Henry Lee Lucas (1936-2001) was an American serial killer who confessed to killing hundreds of people, although the total number of victims is unknown. He was convicted of murdering 11 people and sentenced to death in Texas in 1998. He was known for his bizarre confessions and his inability to
Henry Lee Lucas, also known as the Confession Killer, was an American murderer who was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and two others in 1983. He rose to infamy as a claimed serial killer while incarcerated for these crimes, falsely confessing to approximately 600 other murders to the Texas Rangers and other law enforcement officials. Many unsolved cases were closed based on the confessions and the murders officially attributed to Lucas. He was convicted of murdering eleven people and condemned to death for a single case with a then-unidentified victim, later identified as Debra Jackson.