The Deadly Lovers Ottis Toole and Henry Lee Lucas: Our month of horror continues but this time with a love story. The tale of two star crossed lovers who met by chance and were instantly struck by one another. It may have helped that the two men also happened to be brutal serial killers. Every couple has their thing. Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole In our story we track the lives and descent of the cruel murderers. As well and their sensational imprisonments and the aftermath of their bloody affair. So join us for a queer tale so dark it’s sure to make your toes curl. We’re continuing our month of gore, bloodshed and terror with a love story. That is if your definition of a love story is roaming the country while randomly, brutally, and mercilessly murdering people. For at least two men, this was the case. And those men were the infamous serial killing duo Ottis Toole and Henry Lee Lucas. And we want to put in our standing October trigger warning here. This story will contain rape, incest, torture, and murder; including the harming of children and animals. So if you have no interest in this brutality, please check out our other episodes. Such as, Lucy Hicks Anderson – a black transgender business woman in the early 20th century. Or how about bisexual spy and world wide entertainer Josephine Baker? In May we covered Mr. Spok himself George Takei. So catch up on our past episodes or check out the blog on our website at https://yourqueerstory.com/blog/ . And for those of you still listening, it’s about to get bloody in here. Gay serial killers meet On a warm day in Jacksonville, Florida while waiting outside of a soup kitchen, two soul mates met for the first time. Twenty-nine year old Ottis Toole towered above the older Henry Lee Lucas who was eleven years Tool’s senior. Both men were gruff and dirty with crooked teeth and darkness that seemed to radiate from their presence. Henry squinted slightly from his left eye which was a fake and occasionally oozed with uncontrollable drainage. Ottis had thinning hair and a large gap in his front teeth due in part to his horrible hygiene. But the two men must have sensed something in each other because they were immediately drawn together as partners; both in love and in cruelty. Within weeks of meeting each other Ottis was sharing a bed with Henry. What would follow would be a crime spree that – if true – is one of the deadliest in history. But where did these men come from and what truly drew them together? Henry Lee Lucas’s Childhood Henry Lee Lucas was born on August 23, 1936  in Blacksburg, Virginia. His childhood was filled with abuse and neglect. Henry’s father lost both his legs in a railroad accident and as a means to support the family Henry’s mother Viola became a sex worker. Which in itself would not have been a shame. But Viola physical and sexual abuse of her son was tragic. She beat him regularly once putting him in a three day coma; as well as forcing Henry to watch her have sex with her clients. She also forced him to wear girls clothes -according to Henry – and shot his favorite pet, the family mule. According to Henry, she also sexually abused him forcing him to have sex with her and pinching and torturing his genitals when he misbehaved. It is most probable that Henry did suffer sexual abuse. However we do need to state early on that both Henry and Ottis are liars who have made their names known through exaggerations and made up stories. So any information they give is always taken with a grain of salt. Sometime in his early teens, Henry’s left eye was sliced with a knife by his brother.