Serial Murderer Henry Lee Lucas

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e rest of his life in a wheelchair and was also an alcoholic (Furio, 1998 & Egger, 1998). There is some evidence that this man was not Lucas’s father, although Lucas has said that he was upset when this man died in 1949 (Egger, 1998). Lucas was often beat by his mother and was even knocked unconscious for three days once after she attacked him and this attack resulted in permanent head injuries (Furio, 1998). He also received serious injuries from his brother, who stabbed Lucas in the eye with a knife and he eventually lost that eye, because his mother refused to take him to the doctor (Furio, 1998). One of Lucas and his half brother, Harry’s favorite pastimes was torturing animals and then having sex with their remains (Furio, 1998) and Lucas claims that his mother’s boyfriend who lived with them was the one who taught him to have sex with animals (Egger, 1998). Lucas has also said that he was using alcohol to numb the pain of his childhood by the age of nine (Egger, 1998). Lucas had to repeat the first grade three times and was fo...