In 1971 he was convicted of molesting girls and sentenced to ten years, but was paroled in 1975.Born to alcoholic parents, including a mother who prostituted herself, Lucass sexual deviancy formed in his teen years.Paroled in 1970, Lucas went back to jail for the attempted kidnapping of a 15-year-old girl.
Released again in 1975, he killed two more women, and was arrested in 1983. He confessed to murdering hundreds of people, though no proof existed beyond three known victims. Lucas sat on Death Row, later changed to life in prison by Texas Governor George W. Bush. He died in a Texas prison from natural causes on March 12, 2001. One of nine siblings, Lucas was raised by abusive alcoholic parents. His mother ruled the household with an iron fist and prostituted herself in their backwoods community to make money. As a teenager, Lucass sexual deviance became increasingly pronounced, and he reported having sex with his half-brother and with dead animals. In March 1960, he was sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison for murdering his mother. He was sent to Jackson State Penitentiary in southern Michigan, but after two attempted suicides, he was admitted to Ionia State Mental Hospital. After his second release in 1975, he traveled to Michigan where he teamed-up with a petty thief named Ottis Toole. In October 1979, Lucas traveled the country accompanied by Ottis and his young niece, Becky Powell, who was mildly retarded. Despite this romance, however, he eventually killed Powell, along with Katharine Rich, an elderly woman with whom they had been staying. Egged on by investigators from around the country, Lucass confessions became increasingly farfetched. It is unclear how many murders he actually did commit, but some believe it was just three: his mother, Becky Powell and Katharine Rich. He was sentenced to death, but the sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment by Texas Governor George W. Bush. While on Death Row, Lucas became a born again Christian and spent the last 18 years of his life as a model prisoner. He died in a Huntsville, Texas, prison from natural causes on March 12, 2001, at the age of 64. From the moment of his birth, she hated Henry, and made his life a virtual Hell on earth. Often beaten by his mother, he lost an eye when she gashed it with a knife during one of her many rages. One of Violas live-in lovers, Bernie, taught him bestiality, to rape and torture animals before killing them. Thus, Henrys first human victim, 17 year-old Laura Burnley, was raped and strangled in March 1951. Becky Powell Henry Lee Lucas Series Of BurglariesIn June 1954, he was convicted of a series of burglaries around Richmond, VA, and given 6 years in prison. Released in 1959, he moved to Tecumseh, Michigan, when his mother showed up to demand his return to Virginia. Convicted of her murder, he was given 20 to 40 years in prison, but in May 1960, he was transferred to the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where he was released in 1970.
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