Criminal Profiling

Criminal profiling

Henry Lee lUCAS & oTTIS tOOLE

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Investigator hiromi

Jack the detective

- She / Her- 18 years old - Japanese

- He / Him - 17 years old - Vietnamese

INDEX

1).BiographicaL & bACKGROUND INFORMATION

2).criminal Activity

3).Characterizing & profiling

QUOTE:

HENRY LEE LUCAS

• Born: August 23, 1936 in Blackburg, Virgina, USA
• Death: March 12, 2001 in Huntville Unit, Huntville, Texas, USA
• The youngest in a family of 9 children
• Father: Henry " No Leg " Lucas
• Mother: Viola Dixon Lucas - Matricide
• Forced to Crossdressed
• Married to Betty Crawford, the widow of a cousin in 1975
• Necrophilic serial killer

EARLY CHILDHOOD

• His father lost his leg in a workplace accident by a railroad.

• Anderson Lucas's accident forced him to make a living by manufacturing alcohol illegally -> He is an alcoholic.

• The father introduce alcohol to Henry at the very young age.

• In 1949, Anderson Lucas passed away from hypothermia after passing out drunk in a blizzard

• Mother was a prostitue and "Uncle Bernie" was her lover. Lucas was forced to watch them having sex regularly
• He was often beaten by Uncle Bernie
• 10 years old: Eye injured during a fight with his brother and later became infected due to Viola’s neglect

ADOLESCENCE

• December, 1949: Lucas's alcoholic father, Anderson Lucas, died of hypothermia after going home drunk and collapsing outside during a blizzard.
• 6th grade: He dropped out of school and ran away from home and drifted around Virginia.

• First Sexual Experience: Age of 14-15, he abducted an unknown teenage girl from a bus stop, beat her unconscious and then raped her and strangling her to death. ( 17 years old Laura Burnley who disappeared in March, 1951).
• In 1952, he got arrested with his half brother for burglary and was send to the juvenile delinquents in Beaumont

Hiromi

OTTIS TOOLE

• Ottis Elwood Toole
• Born on March 5, 1947, in Jacksonville, Florida
• Diagnosed with epilepsy

a neurological disorder in which brain activity becomes abnormal, causing seizures and periods of unusual behavior and sensation (loss of awareness).

• With an IQ of 75, he suffers from various learning disabilities:

Dyslexia: learning disorder involves difficulty reading, identifying speech sounds and decoding. ADHD: mental health disorder that cause above-normal levels of hyperactive and impulsive behaviors. Being illiterate: dropped out of school in 9th grade.

EARLY CHILDHOOD

Discover his homosexuality At the age of five, Toole was forced to have sex with his father’s friend and by 10, he realized his sexual orientation. Toole began to anticipate a sexual relationship with a young boy from the neighborhood and visit gay bar (work as a prostitute)

• Father is an alcoholic and mother is a religious fanatic and an abuser.

• Toole's grandmother was a satanist and exposed him to rituals like self-mutilation (self-cutting, injury, etc), graverobbing and named him "Devil's child"

• As a young child, he was a victim of incest. Toole was sexually assaulted by his older sister, close relatives, and neighbor.

ADOLESCENCE

• In his teens, he often ran away from home and slept in abandoned houses.

• Committed his first murder at age 14 when a traveling salesman propositioned him for sex and he ran over the salesman with his own car (was not sentenced due to underage law).

• First arrested for loitering at age 17.

• In 1976, he married a woman 25 years older than him but she left three days after discovering Toole's homosexuality.

• Job: prostitute, panhandling

• Status: divorce, no children (use marriage to conceal homosexuality)

CRIMINAL ACTIVITY

Timespan of the crime (number of victims)

• 1961-1983
• 6 victims and other hundred unknowns claimed

Nature of the crime

• Kill victims for different reasons (mostly out of impulsive drive)
• Type of crime committed: kidnap, kill, sexually assault, cannibalism, arson
• Prefer simple method: use gun

Souvenirs and signature

• Does not keep any souvenirs after killing
• Kill impulsively and left the body in places that are easily found
• In some case, he confessed eating his victim leftover

Behavior when get caught

• Reluctant at first and denied involvement but when he knows that his former’s lover, Henry Lucas has been taking cops on guided tours of their murder sites, Toole began claiming his accompany to the crime the two committed, the number he claimed was 108 people.

The capability of withstanding trial

• Capable of withstanding trial. Although Toole was diagnosed with epilepsy, he still shows signs of awareness when committing the crime and because there is no record of any psychological disorder that interferes with his consciousness.

What were they charged with and sentenced to?

• In April 1983, was arrested for an arson incident in Jacksonville and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
• On April 28, 1984, a jury found Toole guilty of first-degree murder in the arson case of George Sonnenberg. First, he claimed that he did not light the home on fire and only signed the confession with the police to be expelled back to his hometown, Jacksonville but later was found guilty and sentenced to death.
• Charged with four Jacksonville murders in 1991 and received four life sentences.

On September 15, 1996, Ottis Toole died in prison due to cirrhosis (liver failure), at the age of 49. No family or relatives came to claim his body so Toole was buried in a prison cemetery.

John and Faye Whatley (73 years old, and 68 years old) Both of them were found missing after their granddaughter's wedding rehearsal in Houston Texas. Got stabbed until death All of their belonging is still in the vehicle

Murder of Patricia Webb 24 years-old murdered on April 18th, 1974 disappear overnight working at adult book and cinema store

March, 1951: Lynchburg, Virginia: Laura Burnley, 17 (beaten and attempted to rape, then strangled)

Section 3: Characterizing and Profiling

Section 3:Characterizing and Profiling

Victimology

Most of them are females age range from 14-68 and male at the age of 40-73 Insight: The murders are White Victim and their victim might be random selected.

LOCATION

- Random location where they can find the victim. - Remote place where there isn't anyone around during night time. - Usually public areas( Park, bus stop, dumpster Insight: They didn't have a specific location to kill the victim or any place to hide the body. They would probably have a day time job as the roofter.

• Texas ( South of the USA)

Crime Scene

Crime Scene: They strangled to death. Shot to death... The body was found killed at the crime scene Most of the women or girl they killed were found naked Insight: They might have not prepared for the murder since every cases that they did were completely difference.There is no identical pattern among the others Modus Operandi: Stabbing, Strangulation, Varied...

ORGANIZATION LEVEL

DISORGANIZED LEVEL

• Both work for a low-income job

• Both are the youngest kid in the house, got abused by parents, older siblings, and relatives
• Shy and lacks confidence
• Poor hygiene

ORGANIZATION LEVEL

DISORGANIZED MURDER

• Blitz attack
• random/unknown victims
• Wrong place/wrong time
• Overkill (might staph multiple times) - shot multiple times
• Does not bring a murder kit or tools to clean up
• Rarely cleans up murder scene
• Do not pay attention to the news, kill randomly due to distracting police but also due to impulsive and unplanned behavior

Pre - behavior

• Most of the victims was claimed by both Lucas and Toole --> Show little evidence of how victim was murder
• Choice of victims shows that they got picked randomly and were not priorly stalked by the two.
• Pick victims from all kind of places

Post-behavior

- Wander off, did not turn themselves in, which shows that they care little about getting the recognition from the news. - After getting arrested Lucas began publicly confess to buying more time on the death sentence. Toole was reluctant at first but began doing the same thing. - This could be a sign that they could be lying to flex their “achievement" Did not show signs of remorse, remember detailed descriptions about the victim.

TYPE OF SERIAL KILLER

These guys is believe to be in the middle of Visionary and Hedonistic -Lust for their act of murders.

Personality Disorder

Throughout his lifetime, Henry Lee Lucas has been examined and tested by numerous psychiatrists and psychologists. He has been diagnosed as schizophrenic many times.

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Work Cited:

• Gajanan, Mahita. “The Story Behind the Netflix Series 'The Confession Killer'.” Time, Time, 6 Dec. 2019, time.com/5745028/the-confession-killer-henry-lee-lucas-netflix/.
• “Henry Lee Lucas.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 30 Mar. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas.
• “Who Was Henry Lee Lucas? Everything You Need to Know.” – Facts, Childhood, Crimes, Death, www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/henry-lee-lucas-36377.php.
• Blanco, Juan Ignacio. “Ottis Toole.” Ottis Toole | Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers, murderpedia.org/male.T/t/toole-ottis.htm.
• Oliver, Mark. “Henry Lucas And Ottis Toole Became Lovers And Then Murdered Their Way Across The United States.” All That's Interesting, All That's Interesting, 29 Sept. 2020, allthatsinteresting.com/henry-lee-lucas-ottis-toole.

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