The Nation - News from April 16, 1985
Texas law enforcement officials, frustrated by a suspect who “will confess to anything,” admitted that confessed serial killer Henry Lee Lucas may have claimed responsibility for crimes he did not commit. Texas Atty. Gen. Jim Mattox noted that news reports indicate that, in some cases, including one for which he has been sentenced to death, Lucas was thousands of miles from the scenes of crimes or would have had to travel constantly to commit all the killings. In a newspaper interview, Lucas, 48, claimed that all but three confessions were bogus.
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