156 - The Confession Killers: Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole committed at least four murders, or maybe five. They were, collectively, convicted of seventeen. But they definitely didn't kill some of the people they were convicted of killing. They would confess to over 600. And they for sure didn't kill all of them. But they may have killed others they never confessed too. They were definitely murderers and they were definitely liars and they seemed to enjoy lying more than murdering. And unlike most criminals, they loved to lie about crimes they definitely didn't commit. They were terrible men who wanted to be known as pure evil men. And their tale is a strange one, a dark one, and a fascinating one. Join me as I try to separate dark fact from even darker fiction, today, on Timesuck! Moretta |In Need of Better | Official Music Video: https://youtu.be/Ff8CEnHj64U Donating $3000 this month to the nonprofit - Youth on Record. Helping at-risk youth graduate and build careers in the arts. To learn more or donate yourself, go to https://www.youthonrecord.org/ Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: (full calendar at http://dancummins.tv) ** September 13th Chicago Thalia Hall CLICK HERE for tix ** September 19-21 Phoenix Copper Blues Live CLICK HERE for tix! *** LIVE ANT HILL KIDS TIMESUCK *** September 21st at Copper Blues Live CLICK HERE for tix September 26-28 Indianapolis Helium Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! October 9th West Palm Beach, FL The Improv Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! October 10-13 Tampa, FL Sidesplitter's Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! October 18 Detroit/Pontiac, MI The Crofoot Standup Special Taping CLICK HERE for tix! October 19 Minneapolis, MN 10,000 Laughs Comedy Festival CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by the following sponsors: Scared to Death! First two episodes come out on September 17th at Midnight. Subscribe!!!! Leesa! Get 15% off your entire order at leesa.com/TIMESUCK Use promo code TIMESUCK at checkout! The Great Courses Plus!Get a full month FREE when you go to thegreatcoursesplus.com/TIMESUCK Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/0tP1dWixQ60 Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're over 5000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	Henry Lee Lucas, the only Texas death row inmate to be spared an execution by former president George W. Bush
0:06.8	during his six years as governor of Texas. During those same six years and other 152 inmates were
0:12.7	executed. Why did Bush commute Lucas's death sentence to life in prison just four days before a man
0:18.4	once thought to be America's most prolific serial killer was said to receive a lethal injection.
0:23.9	I mean at one point Lucas was considered a person of interest in around 600 different murders.
0:29.7	In 1984 the Texas Rangers created the Lucas task force specifically to solve murders
0:35.6	thought to be committed by Henry Lee Lucas and they officially cleared 213 previously unsolved
0:43.2	murders. 213 murders. The Texas from 40 states talked to Lucas about an estimated 3,000 different
0:51.9	homicides. So why did Bush let him live? Because even though Lucas had already been convicted of
0:57.5	11 murders he'd only been sentenced to death for one of those murders and his involvement in
1:02.8	that one death row conviction was beyond uncertain. Lucas had been condemned to die for the killing of
1:09.0	an unidentified woman whose body was found in a ditch in 1979. The discovery of this victim
1:14.8	who became known as orange socks because that was all she was wearing when investigators found her
1:19.2	body outside of Georgetown, Texas was highly publicized. The murder of orange socks would end up
1:25.2	being featured on America's most wanted two separate times and Henry Lee Lucas confessed to her
1:30.2	murder for separate times. So he did it right? No, not likely. He was convicted of her murder by a
1:38.0	jury based entirely on his confessions, but it does not seem to be likely that he ever even saw her.
1:44.2	Let alone had anything to do with her death. No DNA evidence linked him to the crime work records
1:49.8	and a cashed paycheck indicated that he was hours and hours away in Jacksonville, Florida at the time
1:55.6	she died. No witnesses linked Mr. Lucas to the crime only his confessions linked him. And by the
2:02.3	time Bush and spared Lucas's life it was well known that Henry's confessions were beyond questionable.
2:08.0	This dude loved to confess to murder unlike anybody else before since. He became known for a time as
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