Serial Killer Ottis Toole [Serial Killer Documentary]

Serial Killer Ottis Toole [Serial Killer Documentary]

Ottis Elwood Toole (March 5, 1947 – September 15, 1996) was a vagabond and serial murderer from the United States who was convicted of six charges of murder. Toole, like his friend Henry Lee Lucas, made admissions that he later recanted, resulting in murder convictions.

The dismissal of Lucas's case for killings for which Toole had provided supporting statements raised questions about whether either was a true serial murderer or, as Hugh Aynesworth contended, both were just docile interviewees employed by police to wipe unsolved murders from the books. Toole was sentenced to death twice, but on appeal, his sentences were reduced to life in prison. He died of cirrhosis in his cell at the age of 49.

On the basis of recanted confessions, police ascribed the 1981 murder of Adam Walsh to Toole. Lucas had backed Toole's confession to the Walsh murder, alleging that he had the victim's severed head in his hands.

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