Ottis Toole PowerPoint

1. Serial Killer, Cannibal Necrophile,
and Arsonist

2. Q: What was their childhood like?
A: Toole was born in Jacksonville, Florida on
March 5, 1947. He was the youngest of nine
children. He had suffered several head injuries,
which led to seizures. He was sexually molested
by his sister and a neighbor. His alcoholic father
left when he was young, his mother was a
religious fanatic, and his grandmother was a
Satanist who exposed him to various practices.
His mother would even dress him up in girls
clothes and would call him Susan.

3. Q: Were there any precursors?
A: There were precursors in
Toole’s childhood because
he had a very troubled
childhood. He tended to keep
to himself. When he was 14
he got sexually abused to a
traveling salesman. Ottis then
proceeded to run over the
man over with his own truck
and killed him. That was his
first murder.

4. Q: Did childhood behavior reflect problems?
A: Yes, when he was a fairly young child he
had started a life of petty crimes and the
crimes seemed to escalate more and more
when he finally had reached adulthood.
Ottis ran away from home on several
occasions and started fires in abandoned
houses at a young age.

5. Q: What was their adult life like?
A: Ottis Toole’s adult life was a very
bloody one. First he started out
with petty crimes like stealing and
then he joined a partnership with
fellow serial killer Henry Lee
Lucas. Their relationship soon
Ottis Toole and
Henry Lee Lucas
turned into a sexual one shortly
after. Together they committed
numerous murders . Toole and
Lucas were suspected to over
200 murders.

6. Q: Did they finish high school/college?
A: No, Toole never finished high school.
He dropped out in the eighth grade and
had an extremely low IQ.

7. Q: Did they marry? Have children? Were
they loners?
A: Ottis Toole did marry a woman 25 years
older than him in 1976. However it was
short lived after only three days when his
wife found out of him being a homosexual.
He had no children and was known as a
drifter before and after he met Lucas.

8. Q: Is there an exact number of victims they
have murdered?
A: Ottis Toole’s murders he have been
traced to and confessed to have over
exceeded two hundred. Police are still to
this day are not entirely

9. Q: What motives did the killer have for the
killings?
A: Toole really never had any motives for
killing any of his victims. Ottis Toole and
Henry Lee Lucas were drifters on the
abandoned roads of America and preyed on
anyone anywhere. Both did disturbing thing to
the bodies, and Toole was even a cannibal
and a necrophile. He had confessed to over
hundreds murders with Lucas and his
motives were never revealed.

10. Q: What was the profile and characteristics
of their victims?
A: As said before that there never really
was a set characteristic that Ottis would
prey upon to commit all of his murders.
Ottis killed almost every type of person. He
killed from old to young and from male to
female. There was nothing that would stop
him from killing.

11. Q: What was their most famous
murder?
A: Ottis Toole’s most famous murder
was the murder of Adam Walsh. He
lured Adam away from the Sears store
his mother was in and offered Adam Adam Walsh
toys and candy. Toole then knocked
Adam out then pulled out into an
abandoned road and decapitated him.
Although Toole confessed to the murder
he was never formally charged. Adam’s
father John Walsh is now an advocate
to victim’s rights and inspired the show
“America’s Most Wanted”.

12. Q:What factors led to them getting
caught?
A:Lucas had been arrested for
another crime aside from Toole,
Lucas had pointed police to Toole
Toole in prison
for mass murder. Ottis was
already serving time in prison for a
arson charge. He then admitted to
the confessions on his own.

13. Q: What were they charged with and sentenced
to?
A: Both were murders that occurred in Florida. In
1984, Toole was convicted of murder for a 1982
arson incident that resulted in the death of an
elderly man. He was sentenced to death, and
received a second conviction and death
sentence later that year for the murder of a 19-
year-old girl. Both death sentences were reduced
to life in prison on appeal. In 1991, Toole pleaded
guilty to four more murders and received four
more life sentences.

14. Q: Did they live and are surviving to this
very day, or did they die?
A: Ottis Toole died on September 15, 1996
in prison for natural causes. Toole had
cirrhosis of the liver and AIDS. He was 49
years old.

15.  http://www.biography.com/people/ottis-
toole-11930488
 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0867491/
bio
 http://www.allserialkillers.com/ottis_toole
.htm
 http://www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?
id=39789