Henry Lee Lucas "The Confession Killer" Original Artwork — Transcript

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1. 0:01look at Henry he's Pleasant
2. 0:04he's non-threatening and actually a
3. 0:07killing machine 360 people Lucas was a
4. 0:23drifter who murdered at random during an
5. 0:25eight years free either they found that
6. 0:28world's worst serial killer or it was
7. 0:30the biggest hoax in American criminal
8. 0:32justice history
9. 0:33[Music]
10. 0:38death-row Huntsville Texas inside a
11. 0:43waiting execution is the world's most
12. 0:45notorious serial killer his name is
13. 0:48Henry Lee Lucas like say I'm the biggest
14. 0:52mass murderer in the United States and
15. 0:54they were where else
16. 0:56[Music]
17. 1:00today eight years after confessing to
18. 1:03more than 300 murders Lucas says he made
19. 1:06it all up his Henry Lee Lucas the
20. 1:09greatest serial killer of all time or
21. 1:11has he perpetrated the most
22. 1:13extraordinary fraud in American legal
23. 1:15history
24. 1:16[Music]
25. 1:39I took their panties no bra
26. 1:42I had sex learning well after that I cut
27. 1:48her up in little teeny pieces
28. 1:54in 1983 a penniless drifter named Henry
29. 1:58Lee Lucas was arrested in stone burg
30. 2:01Texas on suspicion of murdering an 80
31. 2:03year old widow what Lucas had to say
32. 2:06shocked investigators not only did he
33. 2:09confess to the murder of the old woman
34. 2:11he also claimed he'd killed 60 other
35. 2:13people it was the beginning of a
36. 2:17confession spree that would make Lucas
37. 2:19the most notorious killer in America
38. 2:22[Music]
39. 2:24it's like being a movie star you just
40. 2:29play in the park you know you don't
41. 2:33think of it you just play it make out
42. 2:38that you're the worst serial killer in
43. 2:41the history of the United States and
44. 2:44that's what I did
45. 2:45I was at home one Saturday morning back
46. 2:47in June of 1983
47. 2:52I had a call from the sheriff in
48. 2:55Montague County he called me and said
49. 2:58Jim I've got an old boy in jail up here
50. 3:02that you might want to talk to he is
51. 3:05confessed to killing two people close to
52. 3:10here
53. 3:10and has also said that he's killed a lot
54. 3:14of other people all over the country
55. 3:19stunned by Lucas's dramatic revelations
56. 3:22Sheriff Pat well called him the Texas
57. 3:24Rangers one of America's oldest and
58. 3:26proudest police forces a special task
59. 3:30force was formed to coordinate
60. 3:31nationwide investigations into the
61. 3:33killings
62. 3:34[Music]
63. 3:37Texas Ranger Bob Prince was assigned to
64. 3:40head the new force we were absolutely
65. 3:47deluged the first day that we opened the
66. 3:51task force doors we had 70 telephone
67. 3:56calls long distance telephone calls to
68. 3:58return and when we started returning
69. 4:02them we were receiving calls all the
70. 4:04time and we began booking interviews
71. 4:07with agencies to come an interview Lucas
72. 4:13I walked across to the courthouse and I
73. 4:16told the judge that committed these 60
74. 4:18murders you know and when I did it
75. 4:21seemed like the house fell to him
76. 4:23because I never seen as many helicopters
77. 4:25and and reporters and cars and police
78. 4:29cars and things that started to come in
79. 4:33there a videotaped confession by
80. 4:35admitted killer Henry Lee Lucas Lucas
81. 4:38who claims to have killed over 150 women
82. 4:40was brought into an area in an
83. 4:42undisclosed confirmed his involvement in
84. 4:45more than 200 murders and xxi took phone
85. 4:57calls from policemen all over the
86. 4:59country under the stewardship of the
87. 5:04Texas Rangers he provided details of the
88. 5:07hundreds of murders he claimed to have
89. 5:09committed Task Force investigators began
90. 5:16compiling a log which gave the locations
91. 5:18of the murders being attributed to Lucas
92. 5:24[Music]
93. 5:25piece by piece the taskforce built up a
94. 5:28picture of Lucas's life on the road
95. 5:30roaming the interstates in search of a
96. 5:32place to call home for more than eight
97. 5:37years
98. 5:37Lucas drifted from town to town going
99. 5:40nowhere and achieving nothing except
100. 5:43perhaps hundreds of murders I gave him a
101. 5:50number which I gave him a long time ago
102. 5:52that it was 150 nobody didn't believe it
103. 5:55and after I passed 150 people began to
104. 5:59wonder and I told him it's gonna be way
105. 6:02over 360 in tape-recorded confessions
106. 6:11Lucas provided gruesome details of his
107. 6:14eight-year orgy of killing
108. 6:27the other type of crime I got it every
109. 6:37case I would go out on for them you know
110. 6:39they would automatically pick up the
111. 6:42telephone and call lose me to tell them
112. 6:44that I've solved four or five cases a
113. 6:46day so the news media would come running
114. 6:49you know
115. 6:50[Music]
116. 7:00it was interview after interview I mean
117. 7:03I couldn't turn around unless it was an
118. 7:05interview and I started staying on TV 24
119. 7:09hours a day I mean it changed me and I
120. 7:14got so that I thought I was the biggest
121. 7:16movie star in this country
122. 7:20[Music]
123. 7:30feel my swagger Thank You Lucas did
124. 7:38become a movie star the cult film Henry
125. 7:41portrait of a serial killer was a
126. 7:43fictionalized account of his life
127. 7:48[Music]
128. 7:53Elvis Presley was supposed to be the
129. 7:55biggest shot but I think I even beat
130. 7:57Elvis Presley and I think I even beat
131. 8:02what's-his-name Adolf Hitler sing like I
132. 8:05was gonna beat him