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Almost anyone living in Texas during the 1980s will recall the name "Henry Lee Lucas".
He was a lanky one-eyed drifter from the backwoods of Virginia that took Texas by storm and captured the attention of law enforcement and the media worldwide.
I worked for a central Texas County in the 80s and had a rare opportunity to see the man they also called "the monster". A co-worker and I managed to secure a position amongst the media to catch a glimpse of the man not twenty feet in front of us.
This is his grisly story.
The Drifter-Henry Lee Lucas
Early Life for Henry Lee Lucas
As a child, Henry Lee Lucas lived in a dirt-floored one room log cabin in a life of abuse and neglect. His alcoholic parents brewed moonshine whiskey in the Appalachian hills of Virginia. His mother, Viola was known as a violent prostitute and bootlegger was at least 50 years old when she had Henry. His alcoholic father, Anderson, was nicknamed "No Legs" after a train accident that resulted in him losing both his legs. He later committed suicide in 1950 after being repeatedly humiliated by his abusive wife who often brought men home and had sex with them in front of him and Henry. Henry was even forced to go to school barefooted wearing a dress and curls. When he came home from school wearing a pair of shoes given to him by a teacher his mother beat him for accepting charity. He dropped out in fifth grade and remained semi-literate for the rest of his life.
he Teenage Years of Henry Lee Lucas
As a teenager he enjoyed, tortured, and had sex with dead animals. He claims to have raped a girl when he was 15. At 17, he slashed his eye while playing with a knife with his brother Andrew. His mother refused to have it treated and he ended up losing his one eye and had a glass eye put in its place. Once he was beaten so severely by his mother with wooden plank that he was semi-conscious for days before his mother's boyfriend took him to the hospital for treatment.
Lucas spent his teen years in and out of jail for a string of burglaries and was sentenced to prison. But he repeatedly escaped and fled to his sister Opal's house. Despite his escapes he was released a year early from his sentence. His mother hunted him down insisting he come back to live with her.
Lucas Murders His Mother
On January 11, 1960, in a drunken binge, he and his mother fought over him coming back to live with her. She struck him with a broom and he stabbed her and then raped her dead corpse. He stole a car and fled to Ohio. He was arrested five days later. He told the officers that he "didn't like live sex, he liked dead sex".
He was sentenced for forty years for matricide and was sent to Jackson State Penitentiary in southern Michigan. He attempted suicide twice and was finally transferred to a mental facility for the criminally insane. He was diagnosed as a suicidal psychopath, sadist and sexual deviant. He was released in 1970 after serving 10 years due to prison overcrowding.
More Trouble and Marriage
In 1971, trouble had already found Henry. He was arrested for the attempted kidnapping of three girls and sentenced to five years. While in jail, he received a letter from family friend Betty Crawford. They continued to write each other and once he was released they married. He began sexually abusing her two young daughters and told the young girls he would kill their mother if they told anyone. After two years of abuse, he left. He then lived with various family members drifting from place to place..
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