Ottis Toole “Hands of Death” Signed Hand Tracings & Poem

This is an extremely rare, one of a kind item from serial killer Ottis Toole. The item consists of Ottis’ left and right hand tracings, and a poem he wrote about his “hands of death.” The poem speaks about his hands reaching out, taking your life, and ripping out your heart to eat. Toole signed this twice and also dated it. One of the most significant things about this piece is the title “Hands of Death,” as this is the satanic cult that Toole and his partner in crime Henry Lee Lucas claimed to be a part of.

COA included

Ottis Toole was an American serial killer, arsonist, and convicted murderer whose criminal activity spanned the 1970s and early 1980s. He was responsible for a series of violent crimes including murder, child abduction, sexual assault, and arson, primarily across the southern United States. Toole confessed to numerous killings, many alongside his longtime associate Henry Lee Lucas, though investigators later determined that several of these confessions were false or exaggerated. His confirmed crimes include multiple murders and acts of extreme violence against vulnerable victims. Toole is most notoriously linked to the 1981 abduction and murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh, a case that shocked the nation and led to major reforms in missing children investigations. Convicted in Florida, Ottis Toole died in prison in 1996 while serving a life sentence, remaining a deeply disturbing figure in American true crime history.