Henry was destined to become a serial slaughterin' strangla from the start. His alcoholic father, called "No Legs" because of an unfortunate encounter with a freight train, killed himself after repeatedly being taunted by his abusive bitch wife. Little Henry sliced an eyelid while playing with a knife with his brother, but his dumb cunt, prostitute mother -- Viola Lucas -- left his gash unattended for days until it eventually had to be removed by a doctor. Once, his mom beat him so severely with a piece of wood that he lay in a semi-conscious state for three days before Viola's boyfriend decide to take him to a local hospital. Another time, she cruelly decided to send him to school dressed as a bitch, in a dress and with his hair curled.

Years later, Henry finally stuck it to his mom in more ways than one. A knife in his mother's back and a raping of her dead corpse all but made up for a lifetime of bitchery. Later, unfortunatly, he recanted his act of inscestuous necrophilia. He got 40 years for matricide, but was out after 10. Free again, Henry launched his stellar career as the nation's most notorious random killer. Yeah!

In 1976, after a chance meeting in a Jacksonville soup kitchen, he joined up with a part-time transvestite and deeply psychotic retard, Ottis Toole, to carry out numerous homicidal escapades. Ottis liked to eat dead bodies and had many of his victims for dinner. Henry, however, was not a cannibal because, he said, he disliked the taste of Ottis' barbecue sauce. HA! He was more of a sadist and a necrophile, preferring sex with mutilated bodies and live or dead animals.

The consummate killer couple, they enjoyed picking up hitchhikers and drifters to satisfy their lust for blood. Sometimes, when they didn't want to go through the hassle of killing and disposing of their prey, they would just run over the occasional hitchhiker and continue on their merry way, leaving a mangled corpse behind. These lethal gaybirds parted ways after Ottis' niece, Becky Powell, shacked up with Henry at the age of seven. Years later she was found at the age of fifteen dismembered, stuffed in pillowcases and scattered over a field. After his arrest, Lucas toured the country as a celebrity uncovering evidence of his handiwork for local police departments. In 1985, Dallas Times-Herald journalist, Hugh Aynesworth, claimed their reign of terror was bullshit and that overzealous detectives fed the would-be killers many details of their crimes. Henry and Ottis confessed to more than 600 killings in 26 states. Henry even claimed to have carried the poison to Guyana as a favor to his good friend Jim Jones.

Many investigators still believe that Lucas was responsible for only a few murders and the real criminals were the police who let him take the blame for unresolved cases all over the country. Serial killer expert Robert Ressler believes Henry might be responsible for as little as five killings. To many investigators' surprise one of Henry's earliest alleged victims, a Virginia schoolteacher, was found alive and kicking, but he had been charged with her murder and even confessed it. The true number of victims will probably never be known.

Loving to boasts and gain attention, he claimed to have committed murders in Spain and Japan eventhough he never left the United States. Some of the crimes, he said, were committed under orders from a Satanic cult, the "Hand of Death." After confessing to over 300 kills, Henry recanted it all only to confess again when he became a born-again Christian. As he awaits execution on Death Row in Texas, Henry still mentions bits and pieces of evidence linking him to shitloads of killings in over 17 states.

Meanwhile in Florida, Ottis was diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic and his death sentence was toned down to six life terms. In prison Ottis confessed and later recanted killing 6-year-old Adam Walsh, whose 1981 disappearance outside a Florida, mall set off a fucking frenzy and launched the career of his father, John Walsh, as the host of the series "America's Most Wanted."

On September 15, 1996, Ottis died in a prison hospital. Walsh, who was already pissed at how the police were handling his son's case, questioned why investigators did not try to interview Toole before he died. Lucas told police that Toole killed Adam and agreed to show them the remains of the boy in a shallow grave.

Texas set June 30 as the execution date for Henry Lee. He was sentenced to death for the 1979 murder of a female drifter called "Orange Socks" 'cuz that's all that was left on her body. Lucas got pissed off and claimed that he was working as a roofer in Florida when the slut was killed. This was the first time an execution date had been set for Lucas. He was allowed to stay alive in September 1995 so his claims of false confessions could be investigated. A year later they told him he was still going to die.

But in 1998 Governor George W. Bush spared Henry's life because of evidence proving that Henry was not in Texas when "Orange Socks" was murdered. Although Lucas said he killed her, work records and a paycheck indicated he was in Florida at the time of the murder. "I can only thank them for believing the truth and having guts enough for standing up for what's right," Lucas said from death row.

"Henry Lee Lucas is unquestionably guilty of other despicable crimes which he has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison," said Bush. "However, I believe there is enough doubt about this particular crime that the state of Texas should not impose its ultimate penalty by executing him." To this day this serial killer ninja lives on.