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So why are so many people intrigued by serial killers For many Americans, these modern-day ogres offer a perverse thrill. But is really the threat there Some experts believe the number of serial killers is rising. Going back to 1960, you had about 10, 000 homicides a year in the U.S., and most of these were solved and very few of them represented multiple or serial killers, notes Ressler, ...

Henry Lee Lucas Name: Henry Lee Lucas Nickname: Location (of Kills): Cross country United States Number of Kills: confessed to 500 he was convicted 10 Gender of Victims: Men and Women Sexual Contact: Rape, Molestation, Necrophelia Types of Murder: Strangulation, Stabbing, Bludgeoning The first murder occured in 1953. Henry Lee Lucas strangled a girl that he was trying to rape. In 1954, he was ...

Henry Lee Lucas America's most controversial murderer was born August 23, 1936, at Blacksburg, Virginia. The Lucas family home was a two-room, dirt-floor cabin in the woods outside of town, where Henry's alcoholic parents brewed bootleg whiskey, his mother doing occasional turns as the neighborhood prostitute. Viola Lucas ran her family with a rod of iron, while husband Anderson Lucas - dubbed ...

Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis Toole On 15 June 1983 while in jail for a minor weapons offence, and on suspicion of two murders, Henry Lee Lucas admitted killing over three-hundred and fifty people. Lucas had spent most of his life from 1960 to 1975 in jail. After his release he had an unsuccessful marriage (which ended when his wife realised he was having sex with her two small girls) and lived for a ...