CRIME HISTORY – Serial killer Lucas arrested

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On this day, June 11, in 1983, Texas Rangers arrested Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America’s most prolific serial killer.

Lucas was born in Blacksburg, Va., and his first known victim was his mother, a slaying for which he served 10 years in prison. He then drifted throughout the South until his arrest on a gun charge in Texas eight years later.

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