On March 26, 1985 - 3 weeks before the Lucas hoax was exposed - Sgt. Jay Via of the Oachita (La.) Parish Sheriff's Dept. explained to a C...

The one National Park victim attributed - almost certainly in error - to Henry Lee Lucas. Unidentified and unsolved.

Like many notorious prisoners, Henry Lee Lucas started offering his original 'artwork' to make some money. "I did this to show that life...

In 1976, John and Fay Whatley disappeared from Bastrop County, Texas. Police found a bullet hole in their bedroom window and fragments o...

Page 16 of a 45-page presentation we (Utah Cold Case Coalition) created to persuade Provo P.D. that Henry Lee Lucas's confession was fals...

Notorious Oklahoma forensic chemist Joyce A. Gilchrist, who was lying to get convictions, finds the man of her dreams: a man who was lyi...

In 1985, the Texas Attorney General wanted to confirm when Henry Lee Lucas left prison in Michigan. Unfortunately, Michigan only kept fi...

When Henry Lee Lucas began recanting his confessions in April 1985, the McClennan Co. (Tex.) District Attorney and Lucas's spiritual advi...

Gloria Stephan's 1982 murder in Magnolia, Tex., was closed in 1984 by one of Henry Lee Lucas's hundreds of confessions. It is now reopen...

Carol Ann Lane, Norfolk, Va., found stabbed to death in Curriteck Co., N.C., October 12, 1976: A hair sample from Henry Lee Lucas "could...

Testimony from Texas Ranger Clayton Smith illustrates how eager some agencies were to "close" cases with Henry Lee Lucas. Note that Luca...

...who gave Henry Lee Lucas information he needed to "take" a murder. Several times, attorneys fed information to Lucas so he would let...

Texas officials reached near-celebrity status in 1984 as the pile of Henry Lee Lucas confessions grew, before it all started unraveling. )

In 1984, Henry Lee Lucas "confessed" to killing Marla Scharp in 1978 in Provo, Utah. As with many others, the confession does not hold u...

An example of (part of) a Lucas confession with persuasive detail. His companion Ottis Toole's confession to this murder was even more e...

In 1983, Henry Lee Lucas said his companion Ottis Toole could not have killed Adam Walsh two years earlier. In 1996, as his execution da...

Many sites repeat a claim by Lucas that his first victim was 17-year-old Laura Burnley in Virginia in 1981. In 1986, Virginia police adv...