BBC - Great Crimes and Trials Series 3 Set 1 (1995) Part 3 Henry Lee Lucas The Highway Stalker

Stabbings, shootings, genocide, torture, abduction, robbery, serial killing and mass suicide are just a few of the horrific crimes explored in Great Crimes and Trials. True stories carefully researched and reconstructed with actual archive footage. Cases which have become almost legendary in the annals of crime and detection. Serial killers, gangsters, assassins and war criminals - Great Crimes and Trials sheds light on crimes that shocked the world, bringing back memories of some of the most notorious cases of the twentieth century. The murders of John Lennon and presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, the unsolved Zodiac murders and the treasonous crimes of Lord Haw-Haw are all covered here in exacting detail, alongside other shocking stories of murder and mayhem. From the violent mob rule of the thirties to the fairly recent phenomenon of the serial killer, the motives, behavior patterns and killing techniques of some of the world's most evil felons are explored. Their detection, capture and trials are examined to give a complete picture of how crine and justice have evolved through the twentieth century. Narrated by Robert Powell, Great Crimes and Trials combines new and archive interviews to reconstruct each story, analysing the individual and his motive, explaining how the crime was committed and showing breakthroughs in investigations alongside details of the trial. With its researchers gaining unprecedented access to picture libraries and over 250,000 hours of archive footage, these are the definitive accounts of these appalling murders.

Part 3 Henry Lee Lucas The Highway Stalker

The story of Henry Lee Lucas, also known as “The Confession Killer” and “The Highway Stalker”. He confessed to murdering hundreds of people, though no proof existed beyond three known victims. Henry Lee Lucas was a murderer born on August 23, 1936, in Blacksburg, Virginia. Born to alcoholic parents, including a mother who prostituted herself, Lucas's sexual deviancy formed in his teen years. In 1960, he was sentenced for the murder of his mother. Paroled in 1970, Lucas went back to jail for the attempted kidnapping of a 15-year-old girl. Released again in 1975, he killed two more women, and was arrested in 1983. In his cell, he began confessing to hundreds of murders. He confessed to killing 350 people, including his mother, and involvement in about 3,000 murders as he criss-crossed the interstate highways of the United States with his sometimes-partner, Otis Toole. Texas police were eager to believe him and cleared at least 213 murders that Lucas had confessed to. Henry Lee Lucas was convicted of 11 murders and sentenced to death for the murder of an unidentified woman wearing orange socks in Texas. But was Lucas even really a serial killer? Or just a habitual liar who made false confessions to get privileges?

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