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0:06[Applause]
0:16in stoneberg Texas on July 11th 1983 a
0:19Drifter named Henry Lee Lucas was
0:21arrested for the illegal possession of a
0:23firearm as a convicted felon he wasn't
0:26allowed to have one Lucas was 46 at the
0:30the time and a suspect in the case of
0:32two missing women but thus far the leads
0:34were tenuous investigators were relieved
0:37to be able to lock him up for even a
0:39minor infraction because they figured
0:41that once he was in custody they could
0:43get him to talk about the women he'd
0:44known Kate Rich 82 and Becky Powell just
0:48a girl at 15 had been Lucas's
0:51companion Witnesses had seen him with
0:53Kate on the day she disappeared The
0:56oneeyed Drifter just looked like bad
0:58news waiting to happen at the very least
1:01he should be able to tell them why Becky
1:03was no longer with them Lucas was not
1:06happy about being locked up especially
1:08because it kept him from coffee and
1:10cigarettes he said that he'd been on the
1:12verge of helping to find Kate but now
1:14they could do without his
1:16assistance he was placed in a small cell
1:19in the monague county jail Lucas claimed
1:22later probably lying that the police had
1:24treated him badly stripping him denying
1:26him cigarettes holding him in a
1:28substandard cell and prohibiting his
1:30contact with an attorney he'd endured it
1:33for a period of 4 days and then decided
1:35to get their
1:37attention while talking with one of the
1:39jailers Joe Dawn Lucas admitted that
1:41he'd done some bad things as if to
1:44mitigate it he said that he tried and
1:46failed to get help I've killed for the
1:49past 10 years he confessed and no one
1:51will believe
1:52me clearly he was ready to talk so
1:55investigators were positive that they'd
1:57soon have the information they needed to
1:59wrap up these two cases indeed they did
2:03and then some Lucas's story is told in
2:07two full length books the confessions of
2:09Henry Lee Lucas by Mike Cox and hands of
2:12death by Max call although call
2:15apparently believed everything that
2:16Lucas said which in light of the details
2:19following makes his book less than
2:21credible Lucas has also been featured in
2:23several television documentaries such as
2:25A&E's myth of a serial killer and the
2:281986 movie Henry portrait of a serial
2:31killer which was recently released in a
2:3320th anniversary edition the road a 1988
2:37play by David Earl Jones was also based
2:39on stories Lucas
2:41told after admitting that he killed
2:43Lucas was charged with the murders of
2:45Kate rich and Freda Becky Powell he gave
2:48the authorities plenty of evidence
2:50including the decomposed pieces of Becky
2:53and at his June 21st arraignment in the
2:55monague County courtroom Lucas stated
2:57that he'd stabbed Kate Rich to death
3:00but then he went on waving his right to
3:02an attorney to say that he'd had sex
3:04with the body cut it into pieces and
3:07burned it in a wood stove behind his
3:09cabin I killed Kate Rich he told a
3:12courtroom full of curious cops and
3:14reporters and at least 100
3:17more the reaction was a stunned
3:21silence 100 either this guy was an out
3:24andout liar or he was about to
3:27officially become the most proficient
3:28serial killer in American
3:31history the judge asked Lucas if he'd
3:33ever been diagnosed by psychiatrist and
3:35he said he hadn't he was lying since
3:38he'd had several assessments during
3:40Stinson prison yet he added I know it
3:43ain't normal for a person to go out and
3:45kill girls just have sex with them in
3:48response to the judge's next question
3:50Lucas believed he was competent to stand
3:52trial so he was granted a public
3:54defender Don Maxfield to represent him
3:57when the judge entered a plea of not
3:59guilty for Lucas The Drifter asked will
4:01I still be able to go on helping find
4:03bodies he was urged to discuss it with
4:06his
4:07attorney by June 22nd thanks to a front
4:10page story Henry Lee Lucas had become a
4:13nationally famous serial
4:15killer the Texas Department of Public
4:17Safety had plenty of unsolved murder
4:19cases on the books and it appeared that
4:21Lucas was good for some of them the
4:24officers began the process by contacting
4:26other jurisdictions around the state to
4:28facilitate interviews between Lucas and
4:30relevant law enforcement officials word
4:33spread as well to officers in other
4:35states with open murder cases since
4:37Lucas had drifted around the country for
4:39several years his descriptions just
4:42might fit their Jane do so they were
4:44granted interviews in fact when an
4:47officer mentioned to the prisoner where
4:48he was from Lucas would often say oh
4:51yeah I got me some there in your
4:54area not everyone believed him and those
4:57with doubt sought corroborating evidence
4:59but it often seemed that Lucas with his
5:02prodigious memory offered details about
5:04a murder that had not been printed in
5:06the Press so his description seemed
5:08credible he also told them that he knew
5:11how not to leave evidence and in many
5:13cases his confession was the only thing
5:16that tied him to a body that made the
5:18requirement for corroboration
5:21difficult those officers who coordinated
5:23the interviews urged all incoming
5:25detectives to follow a careful protocol
5:28But ultimately it it was the job of each
5:30jurisdiction to decide if they accepted
5:32Lucas as the killer they sought for the
5:35court three psychiatrists were appointed
5:37to examine Lucas and although a gag
5:39order was imposed reporters flocked to
5:42Texas to try to get whatever they could
5:44if only a quote from a grocery clerk who
5:46had served the homely Outlaw some coffee
5:49his notoriety blossomed and several
5:51television news shows requested tapes of
5:54interviews Lucas signed statements about
5:56specific murders and offered drawings of
5:58more than S 70 bodies to officers who
6:01came or requested information and he
6:03soon had seven cases cleared including
6:06one that would become famously linked to
6:08him he described a woman he killed in
6:101979 and dumped several years earlier in
6:13a culvert off Interstate 35 north of
6:16Georgetown Texas when found she wore
6:19only a pair of orange socks so the
6:21officers had dubbed her orange socks
6:24Lucas not only described her and
6:26confessed to killing her in several
6:27statements but also took officers
6:30straight to where he dumped her over
6:33several months he offered more summaries
6:35for murders for which he had not yet
6:36been questioned including a husband and
6:39wife in one Texas County who'd owned a
6:41liquor store sometimes he murdered to
6:43Rob and then eliminate Witnesses other
6:46times he just enjoyed the transient
6:48feeling of power it gave him usually
6:51he'd quickly killed the girls or women
6:52he'd picked up because he preferred
6:54sexual contact with a corpse although
6:56Steven Edgar who interviewed him
6:58indicates in serial murder an elusive
7:00phenomenon that he was impotent to me he
7:03said in an interview aive woman ain't
7:07nothing Lucas generally used a knife or
7:09strangled them but he was an advocate
7:12for trying different methods so as to
7:14not leave a pattern that police might
7:16link together he appeared to be quite
7:18buoyant about his arrest according to
7:20American Justice and to accept with
7:22complacency that he could get the death
7:24penalty it seemed that being in prison
7:27suited him just fine espe especially
7:29because he was treated well and probably
7:31had better food and shelter than he was
7:33used to he did all he could to cooperate
7:36and the officers generally found him
7:38congenial nevertheless he would prove to
7:41be a
7:42trickster Lucas was arraigned for the
7:44orange socks murder on August 2nd 1983
7:48but in a surprised turnaround on August
7:5012th claimed that he was not guilty of
7:52Becky Powell's murder despite his
7:54initial statements at the end of
7:56September he waved his right to a trial
7:58for the murder of Kate rich and pled
8:00guilty receiving a sentence of 75
8:03years the following month his attorney
8:06asked the judge to consider throwing out
8:07Lucas's written and videotaped
8:09statements about his murder of Becky
8:11Powell on the tape Lucas was shown
8:13calmly describing how he killed and
8:15dismembered her and had sexual contact
8:17with the corpse so the judge decided the
8:19material would be admissible in addition
8:22the option of pleading Not Guilty by
8:24reason of insanity was denied that left
8:27Lucas's Defender with few options but it
8:29was Lucas himself who proved to be his
8:31own defender's greatest
8:34hurdle Lucas not only went to trial that
8:37November but also testified on his own
8:39behalf and seemed to hope to be
8:41convicted his attorney was Tom Whitlock
8:44who argued that Lucas had not intended
8:46to kill Becky on the stand a tearful
8:49Lucas admitted to Becky's murder but
8:51said he didn't know quite how it
8:53happened and he was full of remorse over
8:55it then after he was convicted and
8:58received a life sentence he
8:59congratulated the prosecutor with you
9:02did a good job Lucas then issued a
9:04statement to the effect that he'd not
9:06tried to win because he didn't want to
9:09previously he bragged to police that he
9:11was smart and could get out of anything
9:13if he wanted to his next trial would be
9:16for orange socks but this time it would
9:19be a capital crime where the death
9:21penalty was a possibility before that
9:23occurred Lucas got back in touch with an
9:25old friend and traveling partner Odus
9:27tulle if not for Otis he'd never have
9:30met
9:31Becky in 1976 after years in prison for
9:35various crimes Lucas had teamed up in
9:37Florida with arsonist and serial killer
9:39Otis Elwood TL 29 who enjoyed mutilating
9:43corpses they met says David Frasier in
9:46murder cases of the 20th century in a
9:48skid row Rescue Mission in
9:50Jacksonville although he's often been
9:52cast in Lucas's Shadow tuel had his own
9:55gruesome story and in the end it made be
9:59that he was in fact the more degenerate
10:01of the two of them he was a great school
10:04dropout with an IQ just above mentally
10:06and supposedly he'd been
10:09introduced to sex before the age of 10
10:11by his older sister and a gay
10:13neighbor tulle was born on March 5th
10:161947 in Jacksonville Florida abandoned
10:19by his alcoholic father he grew up in
10:21the custody of his mother whom he claims
10:23dressed him as a girl and his sister his
10:26mother supposedly was a religious
10:28fanatic while T's grandmother had been a
10:30Satanist writes Michael Newton in the
10:32encyclopedia of serial killers and had
10:34dubbed him the devil's child he'd watch
10:37her dig up Graves in search of body
10:39parts to use in her
10:41rituals already a Serial arsonist
10:44getting erotic enjoyment out of the
10:45fires he set and frequent runaway he
10:48committed his first murder at age 14 a
10:52traveling salesman had picked him up for
10:53sex and once they were in the woods tul
10:56ran the man over with his own car and
10:59and yet he dressed in drag to hunt for
11:01dates at the rescue
11:02mission TL was suspected in four other
11:05murders across the country before he met
11:07Lucas in Florida these involved
11:09shootings in Nebraska and Colorado and
11:11two stabbings in Colorado tulle had been
11:14married briefly but his wife managed to
11:16spend only 3 days with him before she
11:18departed in retrospect it's no
11:21wonder when tul met Lucas at the soup
11:24kitchen they went home together to have
11:26sex and soon became regular lovers
11:29apparently they recognized the kindred
11:31soul in each other so they traveled the
11:33country from 1978 until
11:361982 Lucas gave an interview in which he
11:38said that he had to re-educate tulle in
11:40the art of murder which became the basis
11:43for Henry portrait of a serial killer
11:45having studied prison records of how men
11:47were caught he wanted to be certain that
11:49tulle could follow directions and avoid
11:52detection he was doing his crimes all
11:54one way Lucas said I started to correct
11:57him in his ways in doing the crime where
12:00he wouldn't leave
12:02information they traveled together from
12:04one state to another reportedly 26
12:06States in DC and their favorite prey
12:08were female hitchhikers for Lucas or
12:10males for tulle but they also
12:13slaughtered people they robbed Lucas
12:15indicated that he had no feelings for
12:17any of the people they picked up he'd
12:19have a good time with them and then kill
12:21them and dump them out along the side of
12:23the road one time he'd even ridden
12:25across two states with the head of a
12:27victim in his back seat before before he
12:29realized he'd kept it during that time
12:32tul is mentioned in some accounts as
12:34having introduced Lucas to the Hand of
12:36Death cult telling them how they killed
12:38children for sacrifice to Satan Max call
12:42describes what they did in service to
12:43this cult supposedly learning to use
12:46rape as a tool of punishment and murder
12:48as part of the cult's overall plan they
12:51trained people like Otis and Henry to
12:53become killing machines however there
12:56was no corroboration for this story so
12:58law enforcement dismissed it as the
12:59imagination of a loser trying to seem
13:02more special than he
13:03was in 1977 tul married a woman 24 years
13:07his senior and insisted that she share
13:09him with Lucas according to interview
13:12she later gave he told her he couldn't
13:14perform with a woman unless he also knew
13:17he could get a man so the following year
13:19they
13:20separated Lucas's story is equally
13:22sorted and it Bears some odd
13:25similarities Lucas was born on August
13:2823rd 1936 In the Backwoods of Virginia
13:31to a man who' lost both legs in a train
13:33accident some sources say this was his
13:35stepfather and a woman named Viola a
13:38half Chipawa who made a living for her
13:40small family with prostitution and
13:42bootlegging reportedly she was mean when
13:45she drank Lucas said that she'd
13:47entertain clients in front of him his
13:49brother and his father some sources
13:51indicate he had eight siblings he even
13:54claims difficult as it is to believe
13:57that when he walked out one time into
13:58discussed his mother found him and beat
14:00him for not watching her with the client
14:03he also said that she used to dress him
14:05up as a little girl which humiliated him
14:07Edgar says that a half-sister claimed to
14:09have a picture of Henry with curls and
14:11wearing a
14:12dress psychologists who later evaluated
14:15Lucas indicated that his hatred of his
14:17mother was the source of his violent
14:19misogyny Lucas's father reportedly
14:21dragged himself outside into the snow
14:23one day and contracted a fatal case of
14:26pneumonia once when he was
14:29his mother struck him in the head with a
14:30wooden board he claimed that she knocked
14:33him out for a period of 3 days some
14:35sources say one day others indicate 11
14:38hours and therefore he suffered from
14:40headaches dizzy spells and blackouts he
14:43also took a knife wound to his left eye
14:45which left him with a vulnerable area on
14:47his face that would soon hurt in an
14:49accident at school his damaged eye was
14:51replaced with a glass eye that left him
14:53with a drooping eyelid according to
14:56Edgar children who knew him found him
14:58sullen and
14:59antisocial another story Lucas told is
15:02that one of his mother's lovers got him
15:04interested in beastiality with the slain
15:06carcasses of dogs and
15:08sheep he first killed someone he said
15:10just before he turned 15 in
15:131951 the reason he murdered this teenage
15:16girl was to see what it was like to have
15:18sex with a human or so The Story
15:21Goes Lucas certainly enjoyed the
15:23reactions his tales received and
15:25interviewers duly wrote them down in
15:281952 Lucas got in trouble with the law
15:32on June 12th 1952 he burglarized an
15:34appliance store and was sent to a
15:36Reformatory for 2 years upon release he
15:39committed a felony and got four years at
15:41the Virginia State Penitentiary he
15:44escaped stole a car and made his way to
15:46Michigan where he was arrested and
15:48returned to prison when he was finally
15:50done with the sentence he went to live
15:51with his half sister into Comey Michigan
15:54then his mother came for a visit she was
15:5674 at the time
15:59on January 11th 1960 after drinking too
16:02much Lucas and his mother got into an
16:04argument supposedly over a woman Lucas
16:06wanted to marry he grabbed a knife and
16:09plunged it into her neck he remembered
16:11only that he knocked her a little and
16:13she had a heart attack Lucas was
16:15convicted of second deegree murder and
16:17sent to a state prison in Southern
16:19Michigan there he tried to commit
16:21suicide and was transferred to a
16:22forensic psychiatric
16:24hospital for his mother's murder he
16:26served 10 years of a 20e sentence but
16:29then as soon as he was released he got 3
16:31and A2 years for trying to kidnap two
16:34girls once he was out he moved to
16:36Pennsylvania and got married in 1975 but
16:39abandoned his wife when she accused him
16:41of molesting her daughters that's when
16:44the oneeyed killer started to
16:46travel in Florida he took up with TL and
16:49they went cross country together for a
16:52while T's orphaned nephew and niece
16:54Frank and Becky Powell came with them
16:56Lucas had started having sex with Becky
16:58when she was only 12 while they'd been
17:00rolling around on a bed tickling each
17:02other she seemed willing to do anything
17:05to be with them and he later said he
17:07grew to love her he liked that she
17:09seemed to accept everything he
17:11said when T's mother died in 1981 he
17:14started drinking and taking drugs around
17:17this time on July 27th 6-year-old Adam
17:20Walsh disappeared from a shopping mall
17:22on August 10th his head was found in a
17:24canal ditch in Vero Beach Tua later
17:27claimed to be his killer and this murder
17:29precipitated the show America's Most
17:31Wanted hosted by Adam's Father John
17:34Walsh the assistant police chief
17:36believed him but then later cleared him
17:38as a suspect and he did recant this
17:41crime Lucas took Becky with him in 1982
17:44because he wanted her to himself and
17:46tulle was so angered by their betrayal
17:49that he allegedly killed nine people in
17:51six different states in the course of 13
17:53months he was caught in Florida burning
17:55a building and was imprisoned with a
17:5720-year sentence he admitted to having
17:59set some 40 fires but that did not bring
18:03back his former lover or his niece in
18:06fact tulle would never see Becky
18:09again in the meantime Lucas had wandered
18:12around Texas with his child bride
18:14finally settling with Kate Rich however
18:17relatives disliked them and kicked them
18:19out according to the American Justice
18:21documentary they found a new home near
18:23stoneberg in a Pentecostal commune a
18:25former chicken ranch known as the house
18:28of prayer the head of the group Ruben
18:30Moore was both a lay Minister and a
18:33contractor so he gave Lucas and Becky
18:36who claimed to be husband and wife a
18:38shack to live in Edgar says a trailer
18:41and hired Lucas for some odd
18:43jobs Max call indicates that Lucas left
18:46Florida when he did to avoid
18:47implications in the murder of a female
18:49school teacher and he also writes that
18:51the new digs in Texas had connections to
18:53the Hand of Death cult in which Lucas
18:55was supposedly a member call also Des
18:58described Kate Smith as a member
19:00suggesting that she paid Lucas for
19:01activities involving organized crime
19:04there's no reason to suppose any of that
19:06was
19:07true according to the story Lucas told
19:10Becky eventually tired of the living
19:12conditions and wanted to return home on
19:14August 24th 1982 the day after Lucas's
19:17birthday Becky argued with him saying
19:20she missed her family but Lucas was
19:22afraid that he'd lose her if they went
19:24back so he resisted he also knew he
19:27faced a warrant for stealing a truck but
19:29Becky would not give up she pouted and
19:32cried so he finally relented and told
19:35her to get ready to
19:36go because he had no license plates on
19:39his car he decided they should hitchhike
19:41and they got a ride as far as Denton
19:43Texas north of Dallas Lucas then got a
19:46six-pack of beer and tried again to
19:48persuade Becky to give up the idea she
19:51argued back which reminded Lucas of his
19:53mother and then Becky slapped him he'd
19:57reacted by killing her with a meat
19:58carving knife shoving it straight into
20:00her chest he was angry he later said
20:04that she just would not take
20:05responsibility for herself to his horror
20:09she died quickly she was gone before I
20:11knew it then right next to the
20:14interstate on a blanket that Becky had
20:16spread for them to sleep he raped the
20:18corpse he thought it was the best sex
20:21he'd ever had with her he then removed
20:24her head dismembered her removing her
20:26hands with special care and cut the
20:28trunk of her body into two large pieces
20:31the person who once had been Becky now
20:33lay there in nine pieces these he placed
20:36into a pillowcase but then he removed
20:38them and just scattered them around a
20:40nearby field he also dumped Becky's
20:42purse in a small suitcase no one knew
20:45them around these parts he figured so no
20:47one could trace it later he expressed
20:49regret because he claimed that he truly
20:51loved
20:53Becky once he cleaned off her blood he
20:55hitched her ride back to the house of
20:57prayer and told more than the others
20:58that Becky had gotten into a truck and
21:00left him then a couple of weeks later he
21:03returned to the area to bury some of the
21:04remains in a shallow hole near a cops of
21:07trees within another week he was
21:09contemplating another murder it was
21:13about 3 weeks after Becky's demise on
21:15September 16th the things went sour with
21:17Kate Rich Lucas went into Ringold where
21:20she lived knocked on her door and asked
21:23if she wanted to help him look for Becky
21:25or so he told the Rangers she to go
21:28happy to get out of the house and Lucas
21:30stopped first for beer on the car seat
21:33between them was a butcher's
21:35knife Lucas clearly had something else
21:38in mind since he knew that Becky was
21:40dead whether or not Kate questioned him
21:42about going north the wrong direction is
21:45anyone's
21:46guess Lucas had downed a lot of beer
21:49when he said he was seized with the idea
21:50of killing Kate he drove down a dirt
21:53road past a campground and then stopped
21:55the car he grabbed the knife and shov
21:58DED it into Kate's left side pushing her
22:00against the door he pulled the knife out
22:02and went around to the passenger side
22:05when he opened the door Kate fell onto
22:06the ground she was dead from a wound to
22:09her heart Lucas was immediately aroused
22:13so he pulled the corpse down an
22:14embankment and removed the clothing I
22:17got naked he told the Rangers and
22:19screwed her until I finished he then
22:21dragged her to a large drainage pipe
22:23near the road he shoved both the corpse
22:26and the clothing into it as far as he
22:27could until he felt certain no one would
22:30find her the next day Lucas left the
22:32house of prayer and took off getting as
22:35far as Needles California before the car
22:37gave out but Lucas wasn't finished with
22:40Kate he drifted for a month and then
22:42returned to where he'd hidden the body
22:45he learned that he was suspected in her
22:46disappearance and endured a polygraph
22:48examination but he got away with it no
22:52one arrested him Lucas retrieved the
22:54decomposing remains and put them into a
22:56stove at the house of prayer to to
22:58incinerate them after his confession
23:01investigators went to where Lucas had
23:02indicated he'd killed Kate and found the
23:04drainage pipe a broken pair of women's
23:07glasses and a pair of panties back at
23:10the house of prayer in the wood burning
23:11stove they found ashes and what looked
23:14like human bone and burnt flesh in
23:17another area where Lucas had dumped
23:18ashes they also found bone fragments
23:21Lucas also showed them where he'd thrown
23:23Kate's purse exactly the spot where it
23:26had been found months before
23:28officers including Texas Rangers then
23:31took Lucas to the Denton area to try to
23:33find Becky's remains he went right to
23:36the cops of trees where he buried her
23:37and pointed to several areas on the
23:39ground they dug at seven different
23:41locations and found clothing bones a
23:44skull and decomposing
23:46Remains the corroboration of two murders
23:49both of which appeared to show
23:50experience with killing and hiding
23:52evidence made the possibility that Lucas
23:54was telling the truth about others even
23:56a hundred others seemed more likely now
23:59to at least some of the
24:01officers Lucas wanted to clear his
24:03conscience entirely so after he was
24:06convicted of Becky's murder he wrote
24:07Otis TL a four-page letter to inform him
24:10of Becky's death and to get his
24:12assistance in recalling the details of
24:13the murders they' committed together he
24:16said that he hadn't yet mentioned TL
24:18although he had and would leave it up to
24:20him as to whether he wanted to be
24:22involved in fact the Jacksonville police
24:24had already been contacted about murders
24:26in their area committed are these two
24:29losers the letter went to tul in prison
24:32he'd heard about Lucas's confessions and
24:34he readily backed them up adding
24:36gruesome details of his own tul offer
24:39details that seemed to clear some two
24:41dozen murders in 11 states and he agreed
24:44that he'd participated with Lucas in
24:46over a 100
24:47killings in one disturbing phone call
24:50that they were allowed to make their
24:51first Contact in 2 years tulle urged
24:54Lucas to go ahead and spit it out if
24:56there was a crime that he'd had a hand
24:57hand in t also tried to go Lucas into
25:00admitting to cannibalism in a
25:03documentary made for American Justice he
25:05was quoted in a taped conversation as
25:07saying remember that one time I said I
25:10wanted to try some ribs did that make me
25:12a cannibal he indicated that they both
25:15had filleted some meat from the bodies
25:17and mentioned that he'd poured out some
25:19blood so he could see what the male
25:21victim tasted like Lucas responded I've
25:24seen bodies cut up worse than you've
25:26ever seen bodies cut up
25:28Odus ignored this one-upmanship and
25:30indicated that with barbecue sauce it
25:33tasted like real meat Lucas said that
25:35he'd abstained from that behavior
25:37because he didn't like the taste of
25:39barbecue sauce he did tell tulle that
25:41they had the devil in them that made
25:43them do these things that most people
25:45didn't you and I have become the same
25:47things that people look at as animals
25:50Lucas stated as quoted in Cox's
25:52book after about half an hour they said
25:55goodbye to each other apparently having
25:57thoroughly enjoyed the repulsive show
25:59they'd put on for law enforcement Bob
26:01Prince from the Lucas task force spotted
26:04the game and believed to decreased their
26:06credibility despite Lucas's claim to
26:09want to do the right thing he simply
26:11took too much delight in what he was
26:13doing later the partners were brought
26:16face to face when Lucas was taken to
26:18Jacksonville to talk with officers there
26:20but said nothing of substance T forgave
26:23Lucas for killing Becky shrugging it off
26:26as her time to die
26:28with new information supplied by Lucas
26:30tul received a death sentence when it
26:32was determined that one of the Fire Seed
26:34set had killed a man he received a
26:37second death sentence for the murder of
26:38an elderly woman but both were commuted
26:41to life after Thanksgiving in 1983 the
26:45Texas Rangers spearheaded the Henry Lee
26:47Lucas task force in a one-day event
26:50sponsored by the Texas Department of
26:51Public Safety on December 7th Texas
26:54Lawman questioned Lucas in the hopes of
26:56closing their open cases
26:58at the time Lucas had taken credit for
27:00around 126 murders and the Rangers
27:03believed that 35 were clearly associated
27:05with them however they were also aware
27:08that Lucas had lied about some and had
27:10said he was unclear about details of
27:12others because he'd been under the
27:14influence of alcohol or drugs while they
27:17collected information and contacted
27:19other agencies they filled in gaps about
27:21lucas' whereabouts as best they could
27:23during his murdering
27:25years then for 3 days in January 1984
27:28107 officers from 18 states and the
27:31District of Columbia filled the holodome
27:33in Monroe Louisiana for second
27:35conference about the homicides allegedly
27:37killed by Henry Lee Lucas the first one
27:40drawing not quite as many had been in
27:42October at that time it was announced
27:44that 72 cases had been cleared on Lucas
27:47and tlle and that they were suspects in
27:4971 more
27:51cases he was going to be allowed to book
27:53interviews by phone or in person until
27:55his murder trial in March for the orange
27:57s fo murder he had two courta appointed
27:59attorneys looking after his rights the
28:02Rangers urged officers not to give Lucas
28:05too many details or photographs because
28:07they wanted to be certain that cases
28:09that were cleared stayed
28:11clear Lucas did appear to close cases
28:14and accurately lead investigators to
28:16crime scenes he knew details about
28:18murders to which he confessed that had
28:20not been published in the press in a
28:22case in kenowick Washington he described
28:25the murder of a woman in impressive
28:26detail and his blood was matched to
28:28blood on a towel which he said he'd use
28:30to wipe his hand after cutting himself
28:32with a murder weapon I had no feelings
28:35for the people themselves or any of the
28:37crimes he stated I'd pick them up
28:39hitchhiking running and playing stuff
28:41like that we'd get to going and having a
28:44good time first thing you'd know i'
28:46killed her and threw her out
28:48somewhere finally he faced his most
28:51serious charge the trial for the murder
28:53of the victim known only as orange socks
28:56took place in March in San Angelo Texas
28:59district attorney Ed Walsh was the chief
29:01prosecutor while Don higginbottom and
29:04Parker mccullock defended Lucas the case
29:07was to be heard before Judge John Carter
29:09who'd recently presided over the trial
29:11of nurse Janine Jones for the murder of
29:13a
29:14child the trial began with reports of
29:16how the victim had been murdered
29:18including Lucas's edited confession in a
29:21written statement and on tape he
29:23described how he picked her up as a
29:25hitchhiker had sex with her killed her
29:27had sex again and dumped her in the
29:29Culvert skinning his knee on the guard
29:31rail a videotape showed Lucas directing
29:34police officers to where he dropped the
29:36victim's
29:37body however the defense attorneys
29:40proved that the unedited tape revealed
29:42that Lucas sometimes contradicted
29:44himself and suffered from Key lapses in
29:46memory the sheriff even had to refresh
29:48his memory at times during the interview
29:51which suggested that Lucas simply read
29:53the sheriff's desire for information and
29:55gave him what he wanted the defense also
29:58used work records to show that Lucas had
30:00been in Florida on October 31st and had
30:02cashed a check on November 1st and they
30:05tied it all up with psychiatric
30:06testimony to show that Lucas was insane
30:10psychologist Tom Kubin said that Lucas
30:12had an IQ of 84 a desire to feel
30:15important a feeling of inferiority and a
30:18belief that he could not direct his own
30:20actions he also had
30:23schizophrenia Lucas cried in court when
30:25he heard all of this forcing a reset
30:28the prosecution hit back with evidence
30:30that suggested that Lucas's boss might
30:32have recorded his presence at work when
30:34he was not there they also supplied
30:37psychiatric testimony that Lucas was not
30:39insane in addition on one of the tapes
30:42Lucas claimed 360 murders we killed them
30:46almost every way there is except poison
30:49detailing exactly what he
30:51meant despite the defense's best efforts
30:54not the least of which was a client who
30:56had proved most helpful to the other
30:58side the jury convicted Lucas and
31:00sentenced him to die afterward he seemed
31:03unfazed even happy it was as if he'd
31:07finally become someone of
31:09importance yet not everyone who'd been
31:12at the trial agreed with a verdict it
31:14seemed that Lucas only knew key facts
31:16about the crime after the sheriff had
31:18refreshed his memory it was the worst
31:21confession said Hugh answorth a reporter
31:23for the Dallas Times Herald who decided
31:26to do some more digging
31:28Lucas's casee occurred in the midst of
31:30an incident in Texas that provides some
31:32context for its eventual unraveling so
31:35let's look first at that one Roger
31:38Draper in a lengthy 1994 article about
31:41the one-time Frontier ethic of the Texas
31:43Rangers for Texas monthly discusses
31:46Lucas in the context of what he refers
31:48to as the infamous brandley case Draper
31:51states that this epitomized the
31:53wrongheadedness of the Ranger
31:55way on August 28th 1980 Ranger Wesley
31:59Styles investigated the assault and
32:01strangulation murder of a high school
32:03cheerleader he arrested the custodian
32:05Clarence brandley the next day without
32:08having questioned a single witness he
32:10was quickly charged with capital murder
32:13a jury later convicted him on nothing
32:15more than tenuous circumstantial
32:17evidence but Styles's tunnel vision
32:20approach was reviewed in 1989 by the
32:22Court of Criminal Appeals and the
32:24justices found that he had ignored
32:25evidence that pointed to other suspects
32:28he'd also threatened the state star
32:30witness and lied on the stand brandley
32:33on death row was
32:35freed before that conviction was
32:37overturned and the Rangers embarrassed
32:39by one of their own they were already
32:41going through a much more humiliating
32:43process at the hands of Lucas their Zeal
32:46was commendable but not their approach
32:49one Ranger in particular bought the
32:51whole
32:52package Max call was one of the Texas
32:55Rangers who took over the Lucas case
32:58although Call's book Hand of Death is
33:00generally discredited since he not only
33:03befriended Lucas but also accepted
33:05everything Lucas said at face value call
33:07even named Lucas as a member of the
33:09Lucas task force it may nevertheless be
33:11the best account available of what Lucas
33:14actually
33:15said Cole makes it clear that Lucas was
33:17getting plenty of attention a high
33:19security cell good food and numerous
33:22trips in the company of two Texas
33:24Rangers that's motivation for men with
33:27nothing to keep making up
33:29Whoppers Henry worshiped Satan call
33:32writes and believed his lies because he
33:35found justification for his fantasies in
33:37Satan's service call believed that Lucas
33:40had joined tulle in the so-called Hand
33:42of Death cult in the Florida everes and
33:44he thought that by writing the book he
33:46would be warning people about this
33:48dangerous organization he seemed to
33:51genuinely believe that Henry Lee Lucas
33:53assisted in 360 rapes and murders at the
33:56behest of the Hand of Death which
33:58supposedly had links to organized crime
34:00and practiced the sacrifice of females
34:03in fact Lucas indicated that they'd
34:05recruited and trained him specifically
34:07to become a killing machine and he was
34:09able to describe just how these supposed
34:11sacrifices
34:13worked Call's gullibility is obvious
34:16when he says that Lucas wanted to
34:17confess as a way of exposing the cult
34:20and it's likely that Lucas keed into
34:21Call's own religious beliefs to hook
34:24them and play him the book is replete
34:26with with religious ideology especially
34:29when it seems that Becky's found the way
34:31out through the Bible call seems to like
34:34this moral angle playing it up whenever
34:36he can in addition he accepts whatever
34:39Lucas tells him for example Lucas
34:42apparently described TL as a nicelooking
34:44young man when in fact TL is closer to
34:47winning the contest for homeliest serial
34:50killer unfortunately most of Call's
34:53chapter about Lucas's childhood
34:54experience with his mother was clearly
34:57corroborated and there's no way of
34:58knowing how much is factual Lucas was
35:01angry at his mother and he likely skewed
35:04the story to make her look as evil as
35:06possible other authors have picked up on
35:08this account including psychologists and
35:11criminologists so it's important to
35:13reiterate that there's little in Lucas's
35:15account of his childhood that bears the
35:16stamp of corroborated
35:18fact anything the call writes about must
35:21be viewed with some skepticism
35:23especially since he recreates it as a
35:25story with d and incidents he never
35:29witnessed as Lucas's death toll climbed
35:31to some 600 victims in 27 different
35:34states and in Canada According to some
35:37accounts though others capit at 360 it
35:40began to seem as if he was just a
35:42compulsive Confessor he'd added in the
35:44satanic cult activity which at the time
35:47seemed to justify his numbers but it
35:49only made some people suspicious that it
35:52was all a
35:53hoax Cox describes how reporter Hugh
35:56answorth co-writer was Steven mishod on
35:58a book about Ted Bundy sat through
36:00Lucas's trial and had his doubts he did
36:03some sleuthing and found that Lucas had
36:05been out of state or in prison at times
36:08when some of the murders to which he'd
36:09confessed had occurred that inspired
36:11mclennen County DA Vic Fel to look into
36:15Lucas's confessions to two murders in
36:17his own area apparently Lucas had
36:19written a letter to a reporter in Fort
36:21Worth suggesting that he was not
36:23actually responsible for all the murders
36:25he' claimed and and that the parents of
36:27one of Lucas's supposed victims decided
36:30after reviewing a statement that he was
36:32not the killer of their
36:34daughter answorth had interviewed Lucas
36:36himself and wrote a lengthy piece that
36:38was published on April 14th
36:401984 he asked the important question was
36:44it all a hoax he believed it was and
36:47accused the task force of failing to
36:49follow leads that may have undermined
36:51lucas' credibility such as noting the
36:53distance between crime scenes that made
36:55it virtually imposs possible for Lucas
36:57to have committed some murders that were
36:59close together in time he thought the
37:01information about many of the murders
37:03had been fed to Lucas in order to close
37:05the
37:06cases supposedly Lucas had finally
37:09admitted that he was good for only three
37:11murders in his life his mother Becky and
37:15Kate but Lucas told a l sister who then
37:18told other reporters that he'd lied to
37:20answorth and was in fact the Monstrous
37:23killer he claimed his Newfound religion
37:26for fored them to tell the truth but
37:28Lucas told a lay sister who then told
37:30other
37:31reporters officers involved insisted
37:34that they did not believe everything
37:35Lucas said but when he knew key
37:38unpublished details and could lead them
37:40directly to a crime scene that was
37:42convincing evidence he certainly had
37:45killed far more than three in fact by
37:48that point writes Cox 189 murders had
37:51been cleared and attributed to him on
37:54April 23rd he said that the only person
37:56he'd ever killed was his mother and that
37:59had been an accident he'd been able to
38:01clear so many murders because the
38:03Rangers had given him everything he
38:04needed to do so pictures reports and
38:07even leading them to the crime scenes he
38:10got a live appearance on Good Morning
38:11America to repeat his
38:13allegations his decision to recant he
38:16said was based on his belief in God the
38:18same reason he'd earlier given to
38:20confess to so many
38:22murders this news was just as stunning
38:25as his initial confession and the
38:27officers involved quickly mobilized to
38:29try to piece together some dignity
38:31apparently Lucas enjoyed shocking law
38:34enforcement with numbers perverse
38:35activities and gruesome details
38:38nevertheless he did point to places
38:40where victims were found and now it's
38:42estimated by some that he was
38:44responsible for some 40 to 50 murders on
38:47the other hand those who make this
38:49estimation may also be saving face not
38:51willing to admit that they may have fed
38:53him
38:55information Ryan reports the manner in
38:57which Lucas typically confessed to a
38:59number of unsolved murders if a police
39:01agency suspected Lucas and if Lucas
39:04admitted involvement and his total of
39:06some 3,000 confessions suggest he rarely
39:08denied complicity they would send the
39:10Lucas task force a case File with
39:12information pertaining to the unsolved
39:14crime Lucas would be questioned at
39:16length and sometimes even allowed to
39:19read police reports thus learning any
39:21number of details previously known only
39:23to police which he could then
39:25regurgitate at
39:27will the Rangers insisted that Lucas was
39:30a serial killer and they were reportedly
39:32annoyed with fil for interfering they
39:35claimed that they'd taken much more care
39:37in keeping details from Lucas than they
39:39were being accused of yet Draper says
39:42that one Ranger told the da I'm going to
39:44make you regret this if it's the last
39:46thing I
39:47do but the damage had been done the
39:51media had picked up on this hoax which
39:53was nearly too good to be true and Lucas
39:56status changed from one of the world's
39:58most notorious Killers to one of the
40:00world's most notorious Liars no matter
40:04what he said now no one would believe
40:06it this made all those in law
40:09enforcement who had rushed to interview
40:10him and who had closed cases look rather
40:13lame several retired Rangers later said
40:16that it was their impression during the
40:18interrogations that Lucas was a liar
40:21still it was difficult for them to
40:23accept that in cases where Lucas LED
40:24them to the right spot where B Lane he
40:27had nothing to do with it he simply Knew
40:29Too Much about certain crimes on his own
40:32without
40:33assistance then on April 29th Lucas
40:36returned to some of his original
40:38statements he gave an interview to a
40:40radio show personality indicating that I
40:43have killed the people I said I killed
40:46he again put the figure at
40:48360 then he said that everything was a
40:50lie and indicated that the hands of
40:52death cult was going to assassinate him
40:55no one knew quite what to make of a
40:57killer confessing to so many crimes he
40:59did not do but then he insisted that
41:01he'd been forced to recant his
41:04persistent waffling further reduced his
41:07credibility police are familiar with
41:09several types of false confessions
41:11including from people who confess
41:13spontaneously to something they did not
41:15do that's usually in response to a
41:17high-profile case in the hope of
41:19becoming
41:20famous sometimes it's about misplaced
41:23guilt where the Confessor believes he
41:25should be punished for something
41:27anything there are also coerced
41:29confessions usually offered when the
41:31person under interrogation is exhausted
41:33naive frightened or mentally impaired
41:36some people fear that the interrogation
41:38will be stressful so they capitulate
41:40quickly but on rare occasions a person
41:43may internalize the events and actually
41:45believe he or she did it that occurs
41:49when an interrogator seems confident of
41:51the suspect's guilt and may even lie or
41:53use manipulative tactics the
41:56characteristics of those most likely to
41:57falsely confess include youth a low IQ
42:01mental illness or confusion a high
42:03degree of suggestibility a trusting
42:05nature low self-esteem high anxiety and
42:07a poor memory but the person seeking to
42:10attach himself to a specific case seems
42:13closest to what Lucas did in Texas
42:16monthly Draper indicates that the
42:18Rangers had been overeager in their
42:20desire to close open cases so they
42:22provided Lucas with some of the details
42:24he needed to confess they called it
42:27helping to refresh his memory and he
42:29fully exploited it for his own ends he
42:32had nothing whatsoever to lose but
42:34plenty to gain by way of entertainment
42:37and feeling
42:38empowered in fact Lucas confessed to a
42:41murder in Little Rock Arkansas that had
42:43already been solved which made a DA
42:45there suspicious of his admissions the
42:48same thing happened with West Virginia
42:49officials when Lucas claimed credit for
42:51killing a police officer whose death was
42:53determined to have been a
42:55suicide in another Arkansas case Lucas
42:58could not offer details until after
43:00State Police had shown him a crime scene
43:02video that they'd made it was easy then
43:04for him to give them whatever they
43:06needed to tie him to that murder he also
43:09confessed to a killing in Delaware in
43:11which there was already a suspect in
43:12custody that suspect eventually
43:14confessed as
43:16well I set out to break and corrupt any
43:18law enforcement officer I could get
43:20Lucas said I think I did a pretty good
43:24job through dubious method says dra the
43:27Rangers extracted literally hundreds of
43:29confessions from Henry Lee Lucas perhaps
43:33Lucas was living by the principle that
43:34Edgar attributes to him if rules
43:37befitted him he went along if they
43:40didn't he broke them in other words he
43:43cleaved to whatever he thought was in
43:45his best interest at the
43:46moment on June 11th 1984 further
43:50investigations of open cases were halted
43:52while many of the cleared cases had
43:54already been reopened
43:56Lucas was transferred to the state
43:58prison at Huntsville claiming that his
44:00rights prior to the trial for orange
44:02socks had been violated somehow he
44:05believed that by undermining law
44:06enforcement as he' done he'd regain his
44:09freedom he told one officer he'd be free
44:12in a month in 1991 Odis TL received four
44:16more life sentences for the murders of
44:18three women and a man in Florida between
44:201980 and
44:211981 Lucas was charged along with them
44:24but not brought to Florida for
44:26prosecution 5 years later in 1996 tul
44:30died in prison from therosis of the
44:32liver before that happened a curious
44:35incident involved his former partner
44:38Lucas many serial killers attract
44:40groupies and while Lucas was not among
44:43the bestl looking men he was certainly
44:45notorious and had a share of admirers
44:48one woman Phyllis Wilcox even came up
44:50with a plot to free him by posing as his
44:53supposedly murdered former girlfriend
44:55Ryan McMichael includes an interview
44:57with her on his website given after she
44:59wrote to him in 2000 when he posted an
45:02online blog about
45:03Lucas according to this story in October
45:061992 Willcox posed as Becky all grown up
45:10although some 15 years older than Becky
45:12would have been at the time claiming
45:14that she was still alive so that she
45:16could get him out of that murder wrap
45:18she was actually a mother and
45:19grandmother aged 40 and living in Cape
45:21gyo Missouri she met Lucas via
45:24correspondence after reading a book
45:26about him and she soon
45:28visited she indicates that although she
45:30was nervous about going into prison and
45:32quite intimidated by the sight of Lucas
45:34and handcuffs surrounded by guards she
45:36had a wonderful time and made many more
45:38visits thereafter among the subjects
45:41they discussed was Becky
45:43Powell Lucas apparently claimed that
45:46he'd seen Becky get into a truck but he
45:48told authorities that he'd killed her so
45:50they wouldn't attempt to implicate her
45:51in the murders that he'd committed in
45:54other words she says he told Wilcox that
45:57Becky was still alive Lucas also denied
46:00killing Kate rich and orange socks
46:02indicating that the oven in which he
46:04supposedly had burned Kate was too small
46:06for a woman as fat as she was and would
46:08not have gotten hot enough to have
46:10burned her to Ash he was sure that the
46:12authorities found some chicken bones
46:14nothing more and exaggerated their
46:17significance about orange socks he
46:19claimed that the bruises around her neck
46:21did not even fit his hands but he did
46:24admit that he'd murdered his mother
46:27Wilcox bought it all and confessed to
46:29McMichael that despite being married she
46:31soon became obsessed with Lucas thinking
46:33and dreaming about him all the time she
46:36knew she was falling in love he accepted
46:39her feelings and told her he loved her
46:41too it wasn't long before Wilcox grew
46:44afraid that Lucas might be executed so
46:47she devised a plan to make sure that
46:49didn't happen she believed that he was
46:51innocent of the charges she'd even come
46:54up with a way to exonerate in her mind
46:56of killing his mother by blaming someone
46:58else so she posed as Becky and Lucas
47:01backed her up he said that he'd only
47:03confessed to murdering Becky because he
47:05wanted to embarrass the police he seems
47:08to have forgotten that they actually
47:10picked up Becky's remains as Lucas
47:12showed them where each piece was they
47:15didn't get away with it Fraser indicates
47:18that Wilcox was revealed when this hoax
47:20was unraveled as a diagnosed
47:22schizophrenic who had also corresponded
47:24with John Wayne gasy and Charles Manson
47:27but Lucas was still determined to beat
47:29his death
47:30sentence while it was clear that Lucas
47:33had committed four murders including his
47:35mother even one of those orange socks
47:38eventually came under doubt the only
47:41thing linking Lucas to Orange socks was
47:43essentially his confession in fact some
47:462133 cases had been cleared through
47:49Lucas's confessions which concerned the
47:51writers of the Lucas report a document
47:54commissioned by the Texas Attorney
47:55General's
47:56office ultimately Lucas was convicted of
47:59only 11 homicides says Edgar though some
48:02criminologists believe he was
48:04responsible for between 40 to 50 murders
48:07still no one knows for sure the death
48:10sentence for the murder of orange sock
48:11stood for many years although Lucas
48:14received two stays of execution because
48:16the evidence was too slim apparently it
48:19was now the case that the work records
48:20that had been discredited at the trial
48:22were now considered viable evidence on
48:25Lucas's half that's because a lot more
48:27research has been
48:29done former Attorney General's
48:31investigator Michael Fury had developed
48:33a thick file about Lucas's whereabouts
48:35on the night that orange socks had been
48:37murdered the documentation made it clear
48:40that he was indeed in Jacksonville
48:42Florida Fury had utilized records such
48:45as paycheck stubs and insurance reports
48:47to track Lucas as he drifted around the
48:49southeast he was ready to submit all of
48:52this on Lucas's behalf and it was
48:54entered into evidence when when Lucas
48:56received a hearing in 1996 about his
48:58death
48:59sentence Lucas took the witness stand
49:01writes Jean Pagel for the Associated
49:03Press to say that he did not kill the
49:06woman known as orange socks he cried and
49:09for about 15 minutes spoke in a
49:11trembling voice before US District Judge
49:14samr Cummings Lucas said that he'd given
49:17false information when he' confessed to
49:18the murder and added that he was able to
49:21give a lot of facts about the crime
49:23because he'd read the case File in fact
49:25fact he had an alibi he was in Florida
49:28putting out a
49:29carfire the assistant Texas Attorney
49:31General Gina Blount took him to task for
49:34playing games with investigators and
49:36Lucas denied that it had been a game I
49:39had my reasons he responded he received
49:41a stay and two years later the matter
49:44went to the
49:45governor in 1998 based on the lack of
49:48evidence connecting Lucas to the murder
49:50and the existence of contradictory
49:51evidence then Texas governor George W
49:54bush commuted Lucas is a sentence to
49:56life the only man to receive this during
49:58Bush's Reign 7 years later in 2005 in
50:02the New York Review of Books sister
50:04Helen preene author of dead man walking
50:07wrote about Bush's decision she
50:09suggested that he'd been motivated more
50:11by expediency than conscience and
50:14offered the relevant supporting
50:16facts during his six years as governor
50:18of Texas bush had presided over 152
50:22executions more than any other governor
50:24in any other state in recent history he
50:27commuted no other death sentences to
50:29life although there were factors as
50:31significant as any that Lucas's
50:33attorneys offered journalist Alan burlow
50:36apparently discovered that Bush's
50:38examination of at least 57 of these
50:40cases involved only cursory reviews of
50:43brief death penalty memos on the day
50:45before the scheduled execution in one
50:48case bush had skipped over evidence that
50:50the convicted man was mentally
50:52and therefore not even eligible for the
50:54death penalty
50:56preene calls the Texas Board of Pardons
50:58and appeals a farce that bush did
51:00nothing to
51:01reform then she writes about Lucas in
51:04the Henry Lee Lucas case in 1998 Bush
51:07showed where the real power lay he
51:10intervened with a board before they had
51:11a chance to make a recommendation and
51:14afterward the board approved his
51:15decision in a 17 to1
51:17vote preing points out that it was
51:20common knowledge by then that Lucas
51:22could not have murdered the woman known
51:23as orange socks additionally she writes
51:27it was clear that Lucas would never be a
51:29threat to society because he was already
51:31serving six life sentences for other
51:33murders which he may or may not have
51:35committed since on a fairly regular
51:37basis he confessed falsely to hundreds
51:39of
51:40murders Bush pointed out that jurors at
51:43his trial did not know certain facts
51:45that later came to light thus he took
51:47the opportunity she claims to exercise
51:49apparent compassion although in the
51:52context of his actual record his
51:54compassion diminished fines into mere
51:57politics no one knows exactly how many
52:00murders Henry Lee Lucas and Otis tul
52:03committed given Lucas's trickster
52:05methods and propensity to lie it's
52:08likely that no one will ever know beyond
52:10his mother Kate rich and Becky Powell
52:13there seems to be good evidence that he
52:15killed others but judges would not admit
52:18his confessions so it was difficult to
52:20bring the cases to
52:22trial in March 2001 Henry Lucas died in
52:26prison of natural causes thus ended one
52:29of the most unusual cases in the annals
52:33of criminal
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