Henry Lee Lucas Was Considered America's Most Prolific Serial Killer. But He Was Really a Serial Liar. • Discoverology

Henry Lee Lucas Was Considered America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer. But He Was Really a Serial Liar.

Crime, History

Henry Lee Lucas provided accounts that closed 197 murder cases, but now, a new five-part Netflix series is exploring the still-mounting evidence that almost all of these confessions were lies—and that hundreds of actual murderers have gone free.

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