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[Joyce] Debbie was
an exceptional daughter.
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She was kind.
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She was friendly.
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She was very helpful to anybody.
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And...
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Except around the house.
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[laughs]
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This is Deborah
when she graduated from high school.
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Debbie was 18 when she got married.
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[Liz] I was eight years old.
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I was a flower girl in her wedding.
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I was so nervous I was going to mess up.
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[laughs]
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And I wanted to do it so right for her.
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The last time I saw Debbie...
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I'm sorry.
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That's a terrible day.
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Was...
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her dad's birthday.
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And we all went out to have dinner.
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[Liz] We ate,
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and then we took her home
to her house,
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approximately 8:30.
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I was supposed to stay the night
with her.
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And, um...
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for whatever reason, Mother--
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When we pulled into the driveway,
Mother had decided that I was not.
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I always felt like if I was there,
I could've made a difference.
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[Joyce] We got a phone call from Doug,
her husband.
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Told us to come to the house right away,
that Debbie was dead.
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Oh, it was horrible.
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[stammers] I'll never forget that moment.
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[Liz] No one could come up with anything
as far as...
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someone she had made mad
or crossed a path with.
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We never gave up hope
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that...
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her murderer would be caught.
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Nine years went by with no leads.
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[birds chirping]
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We were getting pretty low.
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When we got the call from the police
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and they said they had a confession,
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we didn't know who,
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but...
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it didn't matter to us. [chuckles]
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We were just so happy.
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There's a lot of emotions with that.
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Getting that news...
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and thinking it's over.
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My parents immediately went
to hear this confession
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and get the details of this person
that had killed my sister.
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[camera shutters clicking]
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And that's where
nightmare number two began.
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Henry Lee Lucas came into our lives.
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[camera shutters clicking]
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[reporter] Lucas says he killed
more than 150 women.
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[reporter 2] 170 murders
directly attributed to Lucas.
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[reporter 3] 189 in 24 states.
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[reporter 4] Murdered at least 360 people,
including his mother.
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[reporter 5] Henry Lee Lucas has confessed
to killing 600 people.
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[Henry] My victims never knew
what was gonna happen.
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I've had shootings,
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strangulations, beatings.
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I participated in actual crucifixions.
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The last person he killed
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meant no more to him
than the last cigarette that he smoked.
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To me, it didn't matter. I mean,
I didn't have no feelings about killing.
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It's like you just drink
a drink of water, really.
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I mean, it didn't mean anything to me.
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[man whistling a melody]
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[exhales]
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[Hugh] Henry was in Georgetown, Texas.
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Sheriff Jim Boutwell
was in charge of the jail.
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Boutwell told me
I could have total access.
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And I did for probably six months.
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It just gave me access
that nobody else had.
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They didn't trust too many reporters.
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And they trusted me.
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-[Hugh] Hi.
-Hi.
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[Hugh] When I'd go in there,
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[speaks indistinctly]
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they would often let him walk free,
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and he wasn't handcuffed.
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[Jim] Uh-oh. You got the handcuffs?
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[laughter]
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[interviewer] Let's talk
about Jim Boutwell.
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He's an unusual man.
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What, uh... What kind of relationship
do you have with him?
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I look at him as a friend,
not as a sheriff.
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Uh...
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Uh, he's always treated me good,
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and he's, uh, went out of his way
to do things for me that, uh...
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normally, he wouldn't do
for other prisoners.
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[Hugh] Boutwell and Lucas
did have an unusual relationship.
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Henry told me more than once,
"Well, he just seems like my daddy."
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Of course, Boutwell did everything
in the world
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for Henry.
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[Jim] Henry, we...
We'll go get some lunch.
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Is there anything we can bring you?
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Not unless you run into...
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some Sonic out there somewhere
and see a milkshake sitting around.
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-I'll figure it out.
-[Henry laughs]
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[Hugh] Every day,
he brought him a strawberry milkshake.
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He praised him to everyone.
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He's doing something now,
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which is a very valuable service
to, uh, law enforcement and to mankind.
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You can't help but, uh, give him credit
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for the fact that he knows
he doesn't have to clear up these cases,
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he knows he doesn't have to talk...
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and-- and yet, uh,
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he-- he does want to get it straight.
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[Hugh] Henry never lived so good.
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He ate good,
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he drank good,
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he had cigarettes,
more than he could smoke.
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[Bob Prince] My theory
during my entire career
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has been, "treat people
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the way you'd want to be treated
in the same circumstances."
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We'd bring him cigarettes,
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or have the interviewing officers
bring him cigarettes.
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[officer] This is the kind of cigarettes
you like.
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If I was a smoker,
that's the way I'd wanna be treated.
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[Hugh] Boutwell and the Texas Rangers
had set up
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a task force
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to clear all these hundreds of murders
that he was claiming.
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It was like Henry was a member
of the task force.
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He often would be on the phone,
talking to officers
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all over the country,
helping to solve their cases.
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It was pretty bizarre.
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I don't know whether I can find it
on a map or not. I have to look.
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We had a map in the inner office,
of the United States,
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and whenever an officer would determine
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that Lucas was involved in the case,
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we would put a pin at that location.
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[Hugh] Policemen came
from all over the country,
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and they wanted to solve cases.
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-[reporter] How long did you talk to him?
-About an hour and a half.
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[reporter 2] How close do you think
you are to making an arrest
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or having a charge
in either one of these cases?
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Quite close.
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[reporter 2] Both or just one?
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We're not allowed to discuss that.
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This was the biggest thing
that had ever happened
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to a lot of these cops.
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The actual ability to come,
and talk, and smoke,
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and maybe have a bite
with the biggest killer in the world.
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[officer] I want to thank you, uh,
for your time.
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I want to thank you for myself,
for the Pennsylvania State Police.
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[Hugh] These cops would come,
and they would clear a case,
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and they'd shake hands with him
and pat him on the back.
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Where were we?
Henry, what were you saying?
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Well, I guess
where I, uh, killed that girl
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up on the... on the marker on 70.
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[Hugh] He'd never felt so important
in his life.
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Suddenly everyone wanted to talk
to Henry Lucas.
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[man] Do you think it's possible
that, uh...
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you committed that homicide?
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And whenever officers would come in
and talk to Lucas,
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the instructions I'd give 'em,
"You believe him if you can confirm it.
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If he likes you,
he will do everything he can
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to try to take responsibility
for your homicide.
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But if you cannot confirm it,
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um...
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don't believe him."
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I've got 'em scattered
all over the country though...
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[Bob Prince] He liked to impress people
with what he'd done.
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I've tried to show law enforcement,
I've tried to teach 'em.
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[Bob Prince] Instead of trying to hide
what he had done,
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he would exaggerate what he had done.
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Everything except poison.
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[interviewer] Everything?
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[Hugh] Sometimes I would go down
and I would run into
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people from two or three
police departments at the same time.
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And they all had an hour or two
or whatever.
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[officer] This is the dining room area.
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And the living room.
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[Phil] You can't just walk in
and say, "Okay, Henry.
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You've killed 300 people
all across the United States.
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Tell me the one I'm thinking of now."
I mean, you got to give him something.
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See if that might mean anything to you.
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[Phil] He seemed to respond better
with photos of the victim.
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[Henry] This woman is the one
that I picked up from this car.
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I walked in the room one time
to talk to one of the Rangers,
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and he was looking through the books
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the police department sent in
to the task force.
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They'd have crime scene photos.
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Well, the next day, here came the police.
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He knew what highway they were on,
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he knew what the house looked like.
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[man] Put your initials...
[continues indistinctly]
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[Hugh] Sometimes I'd be there
for several hours
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and they'd clear six cases, murder cases.
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[man] Sign your name to it,
however you want to do it.
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Sheriff Boutwell said,
"We solved six more."
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And Bob Prince says,
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"For every case,
I promised Henry a milkshake.
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So that is six milkshakes.
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So you want them once a day?"
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And Henry says,
"Yeah, that sounds good to me,
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and make it strawberry."
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And I thought, "Six cases...
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Six murder cases."
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Clemmie was convinced that her role
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was to offer spiritual guidance
to Henry, and also...
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uh, emotional support,
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because, according to her,
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he would get very emotional
after the interviews
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and was returned to the jail cell.
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[Hugh] He was looking to please Clemmie
at every juncture.
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He had never had a woman friend
like this.
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He loved her presence.
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[Henry] If it wasn't for her,
I'll be honest with you,
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I don't think I could go through
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the constant reliving each case and stuff.
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[interviewer] Yeah.
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[Nan] Very often, he would get
what was called "moody."
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Sheriff Boutwell knew that Henry
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was more inclined to cooperate
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if Clemmie believed
it was the right thing to do,
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and very often,
they would convince Clemmie
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that they needed her help.
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[Clemmie] Sheriff Boutwell said,
"We have families waiting
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for him to come and see
if these are his people.
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These poor families."
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It was like, "You get him there,
Sister Clemmie,
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and I can take care of the rest."
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[Hugh] They were clearing cases,
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and, at that point,
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Henry was already facing
several life sentences.
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But with the Orange Socks case coming up,
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the ball game had changed.
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[camera shutters clicking]
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Now he faced the death penalty.
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[newscaster] Dubbed
the Orange Socks case,
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the body of a woman was found dumped
in a culvert north of Georgetown.
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She came to be called Orange Socks
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because that was
the only shred of identity Lucas left her.
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[Parker] It was an unsolved murder case
of a woman killed on I-35.
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Sheriff Jim Boutwell
was assigned the case.
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I know that he had made a commitment
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that he was going to do
everything he could
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to find the killer
of the Orange Socks victim.
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[Jim] Is this the girl...
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It's the same girl.
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-[Jim] ...that you picked up?
-[Henry] Same one.
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[Jim] Okay.
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[reporter] Sheriff Jim Boutwell
says Lucas confessed to the murder
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and described details
only the killer could know.
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He looked at the picture
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and after a moment, he told me, uh...
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"That girl was a hitchhiker
that I picked up near Oklahoma City."
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And he said,
"She would've been strangled."
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After I pulled over,
why, I grabbed her by the neck
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and choked her until she died.
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I had sex with her again.
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I went down here.
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Dropped her right over there.
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She landed on her side.
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Just socks, no clothing.
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[recording plays]
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[Henry] I didn't kill the girl
in the orange socks.
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I didn't have anything to do with it.
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I did not do it,
and I'll prove it if you want to.
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[Hugh] When there was nobody around,
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Henry would deny to me
the Orange Socks case.
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He was telling me he was at work
in Florida.
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What about Orange Socks?
Did you do that one?
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[exhales] Let's put it this way--
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[Hugh] They're not gonna get mad
if you tell them.
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-You did it.
-I know. It's done been settled, you know,
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so that's... We'll leave it as what it is.
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-[Hugh chuckles] Okay.
-Uh...
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[slurping]
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[Hugh] I knew I had to check
what Henry was telling me.
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Really had to find out
if it was a legitimate story or not.
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I went to Jacksonville where Lucas worked.
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I would never have figured that Henry
would, you know, end up being a killer,
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because he was, like I said,
a normal person.
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He was quiet
and the whole family loved him.
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You know, we got along great.
They was, um...
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just a working-- a hard-working family.
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You don't really believe that he had
killed all those many people, do you?
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Not really. I don't.
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He was a good boy.
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[dog barks]
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[Hugh] I found out
that he had a tremendous memory.
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He told me where he sold scrap.
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He told me where he bought insurance.
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He told me
where he was in jail overnight.
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His stories checked out.
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I was finding...
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real evidence.
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You gotta call them,
then I can get the exact time.
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[Hugh] I found out
where Lucas had cashed a check
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the night before Orange Socks was killed.
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And he come to cash the check, they--
you know, every-- every week.
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[Hugh] I also found work records that...
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showed that he was on the job
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just hours before Orange Socks was killed,
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1,100 miles away.
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Why would he travel 1,100 miles
to kill a person he didn't know?
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I mean, it was just ludicrous.
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When I got back to Georgetown,
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I told Boutwell, and Boutwell
was always friendly to me
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up to that point, and...
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he said, "I know he did it.
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He's told me he did it."
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I've seen Lucas mention cases himself
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that he had never been asked about,
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and describe them in great detail,
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and direct the officers
to the scene of the crimes
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and tell them in advance what to expect
over the next rise in the hill.
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[reporter] Lawmen across the country
are keeping a close eye on this case,
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some even waiting to file murder charges
until this trial is complete
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and a jury decides
whether Lucas will die for his crimes.
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[Hugh] I knew that Henry was a killer,
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and I knew that he was a liar,
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but I didn't think he should get
the death penalty on a case
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he had absolutely nothing to do with.
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So I went to Henry's attorneys.
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...that is that we have no...
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[Parker] Don and I were now co-counsel
on the Lucas case.
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When Henry told us that he had not
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been in Texas,
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we were like,
"Well, why are you confessing to this?"
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And his... his statement, uh...
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which he told us
before the beginning of the trial,
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was that he was trying
to commit legal suicide.
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And he felt a great deal of remorse
for having killed Becky.
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Becky was the only person
that had ever treated him
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with any kind of love, or affection,
or respect.
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He felt so bad he wanted to die,
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but if he took his own life,
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he could not get into heaven
where Becky was.
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And he came up with this idea that
"I'll have the state kill me,
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and then, that way,
I will be in heaven with Becky."
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And...
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I'd never studied anything like that
in law school,
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never heard of the concept
of legal suicide.
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We certainly did not, uh, plead it
to the court.
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After I pulled over, why...
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[Don] Henry, I'm going to tell you
one more time...
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you're talking yourself
into a very possible death penalty case.
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[Henry] I have to go with whatever goes.
I mean, I can't help it.
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[Don] I'm asking you
not to make any further statements,
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to terminate this interview.
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Well...
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[Parker] Generally, anyone who is charged
with a crime wants to help their lawyer
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get them out.
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It was maddening trying to...
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represent somebody
who was actually working against you
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in a death penalty case.
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There were so many times that...
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Mr. Higginbotham and I
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walked out of the jail just...
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-[interviewer laughs]
-"What's going on?"
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[reporter] Would you like
the death penalty if you are convicted?
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I'm gonna get it.
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[reporter] He said--
He said he's gonna get it?
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I slipped away at the start
of the second week of... of jury selection
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and flew over to Jacksonville
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and found four witnesses.
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At the jail,
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I saw Henry's traveling companion,
Ottis Toole.
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The thing that I remember the most
was that he was wearing
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a T-shirt with a cartoon.
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He was...
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as... as dumb as you get.
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I'm gonna show you photographs
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of... of the victim, of the body.
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Now, we've looked at these, have we not?
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[Parker] Ottis had no clue
of what I was talking about
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other than that I had been with Henry,
I was one of Henry's lawyers,
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and-- and he wanted to help Henry.
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[Phil] Henry and Ottis Toole
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played off of each other and, uh...
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tried to impress each other.
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When I'd ask him any question,
he'd always say,
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"What does... What does Henry say?
What did Henry say?"
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He wanted to match whatever Henry said.
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[man] We're all going through this
and I've advised--
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What all does he say?
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-[man] Pardon?
-He ain't gonna go in there.
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No, no. I'd-- I'd like to know
what you've got to say.
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And I want to know what he got to say.
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[Hugh] When I went to see him,
he said, "Oh, Henry.
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I love Henry. And he just--
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Whatever he says,
I'll just go... go along with."
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[Henry] Wherever we go,
we'll still be together.
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[Ottis] Oh, yeah.
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[Henry] And...
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It's your decision.
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[Ottis] Sure will, 'cause I think
about you all the time.
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[Henry] Well, I do too. I've got
your picture down here in my cell.
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[Ottis] Well, I got yours too.
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[Parker] The conversations that I had
with Lucas and Ottis were...
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I mean, it was just fanciful.
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It was just exaggerated boasting.
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When they were together,
they'd just kind of feed each other.
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[recording plays]
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[Ottis] That time when I cooked
some of them people, what made me do that?
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Wouldn't that make me a cannibal,
doing things like that or what?
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[Henry] No, you wasn't a cannibal.
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Like I say,
it was a force of the devil and, uh...
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[Ottis] I would pour some of that blood
out of 'em.
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[Henry] Well, I know that.
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[Ottis] See what the mess tastes like.
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Some of it tastes like real meat
when it's got barbecue sauce on it.
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-[man groans]
-[Henry] Well, you know how that is.
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-[groans]
-[Hugh] I talked to Lucas about
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why now Ottis
is making up stories about...
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barbecuing people and eating them and all.
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And he said,
"Well, it's because I got famous.
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He was jealous,
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and he wanted everybody to know
who he was too."
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[Ottis] How many people
did you kill, Henry?
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[Henry] A hundred and fifty.
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[Ottis] By yourself?
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[Henry] No, not by myself.
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[chuckles]
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[Ottis] I was with you
on some of them myself, wasn't I?
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[Henry] If you want to admit to that, yes.
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-[Ottis] Yeah.
-[Henry] It's up to you. Whatever you--
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[Ottis] I don't care what you done.
I still care about you.
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That's the way it goes.
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[Henry] Well, I know that. And...
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as long as we understand each other,
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as long as we know the truth
about each other...
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-[Ottis] Yeah.
-[Henry] And that's all I want.
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[Ottis speaking indistinctly]
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[Henry sobbing]
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[Ottis speaking indistinctly]
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[continues sobbing]
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Let me walk for a bit.
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[reporter] Today was the day
the testimony began
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in the trial of confessed killer
Henry Lee Lucas.
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He has never faced the death penalty
until now.
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[reporter 2] Williamson County prosecutors
trying to show,
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mainly through his confessions,
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that Lucas did indeed kill
the unidentified nude hitchhiker
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found north of Georgetown, Halloween 1979.
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[reporter 3] In a surprising turn,
Williamson County Sheriff Jim Boutwell
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is heard on the tapes supplying Lucas
with some of the key details
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of the murder Lucas is charged with.
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During cross examination,
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Boutwell said he just refreshed
Lucas' memory about the details.
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[indistinct chattering]
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00:24:49,863 --> 00:24:50,953
[Hugh] By that time,
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he was having second thoughts.
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Trying to pull himself out,
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not knowing how.
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And he was scared.
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[reporter] It appears the defense
may finally get the case tomorrow,
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and the speculation continues
whether Ottis Elwood Toole
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will be testifying
on behalf of the defense.
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Latest word we get is "no."
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[Parker] Nobody in their right mind
would put that person on the witness stand
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to testify to try to help your case.
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Ottis did not help us at all.
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00:25:22,270 --> 00:25:25,820
We had witnesses that we brought over
from Florida
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who testified during the defense.
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[reporter] Roofing company supervisor
Fred Ellis took the stand
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to back up records
dated the day the woman died.
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Defense lawyer Parker McCullough asked,
"Did Henry Lucas work that day?"
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"Yes. There's a check by his name."
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"How do you know?" "I put it there."
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00:25:44,084 --> 00:25:47,304
"You recall seeing Henry Lucas
on this particular job?"
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"Yes."
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[reporter 2] The case for the defense
was built on two things:
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Lucas' alibi that he was working
in Florida at the time of the murder
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and that he was and is insane.
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00:25:57,347 --> 00:26:01,057
But the prosecution used Lucas' own words
to refute both arguments.
473
00:26:01,142 --> 00:26:03,482
Lucas explained how he paid off
people in Florida
474
00:26:03,562 --> 00:26:05,652
to show him present at his roofing job.
475
00:26:06,189 --> 00:26:09,109
[reporter 3] The psychiatrist
who examined Lucas said he's a sociopath,
476
00:26:09,192 --> 00:26:10,572
a person with no conscience,
477
00:26:10,652 --> 00:26:14,242
with deviant sexual disorders
including bestiality and necrophilia.
478
00:26:14,698 --> 00:26:16,778
But he falls in the normal range.
479
00:26:17,576 --> 00:26:19,656
[reporter 4] After all the evidence
had been presented,
480
00:26:19,744 --> 00:26:23,164
the only person who was smiling
was the defendant, Henry Lee Lucas.
481
00:26:23,248 --> 00:26:26,788
The defense team, on the other hand,
seemed to have lost the air of confidence
482
00:26:26,876 --> 00:26:29,336
it had been exhibiting
for the past several days.
483
00:26:29,421 --> 00:26:31,881
-[speaking indistinctly]
-[Parker] We came to the conclusion
484
00:26:31,965 --> 00:26:35,965
that the only way we were gonna be able
to get Henry out of the death penalty
485
00:26:36,845 --> 00:26:38,465
was to have him testify,
486
00:26:38,555 --> 00:26:40,715
and I worked with him
for two or three hours
487
00:26:40,807 --> 00:26:44,847
in preparation of his testifying
the following morning.
488
00:26:45,562 --> 00:26:48,822
[Henry] I told my attorneys
I didn't do the case.
489
00:26:48,898 --> 00:26:52,608
I turn around and tell the sheriff
that I did do the case.
490
00:26:52,986 --> 00:26:56,106
Then I turn around and give you
information about the work records.
491
00:26:56,197 --> 00:26:58,737
Then I turn around and tell them
the work records are no good.
492
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,040
[Rob] Then are the work records
good or no good?
493
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:02,199
[Henry] They're good.
494
00:27:02,621 --> 00:27:04,121
[Rob] You gonna say that tomorrow?
495
00:27:04,205 --> 00:27:05,035
[Henry] Yeah.
496
00:27:07,584 --> 00:27:09,464
[Parker] I felt good when I left him.
497
00:27:09,794 --> 00:27:11,304
Got up early the next day.
498
00:27:11,379 --> 00:27:14,879
I said, "Henry, are you ready to go?
Today's a big day."
499
00:27:15,842 --> 00:27:17,892
He said, "I'm not going to do it."
500
00:27:19,137 --> 00:27:20,007
I said...
501
00:27:21,014 --> 00:27:21,934
"Wait a minute.
502
00:27:23,183 --> 00:27:25,233
When I talked to you
less than 12 hours ago,
503
00:27:25,310 --> 00:27:26,940
you were prepared to testify."
504
00:27:27,854 --> 00:27:29,364
He said, "I just can't do it."
505
00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:32,152
Someone must have talked to him.
506
00:27:32,567 --> 00:27:34,737
Someone must have seen him
after I left the jail
507
00:27:34,819 --> 00:27:38,659
or, uh, before he was brought
into our conference room the next morning.
508
00:27:40,283 --> 00:27:41,793
I'm absolutely convinced
509
00:27:41,868 --> 00:27:46,078
that Henry refused to take
the witness stand in his defense
510
00:27:46,164 --> 00:27:48,634
because he did not want to go
against the sheriff.
511
00:27:52,170 --> 00:27:53,760
And then we rested our case.
512
00:27:54,214 --> 00:27:55,054
That was it.
513
00:27:55,799 --> 00:27:58,389
That was the end of the defense
for Henry Lee Lucas.
514
00:27:59,552 --> 00:28:02,012
[reporter] After hearing the verdict
from the San Angelo jury,
515
00:28:02,097 --> 00:28:05,137
convicted murderer Henry Lee Lucas
left the courthouse smiling
516
00:28:05,225 --> 00:28:07,095
about the capital murder conviction.
517
00:28:07,185 --> 00:28:09,305
Do you feel like
it's, uh, suicide for you?
518
00:28:09,646 --> 00:28:11,856
It is suicide,
because I didn't do the crime.
519
00:28:12,982 --> 00:28:15,942
-[reporter] Why are you happy?
-Because I got what I wanted.
520
00:28:18,488 --> 00:28:20,448
[Parker] He got exactly what he wanted.
521
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,370
And, uh, I guess I should say
I'm happy for him.
522
00:28:26,996 --> 00:28:27,826
But...
523
00:28:28,248 --> 00:28:30,418
I'm going to do everything that I can,
524
00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:34,090
and we tried to do everything
that we could to prevent that.
525
00:28:35,964 --> 00:28:38,844
[Parker] Personally, I had
a great sense of disappointment
526
00:28:39,175 --> 00:28:41,425
that I had been...
527
00:28:43,179 --> 00:28:44,009
[exhales]
528
00:28:44,097 --> 00:28:46,017
a participant in a miscarriage.
529
00:28:47,016 --> 00:28:48,686
I felt so close to it
530
00:28:48,935 --> 00:28:50,765
and felt really stung
531
00:28:51,187 --> 00:28:53,517
by the harshness of the verdict...
532
00:28:54,649 --> 00:28:56,029
and the realization
533
00:28:56,109 --> 00:29:01,029
that this man had talked his way
into a death penalty case
534
00:29:01,114 --> 00:29:03,244
and been found guilty of capital murder.
535
00:29:07,495 --> 00:29:09,995
[reporter] Lucas won't be transferred
to death row at Huntsville
536
00:29:10,081 --> 00:29:11,171
for the time being though.
537
00:29:11,249 --> 00:29:14,039
Instead, he will be kept
in the Williamson County Jail
538
00:29:14,127 --> 00:29:15,917
to assist the homicide task force,
539
00:29:16,004 --> 00:29:19,134
which is working on murders
he claims to have been involved in.
540
00:29:19,591 --> 00:29:22,091
The easy thing to have done
541
00:29:22,177 --> 00:29:24,257
would've been
to take him to the penitentiary
542
00:29:24,345 --> 00:29:25,385
the day he was convicted.
543
00:29:25,972 --> 00:29:27,892
That would've been the easy route
for everybody.
544
00:29:27,974 --> 00:29:31,904
But to the people
that have missing loved ones,
545
00:29:32,270 --> 00:29:34,520
we would certainly
be doing them an injustice.
546
00:29:34,606 --> 00:29:37,316
[reporter] Department of Public Safety
says they owe it to the families
547
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,030
and the lawmen of America
548
00:29:39,110 --> 00:29:42,990
to clear as many murder cases as possible
before Lucas is put to death.
549
00:29:44,949 --> 00:29:46,659
[reporter 2] Now Lucas
is headed out of state
550
00:29:46,743 --> 00:29:49,373
to continue visits with law officials
around the country,
551
00:29:49,454 --> 00:29:52,174
and although authorities
refuse to reveal his itinerary,
552
00:29:52,248 --> 00:29:54,998
they do say he will be on the road
until September.
553
00:29:55,418 --> 00:29:57,918
[reporter 3] Lucas came to New Orleans
amid great fanfare
554
00:29:58,004 --> 00:30:01,224
to confess to 30 more murders
in our metropolitan area.
555
00:30:01,966 --> 00:30:04,256
[Hugh] He'd never been on an airplane
in his life.
556
00:30:04,803 --> 00:30:08,393
Suddenly, they started flying him
all around the country
557
00:30:08,681 --> 00:30:10,351
to confess to these murders.
558
00:30:10,725 --> 00:30:14,185
[reporter] He rubs elbows with cops
and drinks gallons of coffee,
559
00:30:14,813 --> 00:30:16,693
touring murder scenes.
560
00:30:18,024 --> 00:30:19,364
[Bob Prince] He was pretty cocky.
561
00:30:19,651 --> 00:30:21,651
When we went to California, he said,
562
00:30:22,111 --> 00:30:26,031
"I'll come, but I want a TV in my cell
every night wherever I am."
563
00:30:26,783 --> 00:30:30,833
We went to California for five
to seven days, something like that and...
564
00:30:30,912 --> 00:30:32,912
and they did put a TV in his cell.
565
00:30:34,332 --> 00:30:36,292
I'm here this morning to report that...
566
00:30:36,626 --> 00:30:39,996
15 outstanding California murder cases
have been resolved
567
00:30:40,088 --> 00:30:43,048
as a result
of a recently completed tour of the state
568
00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:47,352
by condemned serial killer
Henry Lee Lucas.
569
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,720
Lucas led state and local authorities
to murder sites throughout California.
570
00:30:51,975 --> 00:30:54,265
Here is a print-out, by the way,
571
00:30:54,644 --> 00:30:57,274
uh, that I have of the various locations,
572
00:30:57,355 --> 00:30:59,475
and it almost defies belief.
573
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,110
He did virtually every kind of crime
known to man.
574
00:31:03,194 --> 00:31:04,494
Uh, you name it...
575
00:31:04,946 --> 00:31:06,776
You name it, uh, he did it.
576
00:31:07,323 --> 00:31:10,033
Uh, I do know
that he has personally led officers...
577
00:31:10,618 --> 00:31:15,368
uh, back physically to the scene
in excess of 100 times.
578
00:31:16,541 --> 00:31:19,211
[Hugh] It was like he was a movie star
everywhere he went.
579
00:31:19,294 --> 00:31:20,674
Here, I'll hold it for you.
580
00:31:21,254 --> 00:31:23,804
[Henry] I've had a lot of people
come to me and...
581
00:31:24,424 --> 00:31:26,514
say, "Why? Why are you doing it?"
582
00:31:27,385 --> 00:31:31,465
And it's very simple. Why?
Because God asked me to do it.
583
00:31:31,723 --> 00:31:34,393
Uh, if it wasn't for Him,
I would never confess.
584
00:31:35,476 --> 00:31:38,896
I've been able to completely identify
585
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:40,940
the locations,
586
00:31:41,024 --> 00:31:42,114
the details,
587
00:31:42,817 --> 00:31:44,147
and the way it's happened.
588
00:31:58,374 --> 00:32:01,544
[reporter] Henry Lee Lucas was right here
in Lubbock yesterday,
589
00:32:01,628 --> 00:32:04,508
leading detectives
to several locations of murders,
590
00:32:04,589 --> 00:32:05,919
including this carport,
591
00:32:06,007 --> 00:32:10,257
where, in 1975, detectives found the body
of Deborah Sue Williamson.
592
00:32:11,095 --> 00:32:13,965
[reporter 2] The detail Lucas provided
was so exact,
593
00:32:14,057 --> 00:32:15,427
authorities found it frightening.
594
00:32:15,975 --> 00:32:18,515
In some sense,
there is a little comfort now
595
00:32:18,603 --> 00:32:21,523
in knowing they have solved the unsolved.
596
00:32:22,523 --> 00:32:23,983
[birds chirping]
597
00:32:26,903 --> 00:32:29,823
We got the call from the police,
598
00:32:29,906 --> 00:32:32,236
and we went Monday morning.
599
00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:36,372
They handed us this confession,
600
00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:38,825
how he went in the house.
601
00:32:39,916 --> 00:32:42,086
He said that he went
602
00:32:42,585 --> 00:32:44,585
in through the glass door.
603
00:32:45,922 --> 00:32:47,092
There was a big...
604
00:32:47,632 --> 00:32:51,142
curio cabinet in front of that patio door.
605
00:32:51,219 --> 00:32:54,059
He could not have gone through it anyway.
606
00:32:54,472 --> 00:32:57,852
Went down the hall,
into the bedroom,
607
00:32:58,351 --> 00:33:01,771
and went out the back door.
608
00:33:04,607 --> 00:33:06,397
None of that happened.
609
00:33:08,236 --> 00:33:13,116
We told the detectives
we did not believe this,
610
00:33:13,199 --> 00:33:15,239
he could not have done this.
611
00:33:15,326 --> 00:33:18,076
How can you even accept this?
612
00:33:19,622 --> 00:33:21,372
We were mad.
613
00:33:21,833 --> 00:33:22,963
[clock ticking]
614
00:33:23,042 --> 00:33:25,672
We went straight to the media.
615
00:33:26,004 --> 00:33:28,634
[reporter] Bob and Joyce Lemons
are the parents of one of the victims
616
00:33:28,715 --> 00:33:30,715
in Henry's touted crime spree.
617
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,340
At first, the Lemons were pleased
618
00:33:32,427 --> 00:33:35,217
that, at last, their daughter's killer
had been captured,
619
00:33:35,304 --> 00:33:38,024
but then they listened to a tape
of the confessions.
620
00:33:38,099 --> 00:33:40,889
There was absolutely nothing
in the confession
621
00:33:40,977 --> 00:33:43,517
that indicated to us
that he knew anything about it.
622
00:33:44,022 --> 00:33:48,322
I don't think it would be proper for me
to comment on... on the evidence.
623
00:33:48,401 --> 00:33:52,161
That is their conclusion.
I disagree with their conclusion.
624
00:33:52,989 --> 00:33:54,529
[Bob Lemons] He was absolutely amazed
625
00:33:54,615 --> 00:33:57,735
because we didn't buy
what, uh, he was trying to sell us.
626
00:33:59,078 --> 00:34:00,578
-Um...
-[Joyce] He was very upset
627
00:34:00,663 --> 00:34:02,793
because we found something wrong
with the tape.
628
00:34:03,583 --> 00:34:06,293
We had no help, no support.
629
00:34:08,337 --> 00:34:10,167
So we decided
630
00:34:10,256 --> 00:34:13,296
to do our own investigation.
631
00:34:14,302 --> 00:34:15,682
They wanted her case reopened,
632
00:34:15,762 --> 00:34:19,602
and that was the only way as to prove
either Henry did it or he didn't.
633
00:34:24,145 --> 00:34:25,605
They spent...
634
00:34:26,189 --> 00:34:28,019
month after month after month
635
00:34:28,107 --> 00:34:30,187
investigating and finding these people
636
00:34:30,276 --> 00:34:34,276
and getting actual factual documentation
to prove where Henry was.
637
00:34:34,697 --> 00:34:36,197
I feel like-- that Joyce and I
638
00:34:36,282 --> 00:34:39,952
were forced to go out and do...
639
00:34:40,870 --> 00:34:43,160
the work of law enforcement.
640
00:34:44,373 --> 00:34:46,633
[Hugh] Bob Lemons and I
went up to Maryland...
641
00:34:46,709 --> 00:34:50,379
-[speaks indistinctly]
-...to trace Lucas's whereabouts.
642
00:34:50,797 --> 00:34:53,007
-[Hugh] Your name, please?
-Betty M. Crawford.
643
00:34:53,091 --> 00:34:55,131
[Hugh] We found Betty Crawford
644
00:34:55,218 --> 00:34:57,798
who had been married to Henry Lucas.
645
00:34:58,930 --> 00:35:00,600
We got a certificate
646
00:35:00,973 --> 00:35:03,483
showing that they were married
on the same day
647
00:35:03,935 --> 00:35:06,015
that Lucas had already confessed
648
00:35:06,104 --> 00:35:08,234
to killing someone in Pennsylvania.
649
00:35:09,065 --> 00:35:11,815
[Hugh] What were your feelings
towards Henry Lucas?
650
00:35:12,318 --> 00:35:15,448
[stammers] He is a sick, perverted man.
651
00:35:16,072 --> 00:35:17,572
When I found out, when he...
652
00:35:17,949 --> 00:35:21,119
he had left, that he had molested
my two oldest daughters.
653
00:35:23,204 --> 00:35:26,924
[Liz] In that process, discovering
who he was and where he was, um,
654
00:35:26,999 --> 00:35:29,339
there was no way
that he could've been in Texas
655
00:35:29,418 --> 00:35:30,628
at the time Debbie was killed.
656
00:35:31,838 --> 00:35:36,928
[Joyce] Debbie was murdered
on August 24th, 1975.
657
00:35:37,468 --> 00:35:41,558
And we found out that he had just gotten
out of prison
658
00:35:41,639 --> 00:35:44,139
on the 22nd of August.
659
00:35:44,892 --> 00:35:47,692
Well, he, uh, called me from Perryville...
660
00:35:48,146 --> 00:35:49,896
-Okay.
-...at the bus depot...
661
00:35:50,439 --> 00:35:52,319
for me to come and pick him up.
662
00:35:53,359 --> 00:35:57,609
[Joyce] And he was living there
with his half-sister
663
00:35:57,697 --> 00:36:00,067
at the time Debbie was murdered.
664
00:36:00,158 --> 00:36:02,908
[interviewer] Do you believe
that he wasn't even in Texas
665
00:36:02,994 --> 00:36:04,544
on the night your daughter was murdered?
666
00:36:04,620 --> 00:36:07,370
-[Joyce] I know he wasn't.
-We know he wasn't. We know where he was.
667
00:36:07,456 --> 00:36:08,496
He was in Maryland.
668
00:36:08,583 --> 00:36:13,053
In all our travels
and all the time we went to Maryland,
669
00:36:13,546 --> 00:36:17,296
we never once met anybody
670
00:36:17,550 --> 00:36:19,430
that had talked to
671
00:36:19,510 --> 00:36:21,100
an investigator,
672
00:36:21,721 --> 00:36:23,011
or a Ranger,
673
00:36:23,556 --> 00:36:25,676
or anybody from Texas.
674
00:36:28,936 --> 00:36:32,726
We went to Georgetown
to meet with Bob Prince.
675
00:36:34,483 --> 00:36:37,823
[Bob Prince] I was aware
of the Lemons from...
676
00:36:38,404 --> 00:36:42,914
the criticism of law enforcement
that they were doing in the news media.
677
00:36:43,534 --> 00:36:44,834
And they lost a child.
678
00:36:45,369 --> 00:36:49,249
And they were hurting
the way any parent would be.
679
00:36:50,291 --> 00:36:54,461
And... But they were taking their anger
out on...
680
00:36:55,671 --> 00:36:56,761
the wrong folks.
681
00:36:57,757 --> 00:37:01,547
Bob Lemons and his wife
just came into my office one day
682
00:37:01,636 --> 00:37:05,216
and demanded that they talk to me
about the case.
683
00:37:05,890 --> 00:37:08,640
We took documents with us.
684
00:37:09,227 --> 00:37:10,977
We told him,
685
00:37:11,062 --> 00:37:12,902
"Here is the facts.
686
00:37:12,980 --> 00:37:15,940
Henry could not have done this."
687
00:37:16,025 --> 00:37:17,645
I told them when they got there,
688
00:37:19,195 --> 00:37:22,025
"I don't know anything about it,
can't talk to you about it.
689
00:37:22,114 --> 00:37:24,374
You'll need to talk
to the Lubbock authorities."
690
00:37:24,909 --> 00:37:27,749
I know they got extremely upset.
691
00:37:27,828 --> 00:37:28,698
Uh...
692
00:37:29,330 --> 00:37:30,460
Uh...
693
00:37:30,539 --> 00:37:31,869
Mr. Lemons got,
694
00:37:31,958 --> 00:37:34,748
uh, to where we thought
it was gonna be physical.
695
00:37:34,835 --> 00:37:36,995
Bob Prince gave me the alternative
696
00:37:37,088 --> 00:37:40,928
of either leave on your own power, uh,
or we'll throw you out.
697
00:37:41,592 --> 00:37:44,012
[interviewer] What did you think
of their investigation?
698
00:37:44,345 --> 00:37:45,545
Uh, the Lemons?
699
00:37:45,638 --> 00:37:48,678
Oh, I have no comment about the Lemons.
You know, they're...
700
00:37:49,267 --> 00:37:51,687
[interviewer] Well, they've invested
years of their life
701
00:37:51,769 --> 00:37:53,229
looking into the Lucas case.
702
00:37:57,692 --> 00:37:59,072
I have no interest in that.
703
00:38:02,071 --> 00:38:03,161
[keys clacking]
704
00:38:08,786 --> 00:38:11,576
[Hugh] One by one, I could show that
705
00:38:11,664 --> 00:38:14,384
a lot of these murder cases
he was taking,
706
00:38:14,834 --> 00:38:19,094
it was virtually impossible
for Lucas to be there.
707
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,550
So then I went to the Dallas Times Herald.
708
00:38:24,343 --> 00:38:26,723
And, within hours, they agreed.
709
00:38:27,096 --> 00:38:29,386
Gave me the best reporter they had.
710
00:38:30,433 --> 00:38:33,143
I wasn't really into crime reporting.
711
00:38:33,436 --> 00:38:36,106
I'd done a lot of that when I was younger.
712
00:38:36,188 --> 00:38:38,478
I was never one of these people
who thought
713
00:38:38,566 --> 00:38:41,106
criminals were interesting people.
714
00:38:42,862 --> 00:38:46,412
But we sit down and talked
about the Henry Lucas story,
715
00:38:46,741 --> 00:38:50,081
and Hugh even said,
"Well, we might be able to prove
716
00:38:50,328 --> 00:38:52,998
15 or 20 of these he couldn't have done."
717
00:38:53,414 --> 00:38:56,294
We found out real quickly
718
00:38:56,876 --> 00:38:59,206
that it was a lot more than 15 or 20.
719
00:39:02,131 --> 00:39:06,341
And it was surprisingly easy to prove
where Lucas was
720
00:39:06,427 --> 00:39:10,007
going back to 1975,
when he was turned loose from prison.
721
00:39:14,185 --> 00:39:16,895
And he had work records
and dental appointments.
722
00:39:17,271 --> 00:39:19,021
Speeding tickets,
723
00:39:19,106 --> 00:39:20,066
banking records,
724
00:39:20,149 --> 00:39:21,109
IOUs.
725
00:39:21,984 --> 00:39:25,864
His dog had pooped in a park
and he was in trouble for that.
726
00:39:26,655 --> 00:39:30,325
And it turned out
Lucas left a large paper trail.
727
00:39:30,826 --> 00:39:34,406
And he really wasn't the drifter
he was being described as.
728
00:39:35,831 --> 00:39:41,211
[Hugh] Jim and I were able to get ahold
of the task force report.
729
00:39:42,546 --> 00:39:44,626
[Jim] The first thing we had to do was
730
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,180
get the cases in chronological order.
731
00:39:47,468 --> 00:39:49,548
I think there were maybe 200 of them,
732
00:39:49,970 --> 00:39:52,680
from when he was released from prison
in 1975,
733
00:39:53,432 --> 00:39:57,442
up until 1983
when he was in jail in Montague County.
734
00:39:58,854 --> 00:40:03,114
It was simple enough to see
the folly of the whole thing.
735
00:40:03,192 --> 00:40:05,152
[telephone ringing]
736
00:40:05,694 --> 00:40:09,164
Some sheriff in Minnesota
would call up and say,
737
00:40:09,698 --> 00:40:11,778
"You got anything on Henry
on June 2nd?"
738
00:40:12,660 --> 00:40:16,210
They'd look at the list of crimes
he confessed to up on the wall.
739
00:40:17,206 --> 00:40:19,416
"Nope, he was--
he was available that day."
740
00:40:20,292 --> 00:40:22,382
They'd write down "June 2nd."
741
00:40:22,461 --> 00:40:23,301
[telephone ringing]
742
00:40:23,379 --> 00:40:27,129
And then a call came in, the guy said,
"Is June 4th open?"
743
00:40:27,967 --> 00:40:28,837
Yeah.
744
00:40:28,926 --> 00:40:29,926
So, they got...
745
00:40:30,594 --> 00:40:32,354
June the 2nd in Minneapolis
746
00:40:32,721 --> 00:40:33,931
and June the 4th
747
00:40:34,515 --> 00:40:37,135
in Seattle or El Paso.
748
00:40:37,226 --> 00:40:38,726
It was striking.
749
00:40:39,854 --> 00:40:40,774
[tires squeal]
750
00:40:40,855 --> 00:40:42,185
[accelerates]
751
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,320
[Hugh] They have Lucas driving
to commit a murder
752
00:40:47,403 --> 00:40:50,913
in Spokane, Washington
on October 2nd,
753
00:40:51,991 --> 00:40:54,491
driving more than 2,000 miles
754
00:40:54,577 --> 00:40:57,577
for an attempted abduction on October 4th,
755
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:03,960
driven 600 miles to kill in Saline County,
Arkansas on October 7,
756
00:41:04,670 --> 00:41:10,380
travel 950 miles to kill in New Mexico
on October 16.
757
00:41:11,510 --> 00:41:16,520
Then traveling 1,000 miles
to kill in Nevada on October 27,
758
00:41:17,183 --> 00:41:22,903
and driving 1,600 miles
to kill in Bossier City, Louisiana
759
00:41:22,980 --> 00:41:24,610
on October 29.
760
00:41:25,316 --> 00:41:29,606
And another 2,100 miles away
to kill two days later,
761
00:41:30,488 --> 00:41:35,328
then back another 2,000 miles
to kill two days after that.
762
00:41:38,537 --> 00:41:40,327
It just was not possible.
763
00:41:41,415 --> 00:41:43,665
I mean, if they were traveling
by cruise missile,
764
00:41:43,751 --> 00:41:47,301
they couldn't have gotten there that--
that many places that quick.
765
00:41:48,797 --> 00:41:51,627
[Hugh] Lucas would have had
to travel constantly,
766
00:41:51,717 --> 00:41:53,137
50 miles an hour,
767
00:41:53,469 --> 00:41:55,549
with absolutely no sleep,
768
00:41:55,638 --> 00:41:56,718
no stop,
769
00:41:56,972 --> 00:41:58,932
no gas-up, nothing.
770
00:42:00,559 --> 00:42:03,939
Now, how ridiculous can you get?
771
00:42:04,021 --> 00:42:05,901
And if it's that obvious,
772
00:42:06,899 --> 00:42:10,189
why wasn't it obvious to the Rangers or--
773
00:42:10,653 --> 00:42:12,283
and to Sheriff Boutwell?
774
00:42:13,531 --> 00:42:15,781
[Jim] Lucas traveled far and wide.
775
00:42:16,325 --> 00:42:20,075
He loved to drive.
He loved to live in a car.
776
00:42:21,205 --> 00:42:24,205
He got his money for gas
by killing and robbing.
777
00:42:25,125 --> 00:42:28,545
I don't think Henry Lucas knows
how many people he's killed, uh...
778
00:42:28,921 --> 00:42:31,671
I don't think anybody knows
how many people he's killed.
779
00:42:32,591 --> 00:42:36,261
But I'm certain
that he is probably the biggest
780
00:42:36,637 --> 00:42:39,097
multiple killer
in the history of this country.
781
00:42:43,143 --> 00:42:45,273
[Hugh] I was traveling a lot at that time,
782
00:42:45,354 --> 00:42:47,984
trying to pin down Lucas' story.
783
00:42:48,732 --> 00:42:51,902
I came home one time
and one of the windows was broken.
784
00:42:52,736 --> 00:42:56,526
Cameras, television sets and everything
wasn't touched.
785
00:42:57,616 --> 00:43:00,366
But many of my tapes were missing.
786
00:43:01,287 --> 00:43:03,537
And the tapes that were taken
787
00:43:03,622 --> 00:43:06,252
were some of the interviews
of Henry Lee Lucas.
788
00:43:06,333 --> 00:43:09,003
[Henry] I went to, uh, Maryland to live...
789
00:43:09,295 --> 00:43:11,295
[Hugh] I knew a lot of police in Dallas,
790
00:43:11,547 --> 00:43:13,837
but I knew that they all band together,
791
00:43:14,675 --> 00:43:16,215
so I never reported it.
792
00:43:16,677 --> 00:43:19,637
Later on, when I ran into Boutwell
the next time,
793
00:43:19,722 --> 00:43:23,642
he said, "I'm sure sorry to hear
about you being burglarized, Hugh."
794
00:43:24,602 --> 00:43:26,312
It was in no newspaper.
795
00:43:26,687 --> 00:43:30,977
Nobody but my very close friends knew
about the burglary.
796
00:43:42,286 --> 00:43:44,706
[Vic] I remember hearing
about Henry Lucas.
797
00:43:44,788 --> 00:43:47,578
I think it was
before I was sworn in as DA.
798
00:43:47,666 --> 00:43:49,876
It could have been during the campaign.
799
00:43:51,253 --> 00:43:54,723
It's like, "Whoa!
That guy confessed to another one!"
800
00:43:57,676 --> 00:43:59,966
I got a call from the Texas Rangers
801
00:44:00,054 --> 00:44:02,144
that he had confessed to...
802
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,680
three crimes in my county,
803
00:44:04,767 --> 00:44:07,977
and they wanted to bring him up
and let him plead guilty.
804
00:44:09,647 --> 00:44:12,317
For a young ambitious DA like I was,
805
00:44:12,399 --> 00:44:15,359
to be handed Lucas cases
806
00:44:15,778 --> 00:44:17,738
that he wasn't even gonna contest...
807
00:44:17,821 --> 00:44:21,281
He would just come in, we'd get
the free publicity and it's over.
808
00:44:21,367 --> 00:44:23,577
That was like somebody handing me a...
809
00:44:23,911 --> 00:44:27,331
a chocolate cake with a big cherry on top,
you know?
810
00:44:27,414 --> 00:44:30,134
It would help boost my political career.
811
00:44:32,002 --> 00:44:35,172
I was ready to stand in line with the rest
of them, get my picture taken,
812
00:44:35,255 --> 00:44:38,545
get the boogeyman out of there
and go on my way.
813
00:44:41,470 --> 00:44:45,310
But when the Rangers brought
the three cases to my office,
814
00:44:45,808 --> 00:44:49,268
I had suspicions about those confessions.
815
00:44:50,312 --> 00:44:53,692
I knew he didn't killed Dorothy Collins
816
00:44:53,774 --> 00:44:55,114
'cause we knew who did.
817
00:44:55,734 --> 00:45:01,284
Then I looked a lot closer
at Glen Parks and Rita Salazar.
818
00:45:02,282 --> 00:45:04,032
Now, in the Rita Salazar case,
819
00:45:04,284 --> 00:45:07,124
Henry's confession sounded funny to me.
820
00:45:07,663 --> 00:45:11,543
I'd read a lot of confessions by then,
I'd already tried a lot of cases,
821
00:45:11,625 --> 00:45:15,955
so I knew
what a real confession smelled like.
822
00:45:16,422 --> 00:45:20,262
And the one on, uh, Miss Salazar
just bothered me.
823
00:45:22,886 --> 00:45:24,756
That's when I asked Truman.
824
00:45:25,431 --> 00:45:29,691
Truman Simons was a Sheriff's Deputy
assigned to the DA's office
825
00:45:29,768 --> 00:45:31,808
for homicide investigations.
826
00:45:33,063 --> 00:45:35,323
And I said, "See if you can figure out
827
00:45:35,399 --> 00:45:37,279
where Henry Lucas was
828
00:45:37,651 --> 00:45:39,361
on the dates of these murders.
829
00:45:39,445 --> 00:45:42,605
Get into TCIC, NCIC."
830
00:45:42,865 --> 00:45:45,945
Those are the computer
for the Texas Criminal Records
831
00:45:46,034 --> 00:45:47,414
and the National Criminal Records.
832
00:45:47,494 --> 00:45:49,464
Now, we didn't have internet back then.
833
00:45:49,955 --> 00:45:53,165
All we had was a little old screen
down in the basement like this
834
00:45:53,250 --> 00:45:56,170
that was connected
to just those two databases.
835
00:45:59,423 --> 00:46:01,013
[keyboard clacking]
836
00:46:04,553 --> 00:46:05,893
When I ran him, traffic,
837
00:46:05,971 --> 00:46:07,891
I mean, it lit up on NCIC.
838
00:46:07,973 --> 00:46:10,143
He had all kinds of different places
where he'd been.
839
00:46:12,019 --> 00:46:15,729
And he had like 11 or 12 dates
840
00:46:16,023 --> 00:46:17,653
where Henry had been
841
00:46:18,150 --> 00:46:21,900
either incarcerated
or getting, uh, tickets
842
00:46:21,987 --> 00:46:25,117
in different places
from some of these other murders
843
00:46:25,199 --> 00:46:27,239
that had already been cleared.
844
00:46:28,994 --> 00:46:31,834
And I remember
I was working late one night,
845
00:46:32,831 --> 00:46:34,751
and Truman came up to my office,
846
00:46:34,833 --> 00:46:36,843
and he looked white as a sheet.
847
00:46:36,919 --> 00:46:39,549
And he said, "You're not gonna believe
what just happened."
848
00:46:40,506 --> 00:46:41,966
I went into NCIC,
849
00:46:42,049 --> 00:46:45,049
and when I pulled up Henry Lucas,
850
00:46:45,135 --> 00:46:47,965
to try to look
for more records in the background,
851
00:46:48,222 --> 00:46:49,602
it flickered a little,
852
00:46:50,098 --> 00:46:53,268
and then I got a message
that said "Access Denied."
853
00:46:55,771 --> 00:46:57,731
I think my heart skipped a beat.
854
00:47:02,528 --> 00:47:04,318
Well, you got a guy that, you know,
855
00:47:04,404 --> 00:47:07,784
supposedly is a serial killer,
mass murderer, and all that kind of stuff,
856
00:47:07,866 --> 00:47:10,446
and they're trying to keep people
in law enforcement
857
00:47:10,536 --> 00:47:11,906
from finding out about him.
858
00:47:11,995 --> 00:47:14,075
It's just spooky, and just...
859
00:47:14,164 --> 00:47:15,674
I never ran into that before.
860
00:47:17,376 --> 00:47:19,376
I knew then we were up against
861
00:47:19,461 --> 00:47:22,801
some very, very powerful people.
862
00:47:23,382 --> 00:47:25,432
And somebody was gonna get hurt,
863
00:47:25,926 --> 00:47:28,136
and I was afraid it was gonna be me.
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