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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 5638548" data-attributes="member: 120286">Another one who killed over 600 people.<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/17/Henry_Lee_Lucas.jpg/200px-Henry_Lee_Lucas.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Henry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas#cite_note-0" target="_blank">[1]</a> – March 13, 2001<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas#cite_note-1" target="_blank">[2]</a>) was an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" target="_blank">American</a> criminal, convicted of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder" target="_blank">murder</a> and once listed as America's most prolific <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer" target="_blank">serial killer</a>; he later recanted his confessions, and flatly stated "I am not a serial killer" in a letter to researcher Patrick Poff.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas#cite_note-2" target="_blank">[3]</a> Lucas confessed to involvement in about 600 murders, with an average of about one murder per week between his release from prison in mid-1975 to his arrest in mid-1983. A more widely circulated total of about 350 murders committed by Lucas is based on confessions deemed "believable" by a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas" target="_blank">Texas</a>-based Lucas Task Force, a group which was criticized by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Texas" target="_blank">Attorney General of Texas</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Mattox" target="_blank">Jim Mattox</a>, and others for sloppy police work and taking part in an extended "hoax".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas#cite_note-Shellady.2C_2002-3" target="_blank">[4]</a> Beyond his recantation, some of Lucas's confessions have been challenged as inaccurate by a number of critics, including law enforcement and court officials. Lucas claimed to have been initially subjected to poor treatment and coercive interrogation tactics while in police custody, and to have confessed to murders in an effort to improve his living conditions. This calls into question many of his alleged murders, since his confessions were often the sole evidence cited in favor of his guilt, especially his sole <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment" target="_blank">death penalty</a> conviction. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International" target="_blank">Amnesty International</a> reported "the belief of two former state Attorneys General that Lucas was in all likelihood innocent of the crime for which he was sentenced to death."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas#cite_note-4" target="_blank">[5]</a> Lucas's sentence was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemency" target="_blank">commuted</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_in_prison" target="_blank">life in prison</a> in 1998 by then-Governor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" target="_blank">George W. Bush</a>, it was the only commutation in Bush's entire history as Governor of Texas. Lucas died in prison of natural causes. Because Lucas's death removed the possibility of resolution in many instances, a number of questions remain unresolved. Some authorities—while admitting that Lucas tended to exaggerate his accounts and told some outright lies, and also recognizing that the Lucas Task Force engaged in some very questionable tactics—insist that Lucas was a viable suspect in a number of unsolved murders. Despite these factors, Lucas still maintains a reputation, in the words of author Sarah L. Knox, "as one of the world's worst serial killers—even after the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debunker" target="_blank">debunking</a> of the majority of his confessions by the Attorney General of Texas."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas#cite_note-jefferson.village.virginia.edu-5" target="_blank">[6]</a> Lucas allegedly carried out many murders with an accomplice, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottis_Toole" target="_blank">Ottis Toole</a>, whose reputation as a serial killer is mostly unaltered by Lucas's recantations.Early life Lucas was born in a one-room <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_cabin" target="_blank">log cabin</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacksburg,_Virginia" target="_blank">Blacksburg, Virginia</a>, the youngest of nine children. His mother, Viola Dixon Waugh, was an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic" target="_blank">alcoholic</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitute" target="_blank"> prostitute</a>.  His father, Anderson Lucas, was an alcoholic and former railroad employee who had lost his legs after being hit by a freight train. He would usually come home inebriated, and would suffer from Viola's wrath as often as his sons. Lucas claimed that he and his brother were regularly beaten by Viola, often for no reason. He once spent three days in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma" target="_blank">coma</a> after his mother struck him with a wooden plank, and on many occasions he was forced by his mother to watch her having sex with men. Lucas also claimed that his mother would often dress him in girls' clothing. His sister Almeda Lucas supports his story, and she claims that she once had two pictures of Henry as a toddler dressed in girls' clothing. Lucas described an incident when he was given a mule as a gift by his uncle, only to see his mother shoot and kill it. Another incident Lucas described occurred when he was eight. He claimed he was given a teddy bear by one of his teachers, and was then beaten by his mother for accepting charity. When Lucas was 10, his brother accidentally stabbed him in the left eye while they were fighting. His mother ignored the injury for four days, and subsequently the eye grew infected and had to be replaced by a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_eye" target="_blank">glass eye</a>. In December 1949, Anderson Lucas died of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothermia" target="_blank">hypothermia</a>, after going home drunk and collapsing outside during a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard" target="_blank">blizzard</a>. Shortly after, Henry dropped out of school in the sixth grade and ran away from home, drifting around <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" target="_blank">Virginia</a>. Lucas claimed that he first practiced <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestiality" target="_blank">bestiality</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoosadism" target="_blank">zoosadism</a> while he was a runaway, and also began committing petty thefts and burglaries around the state. Lucas claimed to have committed his first murder in 1951, when he strangled 17-year-old Laura Burnsley, who refused his sexual advances. Like most of his confessions, he later retracted this claim. On June 10, 1954, Lucas was convicted on over a dozen counts of burglary in and around <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,_Virginia" target="_blank">Richmond, Virginia</a>, and was sentenced to four years in prison. He escaped in 1957, was recaptured three days later, and was released on September 2, 1959. In late 1959, Lucas traveled to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh,_Michigan" target="_blank">Tecumseh, Michigan</a> to live with his half-sister, Opal. Around this time, Lucas was engaged to marry a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_pal" target="_blank">pen pal</a> with whom he had corresponded while incarcerated. When his mother visited him for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas" target="_blank">Christmas</a>, she disapproved of her son's fiancée and insisted he move back to Blacksburg. He refused, and they argued repeatedly about his upcoming nuptials.First known murder On <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_11" target="_blank">January 11</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960" target="_blank">1960</a>, Lucas killed his mother during the course of an ongoing argument regarding whether or not he should return home to his mother's house to care for her as she grew older. He claimed she struck him over the head with a broom, at which point he struck her on the neck and she fell. Lucas then fled the scene. He subsequently said,   “  All I remember was slapping her alongside the neck, but after I did that I saw her fall and decided to grab her. But she fell to the floor and when I went back to pick her up, I realized she was dead. Then I noticed that I had my knife in my hand and she had been cut.  ”   She was not in fact dead, and when Lucas's half-sister Opal (with whom he was staying) returned later, she discovered their mother alive in a pool of blood. She called an ambulance, but it turned out to be too late to save Viola Lucas's life. The official police report stated she died of a heart attack precipitated by the assault. Lucas returned to Virginia, then says he decided to drive back to Michigan, but was arrested in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio" target="_blank">Ohio</a> on the outstanding Michigan <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_%28law%29" target="_blank">warrant</a>. Lucas claimed to have attacked his mother only in self-defense, but his claim was rejected, and he was sentenced to between 20 and 40 years' imprisonment in Michigan for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-degree_murder" target="_blank">second-degree murder</a>. After serving ten years in prison, he was released in June 1970 due to prison overcrowding.And he has killed almost all hundreds of people were killed after that release.</blockquote>

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