Ottis Elwood Toole was an American serial killer

Serial killer

A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...

, arsonist and cannibal. Toole was an accomplice of convicted serial killer Henry Lee Lucas

Henry Lee Lucas

Henry Lee Lucas was an American criminal, convicted of murder in 189 cases and once listed as America's most prolific serial killer; he later recanted his confessions, despite professing information only the assailant would know and flatly stating "I'm a liar" in a letter to researcher Brad Shellady...

. Toole and Lucas admitted to hundreds of unsolved murders throughout the United States over several decades, knowing details only the perpetrators would know and knowing the location of countless missing people. Both eventually recanted their confessions.
Toole was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...

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