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Episode Detail: Myth of a Serial Killer: The Henry Lee Lucas Story - American Justice

The story of convicted killer Henry Lee Lucas, who fooled dozens of law-enforcement officials in the 1980s by "confessing" to hundreds of murders across the U.S. Included: a prison interview with Lucas. Bill Kurtis hosts.

Episodes: Myth of a Serial Killer: The Henry Lee Lucas Story - American Justice - 336 total Episodes

12/10/2005: Palm Beach Law
10/1/2005: Lies of a Friend
9/10/2005: Blood on the Staircase
8/20/2005: The Deer Hunting Murder
8/13/2005: Hamptons Murder Mystery
7/23/2005: The Brothers Kimble
7/9/2005: The Bridge Murders
6/15/2005: A Confession in Question
5/25/2005: What Happened to Carrie Culberson?
4/27/2005: Murder in the Court
4/6/2005: The Brit and the Bodybuilder
3/16/2005: Countdown to an Execution
2/16/2005: A Warrant to Kill
2/13/2005: Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald: The Green Beret Killer
1/26/2005: The Scott Peterson Trial
1/12/2005: Dangerous Medicine
12/29/2004: The Perfect Wife
12/22/2004: Accused in Appalachia
12/8/2004: The Wrath of Mrs. Jones
12/1/2004: Serial Wife
11/24/2004: Love Triangle
11/17/2004: Who Wacked Zack?
11/3/2004: A Model Murder
10/27/2004: Daughter Dearest
10/20/2004: The Bully of Toulon
9/29/2004: The Doctor's Wife
9/22/2004: Double Life, Double Murder
8/18/2004: Childs Play, Deadly Play
8/4/2004: Murder in Paradise
7/21/2004: Murder & Mrs. B.
7/14/2004: The Black Widower
7/7/2004: Stacey's Story
6/23/2004: Thrill Killers
6/9/2004: Under Suspicion: The Case of Catherine Shelton
5/26/2004: Sins of a Priest: The John Geoghan Story
5/12/2004: Blood Relations
5/5/2004: A Soldier's Secret
4/21/2004: The Excedrin Killings
4/7/2004: Traces in Blood
3/17/2004: Playing with Fire
3/10/2004: The Happy Face Killer
2/18/2004: Murder by Mercedes
2/4/2004: Case of Robert Blake
1/7/2004: A Deadly Dose
12/24/2003: Another Man's Crime
12/10/2003: What the Girl Saw
12/10/2003: For Love or Money
11/26/2003: Murder on the Boardwalk
11/12/2003: Blood Brothers: The Derek and Alex King Case
10/29/2003: The Yosemite Killer
10/8/2003: Mistaken Identity
9/24/2003: The Wells Fargo Heist
9/10/2003: Shots in the Dark
8/27/2003: Don't Mess with Texas
8/13/2003: Mystery at Sea
8/6/2003: The San Francisco Dog Mauling
7/23/2003: Murder Online
7/16/2003: The Central Park Jogger Case: What Went Wrong?
6/11/2003: The Corcoran Eight
6/4/2003: Mail Order Murder
5/28/2003: Death of a Bride
5/11/2003: The Massacre of the Tsar
4/23/2003: Shamed Into Confession
4/13/2003: The Story of Al Capone
4/2/2003: To Save Their Souls
3/19/2003: A Murder Before Homecoming
3/5/2003: A Questionable Doctor
1/29/2003: Mother Betrayal
1/15/2003: The Andrea Yates Story
1/8/2003: Who Killed Hannah Hill?
12/4/2002: Justifiable Homicide?
10/30/2002: In the Hands of a Child
10/16/2002: The Black Widow of Vegas
9/25/2002: Crib Death
9/4/2002: Vanished
8/10/2002: An Execution in Doubt
8/7/2002: We, the Jury: 10th Anniversary Show
7/31/2002: The Monster Inside
7/10/2002: While the Children Slept
6/19/2002: The Witness and the Hitman
6/12/2002: Suicide by Execution
6/5/2002: Brutal Revenge
4/3/2002: The Cult Murders
3/20/2002: Who Is the Lipstick Killer?
3/6/2002: Driven to Kill
2/6/2002: The Girl in the Box
1/9/2002: A Mother's Story of Murder
1/2/2002: Millions of Reasons to Kill
12/19/2001: Death in a Small Town
12/12/2001: Eliminating the Competition
11/28/2001: The Disappearance of Madalyn Murray O'Hair
11/14/2001: Like Mother, Like Son: Sante and Kenny Kimes
10/17/2001: Conspiracy to Kill: The Rae Carruth Story
10/10/2001: The Boy Who Saw Too Much
9/19/2001: Marijuana and Murder
9/9/2001: The City-Killer Gangs
8/8/2001: Shattered Innocence: The Fells Acres Abuse Case
7/25/2001: Shotgun Justice
7/22/2001: Sir Harry Oakes & the Bahamas Murder Mystery
6/20/2001: Lying Eyes
6/6/2001: A Son's Confession
6/3/2001: Great Train Robbery
5/23/2001: Matthew Shepard
4/25/2001: Dealing with the Devil
4/11/2001: Who Wants to Kill a Millionaire?
3/14/2001: The Erin Brockovich Story
3/7/2001: The Atlanta Child Murders
3/4/2001: William Joyce, Lord Haw Haw
2/21/2001: Mother on Death Row
2/10/2001: When a Child Kills
2/1/2001: Hiding in Plain Sight: Tales of a Fugitive
12/27/2000: Who Killed the Candy Heiress? The Helen Brach Story
12/20/2000: A Family Secret: The Death of Lisa Steinberg
12/10/2000: Dr. Buck Ruxton
10/18/2000: Murder on a Reservation
10/1/2000: DeFeo and Benson: Inheritance Killers
9/21/2000: The California Killing Field
9/17/2000: Roberts, Witney and Duddy
8/17/2000: Free to Murder Again
8/10/2000: 11-Year-Old Killer: Nathaniel Abraham
7/6/2000: The Wife Who Knew Too Much
6/22/2000: Kill Thy Neighbor
6/18/2000: Charles Whitman: Austin Sniper
6/11/2000: Donald Hume
6/8/2000: The Killer Within
5/25/2000: Oil, Money and Murder
5/11/2000: Deadly Magnolia
5/7/2000: The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
4/20/2000: The Trial of Louise Woodward
4/13/2000: Dancing, Drugs and Murder
3/30/2000: The Life and Death of Teena Brandon
3/23/2000: Murder in a College Town
3/19/2000: The McKay Kidnapping
3/16/2000: Getting Away with Murder
3/12/2000: Neville Heath: The Lady Killer
2/24/2000: Gainesville Murderer
2/24/2000: Death Row Radical: Mumia Abu-Jamal
2/20/2000: Dr. John Bodkin Adams
2/3/2000: A Parent's Nightmare
1/16/2000: Roy Fontaine: Deadly Butler
1/6/2000: Blueprint for a Murder
12/9/1999: Payback for a Bully
11/25/1999: Sister Against Sister: The Twin Murder Plot
11/7/1999: Donald Merrett: The Murderous Buccaneer
11/4/1999: Vigilante Dad
10/30/1999: It's Not My Fault: Strange Defenses
10/14/1999: The Sinatra Kidnapping
10/7/1999: Duty, Honor...and Murder
9/29/1999: Rape in Connecticut: The Alex Kelly Story
9/22/1999: Drowning in Lies: The Trial of Edward Post
9/17/1999: Hunting Bambi: The Laurie Bembenek Story
9/2/1999: Jonesboro Schoolyard Ambush
8/25/1999: Till Death Do Us Part: The Barbara Stager Story
8/12/1999: Lethal Injection: The Hospital Murders
7/22/1999: Justice Denied: The Wrong Place, the Wrong Time
6/30/1999: The Perfect Murder: The Shannon Mohr Story
3/24/1999: A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story
2/20/1999: A Teenage Murder Mystery
12/2/1998: Selena: Murder of a Star
10/14/1998: Green Beret Murder Mystery
10/22/1997: Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot
9/3/1997: Scarsdale Diet Doctor Murder
1/19/1997: The Yorkshire Ripper
2/7/1996: Chicago Mob
1/11/1995: Godfathers vs. the Law
Assassins
Bombers
Quiz Show Scandals and Other Frauds
Richard Ramirez: Night Stalker
Dead Woman Walking: The Karla Faye Tucker Story
Jeffrey Dahmer: Mystery of a Serial Killer
Bad Medicine
Riots: The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
The Defenders
Jailhouse Lawyers
Most Wanted
High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Gary Heidnik and Jeffrey Dahmer
Body in the Trunk Murders
Murder in the Family
Judge Joe Peel
Al Capone
Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald
Target: Mafia (The Prohibition Years)
Target: Mafia (The Kennedys and the Mob)
Tha Attica Riot: Chaos Behind Bars
The Trials of Dr. Sam Sheppard
Bounty Hunters
A Civil Action
Jonestown Massacre
Long Island Railroad Massacre
Hammersmith Murders
The Hillside Stranglers
Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mobster
Profilers
War Crimes
Great Midwest Gangs
Butch Defeo
Dennis Nilsen: The Kindly Killer
Internal Affairs
Mafia Story
Adolf Eichmann
Henry Lee Lucas
Hunt for the Unabomber
Justice Denied: Trial and Error
Body of Evidence: The Tom Capano Trial
Death Penalty
The Susan Smith Story: A Mother's Confession
Vegas and the Mob
Boston Strangler
Jean Harris
Lucky Luciano and the Mob
Richard Speck
Defending the Mob
Juvenile Justice
The Wrong Man
Marriage and Murder
Divorce Wars
Ted Bundy
Dr. Samuel Sheppard
Murph the Surf
Charles Starkweather
Attack at Waco
Why O.J. Simpson Won
John Wayne Gacy: Buried Secrets
Menendez Murders
Von Bulow: A Wealth of Evidence
Ma Barker and Other Public Enemies
John Wayne Gacy: Mass Murderer
Target: Mafia (Gangbusters)
Alcatraz: Escaping America's Toughest Prison
Prostitution, Sex and the Law
Witness Protection
Cruel and Unusual
Gaston Dominici and the Drummond Murders
Graham Young: Compulsive Poisoner
Lights! Camera! Courtroom!
Free to Kill: The Polly Klaas Murder
The Hillside Stranglers
The John Lennon Assassination
Hot Pursuit
Great Brinks Heist
The Sam Sheppard Story
John Dillinger
Cop Killers
The Sting
Murder 'In Cold Blood'
Bonnie and Clyde
Spree Killers
Framed
Wayne Williams
Lindbergh Kidnapping
City Killer Gangs
Sex, Lies and Harassment
Mafia Wars
False Witness
Hired Guns
Undercover Infiltrators
Fugitives
Presumed Guilty
Mob Ladies
Private Eyes
Raised on Hate
Death Row Women
Mob Hit Men
Pleading Insane
Fire Starters
Gangbusters
Preppie Murder
Crime Family
Eyewitness
Leopold and Loeb
Mark Chapman
Deadly Force
The Lindbergh Kidnapping
Kidnappers
Target: Mafia (Birth of the American Mafia)
Target: Mafia (Empire of Crime)
Satan: Rituals and Abuse
Lorena Bobbitt: Women and Violence
Fighting Words: The First Amendment
Celebrities on Trial
Spies: Betraying a Nation
Military Justice
The Larry Flynt Story: Hustling the First Amendment
Heidi Fleiss
LAPD
L.A. Mob
Gary Gilmore
Son of Sam
Death Row Prostitute: Aileen Wuornos
Fall From Grace
Leonard Lake and Charles Ng
Cops on Trial
Manson Family Murders
Dr. Crippen
Howard Hughes Biography Hoax
Mobfathers
KKK: Hate Crimes in America
Vigilante Justice
Hostage Takers
Mobfathers
Crime of Passion: The Pamela Smart Story
James Hanratty
Myth of a Serial Killer: The Henry Lee Lucas Story
Why O.J. Lost the Civil Trial
The Donnie Brasco Story
Justice Denied: The Hurricane Carter Story
American Justice
Manson Family Murders
John Duffy: Railway Killer
Jim Bakker: Crime in the Name of God
Kidnapped
Outlaws
Mob Rats
The Rosenbergs
Rape on Trial
To Catch a Killer: Homicide Detectives
Target: Mafia (Unions and the Mob)
Stalkers: Deadly Obsession
Bamber Family Murder
Mobfathers
Amy Fisher Story
Pizza Connection
I Confess
A Murder in Greenwich: The Martha Moxley Case
When Cops Kill
Dan White
Mass Murder: An American Tragedy
Manson Family Murders
Reginald Denny: Jury Under Siege
Autopsy
Baby Snatchers
Narcs
John Haigh: The Acid Bath Murderer
Bambi on the Run
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