Henry Lee Lucas

Serial Killer

What is a serial killer?

The definition of a serial killer could not be found in any normal dictionaries. Therefore proving there is no real definition.

The only definition of a serial killer can be found on the internet. It says a serial killer is a person who murders three or more people.

Childhood life for Henry

• He described his mother to be an abusive prostitute, and his father was an alcoholic railroad worker.

• His mother beat him on several occasions for no reason.

• Once was in a coma for 3 days, after his mother smacked a plank of wood across his head

• His mother would force him to watch whenever she would have sex with men

• Mom bought him a mule one time, just so he can se her shoot and kill it

Birth/Jobs/ hobbies

Henry was born august 23, 1936, in Blacksburg, Virginia

He moved to Stoneberg, Texas where he held a

roofing job Henry held only a couple short term jobs in

Florida

Henry’s killing procedure

• He only killed women

• He didn’t kill on a small range of age, he killed from age 20 to 82.

• He didn’t have a specific signature or any thing, but he said he killed prostitutes mostly

Number of killings

• Henry Lucas said he killed over 600 people, this is not true. Police think its possible he killed up to 215 women

• His first murder was his mother on January 12, 1960, because of an argument they had

• His second murder was an 82 year old lady named Kate rich, then his third a lady named Powell

• On august 10, 1977 he killed a women named Curby Reeves

• Another murder was on march 20, 1979 on a lady named Elaine Tollet

• Police and investigators only convicted him 11 homisides

Evidence used to convict

• A bone fragment was found from a wood burning stove of the Powell and Kate Rich case

• The skeleton matched Powells age and size, and helped finally get the truth from Henry

• They only found evidence for those two people, any other people he claimed to murder, they couldn’t find.

Trial

• He was pleaded guilty for the murder of Powell and Rich, but later in the trial, he blurted that he killed over one hundreds other women

• Police and investigators only convicted him 11 homicides

• Police flew him all over the county to different courts, but he was put on the death penalty but then got taken off.

• He died from natural death

Is he still alive?

• No. Henry died of heart failure in the year of 2001, on march 13.

Sitations

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas• itsgettinghotinhere.files.wordpress.com/2007/..

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