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Henry Lee Lucas In modern society, there are many sick minds. What corrodes these minds to the point of lunacy? No one really knows for sure. The decay of human sanity obviously has its roots at childhood. Some people who have had rough experiences as children turn out to be murderers as adults. These adults kill, and show little or no remorse for their crimes. When these murderers are caught and questioned, authorities are often appalled at the explanations of the gruesome crimes given by the murderer. It has been said that one of these murderers is no different from another, but Henry Lee Lucas is an exception. Henry Lee Lucas was a sick man, and, like most serial killers of our time, the roots of his insanity had its roots in his childhood. First of all, he was “…the son of a prostitute and a double amputee” (Pederson, 64). His parents brewed bootleg whiskey in their two-room, dirt floor cabin in the woods outside of town, “…his mother doing occasional turns as the neighborhood prostitute” (Seize the Night, 1). His father, called “no legs” lost both of his legs in an accident when he was drunk. Secondly, Henry suffered from brutal attacks and humiliation at the hands of his mother. On Henry’s first day of