The State - News from Oct. 30, 1986
Tehama County Sheriff’s Capt. Alan Groves said he never believed that convicted murderer Henry Lee Lucas killed 14-year-old Rashell Ward near Red Bluff three years ago. Lucas once claimed to have murdered as many as 600 people, including the girl, then recanted all but the slaying of his mother. Groves expressed his doubt about Lucas’ involvement in the Ward murder while in El Paso, Tex., to testify for the prosecution in a pre-trial hearing at which defense attorneys seek to have a judge quash Lucas’ confession to killing an elderly woman there.
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