Ottis Toole

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Ottis Elwood Toole (March 5, 1947-1996), an American drifter and serial murderer who was found guilty of six counts of murder, was released on September 15, 1996.

Toole confessed to murder but later recanted, resulting in murder convictions. Henry Lee Lucas, his companion, was convicted.

The discrediting of Lucas for crimes Toole had raised concerns about whether either was a genuine serial murderer or, as Hugh Aynesworth said, both were simply compliant interviewees used to clear unsolved murders from the books.

Toole received two death sentences, but they were commuted to life prison on appeal.

Age 49, he died in his cell from cirrhosis.

Adam Walsh's murder was traced to Toole by police on the basis of recanted facts.

Lucas supported Toole's admission to the Walsh murder by claiming to have been in possession of the victim's severed head.

Early life

Ottis Toole was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. Toole's father was an alcoholic who abandoned him, but his abused mother would dress him in girls' clothing and call him Susan. He was abused sexually assaulted and coerced incest by a number of family and friends, including his older sister and a next-door neighbor. He said his maternal grandmother, who introduced him to a variety of Satanic beliefs and rituals in his youth, including graverobbing. Toole said he began assaulting his family members when he revealed his homosexuality.

Toole was often described as mild mental retardation, with a 75 percent intelligence quotient (IQ). He had epilepsy, which resulted in frequent grand mal seizures. Throughout Toole's childhood, he often ran away from home and often slept in abandoned houses. He was a serial murderer from a young age and was sexually stimulated by fire.

Toole said in the documentary Death Diploma, he was forced to have sex with a friend of his father's when he was five years old. He knew he was gay when he was ten years old and that he had a sexual encounter with a 12-year-old boy when he was 12. In the ninth grade, Toole went out of school and began attending gay bars. He also said he was a male prostitute as a child and that he became obsessed with gay pornography at some point.

Toole said he committed his first murder at the age of 14 after being positioned for sex by a traveling salesman, Toole ran over the salesman with his own vehicle. Toole was first arrested in August 1965 for loitering.

Toole's history between 1966 and 1973 is uncertain, but authorities claim he started drifting around the Southwestern United States and that he helped himself by prostitution and panhandling. Toole, who was living in Nebraska, was one of the principal suspects in the 1974 murder of 24-year-old Patricia Webb. He left Nebraska and briefly settled in Boulder, Colorado, a few years ago. He became a prime suspect in Ellen Holman's murder, 31-year-old Ellen Holman's murder, which was published on October 14, 1974. Toole left Boulder and returned to Jacksonville after receiving many allegations against him.

After drifting and hitch-hiking through the American South in early 1975, Toole returned to Jacksonville. He married a woman 25 years his senior on January 14, 1976. After learning of his homosexuality, she left him three days later. During an interview, Toole later claimed that his marriage was a tactic designed to mask his true sexuality.

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