Henry Lee Lucas
Male, Deceased Person
1936 – 2001
Who was Henry Lee Lucas?
Henry Lee Lucas was an American serial killer convicted of murder in 11 different cases. He had claimed to have committed a number of murders although he later recanted the confessions. He received a death sentence for the murder of an unidentified woman in Texas, but the penalty was commuted to life imprisonment on the basis of evidence that he was likely in Florida on the date of that murder.
While Lucas became known in the press as America's most prolific serial killer, he later recanted his confessions, and flatly stated "I am not a serial killer" in a letter to researcher Brad Shellady. Lucas confessed to involvement in about 600 murders, but a more widely circulated total of 350 is based on confessions deemed "believable" by a Texas-based Lucas Task Force, a group which was later criticized by then-Attorney General of Texas, Jim Mattox, and others for sloppy police work and taking part in an extended "hoax".
Beyond his recantation, some of Lucas's confessions have been challenged as inaccurate by a number of critics, including law enforcement and court officials.
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- Born
- Aug 23, 1936
Blacksburg - Parents
- Spouses
- Betty Crawford
(1975/12 - )
- Betty Crawford
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Lived in
- Blacksburg
- Died
- Mar 13, 2001
Florida
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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