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Henry Lee Lucas might be America’s most prolific serial killer. On the other hand, he might be the biggest liar since Baron von Munchhausen. After experiencing a selfdescribed religious conversion in prison, he decided to bare his soul and confess to an astronomical number of murders. Later, however, he recanted most of his testimony. Among law enforcement officials, the exact number of his crimes remains a matter of debate. Still, even if Lucas’s final body counts falls far short of the five hundred victims he originally claimed, he nevertheless ranks as one if the most depraved serial killer in history.Subjected to untold horrors by his insanely abusive mother, Lucas began indulging in sadistic depravity while still a child. By thirteen, he was engaging in sex with his older halfbrother, who also introduced Henry to the joys of bestiality and animal torture. One of their favorite activities was slitting the throats of small animals, then sexually violating the corpses.Early in his childhood, Lucas was compelled to dress as a girl by his mother. She would curl her little boy’s stringy blond hair into ringlets and sent him off to school in girl’s clothes.One year later, he committed his first murder, strangling a seventeen yearold girl who resisted his efforts to rape her. In 1954, the eighteen yearold Lucas received a sixyear prison sentence for burglary. Soon after his release in 1959, he got into a drunken argument with his seventy fouryearold mother and stabbed her to death. He also confessed to raping his corpses, though he later retracted that detail.Receiving a fortyyear sentence for second degree murder. Lucas ended up in the state psychiatric facility. In spite of his own protestations—When they put me out on parole, I said I’m not ready to go. I told them all, the warden, the psychologist, everyone that I was going to killhe was release after only ten years. Eighteen months later he was back in prison for molesting two teenage girls.

 

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