Henry Lee Lucas Research Paper

Henry lee Lucas, was born on August 26, 1936 in Blacksburg Virginia. He died from a heart condition in 2001. Lucas confessed to killing hundreds of people, but the evidence only links him to two murders. The only two murders that he was linked to was the murder of his mother when he was 24- years-old, and the other murder was the murder of Kate Rich, she was an older woman he used to work for. While he was in prison a lot of movies and tv shows were made about lucas, like the movie a documentary from 1995 called “Henry Lee Lucas.” Another movie made about him is called “Portrait of a Serial Killer” It's mostly about the crimes him and his friend Ottis Toole committed together over the years. There was also a T.V series about him called

After that the two started to develop a homosexual relationship with each other. Toole confessed to helping Lucas murder at least 108 people. When Toole was a child he also had an abusive mother. Tooles mother would dress him up like a girl just like Lucas’s mother would to him, but the only difference is when she would dress toole up she called him Susan. He also had a mental retardation when he was a kid with an IQ of 75.1. On April 28, 1984, a jury found Toole guilty of first degree murder and sentenced him to death. After that Toole confessed to everything him and Lucas

He wasn't even arrested for the murders he committed over the years. The police didn't even know who they were dealing with until he confessed in his cell. He began to confess to hundreds of murders. The more he would confess the more far-fetched it sounded to investigators. Like I said before eventually he confessed to over 3,000 murders and that's when they figured out he was making false confessions for whatever reason.

After being put behind bar Lucas reign of terror has been put to an end. The families of the victims were happy to hear that he was finally gone, like the family of 82 year old Kate Rich. She was one of Lucas's first murders. The two met when Lucas acted like him and his sick “wife” needed a place to stay she was actually the 16 year old niece of his psycho path friend Ottis Toole. Kate let the two stay with her, and the next day they left. She ran into lucas a couple weeks later and he was saying his “wife” went missing, he asked for her help to find her so she got in his car. The two were driving and Kate saw a knife in the front seat, Lucas picked it up and casally stabbed her in the side of the