Netflix is coming out with a docuseries about the most bizarre serial killer from the USA

As a true crime enthusiast, I am very pleased with the amount of documentaries that Netflix is releasing online. I think the craze started a bit with Making A Murderer (which I didn't find that impressive... sorry), but Abducted In Plain Sight, The Keepers, The Staircase, The Devil Next Door (you must have seen that last one), I can keep watching. A little nightmare here and there I can just accept. And I am clearly not the only one, because those true crime documentaries are doing well and there’s a new one coming: The Confession Killer. Grandly announced, because this one would be about the biggest serial killer in the United States in the history of ever. You can't cover that in an hour and a half, so for the occasion Netflix is making it a five-part series.

This serial killer is named Henry Lee Lucas who was ‘active’ in his field in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. But his first murder was already in 1951, when Lucas was only 15 years old. He strangled a girl after she rejected him. He got six years in prison for that, and after his release, he didn't exactly change. In total, Lucas is suspected of about 350 (holy shit) murders, of which only a small number could actually be proven. He also confessed to several murders, only to later retract those statements. To complete the creepy picture, he had also lost an eye since his teenage years due to a fight with his brother. Oh yes, and he had already killed several animals as a child. Not exactly someone you want to run into.

Lucas was eventually sentenced to death, which was later revoked because he kept changing his story to the police; it became life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. We can breathe a sigh of relief because he died in 2001 very alone and cold in his cell. As it should be.

I think this Netflix series will be very intriguing. My true crime interest has certainly been sparked. Besides the fact that the series will delve deeply into Lucas's crimes and his personalities, the legal system will also be addressed. From the previously imposed death penalty to the life sentence, because much DNA did not match at the different crime scenes. Lucas has thus gone down in the books as America's greatest serial killer, but questions are now being raised about that. A bit like Making A Murderer; by the end, you don't know what the truth is. Lucas apparently found confessing to murders a pleasant hobby, which made it not very easy for the police. And for us, because we frustratingly get an ‘open’ ending anyway.

This series may not be very atmospheric for Christmas, but it will definitely be binge-worthy. By the way, Netflix adds a true crime addition every year alongside the cheesy Christmas movies Making A Murderer also always came out around Christmas. This one is a little earlier: from December 6 we can binge.