Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole
Henry and Ottis
Lucas was brutally abused as a young child, horribly mistreated
throughout his early years. He was into bestiality and the torture of animals
during his early teens. He also engaged in sexual acts with his half brother at
this same time. It is hard to comprehend such horrors as a child and adolescent,
but Lucas dealt with them and much more. Little did anyone know that a sinister
creature had manifested from this abuse, a year later all found out.
Lucas recanted that his first murder came at the tender age of fourteen. This
was supposedly a seventeen-year-old girl he kidnapped from a bus stop. He
claimed to have beaten her severely in the head, hauled her to an isolated area,
and proceeded to attempt a rape. The girl came to and began to flail and scream.
Lucas simply strangled her to death at that point. However, no incident of the
sort has ever been reported. Lucas tended to lie quite often, so whether or not
this story is truth is anyone’s guess.
Lucas was arrested soon after this for breaking and entering. He spent a short
time in a Beaumont training school for boys in Virginia. He was considered
highly disruptive during his incarceration. He claims to have raped his
twelve-year-old niece the day after his release. He was arrested again for
breaking and entering, and was in and out of jail until his release in 1959. He
moved to Tecumseh, Michigan to live with his half-sister.
Lucas killed for a second time that year, stabbing his mother in a blind rage
following a family dispute. She died some fifty hours later of the wounds. He
was tracked down and arrested in Toledo, Ohio. He was sentenced to 20-40 years
in Southern Michigan State Prison for second-degree murder.
Sadly, over-crowding forced his release from prison in 1970. Lucas claims to
have murdered two women soon after he was let loose, leaving one body close
enough to the prison to see. As with his alleged first murder, no evidence was
ever unearthed to support his claim. He was arrested again soon after for
attempted kidnapping of a young girl and served four years before his release in
1975. This is where Henry Lee Lucas solidified himself as one of the worst of
all time.
HENRY: Walking and Walking
Lucas began a period of roaming, traveling everywhere from Wilmington, Delaware
to Hurst, Texas. He married during this time, but was accused of molesting the
woman’s children and opted to leave. He seemed to move back and forth, often
moving back in with Opal, until his other sister, Almeda, offered him work at
her husband’s wrecking yard. However, he was quickly accused of molesting her
granddaughter. The next day, he deceptively asked to borrow their truck to pick
up some junkers for the yard. They never saw him again. The truck left the
family’s driveway in Port Deposit, Maryland, and turned up in Jacksonville,
Florida.
It was here that Lucas met a man named Ottis Toole. Lucas was soon living with
the man and his family, sleeping with Toole and his daughter. This continued
until, while on a trip in Delaware, Toole became sick and was hospitalized.
Lucas took the man’s children and headed for Maryland. Unfortunately for him, he
was arrested there and spent approximately two months in jail. Lucas returned to
Jacksonville upon his parole. Ottis’ health improved and he returned to Florida
as well.
Lucas and Toole were a reckless and violent tandem, stealing anything and
everything. Even robbing banks occasionally. Lucas later confessed to numerous
crimes during this period. One involved him shooting a convenience store clerk
and watching Toole molest the corpse. This is where repetitive murdering for
Lucas and Toole began. Another story shared by Toole enhanced this point. Lucas
and Toole were on a Texas Interstate when they noticed a young guy and girl
walking down the road. Ottis simply pulled over, stepped out of the car, and
shot the boy nine times, disposing of him in a culvert. Lucas was busy fighting
the girl to get her in the car. Ottis jumped in the drivers’ seat and took off,
while Lucas steadily and repeatedly raped the girl. Ottis stopped the car,
dragged the girl out, and commenced to shoot her six times, and left her on the
interstate.
The two murdered constantly, killing for a car, killing for sex, killing for
fun. Anyone who drifted in their path was in danger. One girl was found
completely nude in a field, the victim of stab wounds. Lucas were credited for
some twenty murders in California, Michigan, Texas, and Maryland. Of course,
Lucas confessed to some 600,"free lunches" as he called them.
Crazy as this may seem, it gets stranger. Lucas and Toole are approached by a
man who offers them a job, contract killing. As if this does not delight the two
enough, he declares they must join a satanic cult in order to be eligible for
the job. They met with the cult in Miami soon after. The stranger introduced
himself by name at this meeting, calling himself Don Meteric. He admitted to
knowing Ottis well, which hurt Lucas, who felt betrayed. This did not stop him
from pledging to the fraternity, however. He and Ottis supposedly were required
to murder a man to be accepted into the cult. They were taken to the Everglades
where Lucas claimed Ottis lured a man to a beach where Lucas lay in waiting with
a blade. Lucas ripped his throat. He, Ottis, and the cult later cooked and ate
the man in a "Black Mass" ritual. After their induction, they began kidnapping
babies for sale as slaves. They kidnapped and drugged children and teenagers to
star in illegal pornographic movies the cult distributed. Of course, as with a
lot of Lucas’ testimony, not a trace of this satanic cult was ever uncovered,
leading one to believe it a hoax.
Lucas was supposedly told by the head of this cult to take some time off. Ottis
stayed on after his departure. He went Jacksonville and met up with Ottis’
daughter, Becky. They moved to California. They were playing the role of man and
wife, but Becky, according to Lucas, wanted more than play. She apparently
wanted the sexual part of a married relationship, but Lucas claimed "fatherly
devotion", prevented him from that. Becky became inflamed at him, referring to
him as a homosexual. Lucas resented this ludicrous accusation, and to compensate
for it, raped and murdered a woman later that night while Becky slept.
Becky
Lucas then claims Meteric contacted him and offered him a job. The mark was a
lawyer in Beaumont, Texas. He befriended the man and asked if he would like to
go for a drink. When the man tilted his head back to take a few swallows, Lucas
stated he slit the man’s throat so deep that, "the liquor just spilled out the
bottom of his head". He buried the body, only to dig it back up later and
decapitate it, and bury the body with the limbs out of the ground so it would be
discovered. They then drifted northwest, as far as Oregon and Washington, Lucas
raping and killing as had become his routine. He tried to take credit for the
Green River Murders, but this was proved impossible.
Lucas and Becky continued to roam, working for people and barely getting by.
Everything was fine until one of the couples began converting Becky to
Christianity. Lucas was immediately threatened. Not long after this, Lucas
stabbed her to death in a field, raped the corpse, and chopped her up. He
stuffed her into three pillowcases and left her in the field. He returned to
bury her two days later.
Kate Rich, one of the individuals to have sheltered the couple, became
suspicious of Lucas when she began hearing of him being around, and Becky
leaving abruptly. Rich met with Lucas and questioned him. He said that she had
run off with a truck driver. She immediately appeared not to believe him. That
was all he needed to inspire another murder. He pulled off on an abandoned road,
stabbed her, carved an inverted cross into her chest, and then dragged her out
of the car. He then proceded to have sex with the dead body. He disposed of the
lifeless corpse in a ditch. Later, he returned to dice her up and pack her in
garbage bags. He spent the late night burning her in a wood burning stove. He
departed in the early hours that same morning. This murder was a turning point
in the psychopaths sick career. Family of Mrs.Rich contacted local authorities
when Kate failed to answer phone calls or the door upon visits. When she turned
up missing, witnesses said Lucas was the last person to see her alive. His
record was drawn. To the horror of the sheriff, he had previous rape and murder
charges, but this was discovered too late, Lucas was long gone.
Unidentified "Orange Socks" Victim
Lucas wandered awhile, theft remaining his only source of sustenance. He was
bouncing all over the country. Oklahoma, Amarillo, Texas, stealing and selling
to survive. Time was getting short for Lucas. He returned to a town in
California, Hemet, with the hopes of attaining a job he once had working for a
man named Jack Smart. Little known to Lucas, Smart had long since caught wind of
Lucas’ dissaperrance the day after Kate Rich had vanished. He devised a plan on
the spot. Acting as though everything was perfectly normal, Jack graciously
welcomed Lucas back into his home, and phoned.his family in the hours that
followed. Soon after, Lucas was taken into custody, cuffed in Jack Smart’s
antique shop. Unbelievingly, Lucas had to be released because of lack of
tangible evidence. Back on the streets again, Lucas made tracks.
Lucas wasted no time, traveling all over continuing to kill if he felt
threatened. He stayed primarily in the central states. But he made time in
Illinois to abduct another woman, slash her to death, and sleep with her body.
He dumped her in a grove, like so much refuse, but he made sure to clean all
valuables off her first. He drove to Texas and ditched his car, then quickly
began trekking back north via the thumb. But it was not to be, Lucas was running
out of options. He was broke, extremely desparate for cash. He resorted to
calling another ex-employer, Ruben Moore. Moore also knew he was wanted by the
police in conjunction with a possible murder. For the second time, Lucas was
lured. He was offered $100.00 to return to Moore’s ranch and go to work for him.
He arrived, and was greeted cheerfully by Moore, who had the police there to get
Lucas the next morning. Presently, the only charge they could keep him for was
theft of a stolen vehicle in Maryland. Authorities there would not order an
extradition for Lucas, so, again, he was released. Luckily, only a short time
later, Lucas was apprehended once and for all.
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