Henry Lee Gore Lucas and Ottis Toole Henry
born in Virginia on August 23, 1936, suffers a childhood plagued by abuse of a prostitute mother and alcoholic father. Suffers a total abandonment, no care, malnutrition, as well as psychological abuse.
A Sometimes it is forced to witness sexual activities of his mother with different men, and this what normally dress like a girl.
From a very young must learn to fend for itself. The humiliations to which is subjected being so young, just becoming a teenager and visceral cold ... at that time begin to mistreat animals zoophilic relationships and experience, in addition to molesting his teenage brother.
soon enter the world of crime, kidnapping and killing a girl when he was only 15 years. You are admitted to various correctional facilities, but always coming soon.
Finally
in 1960, during a violent argument with his mother accidentally Henry lost an eye, and in a fit of rage gives him several stabs to kill him. He is sentenced to jail and later transferred to a psychiatric hospital, where he was diagnosed with psychopathy and sadism sexual deviants.
Ten years later he was again arrested for the attempted kidnapping of two teenagers, but his time as a dangerous criminal begins when, once in the street, meets another notorious serial murderer, Ottis Toole. In 1979, Toole takes him to his house and becomes his mistress.
That comes later ...
Realizing their economic problems, proposes to stay and live with him, and both find their common inclination: murder. With a few dollars taken out in small jobs, they buy a used car, and prepare their crimes without the least engaged to travel I-35 highway in search of hitchhikers and motorists with damaged car. Lead
victims (while men, women and children, they do not care) to a byway, kill them, rape and later mutilated and dismembered. Toole is inclined by cannibalism, and includes parts of dismembered bodies, like arms or legs on your barbecue grill.
Henry's case is very typical in this type of character, is terrified of sex and can only make love to unconsciousness or dead victims. He ran to enjoy the different parts of the bodies had been dismembered. Considered victims as objects to awaken your desire ...
In the stories of their crimes, if both statements are true, it appears that Henry killed mostly women, strangled or stabbed, and Toole is responsible for killing the men, usually with a firearm, especially 22 gauge.
The two bodies mutilated almost always, the bites Lucas or shreds with a knife, cut off their genitals and tries to decapitate ... reaching sometimes lead to a bloody head in the back seat. Toole
tear prefer male bodies, especially the ribs, arms, buttocks and legs to cook and eat the pieces. Henry does not eat human flesh cooking his companion, which he said:
"I did not like the taste of hot sauce with the meat being prepared ..."
Both rape their victims, Henry Ottis women and men. On November 1, 1979 is discovered the lifeless body of a young (still unidentified), whose only sign was orange socks. The body was found under a bridge on I-35.
A Texas sheriff to investigate "the crime of orange socks, discovered in the regional press which several other similar victims of different ages and sex were raped, strangled, stabbed or with the skull crushed to death ... and also found near the same highway.
Alarmed, convened a conference on October 28, 1980 at which several police officers come from different jurisdictions, and exchange reports and all accumulated data to keep track and collaborate on cases that are suspect related.
On June 11, 1983, Henry was arrested for illegal possession of weapons, and confesses to being the perpetrator of the crimes. Is subjected to lie detector, and the results confirm the statements, but the police are without evidence to indict him. After confessing hundreds of crimes to the police change their strategy and ensures recanting their confessions are a lie, it has only killed his mother.
is a great manipulator, he knows that and unsolved crimes will be closed. After numerous interrogations, retracts and charged several times lying shamelessly, and as the polygraph is not considered a evidence before the judge, the police are forced to release him for lack of material evidence. Anyway
believe is responsible for one hundred and fifty seven murders, of whom one hundred eight Ottis committed in company.
addition to the cruelty of their crimes, the two characters confess one very disturbing fact: Ottis claims to have connection with a satanic cult to which the two murderers kidnap children, which would be carried out ritual sacrifices, and hard-core pornography even snuff movies, in which the victim is tortured and slowly killed her while a camera records the scene in a fixed plane.
According to a statement by Toole:
"There was a time when we earned money by selling children to Mexico, they used to porn movies ... others sold directly to wealthy people ... we had an altar and I Rajab throat, drinking blood, and sometimes cooked the bodies ... sometimes the new members cut their bodies before fucking fucked ... and then the animals and kill them ... and then had a big party during which we ate someone and animals ... "
This question has many doubts, because the police could never prove the existence this group of Satanists as an organized structure.
When I was in prison one day call the guard and told him that there was a light that he was speaking, and asked for pen and paper to write a letter to the sheriff in which I scribble:
"I tried to get help and no one will believe me, I killed a girl who loved with all my heart, I killed over the past ten years and no one will believe me "
was tried for 10 crimes to 6 life sentences, 1 death penalty 2 sentences of 75 years and over 60 years in prison.
In December 1990, Henry is sentenced to death by four murders in Florida and another twenty in neighboring jurisdictions. He first fixes a date for the execution on December 3, 1990, but the Court of Criminal Appeals chooses to stay the order five days earlier.
yet he is suspected of killing 126 in 27 different states. Today claims to be innocent of all crimes, and said that her mother did not kill, but it just hit. A police record that Henry confessed to his mother stabbed several times and once dead repeatedly raped her.
in 1998 after 13 years waiting on death row to be judged by lethal injection, George, jr Bus commute the death penalty for chain imprisonment.
On Friday June 26, 1998, the governor of Texas, George Bush (son of former U.S. president), commuted the death sentence of Henry Lee Lucas, one of the most sadistic psychopaths among serial murderers.
The governor, who has rarely shown such leniency, admitted the recommendation of the Pardon Review Board of Texas, who advised not to execute the murderer for finding gaps on his full guilt. (The press, the local police in Texas and some politicians had accused has been charged to the account of Henry many unsolved crimes).
Despite the pardon, Henry will to meet the two hundred and ten years of jail pending, and six of nine life sentences for crimes they themselves have acknowledged it. Bush himself told the press:
"While Lee Lucas is guilty of committing a long list of heinous crimes, serious doubts, however, about his guilt in any case"
His portrait was made into a film by film director John McNaughton in Henry, Portrait of a murderer (1986) and Henry, Portrait of a murderer 2.
