Henry Lee Lucas was born on August 23, 1936, in Blacksburg, Virginia. Henry was one of nine other siblings. He was born under Viola and Anderson Lucas. Lucas fought a lot as a child and ended up losing an eye at the age of 10 due to an infection after a neighborhood street brawl Henry’s mother Viola made money by prostituting herself in the backwoods community and made him sit and watch her when she brought home clients. Viola also made Henry crossdress in public for the humiliation he felt over it. Henry’s father Anderson died in 1949 due to Hypothermia caused by falling outside of their house in the middle of a blizzard. He had two amputated legs thanks to a railroad accident early in his life. Because of Henry’s mother making him watch her “work” …show more content…
with clients, his sexual deviance began to pose a problem. Lee has admitted to having sex with not only his half brother during this time of his life, but also with dead animals on multiple occasions.
In sixth grade, he ran away from home and became a drifter in the state of Virginia. He then claimed to have committed his first murder at only 15 by strangling 17 year old Laura Burnsley after she refused to his sexual advances, but was only convicted of theft and was sentenced to four years in prison. Henry escaped his first prison sentence in 1957 but was recaptured three days later and then was released in 1959. After getting released, he moved to Tecumseh, Michigan with his half-sister, Opal. He was engaged to his pen pal during this time whom he met while still being incarcerated. During a visit from his mother for Christmas, she explained that she didn’t approve of her son’s wife-to-be which caused many fights and arguments in the house. Both Opal and his mother insisted he moved back home to Blacksburg and he refused, wanting to stay in Tecumseh. On January 11, 1960 in Tecumseh, Michigan, Henry Lee Lucas killed his mother Viola Lucas during an argument in the house. The argument was about Henry moving back home to Blacksburg so that he could care for her in her old
age. Henry hated the idea of going back to Virginia and fought with Viola every time the situation was brought up. The conversation quickly led to a heated argument which then turned physical very fast. The argument got more and more heated as time progressed and Henry claims that Viola struck him over the head with a broom. He then says he stabbed her in the neck and fled the scene quickly after because he couldn’t bare to look at what happened. He confessed with this statement, “All I remember was slapping her alongside the neck, but after I did that I saw her fall and decided to grab her. But she fell to the floor and when I went to pick her up, I realized she was dead. I then looked down and noticed I had my knife in my hand and she had been cut.” Henry’s half sister Opal came home to find Viola alive in a pool of blood. She then died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Doctors stated she didn’t die from the stab wound, but rather from a heart attack precipitated by the assault. Lucas returned to Virginia before driving back to Michigan. On his way there, he was arrested in Ohio on the outstanding Michigan warrant. Henry Lee Lucas tried to claim self defense in the killing of his mother. This claim was rejected and he was convicted of second-degree murder. Lucas was sentenced to 20-40 years in a Michigan prison. After two suicide attempts, he was admitted to Iona State Mental Hospital. He was paroled in 1970 after serving only 10 years.
...ot into a fight and he stabbed a man eighteen times. He ended back in prison.
A University of San Diego professor whose daughter’s disappearance become a recurring factor in his life, has finally gotten the peace he deserves. After approximately five years of three unsolved murders, assailant David Allen Lucas, was convicted and sentenced to death. Lucas was a carpet cleaner from Spring Valley, CA and was 23 when he first committed a murder, but this was not his first time being convicted. In 1973, at the age of 18 Lucas was incarcerated after being convicted of raping a 21-year-old maid who had worked for a family friend.
While he was in the gang he dropped out of school. In the gang he got in a lot of trouble. He got arrested for the first time in 1957 after a gang fight. From then on he got arrested a lot in 1958 he was Convicted of burglary and given probation. In 1959 arrested for the first time as an adult for unlawful assembly in a raid at a gambling location.
owner of Maplewood, so this made her a slave from the moment she was born. When she was old enough, she became a household domestic, waiting on the family and performing cleaning chores.
The narrator starts the story giving background information about the grandmother and her son, Bailey. The narrator explains that the "grandmother didn't want to go to Florida" (320). Although a major conflict could result from her dislike of the family's choice of vacation spots, it does not. When the grandmother first speaks she asks Bailey to read a newspaper article that she has found. She attempts to change his mind about not going to Florida, by saying, "Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people..." (320). Bailey does not ...
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was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield where he ran away another
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was said to have illegally taken the law into his own hands. He was charged with murder
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gouged out the eyes of one of his victims - was she alive or dead at the time? -
he often lets the family down. There are many flashbacks in the novel to the time
Narration: He was the youngest person to be executed in the 20th century for the murder of 11 year old Betty June Binnicker and 8 year old Mary Emma Thames.
Years Eve, he shot a gun into the air. He was soon arrested and taken to a
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