Serial killers tend to prey on women and children of their same race. Prostitutes, drifters and hitchhikers are their victims of choice. Some homosexual killers enjoy hunting young boys and gay men. Most serial killers grew up in violent households. As youngsters they enjoyed torturing animals, setting fires and were chronic bed-wetters. A native of Colombia, his prostitute mother kicked him out of their home at age eight for fondling his younger sister.
Adding insult to injury he was then picked up by a pedophile and sodomized against his will. By the time he was eighteen he was gang banged in prison and retaliated by killing three of his assailants. Upon his release he started killing young girls with glee and impunity. By he claimed to have bagged more than girls in Peru. After a brush with an angry village mob he moved his activities to Colombia and Ecuador where his blood lust averaged about three kills a week.
In a flash flood uncovered the first of his victims. When he was arrested he told his interrogators the frightening tale of his reign of death. At first authorities were skeptical, but all doubts disappeared when he quickly produced more than fifty graves.
It is widely believed that three hundred hits is a low estimate for this most prolific serial killer. The numbers speak for themselves. When little Henry sliced an eye while playing with a knife with his brother, his bootlegging, prostitute mother β Viola Lucas β left his gashed orb unattended for days until it eventually withered and had to be removed by a doctor.
Another time, she cruelly decided to send Hank to school in a dress and with his hair curled. Later, like on many other occasions, he recanted his act of inscestuous necrophilia. He got 40 years for matricide, but was out after In , after a chance meeting in a Jacksonville soup kitchen, he joined up with a part-time transvestite and deeply psychotic retard, Ottis Toole , to carry out numerous homicidal escapades.
