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00:21In 1983, he dominated the headlines as the most prolific serial killer in American history.
00:28The worst of the worst.
00:30He was linked to homicides in 27 states.
00:51It's impossible to say how many people he killed.
00:54Perhaps the authorities will never know how many people Henry Lee Lucas murdered.
01:05Serial Killers
01:14He was a disheveled man, driving an old car.
01:18If anyone had seen him that day in 1982, they would have noticed the female passenger he was carrying in the car.
01:25An elderly woman was sitting next to him.
01:27But nothing indicated whether they were relatives, friends, or enemies.
01:32He said he felt like killing her and having sex with her.
01:36Then he turned left and crossed the railroad tracks.
01:38On the other side, he grabbed a knife from between the seats and stabbed her.
01:42He thought he would never get caught.
01:45After all, it wasn't his first murder.
01:47Quite the opposite.
01:53He started by simply strangling and stabbing.
01:58And only women alone.
02:05Then, he began his marathon to break the world record.
02:14For Texas Ranger Phil Ryan, it all started as just another missing person case.
02:20In 1982, he was called to investigate the disappearance of a woman in Stoneburg, a small town in northern California.
02:28Texas.
02:29Kate Rich, 80, was in poor health but completely lucid.
02:34She was raised in Oklahoma, was widowed, and moved to Stoneburg.
02:39She had... well, it was a very modest house.
02:42We can say that he was poor.
02:45She wasn't the type of person who would move without telling anyone.
02:50They liked her very much.
02:51When she disappeared, we became worried almost immediately.
02:55We suspect a crime may have occurred.
02:59We performed the normal searches.
03:02We are looking for signs of graves.
03:04And we did the victimology, we investigated if anyone had problems with her.
03:09And who had access to it?
03:12When we finished sifting through the sieve, only Henry remained.
03:17Suspicion fell on Henry Lee Lucas, a former convict nearly 50 years old.
03:24One of Kate's sons had sent Henry to Stoneburg to renovate his mother's house.
03:29And that's where he stayed.
03:32Henry also brought his girlfriend, Beck Powell, who is only 15 years old.
03:37Kate seemed happy with the arrangement.
03:40But his other children did not trust Henry.
03:44They were opportunists.
03:46They used her account at the supermarket to buy cigarettes.
03:49And they weren't doing what they were supposed to do, which was to renovate the house.
03:54When Rich's children kicked him out, he and Beck were taken in by a local religious community called the House of
04:01Prayer.
04:02There, they occupied an abandoned chicken coop.
04:04He was a quiet guy and he was pleasant to be around.
04:16But they didn't lose touch with Kate Rich.
04:19One day, he told one of the members of the House of Prayer that he was going to stop by Kate's house and
04:24See if she wanted a ride to church.
04:26And no one saw her again after that.
04:28He was the first person we contacted.
04:33In their search for Kate Rich, the police found nothing but her purse.
04:38She had been thrown off a bridge between her house and Henry's.
04:42Months have passed.
04:46The hunting season began and ended.
04:49No one found any bodies.
04:51He was well covered, hidden, buried.
04:57Kate was not the only woman who went missing in Stonyburg, Texas.
05:01Investigators discovered that Henry's girlfriend, Beck, had also mysteriously disappeared about a month ago.
05:08Kate treated Beck like a daughter and knew that the young woman wanted to return to Florida.
05:14She spent months asking to return to Florida.
05:18Henry didn't want that.
05:19He had outstanding traffic fines in the state.
05:23Furthermore, he liked Texas.
05:26Henry said that Beck had abandoned him.
05:30Nine months have passed.
05:33Patrolman Pat Ryan was frustrated.
05:36He found no physical evidence linking Lucas to the case.
05:41Yeah, I was stuck.
05:43Then, Ryan discovered that Henry had a gun and arrested him for illegal possession.
05:49He said, in Texas, if they don't get you one way, they'll get you another.
05:53And I replied, yes, that's pretty much it, Henry.
05:58And he said, I was going to help you find Kate, but I'm not going to.
06:01They left Henry alone in a cell.
06:06After three days, he put together a note.
06:09He wanted to talk.
06:11Henry told the patrolman that he had not only killed Kate Rich, but had also dismembered her body.
06:18Then he burned the pieces and buried the ashes and bones.
06:21He showed where he had buried the remains, in the back of the chicken coop at the prayer house.
06:27He dug up the ground in several places where he had buried the ashes and bones.
06:34They were human bones.
06:36But at the time, it wasn't possible to know who they belonged to.
06:39I don't know if that would be possible today.
06:41Depending on which bones remain and their condition, it is possible to determine the gender.
06:48And sometimes, even age.
06:50It is impossible to determine the cause of death, the circumstances of death, and also the time of death.
06:58And basically, any physical evidence would have disappeared.
07:03Following his instructions, the police found the location where Henry had left Kate after killing her.
07:09Look, right here on the road, we found her glasses.
07:15At the other end, we found part of the clothing.
07:19Henry had more to say.
07:22He became emotional when he remembered his girlfriend, Frida Powell, the 15-year-old girl he called Beck.
07:28I only heard him show emotion when he spoke about Beck Powell.
07:33That was the only emotion he showed, besides self-pity.
07:38Henry was introduced to Beck by his former travel companion.
07:42Hottstool, a strong, surly-looking man, with whom he went in and out of prison.
07:48Beck was his niece.
07:49Despite her young age, she already didn't have an easy life.
07:53His mother, a drug addict, had committed suicide.
07:56Some people are born to suffer.
07:59She just wanted attention.
08:00I think Henry came as close as possible to being the love of her life.
08:05Henry, who had a weakness for young women, was charmed by Beck.
08:10At age 15, Beck had left school and the couple became inseparable.
08:17Typically, when an adult man seeks out children or teenagers,
08:22It's because they feel insecure around older women and can't approach them.
08:28It's also easier to persuade and lie to teenagers.
08:34Or they are pedophiles with a preference for a certain age range.
08:39and are only attracted to that group.
08:44In the house of prayer, Beck fell into despair.
08:48In a math book, she wrote
08:50Dear God, please help me.
08:53I ran away from home.
08:54And he finished.
08:55Don't let men get used to me or become attached to me.
08:59She told Henry she was going back to Florida.
09:02He put on a show, pretending he was going to leave the prayer house and take Beck back to Florida.
09:10The couple left the community.
09:12With little money and no car, they asked for a ride.
09:16They spent the night in a roadside beggars' camp.
09:20It was a humid and hot summer.
09:23Henry was drinking.
09:25The two argued.
09:26We kept arguing and cussing each other and finally I just told her that we were going back the next
09:35morning in the garden.
09:36Beck hit him.
09:39Then he took a knife and killed her.
09:43I just picked it up off in the blanket and brought it around her head or right in the chest.
09:46He said it was a reflex.
09:50I didn't do it because I didn't love her or anything like that.
09:54It was because of arguments and because of difficulties that I've been having through my life.
10:02I asked, then why did you kill her?
10:06For the same reason as having sex.
10:07I guess it got to be a part of my life.
10:13I don't know if I was there.
10:16Henry Lucas led the patrolman and the police to a field where he said they would find Beck.
10:21There he said, the legs are over there, I tied them up and dragged them there.
10:26The rest of it is here.
10:28I think maybe the head is more on that side.
10:32Experts found the dismembered skeleton of a young woman, approximately the same age and height as Beck.
10:39The medical examiner was never able to identify the bodies as those of Beck or Kate Rich.
10:45Nowadays, with DNA, we can examine an ounce and obtain DNA samples to determine the identity of the...
10:53victim.
10:53But we need something to compare it to.
10:56If we have a skeleton without soft tissue, without clothes, without a weapon, and without clear evidence,
11:06We are left with more questions than we are able to answer.
11:13When Ryan took Henry to the police station to be locked up, he said it wasn't over.
11:19Throughout the night, Henry confessed to one brutal murder after another.
11:24Come to East Texas to Maryland, kill the girl there.
11:29Come to East Texas to Maryland, kill the girl there.
11:33About 20 on the first night.
11:3620 more...
11:37It was only the beginning.
11:40Henry Lee Lucas had much more to tell the police.
11:44On June 21, 1983, Henry Lee Lucas was taken to the Montague County Courthouse.
11:51for the murders of Katie Ritchie and Beck Powell.
11:55Mike Cox, a reporter for the Austin American Statistician, attended the session.
12:00He was about to get the biggest scoop of his life.
12:04It was then that Lucas let slip in court that he had killed more than 100 women.
12:11News agencies picked up Lucas's announcement, attracting media attention.
12:18Henry Lee Lucas says he killed 100 women.
12:21We receive calls from all the major cities in the country, as well as from England, France, Germany, and South Africa.
12:29Henry claimed to have victimized people in the states of Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and West Virginia.
12:34And he boasted of having killed in every imaginable way.
12:38I killed them in every way imaginable, and even destroyed them.
12:42There was undoing, undoing, undoing, undoing, undoing.
12:48In a way, the murders were games. He wanted to see if he could escape.
12:54He not only wrote descriptions of the people he claimed to have killed,
12:59How did he start drawing portraits of women?
13:03And he described details, such as how she was wearing a pink blouse and white pants.
13:08He was quite specific.
13:12He remembered everything. Dirt roads, abandoned mines, parks, streams, lakes.
13:19He was very precise and always described the same thing hundreds of times.
13:25And he was always spot on when he talked about details of the landscape.
13:30This impressed a lot of people. They thought it was all true.
13:34Along Interstate 35 in Texas, a busy road,
13:39There were several unsolved murders.
13:42There have been homicides all along Highway 35.
13:46which passes through Williamson County and also Austin.
13:50The day after Henry's shocking announcement, Sheriff Jim Balthwell went to visit him.
13:55Balthwell inquired about the unsolved murder of a young woman along the highway.
14:01It was kind of sinister, because the body was found on the afternoon of October 31st.
14:08on Halloween 1979.
14:11She was found in the sewer.
14:13A driver saw the body.
14:16AND...
14:17She was naked, except for a pair of orange socks.
14:21That's why it was the case with the orange halves.
14:24She was never identified.
14:26We didn't know who he was, or where he came from.
14:29The victim had been strangled.
14:32The case had few clues.
14:34There was a ring on his finger and a matchbox from Oklahoma next to his body.
14:38They searched for fingerprints on the matchbox and on the body.
14:43But they were unable to obtain any latent impressions.
14:48That was before DNA testing existed.
14:52And I don't think they collected anything from which DNA could be extracted if the incident had occurred today.
15:00Without clothing, a vast amount of evidence, or insignificant evidence, is lost.
15:08The socks the young woman was wearing may have contained fibers.
15:13Both on the sole and on the upper part.
15:17This is important.
15:19It would be possible to compare these fibers.
15:22But there wasn't much evidence in this case.
15:25And when the absence of solid and consistent evidence is clear,
15:29There's not much we can do.
15:31Sheriff Balthwell interviewed Henry and became convinced that he was responsible for the murder.
15:38He took him to the scene of the crime involving the orange socks.
15:53Henry had already received two life sentences.
15:57for the murders of Mrs. Kate Reed and Beck Powell.
16:00But this case was different.
16:03He was charged with rape and murder, which in Texas is a capital crime.
16:08In other words, Henry could be sentenced to death.
16:12The prosecution requested that Dr. Richard Coons examine Henry to determine if he was mentally fit to stand trial.
16:19He told me, "I don't like live sex, I like dead sex."
16:28It was the common theme throughout the time he spent talking about his crimes.
16:34He claimed that having sex was more pleasurable if the victim, or partner (in quotes), was dead.
16:43While Sheriff Baldwin kept his suspect in the orange socks case in custody,
16:49In Williamson, police officers from all over the country were asking to interview Henry about unsolved homicides in their jurisdictions.
16:57And to keep Henry talking, the authorities tried to keep him happy.
17:14The demand for Henry was so great that a dedicated task force was created to coordinate his commitments.
17:22There were about a thousand police officers in the city representing 500 agencies or a little more.
17:43Henry was flown to California on a private plane to identify crime scenes.
17:48He stayed in hotels and ate fine dishes.
17:51But Bobby Prince, the task force leader, says the patrolmen did their best to ensure the credibility of the...
17:57confessions.
17:58We guide the conduct of the interviews, explaining what to do, what not to do, and especially what not to do.
18:08Don't give him information, don't show him photos.
18:11I don't know what else we could have done to guarantee credibility.
18:16However, the detectives were under pressure to solve numerous cases that had been shelved due to lack of evidence.
18:22She left her house and was attacked at the door as soon as she stepped outside.
18:45She was dragged to the car and stabbed 19 times.
18:50After years of searching for the killer, his parents received a call.
18:55They said that Henry and Lucas had confessed to the crime.
18:59We were happy, overjoyed.
19:01Finally, that nightmare could end.
19:05Stories like that of the Lemons led the FBI to place Henry at the top of its newest criminal category.
19:11early 1980s.
19:13Serial killers.
19:22In 1983, Henry and Lucas confessed to hundreds of murders.
19:27Next, they add a new detail.
19:30He told investigators that he had a partner.
19:32Your old friend, Otis Tu.
19:40Otis Tu was as strange as Harry Lee Lucas, maybe even more so.
19:47He was a very disturbed human being.
19:51When the two met in Jacksonville, Florida, the outcome couldn't have been any different.
19:59Otis Tu was, in fact, a gigantic homosexual and also evil.
20:05He was cruel and violent.
20:08He dressed as a woman and got into many fights in bars when people made fun of him.
20:15According to Henry, when angered, Otis would kill anyone he didn't like.
20:21And that was just a taste.
20:40It was a feast for the media, who nicknamed the wandering killers the "duo from hell."
20:46According to Lucas, they would attack any woman Henry found attractive.
20:54They killed the woman and Lucas had sex with the corpse.
21:00He was a necrophiliac, perhaps because of his crimes with Otis,
21:05We get the impression that he found it amusing to have sex with corpses.
21:12The two seemed to enjoy the media attention and began making absurd claims.
21:19They allegedly killed Jimmy Hoffa.
21:21They allegedly supplied the poison used by Jim Jones in the Jonestown mass suicide.
21:27They claimed that Otis Tu had kidnapped and killed John Walsh's son, Adam, in Florida.
21:33It was a festival of horrors, and the media and the public seemed to want more.
21:37Henry was the most efficient person in the American criminal justice system in many years.
21:45because he was solving dozens of crimes.
21:47Not everyone believed Henry.
21:50His lawyers were convinced that he was innocent in the orange socks case.
21:55According to the prosecution, he had kidnapped that woman in Oklahoma, on Highway 40.
22:02Killed in Texas, dumped the body north of Georgetown, and drove like a maniac to Jacksonville, Florida.
22:10That's a distance of almost 2,000 kilometers.
22:15I went to Jacksonville, Florida.
22:18I located the clerk who cashed a check for Henry.
22:23Around 6 p.m. on November 1st, a day after they found the victim,
22:30in Williamson County, Texas.
22:33Reporter Hugh Inersworth was also investigating the case.
22:37He discovered that Lucas showed up for work in Florida the day after the murder in Texas.
22:44It doesn't make much sense to drive 1,900 or 2,000 kilometers at an average speed of 110 kilometers per hour.
22:51to kill someone he didn't even know and didn't know would be there.
22:56Well, it's not quite like that.
23:00But Texas rangers claimed the work records were fake.
23:04And Henry confirmed it.
23:06It was his word against that of his own lawyers.
23:09I think he realized we were going to portray him as a liar, a fraud.
23:15For the first time in his life, he was gay.
23:18And suddenly, he would lose all his privileges.
23:29Based on his confession, Henry Lucas was convicted of murder and sexual assault in the "orange socks" case.
23:36and sentenced to death.
23:38But he wasn't transferred.
23:41For 18 months, he was in Williamson jail, assisting the police with their cases.
23:47They showed photographs, they showed photos of crime scenes, and they showed reports.
23:53And Henry had information about the cases.
23:55So, many police officers were convinced that he was guilty.
23:59Right at the beginning, patrolman Phil Ryan, the man who had arrested Henry Lucas,
24:04He tested his suspect with fictitious cases.
24:07But almost every day, when I interviewed him for agents from other cities,
24:13I would make up a story.
24:15I would put it in the middle.
24:17I was saying, and what about this one?
24:20And yes, I think this was on such and such a day.
24:23Sometimes he would say no, but almost always he took my bait.
24:30But, for the men who investigated Henry's past,
24:33It wasn't hard to believe he was a serial killer.
24:36He seemed to have been made for this.
24:42Henry Lucas was born in 1936 into a poor family in the Appalachian Mountains.
24:48He grew up in this shack on the hillside of Cole Bank Hollow in Blacksburg, Virginia.
24:54They were very poor.
24:56Yoma Sage is Henry Lucas's niece.
24:59She remembers Henry's mother, Viola, a mountain woman of Native American descent.
25:04She was at least 50 or 51 years old when she had Henry.
25:10She distilled her own brandy, carried a shotgun, and had a short temper.
25:16His mother forced him to wear dresses and do other humiliating things.
25:20His mother was a prostitute and received clients in front of him.
25:24Henry had a terrible upbringing.
25:26Around him, nobody dealt with sex in a normal way.
25:30His mother would either tell him to watch it or allow him to watch it.
25:35Hmm, that was a sick thing.
25:38Henry's strange appearance also reflected his terrible childhood.
25:42when his brother, Andrew, destroyed one of his eyes.
25:46Henry and Andrew were playing in the backyard.
25:51Andrew had a knife and it seems that, during the game,
25:58Andrew got angry with Henry and hit him with the knife.
26:03The eye became infected and was replaced with a glass one.
26:07He had one bad eye that didn't keep up with the other.
26:13He made others uncomfortable.
26:15It was obvious that something was wrong with him.
26:18Henry spent his adolescence in a reformatory.
26:21As an adult, he was arrested several times for robbery.
26:24He was living freely with his sister in Michigan in January 1960.
26:30when he got into a fight with his own mother and stabbed her in the neck.
26:34She died of a heart attack.
26:36Henry went back to prison.
26:39He would admit to killing his mother and then immediately deny it.
26:42Then they would say it was an accident, and so on.
26:45But he hated her.
26:48Later, Lucas was arrested for attempting to kidnap two girls.
26:53I think it was a crucial case in his record.
26:57He was convicted for it.
26:59And I think that was a sign of his propensity to attack women in the streets.
27:10In 1985, Henry had been convicted of one murder and pleaded guilty to nine more.
27:17Hundreds of cases across the country had been solved thanks to confessions attributed to Henry or the pair.
27:24From hell.
27:25Henry and Otstool.
27:27But doubts grew.
27:28And soon they too would become news.
27:33In 1983 and 1984, Henry Lelocas confessed to hundreds of murders across the country.
27:40When he wouldn't take the blame, he would point the finger at his partner, Otstool.
27:44I think Henry wanted to be known, and the people who dealt with him wanted him to be known.
27:51as the greatest murderer in the criminal history of the United States and perhaps in the criminal history of the entire world.
27:58What is that?
28:31But most of Henry and Otis's accounts did not match the details of the crimes they confessed to.
28:37And the doppelganger also contradicted herself.
28:39And people like Jim Mettox, the Texas Attorney General, began to realize this in the spring of 1984.
28:46As a crime-fighting professional, I began to suspect that he wasn't telling the truth and
28:55It was also said that the police were only closing cases instead of solving homicides.
29:03Real homicides. That was it.
29:06Vic Fizel, the young district attorney for McLennan County, called Mettox from his office in Waco asking for help.
29:14He was investigating three murders.
29:17The Texas Rangers were pressuring him, saying that Henry Lucas had confessed to all of them.
29:23It was just a matter of indicting him.
29:25I couldn't understand how Henry Lucas could have passed through McLennan County and killed those three people without...
29:34That we knew about.
29:35Nobody had seen him there and we had no information about those cases.
29:40Fizel tasked the investigator with discovering Lucas's location on key dates.
29:47We managed to get Henry Lucas's dental records from when he had some teeth extracted.
29:54This invalidated some confessions.
29:57We found records showing that Henry Lucas had collected food stamps while he was in Jacksonville, Florida.
30:04Each time he withdrew those vouchers, it was one less homicide elsewhere.
30:10Each time we were able to prove his location on a given date, it was one less homicide.
30:15After a while, you didn't need to be a genius to figure out that something was wrong.
30:19Fizel conveyed his concern to Attorney General Jim Maddox.
30:23Basically, he said that Lucas was dedicated to confessing to crimes he hadn't committed.
30:32Maddox and Fizel decided to convene a grand jury in Waco to find out what was going on.
30:38When Henry was transferred to Waco, Maddox went to visit him.
30:42I told him, Henry, we know it's impossible that you committed some of the crimes you confessed to.
30:52Henry smiled broadly and said, "I was wondering how long it would take for someone to find out."
31:02From then on, he recounted how things happened.
31:07Basically, he began to explain how he had closed those cases and how he had deceived so many officials from various agencies.
31:20He was proud of himself.
31:23He told me several times, you know, for a few moments I was more famous than Elvis.
31:29And he said, if they had kept listening to me, I would have confessed to more murders than, what's his name?
31:37Hitler, that's right, Hitler.
31:39He would have killed more than Hitler.
31:41I'd say maybe I caught him, you know.
31:45They said, no, that's not right.
31:47But I know it has to be something more.
31:49So I would say, maybe I caught him.
31:52And that wouldn't be right.
31:54Then they said, no, that's not right.
31:56I'd say, maybe I caught him.
31:58And I said, oh, yeah, that's right now.
32:00That's right.
32:01One of my colleagues, who conducted a lengthy interview with Harry,
32:06He said that although he wasn't cultured, he was the most astute person he had ever met.
32:15And one of the things that Harry and Lucas knew how to do very well,
32:18It was about interpreting body language and getting the police officers to tell him things.
32:25He was a master at taking small pieces of information and reconstructing the case from them.
32:35even if he wasn't guilty.
32:37With Henry's lies being revealed, the victims' families faced the possibility of their loved ones' cases being investigated.
32:43not having been resolved.
32:44Joyce Lemons fought to reopen her daughter's case after discovering that Henry's confession didn't match her testimony.
32:51the facts of the case.
32:53Absolutely nothing in his confession was true.
32:56He said he had entered through a sliding door, which was impossible because there was a glass cabinet in front of it.
33:04And that he had chased her around the house, but nothing was out of place.
33:09Joyce spent $100,000 to obtain records documenting Henry's location over 10 years.
33:21Attorney General Mattox and his colleagues compiled all this information into a bombshell document called the Lucas Report, which was released to the public.
33:31They emphasized that there was no physical evidence linking Henry to the crimes.
33:36Except for the cases of Kate Rich and Beck Powell, he had never led investigators to the discovery of new skeletal remains.
33:44He should be able to lead the police to a grave, to skeletal remains, or to a cremation site.
33:51that they hadn't yet discovered or connected with him.
33:54But he never did that; he always went to places that had already been examined, places that had already been...
34:01information.
34:02He never said anything that hadn't already been discovered.
34:05It was a damning report because it not only stated that law enforcement agencies had made an error in judgment,
34:15as well as the fact that some of those involved in the investigation had acted against the public interest, since the real killers were
34:25on the loose.
34:25When the prosecution jury finished, the task force was disbanded.
34:30He had no credibility, he had already admitted it, and nobody wanted to talk to him anymore after that.
34:39Otstow, Henry's alleged partner, ended up dying in prison in 1996 due to liver disease.
34:46He was serving a life sentence for a crime that had nothing to do with Henry.
34:51Henry L. Lucas's national tour as a serial killer was coming to an end, but not his story.
35:00Henry L. Lucas's glory days had come to an end.
35:04In 1985, he was sent to death row in Huntsville, Texas.
35:09Over the next decade, some of Henry's confessions were discarded, but 214 cases remain unopened.
35:17Most of them were never tried, but Henry is still listed as the perpetrator of the crimes.
35:24Nobody knows how many actually belong to him.
35:28Or how many murderers remain free because of Henry's lies.
35:33We believe what we choose to believe.
35:36We prefer to think that we've captured the boogeyman and that one man is responsible for 600 murders.
35:42It's not that there are 600 individuals, each responsible for one murder.
35:47Vic Fazel switched from prosecution to defense in Henry L. Lucas's case with the goal of preventing a conviction.
35:54of the orange halves,
35:55which put Henry on death row.
35:58He also tried to prove Henry's innocence in other cases.
36:02The facts are still the facts, the evidence is still the evidence.
36:06And we know he didn't commit all of those crimes.
36:09In fact, it's quite clear that if he killed anyone, it was only his mother, Kate Richie, and Beck Power.
36:18Fazel had difficulty exonerating Lucas because some Texas police officers had an interest in confirming his version of events.
36:25When Fazel began trying to determine if Lucas was indeed the perpetrator of several of these crimes,
36:33The patrolmen received orders.
36:37Orders to investigate Fazel.
36:39And also to bring up everything possible about him in order to tarnish his reputation.
36:46They thought he wanted to discredit the patrol officers.
36:50I was arrested and handcuffed in front of the courthouse while I was parking in my spot.
36:56They pulled me out of the car, handcuffed me, and arrested me.
36:59As the media had already been warned, there were at least 12 TV cameras in the area.
37:05The accusations were numerous and far-reaching.
37:08Accepting bribes to delay cases, being permissive with crime, being permissive with drugs,
37:15I refuse to prosecute cases of... assault on police officers.
37:21Everything you could imagine was ridiculous, because none of it was true. Nothing.
37:26Then he was judged.
37:28And I was a witness in his favor.
37:31Fazel was found innocent.
37:33He then used the video of his arrest to sue a local TV station for defamation.
37:38The jury concluded that the broadcaster had produced a series of false reports against him.
37:44It was the biggest libel case in United States history ever won by a public official.
37:5158 million dollars.
37:54Meanwhile, Henry Lucas's time was coming to an end.
37:57In 1998, the Supreme Court refused to hear his final appeal in the orange socks case.
38:04The execution date has been set.
38:06And on death row, he told CBS that he had never killed anyone other than his own mother.
38:37George W. Bush was the governor of Texas in 1998.
38:42And he had never overturned a death sentence.
38:44But he received support from former Attorney General Jim Mattox, a Democrat.
38:48For the first and last time, a death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Bush.
39:01I was disappointed.
39:02I think he is the perpetrator of this crime for several reasons.
39:06First of all, it was one of the first crimes he confessed to.
39:11And there's no doubt that afterwards he made things up, took credit for crimes he didn't commit and couldn't.
39:19to have committed.
39:20But I think that, in this case, he committed murder.
39:24Prosecutor Ed Walsh is one of those who still believe that Henry is a serial killer.
39:30I don't know how many other murders he committed.
39:35But I estimate there are at least a hundred.
39:39I know he's a serial killer.
39:42He killed a lot of people.
39:44I just think that someone who kills his own mother and the other women we know he killed,
39:49It is capable of killing other people.
39:52I am convinced that Lucas is responsible for many corpses.
39:56With modern science, it may be possible to reopen many of Henry's archived cases.
40:02and find out if he really was the murderer.
40:06Crimes like the ones Henry Lee Lucas confessed to could be easily solved.
40:11if we used modern technology.
40:14If the evidence had remained intact until today, we could test it.
40:19Because DNA leaves no room for doubt.
40:21We have Henry Lee Lucas's DNA, and we can make the comparison.
40:27After Henry Lee Lucas, there was an explosion of false confessions.
40:32In the late 80s and early 90s,
40:36Several serial killers began to increase their total number of victims.
40:40From a dozen to several hundred.
40:43Without any proof.
40:45It was a kind of phenomenon, a wave of false confessions.
40:55A trend that continues to this day in this era of celebrity worship.
41:00Robert Charles Brown, some years ago, said that he had killed 49 victims in various states.
41:06It's no coincidence; it's one more victim than Ridgway, who holds the American record.
41:11Gary Ridgway is the man known as the Green River killer.
41:15which claimed at least 48 victims in the Seattle area.
41:1948 is the record, so I'll add one more and say 49.
41:23I am now the biggest serial killer in the United States.
41:26In the end, they were unable to confirm his claims.
41:30That's great, I'm happy to see there are people in other states.
41:34who remain skeptical and know that this phenomenon still exists.
41:40Nevertheless, the reputation carefully built by Henry Lee Lucas
41:44How the greatest serial killer in history endures to this day.
41:50There is no doubt that Henry Lee Lucas killed some people.
41:54How many? We don't know for sure.
41:56And I guess we'll never know.
41:58I'm more inclined to think that the number of victims is relatively small.
42:02There's no doubt it wasn't 360 people.
42:05But, oh, he killed 11? He killed 3? He killed 20?
42:11I think we'll never have the answer to that question.
42:15Did he feel remorse for the deaths? Not at all.
42:18Did he like it? Yes, he liked it.
42:20So, does he have the mindset of a serial killer?
42:23Undoubtedly.
42:25Patrol officer Phil Ryan wasn't surprised by how things turned out.
42:30When he investigated the first batch of crimes Henry admitted to after confessing to killing Beck,
42:36He found no evidence of any of them.
42:39In most cases, everything had been invented by Henry's sick and cruel imagination.
42:45I wanted to talk to Henry.
42:47I tried for many months, throughout the investigation, and afterwards to get in touch with him.
42:53And I think that before he became arrogant and famous and started thinking he was somebody,
42:59I was getting closer to the truth.
43:01I think nobody came close to the truth.
43:04Henry Lee Lucas died in prison of heart failure.
43:08a few months after having his death sentence commuted by Governor George W. Bush.
43:13Brazilian version Vox Mundi.
43:16I think nobody came close to the truth.
43:16I think nobody came close to the truth.
43:16I think nobody came close to the truth.
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