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The host referenced Criminologist Colin Wilson’s book, A Plague of Murder, to provide expert context during the discussion of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. The text was cited specifically to explain the dynamic between Lucas and his common-law wife, Freda Powell, detailing how Lucas took advantage of her intellectual disability and ultimately killed her when she wanted to leave him.
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It was mentioned in the context of Henry Lee Lucas's relationship with his common-law wife, Freda Powell, who was 11 when they met and had an intellectual disability.
Criminologist Colin Wilson writes in his book a plague of murder that Freda was 11 years old when they first met she had an intellectual disability and Henry took full Advantage of that and he killed her because she didn't want to be on the run with him anymore She wanted to go home because she was a child.