Fritz worked in Reidsville with his father, Dr. Fred Klenner, while pretending to be in medical school at Duke. Though modern DNA testing in 2006 linked him conclusively to the crime scene, he could not be tried again in state court. North Carolina's Edgecombe County has been the hunting ground of at least one serial killer, who killed nine women and one man between 2005 and 2010. The victims: Wallaces last nine victims all had a seemingly obvious connection (the Taco Bell where Wallace worked and the Bojangles where his girlfriend worked), but the clues were somehow ignored. Closer to home, an unimaginable murder trial was the talk of North Carolina. Name: Date: Victims: Location : A: Sylvester Lewis ADAMS October 17, 1979: 1: South Carolina, USA: Quincy Javon ALLEN July-August 2002: 4: South Carolina, USA : John . After Wallace murdered her, he took a considerable amount of valuables from the house, then left the apartment with her car. Brenda Green, a Kroger co-worker, testified that she heard Blanche recommend Anti-Ant to a customer as a good ant killer. He later became a born-again Christian. But as the guilty plea was read and jurors filed past, she wept. [6] One woman stated that the police did not care because they viewed the young female murder victims as "fast girls who hang out a lot". Mitchell's body did not have elevated levels of arsenic. Henry Louis Wallace was convicted of the murders of 10 young black women in Charlotte, North Carolina. The victims were: Fannie, 37; Marie, 17; Carrie, 12; Maybell, 7; James, 4; Raymond, 2; and Mary Lou, 4 months old. They discovered that her first husband as well as Reid had died under suspicious circumstances. On February 20, 1994, just weeks after being arrested for shoplifting, Wallace strangled the sister of one of his employees at Taco Bell, Vanessa Little Mack. Donald Harry "Pee Wee" Gaskins Jr. The two were wed April 19, 1989. Gary Michael Hilton was arrested for the kidnapping, murder, and beheading of hikers in Florida, Georgia, as well as a North Carolina couple in a national forest in 2007. Prosecutors said that while Raymond Reid was in the hospital suffering from what would later be identified as arsenic poisoning, Moore was bringing him food laced with more arsenic. The book was made into a TV miniseries in 1996. His long and distinguished career ended May 29, 1986. Remarkably, Reid again improved. Barfields first husband, Thomas Burke, died in a house fire in 1969. Both Pritchard and Henderson testified against Upchurch, who was found guilty of several charges, including first-degree murder. was convicted of Taylors murder and executed on Nov. 2, 1984. The newspapers in 1936 called the murder of the 5-foot, 110-pound blonde Helen Clevenger "one of the most brutal in the annals of North Carolina crime." Though . He raped Henderson while she held her baby and then strangled her. The prosecution got a boost in the case just days before the trial when Forsyth County Superior Court Judge William Freeman ruled that prosecutors could discuss the poisonings James Taylor, Dwight Moore and Kiser even though the trial was only about the murder of Reid. MacDonald claimed that intruders three men and a woman with long blond hair who was chanting, Acid is groovy. In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride and Madness, usually called Bitter Blood in cable TV reruns, starred Kelly McGillis, Harry Hamlin and Keith Carradine. At the same time defense attorney Isabel Day asked for a life sentence, arguing that Wallace suffered from mental illness, and that the killings were not first-degree murder because they did not result from "premeditation and deliberation.". Van Houten was convicted of assisting in the murder of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca and recently had a parole overturned by California Governor Jerry Brown. The prosecution also brought forth several witnesses to connect Blanche with Anti-Ant, an ant poison containing arsenic that was available for sale at the time. An older sister, Rolanda Hedgepeth, was 18 when Faith was born, and was like a second mother to her. Newspaper reporter Scott Whisnant, who covered Hennis trial, published a book, Innocent Victims about the case, in 1993 and a newer edition has updates. Love was a friend of Wallace's girlfriend. Antoinetta McKoy, 28, wrote in a diary that she feared Moses would kill her after she found out she could not have children. The police increased their patrols in east Charlotte after two bodies of young black women were found at The Lake Apartments complex. He has been through too much. Insider compiled a list of the most notorious serial killer from each state, from widely-known murderers like Ted Bundy and Ed Kemper to local infamous killers like Lady Bluebird and the Honolulu Strangler. More twists and turns: But the story doesnt stop there. In a chilling scene, she crawled onto the bed and reenacted the shooting for the detective (you can see it on a Forensic Files episode). A more likely answer comes from a 1990 book on the crime, White Christmas, Bloody Christmas, which cited Lawson family members revealing an old family rumor that Charles Lawson had gotten his daughter Marie pregnant, and killed the family to hide the horrible secret. He knew her through her sister, who was a co-worker of his at Taco Bell. FCI Butner, just north of Durham, is comprised of medium and low security camps as well as a federal medical center, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Ted Bundy. Because they struggled financially, the family lived a very no-frills lifestyle. Police Chief Dennis Nowicki later apologized for not recognizing a link between all of the murders earlier. He was convicted in state court and sentenced to death in 1986, but he was given a new trial in 1989 when the N.C. Supreme Court found that gory crime scene photos shown on the wall above Hennis head during his first trial were inflammatory. [1] Early life [ edit] Blanche Moore's family was also devastated. 3. She is the service journalism editor and writes about TV and local media for The N&Os Happiness is a Warm TV blog. He died of natural causes in 2013. She flatly denied slipping arsenic to either of her husbands or Reid. The outcome: A military jury at his third trial found Hennis guilty of the murders and sentenced him to death. Barbara told police the gun was kept under her husbands pillow and that it accidentally went off in her hand as she was moving the gun. He recounted how he helped prove the confession letter was a forgery in a piece he wrote for Greensboro.com in December 2015. According to the FBI, a murderer becomes serial when they kill two or more people in separate events. In. Petersons defense teams planning and the trial were recorded by a French documentary film crew, who had unprecedented access to Petersons family and attorneys. She's maintained her innocence throughout her long incarceration, but the chilling evidence suggests otherwise. Rodney Alcala was an American serial killer whose good looks and high IQ helped him lure victims. The Charlotte Police Department was criticized during this time for being slow to act on the high numbers of missing and murdered lower-income Black women. In September 2021, police arrested and charged 28-year-old Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares of Durham, but no information has been released about how he knew Hedgepeth and why police think he killed her. Daniel Printz pleaded guilty Tuesday to the kidnapping and murder of 80-year-old Edna Suttles . Alien pod on Outer Banks tree looks and feels like hair, park says. Here's what Insider had to say: An ID Murder Mystery aired. A neighbor called police on Mothers Day after noticing that newspapers had piled up in the driveway though Katies car was parked at the house. Fast forward to 2019, and Moore, who will turn 86 on Sunday, is the oldest person on North Carolina's death row. Pritchard was convicted of aiding and abetting in the assault against his mother and was sentenced to life in prison, but was paroled in 2007. Surveillance footage shows them arriving at 12:40 a.m. and surveillance footage shows them leaving the club at 2:06 a.m. In January 1988, Wallace was arrested for breaking into a hardware store. Toxicology tests showed Dwight Moore had ingested more than 100 times the amount of arsenic normally found in humans. It's odorless, tasteless, and builds up in the human body. She was also the first woman to be executed by lethal injection. The FBI coined the term serial killer during the 1970s, because of all the killings that were happening across the country. A fellow Kroger employee, Gloria Head, recalled visiting Reid in the hospital and seeing a container of red Jell-O in Blanche's purse. The victims: On Christmas morning, sometime after oldest daughter Marie baked a special cake topped with raisins, the oldest son, Arthur, went into town to buy ammunition for a hunting trip. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2001 denied his appeal. On August 10, 1993, Wallace raped and strangled Valencia M. Jumper, a 21-year-old college student from Columbia, South Carolina, his sister's friend. What is the evidence that connects her to them? Send me a song, his fellow clown said after being diagnosed with cancer. When they were finished digging up bodies, police also had charged Blanche with killing her first husband, James N. Taylor, and a longtime Kroger coworker and former boyfriend, Raymond Reid. The victim: Kathleen Peterson, a Nortel Networks executive, died in a pool of blood at the bottom of the back staircase of the couples Durham mansion in the early morning hours of December 9, 2001. Blanche Taylor Moore hears the jury's verdict at her murder trial in Winston-Salem. He was given three life sentences. He wouldn't want to be cut on like this. In October 1990, Blanche Moore went on trial in Forsyth County for the death of Raymond Reid. The victims: Lieth Von Stein was stabbed to death, but Bonnie, stabbed and bludgeoned, survived. Investigators believed Moore was motivated by potential insurance and estate proceeds and a deep hatred for men who shared the same vices as her father. Attorneys in North Carolina still consider the Hennis case when determining whether and how to display crime scene photos at trial. He stabbed her 38 times in the stomach and chest. The shootings came days before Tom was supposed to take John and Jim to Kentucky to visit their grandmother. In 2011, Moses was accused of killing a 5-year-old boy whose mother was one of his followers, and of directing members of his group to kill a woman who wanted to leave the fold. [2] She was also his girlfriend's roommate and a college student. The first sign of trouble happened right after they returned from their honeymoon. She was found a few days later. ", According to court records, Dr. Guinn noted that on June 24, 1986, the arsenic in Reid's hair sample was "roughly 70 times the normal level.". In February 1993, Wallace had sex with Shawna Hawk at her home and then strangled her. Love was a friend and roommate of Wallaces then-girlfriend, Sadie McKnight. He killed her and dumped her body in a lake, where it was discovered weeks later. In November 1991, Wallace relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina. The victims: It was the Rev. She had too much to offer," Blanche's daughter, Cynthia Taylor Chatman told the Baltimore Sun in 1989. His method of murder was str*ngulation and stabbing with a knife. Famed American conductor Leonard Bernstein, composer of "West Side Story," died at 72. Another former co-worker, Leonard Wolfe, who owned Ken's Quickie Mart in Burlington, testified that Blanche Moore came into his store in early April 1989 and asking if he "had any Anti-Ant in stock.". After he killed her, Wallace, his girlfriend, and her sister filed a missing person's report at the police station. According to FBI serial murder profiler Robert Ressler: In 1994 police had asked the FBI for assistance, but the FBI said that the murders were not the work of a serial killer.[2]. Some serial killers are known for killing children, like David Meirhofer in Montana. Pete Moses, 34, remains in prison in Columbus County. Ted Bundy Ted Bundy. [1], Henry Louis Wallace was born in Barnwell, South Carolina,[2] the son of Lottie Mae Wallace. She was convicted of killing her fiance, but eventually made official confessions to killing three others. She has been at the N.C. Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh since Nov. 16, 1990. Here are Wallaces victims: 1. Ten days later, she got a stay of execution pending an appeal. But the dramatically increased interest in the genre is evidenced by and likely fueled by our increased access to the stories. She was verbally abusive, criticizing her son for even the smallest mistakes. Known as the Volga Maniac, this Russian serial killer struck in several states, including Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Izhevsk, Perm, Ufa, Samara, and Ulyanovsk. But the end of his killing spree occurred in Florida, after he fled a Colorado prison ( for the . Prosecutors said Burch shot him twice in the head with a .22-caliber rifle as he sat on the couch. She tried to run away in December 2010, but she was tackled outside the house by some of the other women, who dragged her back in. Wallace described in detail the women's appearances, as well as how he raped, robbed, and killed the women.[2][5]. He was bloated and his "eyeballs were even starting to swell and his skin was splitting.". Dahmer is perhaps best known for dismembering and consuming parts of his victims, many of which were found in his apartment at the time of his arrest. Name: Date: Victims: Location : A: Quincy Javon ALLEN July-August 2002: 4: North Carolina, USA: Charlie Mason ALSTON Jr.: November 30, 1990 : 1: North Carolina, USA . Thirty-five-year-old Jackie Thorpe was the next victim reported missing, and she was quickly found on August 17th near the Seven Bridges Road. Pedro Lopez. The Outcome: The entire family was buried in a mass grave in Germanton. Moore is awaiting execution in North Carolina for her boyfriend's 1986 arsenic poisoning. The night Faith Hedgepeth died: On Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012, the day before Hedgepeth was killed, she went with friend and roommate Karena Rosario to a Chapel Hill nightclub on Rosemary Street called The Thrill. Moses called the women his wives, and they often called him Lord. Moses was affiliated with the Black Hebrews, a religious sect that teaches that Black people are the descendants of ancient Israelites. In 2012, filmmaker Errol Morris set about proving MacDonald was innocent and published A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald.. [2] Slaughter's body was found on March 12, 1994. [citation needed] As Shawna Denise Hawk's mother, Dee Sumpter, said: Charlotte's police chief, Dennis Nowicki, had said he was unaware of a killer until early March 1994, when three young black women were murdered within four days. That June, he pled guilty to second-degree burglary. Just before her execution, it is reported that Barfield told her son Ronnie Burke that she probably killed him because she left a lit cigarette at the foot of the bed where he lay drunk. During her time in prison, Barfield got off drugs, became a born-again Christian and received praise from Billy Graham for ministering to prisoners. With the rising interest in true crime podcasts and documentaries as well as popular television series following some of the most gruesome crimes ever recorded in American history, many people have become more curious to learn about the twisted details of a gory case and what circumstances led someone to go down the path of murder. In 2019, former newspaper columnist Tom Gasparoli released a 10-episode podcast series about the Hedgepeth murder called Pursuit. In May 2020, an Investigation Discovery Special called Who Killed the Co-Ed? He was convicted and sentenced to death and is currently awaiting his execution on death row. He was convicted and sentenced to death and is currently awaiting his execution on death row. ", According to court testimony, Reid told a Kroger co-worker that he and Blanche "probably would have been married, except she wanted to be there next to her family.". Dr. Harold Shipman, nicknamed "Dr. Death" after his horrific killing spree came to light, was sentenced to life in prison after . [2] Her body was found on June 25. In 2013, Hill, 50, of Jennings, pleaded guilty to strangling Janice Mayhew in 2008 and Sierra Sullivan in 2009. There have been a number of appeals attempting to overturn the death sentence even to the U.S. Supreme Court but the decision has been upheld. Dwight Moore testified that during the summer of 1985, Blanche showed him a bottle of Anti-Ant and asked him to buy some for her from Byrd's Food Center in Glen Raven. Dr. Garrett had previously testified that Reid had told him on May 30, 1986, that he began vomiting after eating Jell-O the previous night. Updated on May 23, 2019. Learn more: Fatal Vision was a 1983 best-seller by Joe McGinnis, who had extensive access to MacDonald and his defense team over a four-year period. In chronological order, here are some of the most memorable cases in our states history. When police arrived, Kathleen was dead and the bloody scene prompted police to treat the death as suspicious. It is a fate she didn't leave to her suspected string of victims. Chris Pritchard, whose mother stood by him, admitted to being the mastermind of the scheme, and Henderson pleaded guilty to reduced charges. [2] He pawned everything except the car, which he left at a local shopping center. The outcome: Starting in July 1970, the Army held Article 32 proceedings. Wallace later went with McKnight and Loves sister to file a missing persons report. The victims: Barfield was convicted in 1978 of poisoning and killing fiance Rowland Stuart Taylor by mixing Singletary Rat Killer or Terro Ant and Roach Killer into his beer and tea. Image credit: oxygen . Barbara Stager: Barbara Stager is a Durham county native who was convicted in the first-degree murder of her second husband in 1988. The shocking discovery led to an investigation. One of the world's worst serial killers remains unknown, even after killing 32 elderly women between 2011 and 2012. Henderson was paroled in 2000. [2] He found jobs at several fast-food restaurants in East Charlotte before becoming a manager at a Taco Bell near the now-defunct Eastland Mall. On June 22, Wallace raped and strangled his Taco Bell co-worker and manager, Audrey Spain, 24. The case got national attention because of the students interest in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, which was emphasized in media accounts of the crime (apparently, the three students were known to get high and then act out the game with real weapons in the steam tunnels underneath N.C. States Raleigh campus). In opening arguments, prosecutor Marsha Goodnow argued for the death penalty. Legend has held that the first widely recognized first female serial killer in the United States is Lavinia Fisher, born in 1793, but the location of her birth, her maiden name, or any information about her childhood is unknown. It's also home to some of. He repeatedly stabbed each of his victims with a knife and an ice pick before turning the blades on himself, though less severely. Baucom and Wallace's girlfriend were co-workers at Bojangles, where she was the assistant manager. Jeffrey Robert MacDonald, a U.S. Army officer and physician, was accused of brutally killing his two young daughters and pregnant wife in February 1970. What is it? Wallace was arrested on March 13, 1994. It was at the grocery store that Blanche Taylor, who was married in 1952 and widowed in 1973, met and later began dating Reid, a divorced store manager. Two of those exhumed bodies, those of her father, who died in 1966, and mother-in-law, had high levels of arsenic, but not lethal doses, the medical examiner concluded. As the Blazer got on the road, police surrounded it and waved for Klenner to stop. But autopsies revealed a new cause of death - arsenic poisoning - for Reid, who had arsenic levels 30 times higher than normal, and James Taylor, whose 1973 death at age 45 had been attributed to a heart attack. Velma Barfield: Margie Velma Barfield was born in South Carolina in 1932 but raised in Robeson County, where she lived nearly her whole life. Despite the damning and disturbing evidence, the defense seemed optimistic. Learn more: North Carolina writer Jerry Bledsoe wrote a great book about Barfields life and crimes: Death Sentence: The True Story of Velma Barfields Life, Crimes, and Execution.. Tommy Dean Welch had reportedly been at Algarad's home, along with Burch and others. In May 1993, a made-for-TV movie about Moore aired on network television. MacDonald had facial injuries, superficial cuts on his abdomen and a more serious stab wound to the chest, caused by a different weapon from those used on others in his family. However, many in the area's black community criticized the police's conduct during the investigation, accusing them of neglecting the murders of black women. Around 4:25 a.m. Rosario told police that she left the apartment, picked up by a male friend, leaving Hedgepeth home alone and asleep in the bedroom. Because of the publicity in the case, many family members never believed that she would get a fair trial. The story of Helen Clevenger. He is currently awaiting execution at a prison in Raleigh. She'll likely die from cancer (which she's fought in the past) or natural causes rather than for her crimes. In August 1993, Wallace raped and strangled Valencia M. Jumper, a friend of Wallaces sister. Often referred to as North Carolinas Black Widow, Blanche Taylor Moore was charged in 1989 with killing her first husband and her boyfriend, and trying to kill her second husband, all by putting arsenic-based ant killer in their food. He went on to rape and murder nine women in Charlotte, North Carolina between 1992 and 1994. But several hospital workers, family members, and visitors testified that they did recall Blanche bringing Reid milkshakes from McDonald's while he was hospitalized in Greensboro. Barfield is also suspected of killing Montgomery Edwards, the husband of Dollie, who died of the same symptoms as Dollie. Frederick Rober Klenner Jr. was considered a mass murderer who killed several victims between 1984 and 1985. We'll let you know the identity of some of the most active and famous South Carolina serial killers, and what makes them want to kill. Until Wallace's murder pace picked up in the early weeks of March 1994, the deaths were sporadic and not entirely similar. 3 The Edgecombe County Serial Killer. The victims: Early on the morning of Feb. 17, 1970, Jeffrey MacDonald called military police at Fort Bragg to report a stabbing at the apartment where he and Colette lived with their daughters, Kimberly, 5, and Kristen, 2. The victims: Kathryn Katie Eastburn, 31, was home with her three daughters in a rental house in Fayetteville while her husband, Gary, a U.S. Air Force captain at what was then Pope Air Force Base, attended military training in Alabama. After Lopez's arrest in 1980, police found the graves of more than 50 of his preteen victims. Learn more: Jerry Bledsoes book about this case, Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness and Multiple Murder, is one of the best in the true crime genre. By: Mike McPadden. The trial: Michael Peterson was charged with his wifes murder and the trial, carried live each day on Court TV, became one of the longest murder trials in North Carolina history. "That in and of itself should have run up the reasonable-doubt flag for the jury, but I'm afraid there was just too much poison and too many different people. On March 8, 1994, Wallace robbed, raped, and strangled 24-year-old Betty Jean Baucom a day after her birthday. Jeffrey Dahmer Between 1988-91, Jeffrey Dahmer killed 17 men in Milwaukee, WI before the escape of his would-be 18th victim led to his capture. In May 1992, Wallace picked up 33-year-old Sharon Nance, a convicted drug dealer and prostitute. For decades, the Jeffrey MacDonald case was North Carolinas most famous crime, but the notoriety surrounding the mysterious death of Durhams Kathleen Peterson and the murder trial of her husband, Michael Peterson, may have changed that. Harold Shipman: "Dr. Death" who killed 218 patients. ", Town of Garner launches social district to boost economy, NC enters international agreement to boost wind farm power, Woman killed, man injured in Durham shooting. "She said to me, the end has to come. Sultan argued for a life sentence without parole instead of the death penalty. An investigation revealed that Stagers first husband had died in a very similar way, but Stager was only tried for the death of her second husband. Rosario told police that she left the door unlocked. Here are just a few of the other twists and turns, which never seem to stop coming. 7. He detonated an explosive inside his vehicle, killing himself as well has his girlfriend, Susie Lynch, and her two sons. He attended Barnwell High School, where he was elected to the student council and was a cheerleader. Colette had been beaten with a piece of wood that broke both her arms, and she had been stabbed 37 times with an ice pick and a knife. (Jennings grandson, singer-songwriter Jonathan Byrd, wrote the song Velma about Velma Barfield.). He was later fired from working as Chemical Operator for Sandoz Chemical Co. According to Jim Schutze's 1993 book about the case, "Preacher's Girl: The Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore," he met Blanche on Easter Sunday 1985 and the two began spending time together. The revelation of the death of family friend Elizabeth Ratliff, also found dead at the bottom of a staircase in Germany in 1985. Perkins drove Fritz to a wealthy Winston-Salem neighborhood to carry out his mission. He raped her and some time later strangled and stabbed her in front of her oldest son. Later that night, Wallace returned to The Lake apartment complex and murdered Brandi June Henderson, the girlfriend of a friend. Wallace accompanied his sister to Jumpers funeral. An official website of the State of North Carolina An official website of NC How you know . He then set her body on fire to cover up the crime. Police said it looked like a professional hit. He received nine death sentences. By June 5, Reid had gotten better and Garrett told Reid, with Blanche present, that he might be able to go home within a week. American serial killer and rapist on death row, List of serial killers in the United States, List of serial killers by number of victims, "Bad Henry: Charlotte serial killer profiled in true crime show", "The Serial Killer the Cops Ignored: The Henry Louis Wallace Murders", "Wallace's Mother and Sister Struggle With News of His Criminal Life", "Man Charged With Slayings In N.C. 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