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Henry Lee Lucas rose to infamy when he confessed to hundreds of unsolved murders. This docuseries examines the truth -- and horrifying consequences. Watch trailers & learn more.
The Confession Killer is a 2019 American true crime documentary miniseries directed by Robert Kenner and Taki Oldham. The plot revolves around the 1983 case of Henry Lee Lucas, who confessed to over 200 murders in the United States. Years after his admissions, they turned out to be lies.
- Documentary Crime
- Henry Lee Lucas Had A Difficult Upbringing
- The Murder Claims Began to Pile Up
- Journalists Had Doubts, But Law Enforcement Officials Listened Anyway
- Lucas Was Locked Up, But Victims’ Families Suffered Further
While the truth of Henry Lee Lucas’ life is marred by countless lies and inconsistencies, it’s clear that violence and abuse followed him from the beginning. Lucas was born to an impoverished family in Blacksburg, Virginia, in 1936. His father was a double amputee and his mother was a prostitute who was said to have physically abused him as a child...
Lucas admitted to killing Powell and Rich, recounting the details of their deaths to officers. At his arraignment for Rich’s murder, Lucas shot to national attention after he asked the judge, “What are we going to do about these other 100 women I killed?” Lucas claimed responsibility for a spree of murders across the U.S. committed in the 1970s and...
Journalists who covered Lucas’ case found his confessions suspicious from the start. As he began to piece together the dates and settings of each murder Lucas claimed to have committed, the reporter Hugh Aynesworth quickly found holes that suggested Lucas was not in fact behind the murders. In a piece published in the DallasTimes Herald in 1985, Ay...
Eventually, Lucas was convicted of a total of 11 murders. In 1984, he was sentenced to death for the 1979 murder of an unidentified woman who was known at the time as “Orange Socks” (the woman was identified in 2019 as Debra Jackson). Citing a lack of evidence connecting Lucas to the murder, apart from his confession, which he later recanted, then-...
- 2 min
- Mahita Gajanan
A documentary series about Henry Lee Lucas, who claimed to have killed hundreds of people, but whose confessions were questioned by DNA evidence and investigative journalism. See cast, crew, episodes, ratings, reviews, and more on IMDb.
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- 2019-12-06
- Documentary, Crime
- 48
During the early '80s, Henry Lee Lucas confessed to hundreds of murders, bringing closure to unsolved cases and grieving families. Even with no direct eviden...
- 2 min
- 675K
- Netflix
Explore the true crime story of Henry Lee Lucas, who confessed to hundreds of murders in the 1980s, but later faced doubts and challenges. Watch the trailer and read critics' reviews of this tense and disturbing documentary on Netflix.
Henry Lee Lucas rose to infamy when he confessed to hundreds of unsolved murders. This docuseries examines the truth -- and horrifying consequences. Manood ng mga trailer at alamin pa.
