On August 23rd, 1936, a dangerous man and serial killer, Henry Lee Lucas, was born. Lucas was a white male known for claiming to have killed over 3000 people. Henry Lee Lucas was known for his sexual deviants, as he would sexualy violate his corpses after killing them. Although his confessions of his murders often contained inconsistencies, hundreds of cold cases were credited to him and closed.
Growing up, Lucas lived a terrible life. Lucas was born to abusive alcoholic parents, including his mother who prostituted herself in order to earn money. His parents were Anderson Perry Lucas and Nellie Viola Waugh, and siblings Elmer B. Waugh, Freda V. Waugh, Warden Waugh, Nora E. Waugh, and Almeda Aomia Kiser. Lucas recalls both him and his half-brother getting beaten regularly for no reason by their mother. When Lucas was younger, he encountered a lot of traumatizing experiences. His mother would send him to school dressed as a girl with long, curly hair and no shoes. Once, when offered and pair of shoes in school and accepting them, Lucas was beaten by his mother. He had a poor education, and his teachers reported him having learning difficulties, with an IQ of 76 his first testing and 89 his second testing. His highest grade in school is only 8th grade. At age seven, he was hit over the head with a log, which caused his scalp to split open and he was sent into a coma. Lucas was constantly neglected by his mother. When he was ten years old, he got into a fight with his brother and was stabbed in the eye. His eye was left untreated for so long that it got infected, and eventually had to become replaced with a glass eye. Lucas was never
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On the basis of his confessions, hundreds of unsolved murders connected to him were officially classified as clear. With all said and done, the actual number of murders that he committed is still unknown