Gisli Gudjonsson PhD " The making of a serial false confessor: The confessions of Henry Lee Lucas" (The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry) p. 417-419, 421, 425 :
"Mr Lucas also fabricated his own confessions, including his confessing to the murder of Jimmy Hoffa (former US union leader) and to being paid to assassinate President Jimmy Carter. No forensic evidence was found to link Mr Lucas with any of these offences."
"A special investigation by the Attorney-General of Texas (Mattox, 1986) into Mr Lucas’s confessions concluded that Mr Lucas was probably respons- ible ior only three murders (his mother, his juvenile girlfriend and the elderly acquaintance) and that his apparent ‘special knowledge’ of the other murders had been obtained from the police themselves.
In April 1984 Mr Lucas was convicted, solely on the basis of his confes- sions, of the murder of an unidentified female in Williamson County, Texas, in 1979 (known as the ‘orange socks’ murder due to the victim wearing orange socks at the time of her death). Mr Lucas confessed to this murder during a series of interviews with the Williamson County sheriff. He also confessed to having raped the woman, which resulted in his being convicted of a capital offence in spite of the fact that there was no physical evidence of rape. This was the only murder for which he received a death sentence. There was no forensic or circumstantial evidence to corroborate Mr Lucas’s confession. He did have a good alibi, which consisted of work records showing his being over 1,300 miles away on the day of the murder (a round- trip of about 2,700 miles) and the following day there was a record of his signing a cheque near his place of work. The alibi evidence was dismissed at the appeal on the basis that it had been available at the time of the trial."
"In early January 1996, at the request of the defence, the author went to Texas and spent 13 hours assessing Mr Lucas. In addition, he read several thousand pages of documents, listened to tape-recordings of the ‘orange socks’ con- fessions and interviewed the Texas Ranger who first interviewed Mr Lucas about the confessions. The author wrote a detailed report and was formally cross-examined on his findings by an assistant Attorney-General. The judge received the psychological testimony by way of two lengthy depositions. After having carefully considered the content and context of the ‘orange socks’ confessions, in conjunction with the psychological evaluation of Mr Lucas, the author testified that it was ‘totally unsafe’ to rely on Mr Lucas’s confessions to the crime as being a true indication of his guilt. Indeed, he believes the ‘orange socks’ confessions to be false and it is likely that Mr Lucas has made more false confessions to murder than any other criminal suspect. In an interview with the present author Mr Lucas estimated that he had made over 3,000 false confessions to murder, which is considerably higher than other estimates. He has consistently given this figure to different people over the years and in view of the massive number of records sent from hundreds of jurisdic- tions around the USA to the Lucas Task Force it appears to be a reasonable estimate, although there are no official records to confirm this.
Mr Lucas told the author that he had no regrets about the confessions, in spite of the fact that he may be executed in the near future as a result of making them. His reasoning for this view is that prior to his arrest in 1983 he was ‘nobody’, that is, he had no friends and nobody listened to him or took an interest in him. Once he began to make false confessions all that changed and he has thoroughly enjoyed his celebrity status and now has many friends."
"THE CONFESSION PROCESS
It is evident that Mr Lucas has confessed to a large number of serious crimes that he did not commit. In October 1982, when he was in jail on a warrant, he falsely confessed to a number of robberies when interviewed by a Texas Ranger. The officer investigated Mr Lucas’s confessions and found them to be false. Mr Lucas appears to have done this for short-term instrumental gains (i.e. to manipulate the police into bringing back another person from Cali- fornia so that he could be interviewed about the disappearance of Mr Lucas’s elderly acquaintance).
Mr Lucas began making confessions to murders after being left in jail on his own over a period of a few days when he was arrested on 11 June 1983. During his period of detention between 11 June and 15 June he was not inter- viewed at all by the police and told the author that he had been completely deprived of coffee and cigarettes, both of which he was addicted to. On 15 June he confessed to a jailer who then passed to Sheriff Conway a written confession to the murders of the juvenile girlfriend and the elderly acquain- tance and to 60 other unspecified murders.
Mr Lucas told the author that he had added the 60 unspecified murders to the confession in order to take his revenge on the police for having arrested him on a made-up firearm charge and kept him in custody. He also stated, unprompted, in court that he had killed about 100 people. Unknown to him there were news reporters in court, which resulted in immense subsequent media attention and a rapid increase in the number of confessions to homi- cides. The author asked Mr Lucas why he had increased the numbers to 100 when he appeared in court. Mr Lucas replied that he had done this to impress the judge.
As far as the ‘orange socks’ killing is concerned, Mr Lucas did not confess to this murder when briefly questioned about it by Texas Ranger Ryan from the Crime Analysis Bulletin around 17 June 1983, even though he was con- fessing to many other murders. Mr Lucas first confessed to the ‘orange socks’ murder when interviewed by Sheriff Boutwell on 22 June 1983."
"No doubt Mr Lucas’s confessions are an embarrassment to law enforce- ment agencies in the USA and the case should make police officers more cau- tious about accepting uncorroborated confessions and providing suspects with ‘special knowledge’ material prior to or while interviewing them.
POSTSCRIPT
In June 1998, a few days prior to Mr Lucas’s execution, the Governor of Texas and the Board of Pardons and Paroles decided to grant clemency and reduce Mr Lucas’s death sentence to life imprisonment.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The author is grateful for helpful comments on a previous draft of the manu- script by Mr Walter Long from Mr Lucas’s legal team and to Mr Bradley S. Shallady, private investigator, who assisted with providing some of the factual details about the case. Mr Lucas has given the author his written consent for this article to be published. Dr Gisli Gudjonsson, PhD, reader in forensicpsychology, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF"
These quotes are from my post The Mothman, The Intelligence Community, MK-ULTRA and the Gifted Program
Section 11: The Rockefellers and the MIB
David was a wandering Bishop, who was molested as a young man by a priest. Later in life David became a pedophile. He went to a Jesuit highschool in Cleveland at the age of 16. Like all of the men mentioned as MIB, David was a gifted individual.
UFO author Timothy Green Beckley stated in “The UFO Silencers” that Gray Barker was once tailed in his car all the way from Cleveland back to WV. The driver following Barker was wearing a priest’s outfit.
“AC: The Wandering Bishops had three major branches, but they all came out of New York originally. One was the Ofeish line, which was I think more Eastern Orthodox, or Middle Eastern. They stayed in New York, I think… But another branch went to Kentucky. One of the three modern branches was represented by a Kentucky priest who knew Ferrie. That puts Ferrie in the Mothman area. Suspiciously, that KY bishop, Carl Stanley, died the same month as Ferrie. Ferrie died in February of ‘67. Stanley had consecrated Ferrie into his particular order, thus giving Ferrie a little more “juice.” It gave Ferrie the ability to “wear the robe.” If you remember the JFK movie, there was a robe hanging there. Oliver Stone was making reference to the importance of the robe to Ferrie. But Ferrie was also into these monkeys. At least one witness, Judyth Baker, has come forward to say that Ferrie was experimenting on prisoners at a Louisiana prison. He was injecting them with cancerous substances. The monkeys came from “suicided” cancer researcher Mary Sherman. Baker also claims that she was dating Lee Harvey Oswald, and that Lee was also involved in that Angola cancer experimentation. Both Ferrie and Oswald were also involved in the Ochsner Clinic in Louisiana, which was doing cancer research.”
The mothman photographer, Andrew Colvin
Ferrie, Tulane University and Dr. Robert Heath.
Dr. Ochsner and Dr. Sherman Begin “The Project” he date of March 23, 1962 is important. It’s the day that Ochsner’s and Sherman’s research, trying to find a cure for a virulent cancer-causing monkey virus, morphed into a dedicated project to create a biological weapon to kill Fidel Castro.6 It was the same day Ochsner distanced himself from his longtime friend, Clay Shaw, removing him from a position at International House where Shaw had held important positions for over nine years alongside Ochsner. Shaw would thus be ready to quietly assist his old friend in Ochsner’s project to get Castro, as I would soon learn for myself. By May 1963, I had been influenced to join this team, which was compartmentalized so that I never knew the names of all who were involved. Meanwhile, Dave kept his day job with G. Wray Gill, with frequent forays to Guy Banister’s office, serving as a handy link between Banister’s FBI connections and the Mafia. Both sides wanted Castro dead. By May, 1963, Dr. Mary Sherman, Lee Harvey Oswald and I would be working together with Dave, and an array of doctors and scientists who were isolated from each other. The labs were in a ring – I saw initials in log-books, and sign-off sheets – but I never met everyone involved. Isolating us from each other was essential to keeping “The Project” secret.
Judith Baker.
Ferrie was ordained as a Bishop into the old Catholic Church, if I remember correctly. Several of the Wandering Bishops, were hypnotist experts. A lot of members are downtight associated with occult.
Ferrie was also a type of helper for Dr. Robert Heath and his MKULTRA experiments at Tulane.
I wrote the post before I read the Torbitt report or I would have come to a different conclusion.
A lot of assassins have dressed as priests for obvious reasons, and David was connected to that world. Clay Shaw testified that Fred Crispen dressed as a priest when he was on official duty.
All these men were Rockefeller henchmen.