Until 1982, 10, Texas police launched an investigation, because they found a handbag belonging to the missing widow, and once investigated him, but found no evidence to prove that he was the murderer. Instead, they arrested him for possessing dangerous weapons. Unexpectedly, after he arrived at the police station, he impatiently told about his killing experience for more than 20 years, including his other accomplice Otis Toure (said to be his bisexual lover). Later, the number of the dead increased, and the police once thought that some of them were just his fantasy, but he could clearly point out the location and condition of some bodies, which made people have to believe him. Henry lee lucas warned the psychological assessor in the mental hospital not to let him go, and he would continue to kill people. Perhaps the most shocking thing for the world was that he defended his actions in court.
1983 Confess after being arrested-Confess the murders committed by at least 6 people and at most 600 people.
Henry lee lucas was arrested by the police by accident.
1982 10 10 In October, the police in Texas, USA, were trying to find a missing widow. Soon after, the widow's body was found in the bushes by the road, but her handbag was not found. According to the witness who last saw the widow, the victim had a handbag with him. The police speculated that the handbag must have been taken away by the murderer.
The patrolman found a clue when checking the passing cars. In the back seat of a white man's car, the patrolman saw a similar handbag and made a routine inspection of the owner. The owner's name is henry lee lucas. He is very strong. If it weren't for the obvious disability of his left eye, he could be said to be a quite handsome young man. The police found nothing except the handbag, but they found a dangerous-looking knife in the trunk of Lucas' car. The police immediately detained him for carrying dangerous weapons.
Lucas was taken to the police station. The police examined the suspicious handbag carefully and were disappointed to find that it did not belong to the victim's widow. Lucas' gas station receipt also proves that when the widow was killed, Lucas was wandering aimlessly in expressway, 200 miles away, and had no chance to commit a crime. Lucas has nothing to do with this case. However, the murder weapon in the trunk of his car still made the police feel suspicious. Instead of releasing him immediately, the police temporarily detained him for further interrogation.
To the police's great surprise, Lucas was impatient before they started a new round of interrogation. Lucas collected his killing experiences for more than 20 years, including an accomplice named Otis elwood Thule. Thus, the legend of a crazy murderer shocked the whole world.
Shortly after Lucas was arrested, Thule was also arrested by the police. Lucas and Thule showed their killing experiences to the police with great fanfare, and they provided the police with new details of the case almost every day. The confessions of these two men shocked the police. According to their own account, they committed more than 600 murders in 26 states in the United States, Europe and Japan.
Most of these more than 600 murders are beyond the scope of police investigation. Lucas said that they had committed crimes in Spain and Japan, but the police did not find that they had left the United States once. Lucas claimed to have killed a woman in Virginia. The victim was a teacher and even provided her name. The police did find this female teacher. She is alive and well and has never heard of Lucas. Lucas said that he killed more than one woman hitchhiking in Texas on 1979, but police investigation found that Lucas was not in Texas at all on 1979.
Apart from those untrue words, many details of the murder case provided by Lucas are very true. He can tell the victim's name, occupation, place of death, clothes he was wearing when he was killed and what kind of injuries he suffered. According to Lucas' consistent attitude, the police also doubt the truth of these statements. After all, these cases have been reported in newspapers. Maybe Lucas remembered these details to fool the police. But some details provided by Lucas have never been made public by various media.
Lucas seems keen on playing this real game with the police. Sometimes his confession is completely irrelevant, and sometimes he will reveal something that scares the police. He once mentioned that Thule killed a six-year-old boy named Adam Walsh. There was such a child on the police's missing persons list, so the police asked Thule about it. Thule first admitted it, then denied it. When the police questioned Lucas again, Lucas said with great certainty that Thule did kill the child, and Thule himself told him about it. Once asked for details, Lucas said he couldn't remember clearly. Later, Lucas completely overturned his confession, saying that Thule didn't kill the child at all, and that was just Thule bragging. According to some details provided by Lucas, the police believe that he knows at least part of the case of Adam Walsh, and the investigation of this case has been going on and off for several years. Thule refused to provide more information about the case, and Lucas was hard to distinguish between true and false, which made it impossible for the police to grasp.
By 1996, the police can confirm that Lucas was responsible for at least 6 of the 600 murders. Lucas led the police to his burial place and dug up the victim's body. Another 200 murders were suspected by the police to be related to Lucas and Thule, but it was not completely certain that Lucas refused to provide more details. Maybe he really can't remember-if a murderer really murdered more than 200 people, I doubt whether he can clearly remember each of his victims; Maybe he is playing hide-and-seek with the police, and those cases have nothing to do with him; Perhaps, in view of Lucas' mental state, he just created those cases in his imagination, but he also believed it. As for other cases, it is difficult for the police to determine whether it really happened.
At the end of the long trial, Lucas said wearily, "I don't want to say anything more." I will tell you more when I am reborn. "
Are there more "things"? No one can answer this question.
After more than ten years of long-term imprisonment, the police have given up any hope that Lucas can provide new crimes. When Lucas is tired of imprisonment, he will inform the detective in the police station that he has remembered another victim's situation. Most of the time, his recovered memory is his illusion or fabrication, but occasionally there are things that interest the police. That's his purpose, to attract the attention of the police. He is proud of his crime and most worried about being forgotten by the police. The police are annoyed at his tricks, but they can't ignore them.
1September 1996 15, Thule died of liver failure in prison. Lucas finally told the police that Adam Walsh was indeed killed by Thule. Thule once took him to the place where the body was buried. The body was "in a very narrow grave, which made me feel very sick". He told the location where the body was hidden, and the police found the child's body there as expected.
No one can explain the motive of the most notorious serial killer in the history of crime. According to their own account, their motives are almost terrible-just because they want to kill people. Lucas claims that many cases are carried out according to the instructions of the "hand of the dead god", and this seemingly devil-worshipping psychology is undoubtedly a manifestation of schizophrenia. In fact, whether Lucas or Thule, they should belong to the typical schizophrenic serial killer. From the legal point of view, they should belong to people with limited capacity for civil conduct; They can selectively hunt their victims and get away with it for a long time, which proves that they have quite normal behavior ability, but their cruel hunting methods, abnormal sexual orientation and even cannibalism all show their similarities and differences in the mental state of ordinary people. To borrow the words of an ordinary citizen who was interviewed by the news in the street at that time, it can be summarized as: "They are crazy, and I think they all deserve to go to hell."
After Lucas and Thule were arrested, their trial dragged on for a long time. Lucas was finally sentenced to death, but after he was transferred to Florida, he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and his death sentence was reduced to six life imprisonment. Thule died in prison from 65438 to 0996. 1March 3, 9981day, the Texas court sentenced henry lee lucas to death, which is scheduled to be executed on June 30 of the same year; But in June, the president of the United States issued a probation order to him again; But in the end, Lucas was executed.
Nowadays, people are no longer most concerned about Lucas and Thule's real motive for killing, but how many lives they have destroyed-at least six people and at most 600 people. These two completely different figures have left people with a mystery that may never be solved. The details of hundreds of murders confessed by Lucas are very consistent with the actual situation of the cases, but there are also many details that are completely wrong. About 200 cases, which is the official trend. What about the other 400 murders? Maybe the murderer is someone else, maybe it is their own "masterpiece".
The truth is no longer important. What remains in people's memory is only Lucas's sentence that shocked the world in court: "I like killing people, which is very common, just like many people like to go out for a walk, but our hobbies are different." If I have this need, I will go to the streets and find someone casually ... "