In 1960, Henry Lee Lucas murdered his mother, Viola. After serving 15 years in prison, Lucas claimed to have murdered hundreds of people all across the country between his release in 1975 and his arrest for the murder of Kate Rich in 1983.
The Confession Killer, Netflix’s latest true crime docuseries, examines the truth behind the gruesome narrative Lucas conceived while in custody for Rich’s murder in Georgetown, Texas and exposes the gross mishandling of Lucas’s confessions by Texas law enforcement.
While in custody and under the authority of Sheriff Jim Boutwell, Lucas confessed to the murders of hundreds. A majority of Lucas's alleged victims were women. In response to the outpouring of confessions, Boutwell, a Texas Ranger, created a task force to facilitate connecting Lucas’s confessions to hundreds of other murders all over the United States. Read more...
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