I have been mostly lurking on this discussion for quite some time. I do have something to add but understand that I am not going into detail for several reasons. First of all, I knew GMH from age 14 - 17 in Miami Florida. I went to school with him. He attended Miami Springs Junior High School in 9th grade and then entered Hialeah High School in 10th grade. He dropped out of school in either his junior or senior year in high school to join the army. The last time I saw him in person was either 1963 or 1964 when he stopped by the high school I attended and told me he was joining the army. When I knew him he lived in Hialeah with his mother and step father. Hialeah is a large suburban city within Metropolitan Miami area. The incident referred to at age 14 was a domestic disturbance between him,his mother and step father. His step father was shot during the disturbance. His step father lived, it was a juvenile court issue, no charges were filed to my knowledge.
He called me in 1982 when I was living in another state. He had gotten my phone number from a family member in Miami by telling them he was someone else, representing a fictitious company and needed to get in touch with me. We spoke briefly and I hung up on him because he seemed to be talking very strangely. I had no contact with him after that.
I have been contacted by the Public Defenders office in Tallahassee, therefore I do not intend to say anything in detail here that could possibly affect any potential testimony I might have to give at a later date.
I have been mostly lurking on this discussion for quite some time. I do have something to add but understand that I am not going into detail for several reasons. First of all, I knew GMH from age 14 - 17 in Miami Florida. I went to school with him. He attended Miami Springs Junior High School in 9th grade and then entered Hialeah High School in 10th grade. He dropped out of school in either his junior or senior year in high school to join the army. The last time I saw him in person was either 1963 or 1964 when he stopped by the high school I attended and told me he was joining the army. When I knew him he lived in Hialeah with his mother and step father. Hialeah is a large suburban city within Metropolitan Miami area. The incident referred to at age 14 was a domestic disturbance between him,his mother and step father. His step father was shot during the disturbance. His step father lived, it was a juvenile court issue, no charges were filed to my knowledge.
He called me in 1982 when I was living in another state. He had gotten my phone number from a family member in Miami by telling them he was someone else, representing a fictitious company and needed to get in touch with me. We spoke briefly and I hung up on him because he seemed to be talking very strangely. I had no contact with him after that.
I have been contacted by the Public Defenders office in Tallahassee, therefore I do not intend to say anything in detail here that could possibly affect any potential testimony I might have to give at a later date.
Don't know if he was obligated or not, but after talking to the investigator from the public defenders office, Leon County, Fl. I was struck by the fact that I was asked whether I thought that GMH actually murdered over 150 victims. This told me that he hasn't been totally honest with them.
When GMHs defense Attorney had his first interview with him after the abduction, torture, rape, murder, mutilation, and decapitation of Meredith Hope Emerson. He came out of the room shaking his head, white as a ghost, and mumbling to himself; I have never heard anything as gruesome and gory in all my life! His attorney, an experienced Attorney, has dealt with many evil criminals over his career, but none that came close to GMH's evil...
what are the odds this will delay setting a date...again?
Why don't you think he'll ever get tried in Leon? What has Lucas got to do w/Leon? I know he was in Leon but what's Lucas got to do with it?
Henry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936[1] – March 13, 2001[2]) was an American criminal, convicted of murder and once listed as America's most prolific serial killer; he later recanted his confessions, and flatly stated "I am not a serial killer" in a letter to researcher Patrick Poff.[3]
Lucas confessed to involvement in about 600 murders, with an average of about one murder per week between his release from prison in mid-1975 to his arrest in mid-1983.
Snipets from: [ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas[/ame]
Lucas's sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1998 by then-Governor George W. Bush, it was the only commutation in Bush's entire history as Governor of Texas. Lucas died in prison of natural causes. Because Lucas's death removed the possibility of resolution in many instances, a number of questions remain unresolved.
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Henry Lucas had a sidekick: Otis Toole: Serial Killer and abductor and murderer of Adam Walsh.
Wolfscratch
I still don't understand what that sentence being commuted has to do with Hilton not going to trial?
I do see any trial he would have would be hung up in the next court after Leon County, tho, because they practice such slouchy law in Leon County, that it's usually overturned in Appeals Court. That's a known and written about fact.
Was the shooting of GMH's stepfather during the domestc dispute at the age of 14 years old the trigger or beginning of GMH's Trail of Terror, as he claims? Guess the first time is always the hardest and once that threshold is broken, if pleasure is realized from the experience, escalation would be imminent. Did he enjoy, inflicting violence, destroying, or controlling the destiny of others?
GMH, went on to receive Military Special Forces tactics, training, and discipline. He learned strategies and procedures from his law enforcement trained spouse later, reading, honing his skills while increasing his victim total, until his evil deeds became second nature. As he escalated, perfecting his stalking or hunting skills, discipline, strategies and techniques, the nature of his inflicted violence became up close and personal. Seems that he morphed into a Stealth Predator, confusing VICAP and the expert profillers of the FBI BAU, as well as Local and State Law Enforcement Agencies for decades, 47 years according to him.
That's your interpretation of what you've observed, right?
I'm a military brat and got to see a lot and know a lot in my growing up years. And I knew the enlisted guys like Hilton would have been. I don't see the military doing that much with him in that department. My dad held top secret clearance, was an officer, and the whole 9 yards. I watched war games from our home in the islands back in the 50s. I pretty much saw it all and was exposed to it all from my youth to my teens when I thought I wanted to fall for an airman or whatever, LOL. My dad would have had a cow. But what he didn't know, ho ho ho. But I did know the airmen as a teen on the bases we lived on. I rode all through the secure areas on my bike and knew some bases inside and out, often going to the perimeter road to watch them burn the fuel oil in the pits in the afternoon....that we now know contaminated drinking water forever! I just don't see Hilton getting that from any training he would have been exposed to. Especially since he went in with no high school diploma. And was not career military.
I'm not getting what you are getting exactly.
I did wonder out loud and was hoping you would elucidate on it, about if he was cannabilizing, where are the bones? If these dens were his "safe caves" where are the bones? Did you notice great caches of bones?
And if the Densmore house was only 200 yards from your home, how often did you notice activity there and over how long of a time. Just wondering.
Why is it that every time a question is answered, it seems that a dozen more appear?
