walsh, host

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of the legendary America's Most Wanted Television
series, a program which helped spread public

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awareness of fugitives from justice and led
to over one thousand, one hundred and

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ninety captures. Adam Walsh's kidnap and
murder led John Walsh to a lifetime of

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fighting for the victims of crime and
helping them receive justice. Following the widespread

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reports and newspapers that mister Lucas had
claimed responsibility for the murders of one hundred

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and then one hundred and fifty women, authorities convened a three day conference.

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The conference brought together eighty five law
enforcement officers from twenty different states to untangle

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mister Lucas's statements and piece together the
travel history of both him and Oddest Tool.

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Investigators and participants in the conference revealed
a disturbing story of two violent men

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from impoverished and turbulent backgrounds who crossed
paths by chance. The pair traveled the

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country, picking up hitchhiking women,
breaking into homes, and finding victims by

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any means they had access to.
According to the conferees, they often stayed

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in campgrounds or other makeshift accommodations,
constantly on the move and usually selecting victims

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with whom they had no prior relationship. At the time, the claim that

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mister Lucas had killed one hundred and
fifty women was viewed by some as a

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stretch, to say the least.
However, in the months that followed,

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he continued to confess to hundreds more
murders. According to various sources, his

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total number of claimed victims eventually surpassed
six hundred. This prompted law enforcement agencies

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across the country to interrogate Henry Lee
Lucas, who was now a suspect in

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as many as three thousand homicides spanning
forty states. Ultimately, his cooperation helped

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police close two hundred and thirteen murder
cases. Sounds almost too good to be

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true, doesn't it. An article
published in The New York Times in November

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of nineteen eighty three, quotes Tom
Whitlock, the lawyer representing Henry Le Lucas

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in Denton, Texas, saying that
I don't believe he's committed all the crimes

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they say he has, not one
hundred and fifty. I have my doubts

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he killed one hundred. Certainly,
there's a temptation for law enforcement agencies to

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clear up their books. This way, I'm getting too many calls from agencies

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who have a body and want somebody
to blame it on the same article mentions

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that Robin Fryerson, the chief assistant
public defender in Stuart, Florida, described

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mister Toole as being slow witted and
not someone who had the capacity to get

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away with a murder. Frierson further
suggested that Oddas was confessing to these crimes

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simply for publicity. At the height
of the inquiry, these remarks were only

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unsubstantiated conjecture. Nevertheless, a significant
breakthrough occurred nearly two years later, as

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Henry retracted his confessions. According to
a nineteen eighty five article in the Dallas

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Times, Harold Henry claimed to have
only killed three people, his mother in

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nineteen sixty as well as Frieda also
known as Becky Powell, and Kate Rich

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in nineteen eighty two. The article
also stated that Lucas admitted he would have

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ended the deception months earlier, but
was warned that he would be immediately sent

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to death row at the Huntsville State
Penitentiary if he did so. The newspaper

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quoted mister Lucas as saying the bogus
confessions were intended to discredit law enforcement as

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quote really stupid. Quote. Now
we'll see who the real criminals are,

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Lucas stated. The newspaper further highlighted
the discrepancies in Henry's initial confession spree.

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According to the authorities, Lucas allegedly
drove a thirteen year old station wagon for

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eleven thousand miles between October second and
November second, nineteen seventy eight, during

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which he was accused of committing six
murders and one attempted kidnapping. However,

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the newspaper pointed out that in the
last four days of his journey, Lucas

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would have had to travel four thousand
and one hundred miles, meaning he would

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have to have drived at an average
speed of fifty miles per hour even if

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he had not stopped to sleep.
The mathematics simply did not add up.

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This report gives some credibility to the
theory that law enforcement were using Henry's confessions

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as an easy way to close cases. The director of the Texas Department of

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Public Safety, Colonel Jim Adams,
described the assertation of only three killings as

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ludacris, noting that mister Lucas described
as many as a hundred of the killings

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in exquisite detail, but mister Adams
conceded that the authorities might have been too

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willing to accept the confessions that cleared
unsolved killings. He said that mister Lucas

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frequently lied and had often given the
police bad information. Attorney General Maddox also

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acknowledged how Lucas wasn't always truthful during
the investigation. Maddox said that Lucas has

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now led us to believe that he
did not commit a very large number of

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these crimes, and he clearly quote
did not commit six hundred murders, but

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the question arises as to why he
lied in the first place. Henry Le

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Lucas claimed that his false confessions provided
him with certain privileges as a prisoner that

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he wouldn't have had otherwise. These
privileges included being unrestrained during long journeys to

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various crime scenes, having the ability
to order meals from fast food restaurants,

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and being able to walk freely through
police stations at some stops. Lucas believed

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that his confessions were a result of
a combination of tranquilizers, stakes hamburgers and

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milkshakes given to him by investigators,
as well as clues from the crime scenes

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that he simply repeated back to detectives. Henry Lee Lucas had previously admitted to

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the murder of Laura Marie Purchase and
was convicted for it in nineteen eighty six.

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However, in two thousand and seven, the Sheriff's Office Cold Case Squad

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reevaluated the DNA evidence collected during the
original investigation. Upon conducting a new analysis,

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both Lucas and his alleged accomplice,
Otis Elwood Tool, were ruled out

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as potential suspects based on their own
DNA samples. This serves as yet another

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instance highlighting the unreliability of Lucas's initial
confessions. In nineteen eighty four, Lucas

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was convicted for the rape and strangulation
of a woman, whose body clad only

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in a pair of orange socks,
was discovered in a ditch off Interstate thirty

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five north of Austin. Despite confessing
to the crime, Lucas later recanted and

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claimed that he had been lying.
The validity of his confession was called into

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question by an investigation conducted by former
Attorney General gimmatis, which raised doubts about

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Lucas's guilt. Records from Lucas's workplace
and a cashed paycheck indicated that he may

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have been in Florida at the time
of the murder on October thirty first,

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nineteen seventy nine, further casting doubt
on his involvement in the crime. As

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a result of these doubts, Henry
was spared from the death penalty in June

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nineteen ninety eight after Governor and future
President George W. Bush accepted a recommendation

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from the state Parole Board instead.
Lucas died in two thousand and one of

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a heart attack. At the time
of his death, only three of the

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murders he confessed to were confirmed to
be committed by him, while hundreds of

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cases were closed based on his confessions. Even when he later recanted the majority

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of them, they were never reopened. In two thousand and nineteen, a

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documentary titled The Confession Killer was created
by Robert Kenner, who found himself captivated

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by the case and committed to uncovering
the truth. Quote. If we were

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to take a conservative estimate, seventy
to one hundred cases are still crediting Lucas

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for the crime, whether formally or
informally, Probably one hundred and sixty or

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one hundred and seventy were never reinvestigated, which is an incredible number, said

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Kenner. While it is true that
Henry was a morally corrupt serial killer,

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the motive behind and covering the truth
about his crimes is not to clear his

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name, but rather to provide closure
for the families and friends of his victims.

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These individuals had previously believed that justice
had been served, only to learn

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years later that the actual perpetrator may
have never been held accountable for their own

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heinous acts. In a time before
DNA evidence, it was very convenient for

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law enforcement to have a monster like
Lucas to pin everything on, and Lucas

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loved to play along with whatever the
mainstream account of his reality was. At

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one point, Lucas claimed to be
a born again Christian who had been co

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opted by Satanic cults to commit murders. That story is equally fantastical, especially

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when you consider that the Satanic panic
of the nineteen eighties was almost entire early

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fabricated. He had simply heard about
it and added it to his own legend.

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In many ways, Henry Lee Lucas
will always be the tall Tale of

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serial killers, a Paul Bunyan of
murder and carnage. I'm not gonna lie.

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I don't like to pat myself on
the back too often, but calling

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Henry Lee Lucas the Paul Bunyan of
serial killers, well, I feel pretty

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proud of that one. That's when
I came up with to tack on to

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the end of the program. But
it's true. The man is a vicious,

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evil, bloodthirsty tall Tale, a
man who did do heinous things,

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undoubtedly, but who became a scapegoat
for a public desperate and hungry for answers.

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When terrible things happen to those you
love, it's very hard to have

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no answers, no clues to find
out the case has gone cold. Sometimes

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a lie seems better than the truth, but lies are never actually our friends.

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Lies simply misplace and offset the pain
that we're trying to escape. I

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have fond and terrifying memories of renting
Henry Portrait of a serial Killer and Confessions

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of a serial Killer from my local
video store. Henry Portrait of a serial

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Killer is the famous one, and
it does not accurately depict Henry Lelucas much

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at all, but it does lean
into his legend. Confessions of a serial

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killer, however, shows a lot
about the cruelty, the animus and the

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coldness of Henry le Lucas and I
recommend you check it out. I think

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you can rent it on Amazon.
The most chilling moment for me was right

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at the end of the film,
after Henry has confessed to murdering someone he

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loves and saying it's the only thing
he's ever regretted. Then he calmly looked

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up at the police and he asks, can I get another chocolate milkshake?

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Gives me chills to this day.
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