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Henry Lee Lucas was told by his mother at a very young age that he was evil and would probably spend the rest of his life in prison. Lucas was suspected, along with his partner Otis Toole, to have committed hundreds of vicious murders. His mother would torture him as a child. She would dress him as a girl, putting ribbons in his hair. He was malnourished, dirty, and smelly; he was an outcast to his peers. His mother would severely abuse him. In fact, she once beat him unconscious with a two-by-four. She forced him to drink urine, and burned him with cigarettes. It came to no surprise that his favorite sexual fantasies as a child were torturing his mother to death. He developed an inability to love. At an early age he would kill animals and have sex with their remains. He would even skin animals alive. At the age of fifteen Lucas had committed his first murder. His second murder was that of his mother. When Lucas killed, he became sexually aroused (Meadows, Kuehnel).
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