Name: Henry Lee Lucas
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Location (of Kills): Cross country United States
Number of Kills: confessed to 500 he was convicted 10
Gender of Victims: Men and Women
Sexual Contact: Rape, Molestation, Necrophelia
Types of Murder: Strangulation, Stabbing, Bludgeoning
The first murder occured in 1953. Henry Lee Lucas strangled a girl that he was trying to rape. In 1954, he was sent to prison for burglary. When released he stabbed his mother to death and then raped her corpse.
Lucas was sentenced to forty years in prison, eventually though he wound up in a mental hospital. Upon leaving he warned the guards and doctors not to let him go. Soon after Lucas returned to prison after molesting two girls.
Released in 1975, Lucas met up with Ottis Toole. These two then went on a killing spree.
In 1983, Lucas was picked up by police on a weapons charge. He confessed to many murders. No one knows how many murders he actually committed. Lucas confessed to five hundred murders. He was convicted of ten, he was then sentenced to die.