Henry Lee Lucas
Not found on the Texas Attorney General’s published list of deaths in custody.
Henry Lee Lucas, 64, was found dead on his bunk in his cell at the Ellis prison near Huntsville, Texas, shortly before 11 p.m. on Monday, March 12, 2001. Prison spokesman Larry Fitzgerald said the death appeared to be from a heart attack and that an autopsy was ordered to confirm the cause. Fitzgerald said Lucas had been a model prisoner who earned the right to work in the prison garment factory, and that after a baptism in an El Paso jail he had spoken of wanting to spend the rest of his life ministering to people held there. The cause of death had not been confirmed in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Prison spokesman Larry Fitzgerald said the death appeared to be from a heart attack, and an autopsy was ordered to confirm the cause.
Reported by: Ellis prison spokesman Larry Fitzgerald (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.