Posted on 12/19/2019 7:05:45 PM PST by dead
New on Netflix is a five-part documentary called “The Confession Killer”. It’s fairly fascinating, detailing the story of alleged serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, who claimed to have killed over 600 people. The Texas Rangers used his confessions to clear over 200 unsolved murder cases. Basically, if there was an unsolved case, they’d ask Henry about it, give him a milkshake and he would confess to it. It made him and his handlers stars and they all loved the attention.
But, it was mostly entirely false. He had previously served time for killing his mother, and there’s a solid chance he may have killed a girlfriend and her mother, but there wasn’t a speck of evidence against him for any of the hundreds of other murders. Law Enforcement officers fed him information about unsolved murders to help him provide details in his confessions.
The Texas Rangers and the FBI were happy to become big stars and clear all these cases all over the country no matter how phony it all was. But one district attorney in Texas realized the whole thing was a crock of sh1t and all these allegedly cleared murders were allowing the real murderers to go free. He started raising objections and showing without a doubt that it was impossible for Lucas to have committed many of these crimes. Lots of entertaining twists as the scam starts to unravel.
In the third episode of the documentary, the whole thing turns into a pre-cursor, carbon copy of the exact strategy the FBI and deep state is using against Trump! The head of the Texas Rangers previously worked in the FBI - he was the number two guy under J. Edgar Hoover. The Texas Rangers and the FBI decide that this DA was not a team player and was messing up their set-in-stone ways of doing things. They decide that he has to be stopped. So they create their own Steele-style Dossier on Feazell, the DA, coercing and threatening people to provide fake evidence of corruption, and they even weaponize the IRS to ruin these people if they don’t make up a bunch of charges against the honest questioning DA. They intend to punish him for taking them on by prosecuting him for bribery and conspiracy and abuse of office even though they know he is innocent!
The next step is to leak all the information in this fake dossier to a friendly journalist in the local media. The local news begins running this toady journalist’s 11-part series on the nightly news, regurgitating all the information they made up about Feazell and provided to him, with the intent of destroying everything he’s ever worked for in his life. After these reports air, the same law enforcement officers use tapes of these news reports full of information they just made up, in order to obtain warrants and indictments against Feazell and charge him with bribery and abuse of office. Without a customary heads-up, and with great manpower and fanfare, they arrest him, Roger Stone style, with a public perp walk in front a multi-camera, tipped-off television crew, who just happen to be there to capture every angle of the arrest for crimes they actually had a hand in fabricating.
On so many levels, it’s the exact same scam they’re still working against Trump! I won’t tell you much more about where the story goes from there, but I highly recommend you watch it - for both the story of Henry Lee Lucas, and the equally infuriating story of law enforcement’s efforts to railroad an innocent politician who had the nerve to challenge their authority - which they see as unlimited and righteous, even if means they have to utterly destroy innocent people in the process.
I saw this. Unreal. He started out confessing to a couple of murders down in Texas before you know it, it’s up to 600. It involves the Texas Rangers. Get a chance watch this documentary. So much abuse of power, reputations and lives destroyed, the pain of the families.
Eye opener.
Reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon where the pointy-haired boss announces that SW developers will be paid for every bug they find in the code. Wally immediately says, “I’m going to write myself a minivan this afternoon!”
If you reward people for the wrong thing, you’ll get a lot of it.
That’s my favorite Dilbert cartoon, of all time.
Richard Jewell covers the case of an innocent getting railroaded. Henry Lee Lucas was that other sort of case where a guilty person may get a plea bargain by helping them clear old cases with “confessions” to a stack.
The Green River killer got life in prison instead of the death penalty by doing it.
Also covered here by a dumb lib:
Deep State Is a Total Delusion, Right? Better Go Back to Henry Lee Lucas Story.
Dallas Observer ^ | December 18, 2019 | Jim Schutze
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3802256/posts
I think the serial killer Samuel Little is also being fed data on unsolved crimes and missing women. The drawings he makes look like photographs of women posing for a portrait, not like terrified, suffering or dead people.
According to Wikipedia:
"An investigation by the Dallas Times-Herald newspaper later discredited many of Lucas's murder confessions and resulted in a follow-up investigation by the Attorney General of Texas. The investigation concluded that Lucas was a fabulist who had falsely confessed. Lucas himself recanted the confessions as a hoax.
Lucas's case resulted in a re-evaluation in police techniques and greater awareness of false confessions. Investigators did not consider that the petty privileges – fancy steak dinners, milkshakes, TV privileges – granted by the "confession" interviews would prompt further confessions. Investigators also allowed Lucas to see case files to "refresh his memory," giving him access to knowledge only the perpetrator(s) would know."
We conservatives might be getting set up.
So, a series on Netflix reflects reality about how the FBI set up Trump.
Next, when Trump and republican senators/house-members and conservative pundits make the claim that the FBI set up the whole case of Russian collusion including a dossier, the democrats then use their liberal media to point to a case on TV that republicans and Trump’s people are using to claim that, that’s what happened to Trump.
Democrats will point to the ‘phony’ TV series as what the president’s defenders used to base their ‘phony’ FBI and democrats collusion story on.
But what the FBI/IRS/Texas Rangers do to the honest District Attorney is where the parallels to their Trump strategy are apparent.
They made up evidence, fed it to compliant journalists, then used the reports the journalists produced as evidence in court to obtain warrants without telling the court/judges that the media reports were based on information the FBI leaked to the journalists in the first place!
And the use the IRS as a cudgel to threaten people they want to confess to non-existent tax crimes so they can then coerce them to provide invented evidence against their target.
Oh, and they accuse people of being bad Americans if the question the authority of these vaunted law enforcement agencies.
It's like when HBO was outraged that Chernobyl was taken by many as indictment of the leftist totalitarian state in which it arose. The director of the miniseries actually had to release a statement after the fact that the Soviet leftists reminded him of Trump for some reason.
They don't always realize when they're indicting the failures of their own ideology because they are blind to those shortcomings and in their simple minds they project them illogically and comically onto more conservative ideologies.
Oh, and the “phony” TV series isn’t fictional or a dramatization. It’s a pretty well put-together documentary with all the real people telling their own stories.
Post 9. Insightful. And probably correct.
They're notorious for reviewing criminal cases and clearing criminals despite the evidence.
Netflix has become a political tool of the left.
There are thousands of movies and documentaries on Netflix.
One way to stand out and create buzz is to exaggerate claims.
The left is now using Netflix to get criminals out of prison by creating alternate 'narratives'.
Enjoyed the doc. What I got from it was a reinforcement that many times “truth” is not as important as clearing and “winning” a case. As long as SOMEBODY is found guilty, that’s frequently good enough.
I totally agree with you. Excellent documentary. And frightening as hell.
I researched this case and didn’t just go by Netflex. Not everything is leftist and untrue on Netflex. Texas Rangers wanted to clear up murders as did other police all over the country. It was proven that Texas Rangers, police were feeding and showing Henry the evidence. It was proven years later with DNA that he didn’t do all the murders. When people tried to go after the police/Texas Rangers to open an investigation, they were threatened, careers ruined, etc.
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