Ottis Elwood Toole (March 5, 1947 – September 15, 1996) was an American serial killer, arsonist, necrophiliac, and cannibal. He was an accomplice of convicted serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. The pair confessed to hundreds of murders and missing persons cases throughout the United States over several decades, knowing details only the perpetrators would know and taking authorities to the crime scenes and burial sites of their victims. Both are alleged to have targeted victims of all ages, races, and genders and to have killed by shooting, stabbing, strangling, and bludgeoning. The pair had no apparent pattern. When the crime wave began is unclear; it ended in 1983 when Toole was arrested on an arson charge and Lucas, a few months later, on a weapons charge. The two confessed to hundreds of murders, though they recanted when they were sentenced to death. Once their sentences were commuted they began admitting to even more murders eventually exceeding 600.

Toole was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. Toole's mother was a religious fanatic; Toole later claimed that she abused him, including dressing him in girl's clothing and calling him Susan. As a young child, Toole was a victim of sexual assault and incest at the hands of many close relatives and acquaintances, including his older sister and next door neighbor. He claimed that his maternal grandmother was a satanist, who exposed him to various Satanic practices and rituals in his youth, including self-mutilation and graverobbing, and dubbed him "Devil's Child". Toole claimed this abuse began when he came out about being gay.

Henry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 – March 13, 2001) was an American criminal, convicted of murder in 11 different cases and once listed as America's most prolific serial killer; he later recanted his confessions, and flatly stated "I am not a serial killer" in a letter to researcher Brad Shellady. Lucas confessed to involvement in about 600 murders, but a more widely circulated total of about 350 murders committed by Lucas is based on confessions deemed "believable" by a Texas-based Lucas Task Force, a group which was later criticized by then-Attorney General of Texas, Jim Mattox, and others for sloppy police work and taking part in an extended "hoax".

Beyond his recantation, some of Lucas' confessions have been challenged as inaccurate by a number of critics, including law enforcement and court officials. Lucas claimed to have been initially subjected to poor treatment and coercive interrogation tactics while in police custody, and to have confessed to murders in an effort to improve his living conditions. Amnesty International reported "the belief of two former state Attorneys General that Lucas was in all likelihood innocent of the crime for which he was sentenced to death".

Lee Paul Lucas (born 10 June 1992) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays for Swansea City, as a midfielder.

Born in Aberdare, Lucas joined Swansea City at the age of 9, and turned professional for the 2010–11 season. He made his senior debut for Swansea in May 2011, in a 4–0 victory over Sheffield United. He joined Burton Albion on loan in January 2012.

Lucas has represented Wales at various levels from under-17 to under-21 level.