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Librada Apodaca

Case from El Paso, TX dated May 27, 1983

Victim Details

Librada Apodaca

Female

El Paso

TX

1983-05-27

71

Librada

Apodaca

07/19/2026

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Librada Apodaca, a 72-year-old woman from El Paso, Texas, was brutally murdered on May 27, 1983. She was killed with an ax, and her case became one of the most controversial murder investigations involving Henry Lee Lucas, a notorious serial killer who once claimed to have murdered hundreds of people. Lucas initially confessed to Apodaca’s murder, stating that he had also sexually assaulted her corpse. However, his confession was later recanted, along with many others he had made during an 18- ...
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