I did kill Becky … I loved her. Henry Lee Lucas: Serial Killer starring Antonio Sabato jr & John Diehl & Kostas Sommer et al, director Michael Feifer, Horror Channel 2009
1981: I may as well chop her up and get rid of the evidence. ibid. Uncle
I just don’t like having sex with the live ones. ibid. Henry
I didn’t murder my mother; that was self-defence. ibid. Henry’s confession
It was years’ of abuse. ibid. Henry
Being a criminal is easy: you just gotta do the crime when there are no police around. ibid.
In 1996 Ottis Toole died from cirrhosis of the liver while serving six life sentences in Florida. Henry Lee Lucas was convicted of murder and sentenced to death but in 1998, then-Governor of Texas, George W Bush, commuted his sentence to life in prison. ibid. caption
Texas, 1983: I killed them in every way there is except poison. The Confession Killer I: Everything Except Poison, Netflix 2019
Either they found the world’s worst serial killer or it was the biggest hoax in American criminal justice history. ibid. dude
After that I cut her up in tiny little pieces. ibid. Lucas’ confession to rozzers
Judge, what are we gonna do about these other hundred women I killed? ibid.
He was a pitiful looking gentleman, really. ibid. journalist
Henry Lucas grew up in rural Virginia in a dilapidated little house. ibid.
Some temporal lobe damage, some frontal lobe [damage] … It looks to me as though you have a serial killer. ibid. expert
He seemed to respond better with photos of the victim. The Confession Killer II: Make It Strawberry, rozzer
He was looking through the books that police departments sent in to the taskforce. They had crime scene photos. Well the next day in came the police: he knew what highway they were on, what the house looked like … ibid. journalist
He was trying to commit legal suicide. ibid. brief
This man had talked his way into a death penalty case and been found guilty of capital murder. ibid.
I told my supervisor, This is all going to come crashing down. The Confession Killer III: War in Waco, female rozzer
When you typed in Henry Lee Lucas into the computer for the national criminal records, someone did not want other law enforcement people to know where Henry was on certain days. ibid. district attorney Feazell
Henry Lee Lucas: Mass murderer or massive hoax? He is said to have killed more than 210 people during an eight-year crime spree in nearly every state. But new evidence suggests Henry Lee Lucas may have conned lawmen in 26 states into accepting bogus confessions. ibid. Dallas Times Herald article Hugh Aynesworth
I’d like to state that I haven’t done these crimes … Those are people that wanted cases cleared. They would show you pictures of the crimes. ibid. public confession
At the same time they were arresting me, fifteen agents descended on the house. ibid. Feazell
He did not cut me up and throw my body parts everywhere. ibid. Becky Powell, CNN interview
Henry Lee Lucas admits to confessing to over 600 murders including the one that sent him to death row. The Confession Killer IV: All the Damn Lies, television news report
It was clearly the result of their relationship and this very very sick man that was being manipulated by the sheriff. ibid. expert
That sheriff he wanted everything he could get, and I gave it to him. ibid. Lucas
I don’t give a damn if I was executed tomorrow. ibid.
Henry Lee Lucas did not know what the truth was. ibid. author
He [Lucas] died of natural causes. ibid. victim’s relative
At least I know who did it. The Confession Killer V: Not One Shred of Evidence, victim’s relative comments on DNA cracking of cold case: not Henry
Henry Lee Lucas was fed information in my mom’s case. ibid.
LUCIANO, LUCKY: Mobsters TV - Great Crimes & Trials TV - Mafia's Greatest Hits TV - Selwyn Raab - Mafia Empire 2006 TV -
Lucky Luciano: In the early 1930s New York City was a Mob killing field. Out of this bloody chaos emerged one cold-hearted brilliant gangster named Lucky Luciano. Mobsters s1e16: Lucky Luciano
He was going to literally organise crime. Lucky ordered a sit-down meeting in New York and created a secret commission made up of the leaders of five notorious crime families. ibid.
He made money came from drugs and prostitution. ibid.
At the age of 18 he was busted for possession of heroin and sentenced to a year in jail. ibid.
He was the New York Mob’s new boss. ibid.
His sentence was a whopping 30-50 years. ibid.
Luciano had planned the hit, and he quickly became one of the leaders in the criminal underworld ... Luciano revolutionised the way the New York mob was run. Mobsters: The Mob’s Greatest Hits
Luciano proposed that the mobsters share the New York territories. ibid.
But when Joe ‘the Boss’ Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano were taken out by organised hits, mobster Lucky Luciano rose to the top, and organised crime was born. ibid.
He [Thomas Dewey] won scores of convictions, and in 1946 saw to it that Lucky Luciano, an illegal immigrant, was deported back to Italy. ibid.
He [Lucky Luciano] came in 1906 at the age of eight as part of the great tide of Italian immigrants to the Lower East Side, Little Italy ... At the age of eighteen he was sent to the notoriously harsh Hampton Farms Penitentiary for a year for peddling narcotics. His reward for keeping silent when arrested was to be made a full member of the Five Points Gang alongside the infamous Al Capone, Frankie Yale and Johnny Torrio. Great Crimes & Trials s1e2: Lucky Luciano and the Mob: Narcotics, BBC 1993
[Thomas] Dewey had to battle to extradite him from Arkansas. But at last in May 1936 Charles Lucania, as he was called on the Charge Sheet, found himself in a New York courthouse ... He was sent down for a minimum of thirty years. The heaviest jail sentence ever given for vice. Examined on arrival in prison he was found to have syphilis and to be a drug addict. ibid.
As he reached his car his features contorted with a heart attack that killed him within minutes. ibid.
Charles Lucky Luciano: the Number One gangster of all time. Intelligent, ruthless, and a visionary. Luciano transformed the Mafia from warring street gangs into a highly sophisticated empire. Mafia’s Greatest Hits s1e2: Charles Lucky Luciano, 2012
Why was nobody able to stop him? ibid.