Both already convicted killers, the two men befriended each other in a Floridian soup kitchen back in 1976. Each man sensed a bloodlust in the other and the two quickly became inseparable. Plenty has been written about Henry Lee Lucas down the years, with thousands of articles and dozens of books written about the man. Not to mention the countless documentaries and movies made about him. His sometime accomplice Ottis Toole is just as fascinating a character, though.

Known as ‘The Jacksonville Cannibal’, Toole admitted later in jail - in some detail - how he and Lucas would kidnap, mutilate, kill and sometimes even eat their victims. Sometimes the cannibalism would be part of ritualistic ‘ceremonies’ he claimed the pair took part in with a death cult for whom the pair would also kidnap children for.

It’s safe to say that the two of them weren’t very nice men.

Strange but true… During his tenure as the Governor of Texas, George W. Bush quite famously executed more people than any of his predecessors. In fact, he never commuted any Death Row prisoners’ sentences at all. Apart from one person. Henry Lee Lucas. One of the most vicious and prolific serial killers in American history.

Work that one out.