Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer Essays

Henry lee Lucas, was born on August 26, 1936 in Blacksburg Virginia. He died from a heart condition in 2001. Lucas confessed to killing hundreds of people, but the evidence only links him to two murders. The only two murders that he was linked to was the murder of his mother when he was 24- years-old, and the other murder was the murder of Kate Rich, she was an older woman he used to work for. While he was in prison a lot of movies and tv shows were made about lucas, like the movie a documentary

Henry Lee Lucas was detained and arrested on June 11, 1983, because he was labeled as dangerous and caught with a firearm. After serving four days, Lucas called one of the jailers over and confessed to several murders. The number of murders started as a few and ended up triple digits. He confessed that the murders were due to him being in a hit squad for a satanic cult. He committed these crimes with his friend, Otis Toole. Lucas is known as “ The Confession Killer” and even has a Netflix show about

nonstop in his monoplane when the entire world doubted him and deemed it impossible, this put him among the most famous people in the world. Years later, his son was kidnapped from his estate and then brutally murdered. Bruno Richard Hauptmann is the killer of Charles Lindbergh Jr. This is due to parts of the ladder being made of wood originating from his house as well as his tools matching the tools used to make the ladder that was used in the kidnapping and $14,600 of the ransom money being found in

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

Jerome Brudo’s was born in Webster, South Dakota in 1939. He was born to Henry and Eileen Brudos. He was the younger sibling of two. Henry Brudo’s was a farmer that couldn’t keep work. He moved the family all throughout the Midwest, which caused a rift in the marriage. Eileen was an unhappy housewife that raised the children while Henry worked. Eileen was strict on only Jerry, favoriting her eldest son Larry. She was a god-fearing woman, who was disgusted by anything sexual in nature. With such a