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1 HENRY LEE LUCAS Sarah Strauss AKA: The Confession Killer, One-Eyed Drifter

2 WHAT MAKES A SERIAL KILLER?  Medical injuries when younger  Most have an unstable home as a child  Might be abused when young  Did not have a stable home as a child  No conscience and has no remorse  Lacks love and nurturing

3 WHAT IS EVIL?  Profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, esp. when regarded as a supernatural force.  Is the intention or effect of causing harm or destruction, usually specifically from the perception of deliberately violating some moral code  Evil acts include: rape and murder  Henry Lee Lucas is a Moral Evil  He enjoyed the transient feeling of power it gave to him

4 EVIL CONT… Moral EvilNatural Evil  harms perpetrated by some agent  Want to hurt someone  harms resulting from natural disasters, disease, or other agentless causes

5 BACKGROUND  He was born on August 23, 1936, in Blacksburg, Virginia  Born a Christian  One of nine sibling  Raised by alcoholic parents who were abusive  He murdered his mother  Spent 3 days in a coma  He enjoyed cannibalism and necrophilia  Lucas claimed that he first practiced bestiality and zoosadism  By June 22, thanks to a front page story, Henry Lee Lucas had become a nationally famous serial killer.

6 EARLY LIFE  When he was ten his brother accidentally stabbed him in the left eye. His mother just ignored the injury and the eye became infected so it had to replaced by a glass  Ran away from home  As a teenager, his sexual deviance became increasingly pronounced  He reported having sex with his half-brother and with dead animals  His teen years were spent in and out of jail  Engaged to pen pail while incarcerated  In and out of juvenile detention  Convicted of petty theft  He was in a coma for 3 days  Suffered headaches  Dizzy spells  Black outs

7 PROFILE Profile of Henry Lee Lucas Born: August 23, 1936 in Blacksburg, Virginia Died: March 11, 2001 of natural causes (massive heart failure), Huntsville Prison, Texas Number of victims: 3-3000 Once known as: "Most infamous man on death row" and "the greatest monster than ever lived" Active: 1947-1983 Victim Profile: Random people, primarily hitchhikers Location: Michigan, Florida, & Texas (possibly 20 more states)

8 ABNORMAL  Since he was raised by abusive parents and was hurt at a young age he recanted and became a serial killer because he was raised wrong.  He started having sex at a really young age which might have led him to become one  He also had a standard IQ which is weird because a lot of serial killers are really smart  He believes someone like Satan is telling him to do the murders

9 TARGETED VICTIMS AND MOTIVE  Usually killed the girls or women he'd picked up, because he preferred sexual contact with a corpse  Lucas generally used a knife or strangled them, but he was an advocate of trying different methods so as not to leave a pattern that police might link together.  There is no accurate number of how many people Henry killed  The estimate is between 100-3,000 (many different websites offer)  The first attack was Lucas’s mother on January 11, 1960  The victim’s ages range from 12 to 82 years  The killings took place around the country  He directed the police to a number amount of bodies

10 TARGETED VICTIMS CONT….  The first murder was of his mother  He killed a lady in Texas only wearing orange socks

11 WHAT TYPE OF KILLER IS LUCAS?  Lucas was a power and control serial killer  He also is a Hedonistic  Since he was beaten when younger it might have lead to his killings  He killed women because he like to be sexual with them  “a live woman ain't nothin” a quote from him

12 COURT AND VERDICT  “The defense also used work records to show the Lucas had been in Florida on October 31 and had cashed a check on November 1, and they tied it all up with psychiatric testimony to show that Lucas was insane. Psychologist Tom Kubiszyn said that Lucas had an IQ of 84, a desire to feel important, a feeling of inferiority, and a belief that he could not direct his own actions. He also had schizophrenia.”  He was diagnosed as a psychopath  Was sentenced 20 to 40 years in prison  He was sent to Jackson State Penitentiary in southern Michigan, but after two attempted suicides, he was admitted to Ionia State Mental Hospital.  He was paroled in 1970 after serving 10 years.

13 MEDIA ATTENTION  Lucas did not seek attention to the media. He was trying to avoid it.  There are several books and movies made about him.  Back then when President George W. Bush was a governor of Texas he got involved. Lucas in prison

14 AN INTERVIEW

15 WHERE IN THE WORLD IS HENRY?  He was sentenced to death, but the sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment by Texas governor George Bush. While on Death Row, Lucas became a born again Christian and spent the last 18 years of his life as a model prisoner. He died on March 12, 2001 of natural cause at the age of 64. Lucas flanked by prison guards.

16 BIBLIOGRAPHY  http://www.biography.com/people/henry-lee-lucas-11735804 http://www.biography.com/people/henry-lee-lucas-11735804  http://www.houseofhorrors.com/lucas.htm http://www.houseofhorrors.com/lucas.htm  http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/henry_lee_l ucas/13.html http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/henry_lee_l ucas/13.html  http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/henry_lee_l ucas/3.html http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/henry_lee_l ucas/3.html


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