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Lucas, who is scheduled to be tried in Texas this week for Freida Powell's murder, has already been sentenced to 75 years, after pleading guilty Sept. 30 to the slaying of Katherine Rich. He has been officially charged with twelve other murders during the past eight years. His...
Born poor in rural Virginia to a prostitute and a double amputee, Lucas was convicted in 1960 for stabbing his mother to death. He was sent to prison in Jackson, Mich., on a 20-to-40-year sentence. Paroled in 1970, he returned to prison within the year for an...
According to his own creepily cool account, before he teamed up with Toole in 1976 Lucas traveled from state to state, living out of his car, surviving on odd jobs or thefts, and randomly picking up victims. Sometimes he killed alone, sometimes with casual companions. The victims were often hitchhikers...
"It was difficult to believe at first," recalls Texas Investigator Paul Smith, "but then we corroborated some of his statements." Lucas cooperated fully, drawing detailed pencil sketches of his victims and, in a few cases, leading investigators on walking tours of murder sites.
Lucas fingered Toole, currently serving a 20-year sentence in Raiford, Fla., for arson, as his most frequent accomplice. During subsequent interviews with police, Toole, Lucas' occasional lover, claimed more than 50 murders of his own, mostly of young men. Like Lucas, Toole was chillingly matter of fact in...