Henry Lee Lucas was a sick man, and, like most serial killers of our time, the roots of his insanity had its roots in his childhood. First of all, he was “…the son of a prostitute and a double amputee” (Pederson, 64). His parents brewed bootleg whiskey in their two-room, dirt floor cabin in the woods outside of town, “…his mother doing occasional turns as the neighborhood prostitute” (Seize the Night, 1). His father, called “no legs” lost both of his legs in an accident when he was drunk. Secondly, Henry suffered from brutal attacks and humiliation at the hands of his mother. On Henry’s first day of

Another reason Henry is worse than a normal serial killer is because of the mere gruesomeness of his crimes. Henry and his partner for a period in his life, Ottis Toole, traveled the country, killing for any reason, sometimes killing for no reason at all. On one occasion, Toole and Lucas were driving down the Texas Interstate when they noticed a guy and girl walking down the road. Ottis simply pulled over, stepped out of the car, and shot the boy nine times, disposing of him in a culvert. Lucas was busy fighting the girl to get her in the car. Ottis jumped in the drivers’ seat and took off, while Lucas steadily and repeatedly raped the girl. Ottis stopped the car, dragged that girl out, and shot her six times, and left her on the interstate. Another crime involved Lucas shooting a convenience store clerk and watching Toole molest the corpse. Secondly, what Lucas (and Toole) did with the corpses of the victims after they killed them was often disgusting. To support this, as said before, they often molested or had sex with the corpses of their victims. Toole sometimes cannibalized the corpses. Lucas admitted to chopping some of the corpses up and either letting Toole cannibalize them, or using them for firewood. According to Lucas, he once had an affair with a girl named Becky. They were a fairly happy couple until once Becky made the grave mistake of slapping Henry. Henry simply shot her on the spot and dismembered her corpse and scattering its parts around the Texas desert. Henry did something similar to Kate Rich, an 86-year-old woman whom he was hired to take care of. After finding out that Henry cashed two $50 checks in her name, Henry killed her, chopped her up, and took the parts back to his house and used them for firewood. On Henry’

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