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1936 - Henry Lee Lucas, born on the 23rd of August in Blacksburg, Virginia. He was an American criminal, convicted of murder and once listed as America's most prolific serial killer.
1941 - When he was five, his mother struck him in the head with a wooden board. He claimed that she knocked him out for a period of three days (some sources say one day, others indicate eleven hours), and thereafter he suffered from headaches, dizzy spells, and blackouts.
1951 - He first killed someone, he said, just before he turned fifteen.
1952 - On the 12th of June, he burglarized an appliance store and was sent to a reformatory for two years.
1960 - On the 11th of January, after drinking too much, he and his mother got into an argument, supposedly over a woman he wanted to marry. He grabbed a knife and plunged it into her neck.
1975 - He moved to Pennsylvania and got married, but abandoned his wife when she accused him of molesting her daughters.
1979 - He was sentenced to death for the murder of an unidentified woman, dubbed "Orange Socks" after her only clothing, who was discovered in Williamson County, Texas, on Halloween.
1983 - Was arrested in June, initially on a firearms violation.
- He was later charged with killing 82-year-old Kate Rich in Ringgold, Texas, and was also charged with Powell's murder.
1998 - His sentence was commuted to life in prison by then-Governor George W. Bush.
2001 - On the 13th of March, 64-year-old Lucas died in prison from heart failure.
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Confessions of Henry Lee Lucas by Cox (Paperback - Aug 1, 1991) |
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Henry Lee Lucas (True Crime) by Joel Norris (Paperback - Jul 5, 1993) |
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