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I. Introduction
Henry Lee Lucas, born in Blacksburg, Virginia in 1936 and his partner Ottis Toole born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1947 were a team of serial killers who from 1976-1982 were responsible killing about 100 victims together (Biography.com, editors). However both did kill their own victims when they were apart. Both of their childhoods were tough and they would experience many childhood traumas that would affect their own lives for years to come, along with these traumas and others, manifested them into being the serial killers that they both become.
Both killers are of interest in their own right as they're when they would team up with each other. Henry Lee Lucas is of note because according to Hickey (2013) “Within a few days of being arrested, Lucas had confessed to killing about 100 victims in several states. Within a few months the figure rose
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The mother-hate theory according to James Fox and Jack Levin, is that serial killers get even with their mothers for the abuse and mistreatment that they experience by targeting a victim how is similar to their mother (2005). They may target prostitute because the killer may think that their mother was a slut (Fox, 2005). In some cases serial killers who fit under this theory may kill their own mother and will be one of their first victims such as Lucas did in 1959 (Fox, 2005). The reason why I think Lucas fits under theory is because first of all he killed his mother and when he was traveling with Toole, he claimed that he killed female hitchhikers and made the connection that they may be prostitutes, which reminded him of his mother who was one and then forced him to watch her have sex with other men. He also was beaten, forced to look like a girl, and was also neglected at times as well. These factors would force him to kill not only his mother, but according him female hitchhikers as

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