Prolific serial killer confessed to Duluth slaying

Prolific serial killer confessed to Duluth slaying

DULUTH — Twenty-five years after a 49-year-old long-distance telephone operator was found stabbed to death in her tidy Central Hillside home, a confession led investigators to hope a resolution was in sight for the case. When Texas Rangers in 1983 interrogated Henry Lee Lucas, then charged with the slaying of an 80-year-old woman — as well as that of an unidentified hitchhiker whose dismembered remains were found in both Texas and Arizona — Luca…