The Confession Killer - Henry Lee Lucas — Transcript

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1. 0:00sometimes the most terrifying monsters
2. 0:02are the ones in the shadows and
3. 0:04sometimes they're standing right in
4. 0:05front of you smiling shaking your hand
5. 0:08tonight I'm going to tell you the
6. 0:09chilling story of Henry Lee Lucas a man
7. 0:12with an empty stare and Hollow smile Who
8. 0:15convinced the world he was something far
9. 0:17darker than anyone could have imagined
10. 0:20but what's even more disturbing how many
11. 0:22people believed him and how many Shadows
12. 0:24still linger around his name picture
13. 0:27this a man who claimed to have committed
14. 0:30unspeakable acts across every dark
15. 0:31corner of America all while calmly
16. 0:34sitting across from police officers
17. 0:35hanging on to every word but was it real
18. 0:39or was it something far more Sinister a
19. 0:42game of lies that left real ghosts in
20. 0:44its
21. 0:45wake stay with me because once we start
22. 0:49there's no turning back Henry Lee Lucas
23. 0:52was no ordinary man from the moment he
24. 0:55was born something was off born in a
25. 0:59decaying Log Cabin deep in the woods of
26. 1:01Virginia Henry's childhood was a
27. 1:03nightmare you couldn't wake up from his
28. 1:06mother as cold and ruthless as winter
29. 1:08itself forced him to watch as strange
30. 1:11men came and went their faces Lost In
31. 1:14Smoke and Shadow their voices low and
32. 1:17threatening if Henry turned away she
33. 1:20beat him and then laughed as if her
34. 1:23cruelty gave her life even as a boy
35. 1:26Henry drifted through life like a ghost
36. 1:28one glassy eye
37. 1:30a chilling reminder of a violent attack
38. 1:32by his own brother staring blankly at a
39. 1:35world that had shown him nothing but
40. 1:37pain and
41. 1:39maybe just
42. 1:41maybe that's where the darkness first
43. 1:43took root but the true horror wouldn't
44. 1:46come to light until years later in the
45. 1:49sweltering streets of Florida Lucas
46. 1:51found a companion as dark as himself ois
47. 1:54tulle a man with an empty smile and eyes
48. 1:57that glinted cold to Outsiders they were
49. 2:01just Drifters wandering from town to
50. 2:03town appearing like an unpredictable
51. 2:05storm but ask anyone who crossed paths
52. 2:08with them and they'd say something about
53. 2:10them wasn't right they met in the
54. 2:12shadows of a rundown soup kitchen hungry
55. 2:15for more than food some say they
56. 2:17whispered about unspeakable things
57. 2:20others said they laughed when no one was
58. 2:22watching a laugh that made your skin
59. 2:24crawl and it wasn't just the two of them
60. 2:27soon an innocent face was pulled into
61. 2:30their Twisted orbit Becky Powell a young
62. 2:32girl with a childlike mind clinging to
63. 2:35Henry as if he were her
64. 2:36protector but who was protecting her in
65. 2:41the summer of 1982 Becky Powell and an
66. 2:43elderly woman named Kate Rich
67. 2:45disappeared no screams no Trace just
68. 2:48empty rooms and a silence heavier than a
69. 2:51grave the towns folk whispered about
70. 2:53what might have happened though no one
71. 2:55dared say it aloud when Henry was
72. 2:57finally arrested sitting there quiet
73. 2:59quietly almost as if waiting the stories
74. 3:03started spilling out he spoke of dark
75. 3:05Fields where no light ever touched of
76. 3:08nights when even the wind Stood Still
77. 3:10and he spoke of Becky the girl who had
78. 3:13trusted him the girl who walked with him
79. 3:15into the night and never returned but
80. 3:18was it true or the beginning of
81. 3:20something even darker a Web of Lies so
82. 3:23intricate even the police were trapped
83. 3:25in it behind Cold Steel bars Henry
84. 3:29talked
85. 3:30first about Becky and Kate but soon his
86. 3:34confessions grew Bolder his gaze darker
87. 3:37he claimed to have killed hundreds
88. 3:38across dozens of States desperate for
89. 3:41answers police leaned in they took him
90. 3:44to crime scenes fed him details and
91. 3:47Henry gave them back stories that
92. 3:48matched exactly what they wanted to hear
93. 3:51and here's where the nightmare takes a
94. 3:52terrifying twist because as Henry
95. 3:55confessed cases were closed families
96. 3:58were told they had answers
97. 4:00and the world believed that the man
98. 4:02smiling behind bars was America's worst
99. 4:04nightmare but something wasn't right
100. 4:07journalists the brave ones started to
101. 4:10notice cracks in his story how could
102. 4:12Henry be in Texas and Florida on the
103. 4:14same day when they were hundreds of
104. 4:16miles apart how could he know details
105. 4:18that were never made public unless
106. 4:21someone gave them to him and then came
107. 4:23the most chilling question of all what
108. 4:26if Henry hadn't done any of it what if
109. 4:28the man everyone thought was a monster
110. 4:30was just a liar but if he was lying who
111. 4:34did commit those horrific acts and worse
112. 4:37were they still out there even the
113. 4:39legendary Texas Rangers got caught up in
114. 4:41Henry's lies they closed hundreds of
115. 4:44cases thinking they had their answer but
116. 4:46behind closed doors Henry was being
117. 4:48treated to Stak dinners milkshakes and
118. 4:51free reain around jails they showed him
119. 4:53files helped him refresh his memory and
120. 4:56watched him spin stories so convincing
121. 4:58they believed him too
122. 5:00by the time the truth started to emerge
123. 5:02it was too late cases were closed
124. 5:06families were left mourning false
125. 5:07answers and the real monsters the ones
126. 5:10who stole people from their lives were
127. 5:12still out there in plain sight when the
128. 5:15dust settled only 11 murders were
129. 5:18officially linked to Henry including his
130. 5:20mother the infamous number 600 was a lie
131. 5:25but by the time anyone realized it the
132. 5:27damage had already been done for years
133. 5:29years law enforcement paraded Henry Lee
134. 5:32Lucas as the ultimate bogeyman the face
135. 5:34of evil itself he was their answer to
136. 5:37every unsolved case their convenient
137. 5:40conclusion they called him the most
138. 5:42prolific serial killer in American
139. 5:44history a man who had slaughtered his
140. 5:46way across the country leaving a trail
141. 5:48of Devastation behind him but how did it
142. 5:50happen how did one man an unremarkable
143. 5:54Drifter with a long history of deception
144. 5:56convinced the world that he was
145. 5:58responsible for an impossible number
146. 5:59number of deaths it started small a few
147. 6:02confessions here and there some were
148. 6:05real like the murder of his mother and
149. 6:07Becky powl but then the numbers grew he
150. 6:10talked about bodies buried in the woods
151. 6:12about victims no one had even realized
152. 6:14were missing and each time the police
153. 6:16listened eager for closure they wanted
154. 6:19to believe him they needed to believe
155. 6:21him Henry became their Golden Goose as
156. 6:24long as he kept talking cold cases were
157. 6:27neatly wrapped up families desperate for
158. 6:30answers were given resolutions no matter
159. 6:33how shaky the foundation and Henry he
160. 6:36was living better than he ever had in
161. 6:38his entire life steak dinners strawberry
162. 6:41milkshakes cigarettes and endless
163. 6:44attention things a man like him had
164. 6:46never been offered before the more he
165. 6:49gave them the more they rewarded him and
166. 6:53Henry ever the chameleon knew exactly
167. 6:55what they wanted to hear he memorized
168. 6:58Case Files they let him Peak at he
169. 7:00studied the reactions of detectives as
170. 7:02he spoke fine-tuning his stories in real
171. 7:05time he repeated back details that were
172. 7:07secret but only because they had been
173. 7:09whispered to him in the interrogation
174. 7:11room the truth was Henry had become a
175. 7:14performer and the world was his stage
176. 7:17but not everyone bought into his act
177. 7:19some reporters and investigators began
178. 7:21picking apart his confessions finding
179. 7:24inconsistencies so glaring they were
180. 7:26impossible to ignore how could he
181. 7:28describe a crime scene in in Vivid
182. 7:29detail when it had already been torn
183. 7:32down before he was ever brought in how
184. 7:34could he have traveled across the
185. 7:35country committing murders on opposite
186. 7:38coasts in time frames that didn't make
187. 7:40sense slowly the cracks widened and soon
188. 7:44the entire story collapsed and yet even
189. 7:48as the truth came out some whispered
190. 7:50that maybe just maybe Henry had told the
191. 7:53truth about a few of them maybe among
192. 7:55the lies there were pieces of Darkness
193. 7:58only he knew and would take to his grave
194. 8:02Henry Lee Lucas died in 2001 but if you
195. 8:05visit his grave they say the wind still
196. 8:07howls through the trees and if you
197. 8:09listen closely you might hear The
198. 8:11Whispers of the lives left in the
199. 8:13shadows lives never
200. 8:16found so what do you think was Henry Lee
201. 8:20Lucas America's most dangerous man or a
202. 8:23master manipulator and if he didn't do
203. 8:25all those things who did because
204. 8:29sometimes the scariest part of the story
205. 8:30isn't the monster you know but the one
206. 8:33still hiding in the dark sleep well if
207. 8:36you can if you're still watching drop a
208. 8:40comment do you believe Henry Lee Lucas's
209. 8:42confessions or do you think he played a
210. 8:44game that fooled everyone don't forget
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