Henry Lee Lucas

Final Words

A recent photo of Lucas flanked by prison guards.

No one knows exactly how many murders Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole committed. Given Lucas's trickster methods and propensity to lie, it's likely that no one will ever know, beyond his mother, Kate Rich and Becky Powell. There seems to be good evidence that he killed others, but judges would not admit his confessions, so it was difficult to bring the cases to trial.

In March 2001, Henry Lee Lucas died in prison of natural causes. Thus ended one of the most unusual cases in the annals of criminal psychology.

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Bobby Joe Long

On a side note, during the 1990s, Lucas's distant cousin, Bobby Joe Long, was convicted in Florida of ten murders. He had also raped as many as fifty women, he admitted, finding them through classified ads.

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1. Some Bad Things
2. The Whopper
3. Lucas Elaborates
4. Lucas in Court
5. Ottis
6. Meeting of Deviant Minds
7. Killing Mom
8. Taking Becky
9. The House of Prayer
10. Kate
11. Reunion
12. World's Most Dangerous Killer
13. Orange Socks
14. Handling Lucas
15. Whisper of Demons
16. The Game
17. Shapeshifter
18. False Confessions
19. Love in Prison
20. Legal Challenge
21. Bush's Only Commutation
22. Final Words
23. Bibliography