He later recanted his confessions, despite professing information only the assailant would know as well as taking police to the crime scenes and grave sites to flatly stating 'I'm a liar' in a letter to researcher Brad Shellady. Lucas confessed to, or implicated himself in, more than 600 murders. Lucas took police to the crime scenes and burial sites of 246 people and was charged with 189 of the crimes. He then began bragging about a cross country murder spree spanning several decades. In June 1983, Lucas was taken into custody for illegal possession of a firearm. Henry Lee Lucas (Aug– March 13, 2001) was an American criminal, indicted in 189 cases of murder and once listed as America's most prolific serial killer.
