Further Reading For Henry Lee Lucas
Hand of Death: The Henry Lee Lucas Story by Max Call
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Henry Lucas is the modern template for the classic drifter-murderer (the American version of Fred and Rose West). It’s unclear when Lucas was active but it is widely believed that the 11 murders that he was ultimately convicted of took place between 1960 and 1983. Lucas, with his partner, Ottis Toole, claimed to have murdered hundreds, moving from place to place and changing up their method with every killing. These claims are widely dismissed by law enforcement. As is the claim that Lucas and Toole were kidnappers and murderers for a satanic cult operating out of Florida named The Hand of Death.
Lucas, a product of severe abuse in the deepest pit of American poverty most definitely drifted from one coast to the other in the company of a large, effeminate killing machine and his own child bride, killing and raping his way across America. They were like characters from a Rob Zombie splatter movie, stupid, filthy, and extremely dangerous. Lucas, though he probably didn’t realize it, killed women to avenge the horrors perpetrated on him by his prostitute mother and her cruel, vicious clients. While not in the presence of his partner in crime, Ottis, Lucas’s murders seemed to be crimes of convenience. A means to keep whatever lifestyle qualified as comfortable to him at the time.
Henry kept law enforcement dancing right up to the day he died, claiming responsibility for every unsolved crime he had heard of and police, desperate to close cases, often chose to believe him, which is why his body count has risen and fallen from year to year.
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