The Nation - News from April 18, 1985
A special grand jury in Waco, Tex., questioned Henry Lee Lucas--who confessed to 600 murders nationwide then reduced the total to three--to try to determine just how many persons he did kill. Inconsistencies in Lucas’ stories indicate that “there are murderers . . . still on the loose,” state Atty. Gen. Jim Mattox said. Lucas now contends that, during questioning, lawmen inadvertently provided information that enabled him to make plausible confessions to crimes he did not commit, Mattox said.
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