"We're talking about an average, ordinary neighborhood lady," former Alamance County Sheriff Richard Frye told The Associated Press in 1989. His other victims were identified as Lynch's family members. 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. Blanche Moore's family was also devastated. The victims: Lieth Von Stein was stabbed to death, but Bonnie, stabbed and bludgeoned, survived. The outcome: A military jury at his third trial found Hennis guilty of the murders and sentenced him to death. It was not until several weeks later that her corpse was discovered. #wildernessoferror, an @fxdocs original series reexamining the infamous jeffrey macdonald murder case, premieres september 25 on fx & next day #FXonHulu. 1. On February 19, 1993, Wallace strangled 20-year-old Shawna Hawk, a college student, at her home after first raping her and later went to her funeral. 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. By: Mike McPadden. But the dramatically increased interest in the genre is evidenced by and likely fueled by our increased access to the stories. She is suspected of killing at least two additional people. They watched Fritz and Susie load a Chevy Blazer with camping supplies and then John and Jim and the family dog. An ID Murder Mystery aired. fascination with real-life murders and mysteries is not new, Charles Lawson brutally murdered his wife and six of his seven children, 1990 book on the crime, White Christmas, Bloody Christmas,, Barfield, who became known as the Death Row Granny,, Death Sentence: The True Story of Velma Barfields Life, Crimes, and Execution. He was also questioned about the attempted rape of a 16-year-old Barnwell girl but was never charged for that. He was given three life sentences. In October 1990, Blanche Moore went on trial in Forsyth County for the death of Raymond Reid. A fellow Kroger employee, Gloria Head, recalled visiting Reid in the hospital and seeing a container of red Jell-O in Blanche's purse. Victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy identified as North Carolina man October 25, 2021 / 1:51 PM / CBS/AP A North Carolina man who moved to Chicago was one of the victims of John. Wallace returned to the same apartment complex on March 8, 1994, knowing that Berness Woods would be at work so he could murder his girlfriend, Brandi June Henderson, an 18-year-old high school student, homemaker, and mother of Woods child. Interest in the murder was so extreme that Charles Lawsons brother began charging 25 cents for admission to tour the crime scene, and sightseers traveled there from miles around to walk through the Lawson home. On March 8, 1990, Wallace murdered 18-year-old Tashanda Bethea,[3] a Barnwell High School student. Because of the publicity in the case, many family members never believed that she would get a fair trial. She was the first woman in the United States to be executed after the 1976 resumption of capital punishment and the first since 1962. Wallace raped her and then strangled and stabbed her in front of her 3-year-old son. Kiser Sr., her mother-in-law, Isla Taylor, her first husband, James N. Taylor, and a former co-worker, Joseph Mitchell. According to probation officer Patrick Seaburg, Wallace did not show up for most mandatory meetings. These sisters hold the Guinness World Record for " Most Prolific Murder Partnership ," a dubious honor they earned due to their estimated 91 kills . The revelation of the death of family friend Elizabeth Ratliff, also found dead at the bottom of a staircase in Germany in 1985. Chris Pritchards sister, Angela, was asleep in another part of the house and told police she slept through the whole thing. In May 1993, a made-for-TV movie about Moore aired on network television. Henry Louis Wallace (born November 4, 1965) is an American serial killer who killed eleven black women in South Carolina and North Carolina from March 1990 to March 1994. ", Strengthening the state's case, Dr. Vincent Guinn, a chemistry professor at the University of California-Irvine and an expert in the field of nuclear chemistry, concluded that the arsenic levels found in Reid's hair corresponded "to a long period of ingestion of arsenic, multiple ingestions. Blanche Moore had maintained a detached demeanor during the trial, with a tight smile for the cameras tightly trained on her throughout. Surviving son Arthur died in an automobile accident in 1945 at age 31. [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". He was convicted and sentenced to death and is currently awaiting his execution on death row. MacDonald, now 74, is housed at a medium-security federal prison in Cumberland, Md. 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 . America has a dark and checkered past. She was found a few days later. The Insider compiled a list of the most notorious serial killer by state, and North Carolina's No. He is the only U.S. citizen so far to have been sent to death row by a civilian court, exonerated, then sent back to death row via military court. 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. Stager was sentenced to death, but the sentence was later reduced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. On January 29, he was handed nine death sentences.[7]. Her dream was to become a pediatrician and return to her community to work. Learn more: The New Yorker magazine has a thorough summary of the case through 2011. And he loves her with all his heart," she said, describing Reid as he lay dying in the hospital. He was convicted and sentenced to death and is currently awaiting his execution on death row. Even though the story places Charlotte in South Carolina, it does a good job of laying out all the clues and patterns overlooked by police. In June 1992, Wallace raped and strangled Caroline Love, 20, at her apartment,[2] then dumped her body in a wooded area. In 2013, Hill, 50, of Jennings, pleaded guilty to strangling Janice Mayhew in 2008 and Sierra Sullivan in 2009. Three different men either married to or intimately involved with (Blanche Taylor Moore) died, or barely escaped death, from arsenic poisoning, an unusual cause of death. Bush condemned Iraq's takeover of Kuwait. 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. She left Kroger on Oct. 17, 1985. According to. 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. 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.. Her parents are Roland and Connie Hedgepeth. He later became a born-again Christian. McGinnis concluded that MacDonald was guilty. His under-the-radar reign of terror is something residents of The Queen City will never forget. He also stole her TV and car, then returned to her apartment later to steal her VCR. Pee Wee Gaskins was put to death September 6, 1991. [2], On February 4, 1994, Wallace was arrested for shoplifting, but police did not make a connection between him and the murders.[2]. At Baptist Hospital, Dr. Robert Hamilton began with a preliminary diagnosis of Guillain Barre syndrome. Michael Peterson a novelist, a Durham Herald-Sun columnist and a former mayoral candidate called 911 and told the operator that his wife had fallen down the stairs but was still breathing. MacDonald claimed that intruders three men and a woman with long blond hair who was chanting, Acid is groovy. A judge sentenced him to two years of supervised probation. 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.". He attended Barnwell High School, where he was elected to the student council and was a cheerleader. Hennis, then 27, had been to the home a few days before the killings to adopt a dog. Here are Wallaces victims: 1. 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. 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. Wallace described in detail the women's appearances, as well as how he raped, robbed, and killed the women.[2][5]. 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. She was the first woman in the, Pete Lucas Moses Jr.: The Durham cult leader. State Government websites value user privacy. Some tourists even stole souvenir raisins from the top of the Christmas cake, which had sat undisturbed on the kitchen table. That confession letter is one of the many bizarre facets of this grim saga. He was nicknamed the Taco Bell Strangler due to several of his victims working for the fast food chain where he was also employed. Newspaper reporter Scott Whisnant, who covered Hennis trial, published a book, Innocent Victims about the case, in 1993 and a newer edition has updates. 1. 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. The Army dropped the charges, and MacDonald moved to California to work in a hospital emergency room. 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. On May 30, 1986, as Reid's condition worsened, he was admitted to Wesley Long Hospital in Greensboro. Rosario told police that she left the door unlocked. John Wayne Gacy, the Killer Clown Biography of Albert Fish, Serial Killer Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog The Green River Killer: Gary Ridgway Profile of Serial Killer Rodney Alcala Serial Killer Couple Ray and Faye Copeland Serial Killer Edward Gein Profile of Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross Profile of Serial Killer Debra Brown Notes from the ICU unit read in court showed repeated instances where Reid complained later in the day of being nauseated after having been fed by Blanche. Famed American conductor Leonard Bernstein, composer of "West Side Story," died at 72. Some serial killers are known for killing children, like David Meirhofer in Montana. 5. Dwight Moore, who ingested what was at the time one of the highest doses of arsenic any person was known to have survived, died in 2013. While the majority of serial killers commit their crimes for the thrill and "enjoyment," others are done out of anger and financial reward. All 50 states have had a notorious serial killer, such as Florida 's Ted Bundy, Illinois 's John Wayne Gacy, and New Jersey 's Charles Edmund Cullen. When police spotted him in Greensboro in June 1985, they knew he was dangerous. He was convicted and sentenced to death and is currently awaiting his execution on death row. One of the world's worst serial killers remains unknown, even after killing 32 elderly women between 2011 and 2012. She was beaten by Moses and the others and then shot. He is currently awaiting execution at Central Prison in Raleigh. She was a member of the Haliwa-Saponi tribal community. Psychologist Faye Sultan testified during the trial that Wallace had been a victim of physical and mental abuse at the hands of his mother since birth and that he had a mental illness at the time of the killings. In 1994, the high court concluded that Moore had received a fair trial and rejected the defense's motions. He then set her body on fire to cover up the crime. [citation needed]. In 2017, Peterson entered an Alford plea, pleading guilty to manslaughter while not admitting actual guilt, and was free with time served. 4. In 1980, she became reacquainted with her cousin Fritz, whose mother was also the sister of Judge Susie Sharp. At least one-third of those murders were tribal women. Remarkably, Reid again improved. On Jan. 1, 1986, he rang in the new year with severe nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. The 22-month-old baby, Jana, had not been attacked but had been without food and drink for days. 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. In 1994, a TV movie based on Bitter Blood aired on CBS. On June 5, 1998, Wallace married a former prison nurse, Rebecca Torrijas, in a ceremony next to the state's execution chamber. Susie Newsom Lynch, along with her first cousin and lover Fritz Klenner, killed nine people, including themselves, in 1984 and 1985. Mitchell's body did not have elevated levels of arsenic. He was arrested on March 13, 1994. "I guess it brought back a lot of memories. In 2011, citing misconduct in the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation involving agent Duane Deaver specifically Judge Orlando Hudson granted Peterson a new trial and he was released from prison. They discovered that her first husband as well as Reid had died under suspicious circumstances. 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. More troubling for the defense, a nurse testified that she saw Blanche bring peanut butter milkshakes, banana pudding, tomato pudding, corn bread, and milk for Reid and feeding him herself. I have no doubt that I was poisoned," the Rev. Wallace stole from nearly all the victims to fund his crack addiction. So the Army called him back to active duty to court-martial him on the charges, though the murders were committed off post. [8] Mecklenburg County public defender Isabel Day served as an official witness and photographer. Tommy Dean Welch had reportedly been at Algarad's home, along with Burch and others. 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. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand. Klenner, a fake doctor in a small town who occasionally posed as a covert CIA agent, was implicated in the . Here's what Insider had to say: Love was a friend and roommate of Wallaces then-girlfriend, Sadie McKnight. Donald Harry "Pee Wee" Gaskins Jr. Dwight Moore survived the poisoning and testified against Blanche, who also was suspected by police of having poisoned her father, who died in 1966, and the mother of her first husband, both of whose exhumed bodies showed elevated arsenic levels. 6. Perhaps it's the larger populations that lure serial killers to these states. That year, Elizabeth Montgomery (Samantha from Bewitched) played Moore in a TV movie called Black Widow Murders, based on the book. [2], During his time in the Navy, Wallace began using several drugs, including crack cocaine. Learn more: Hedgepeths case has been covered extensively. (Jennings grandson, singer-songwriter Jonathan Byrd, wrote the song Velma about Velma Barfield.). Surveillance footage shows them arriving at 12:40 a.m. and surveillance footage shows them leaving the club at 2:06 a.m. Other killers are so famous they are known all over the country, like Ted Bundy, the BTK Killer, and John Wayne Gacy. He is being held at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, while his attorneys appeal. In May 1992, not long after moving to Charlotte, Wallace beat to death Sharon Nance, a sex worker whom Wallace had refused to pay after soliciting her services. "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. The outcome: On June 3, 1985, unmarked police cars from various agencies Forsyth County deputies, Greensboro Police, SBI agents and Kentucky State Police followed Fritz Klenner to Susies Greensboro apartment. 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. 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. On March 8, 1994, at The Lake apartment complex, Wallace robbed and strangled Betty Jean Baucom, one of his girlfriends friends and coworkers at Bojangles. 3. In the cases of Reid and Taylor, defendant was already seeing her next victim at the time of the arsenic assaults.". Miraculously, some might say through divine intervention, the pastor survived. Police said it looked like a professional hit. She was verbally abusive, criticizing her son for even the smallest mistakes. Reid's son Steven Reid testified that he visited his father on Oct. 4 and found him eating breakfast prepared by Blanche. 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. 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. Officers arrived to find MacDonald on his bedroom floor next to his wifes body. Harold Shipman: "Dr. Death" who killed 218 patients. Henry was apprehended and charged in May 1994. Published: Jun. Daniel Glen Printz, 59, of Bostic,. Instead, Reid became deathly ill and was transferred to North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem on June 13. Even so, Wallace sneaked into rob and strangled Debra Ann Slaughter, 35, who had been his girlfriend's co-worker. She's maintained her innocence throughout her long incarceration, but the chilling evidence suggests otherwise. 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. 0:59 A North Carolina 'serial killer' has been sentenced to life in prison with no parole after the disappearance and death of a Travelers Rest woman. The victims were: Fannie, 37; Marie, 17; Carrie, 12; Maybell, 7; James, 4; Raymond, 2; and Mary Lou, 4 months old. 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. Moore is awaiting execution in North Carolina for her boyfriend's 1986 arsenic poisoning. She flatly denied slipping arsenic to either of her husbands or Reid. Here, a sampling of some other notorious South Carolina killers. In May 1992, Wallace picked up 33-year-old Sharon Nance, a convicted drug dealer and prostitute. Hawk and Wallace both worked at Taco Bell. Ad the story has been repeated on popular true-crime podcasts, including Criminal and My Favorite Murder.. Moore got a job at Kroger in the 1950s and worked there until she was arrested. Alien pod on Outer Banks tree looks and feels like hair, park says. Following his sentencing, Wallace made a statement to his victims' families. Between May of 1992 and March of 1994, Henry Louis Wallace would take the lives of at least 10 innocent women. She is the service journalism editor and writes about TV and local media for The N&Os Happiness is a Warm TV blog. 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. The FBI is seeking the public's help in identifying some of the victims of Samuel Little, who has been confirmed as the nation's most prolific serial killer after confessing to 93 murders . After Lopez's arrest in 1980, police found the graves of more than 50 of his preteen victims. Hedgepeth was a sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill when she was killed. "I mean that's just my opinion, but I think she did it.". Love was a friend of Wallace's girlfriend. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. NC climate expert weighs in. pic.twitter.com/8V9eyK0z12. Wallace killed Michelle Stinson, a frequent Taco Bell customer who became friendly with him, in September 1993. In February 1993, Wallace had sex with Shawna Hawk at her home and then strangled her. In 1988, N.C. State student Chris Pritchard convinced two of his friends to help him murder his own family, promising to share his inheritance with them if his mother Bonnie Von Stein, and his stepfather, textile executive Lieth Von Stein, were killed. Prosecutor Janet Branch ripped into Blanche Moore time and again, making dramatic and emotionally wrought statements to the jury. She was also the first woman to be executed by lethal injection. During her time in prison, Barfield got off drugs, became a born-again Christian and received praise from Billy Graham for ministering to prisoners. In opening arguments, prosecutor Marsha Goodnow argued for the death penalty. Most of his victims were strippers and sex workers. Wallace was tried for the last nine murders and found guilty on Jan. 7, 1997. He knew her through her sister, who was a co-worker of his at Taco Bell. Rosario called 911 at 11:01 a.m. and told the dispatcher that her roommate was unconscious and that there was blood everywhere. According to an autopsy report, released to the public in September 2014, Hedgepeths head was bludgeoned so severely that medical examiners concluded her cause of death to be blunt-force trauma. Soon after, Reid suffered a serious setback. All Rights Reserved. Henry Louis Wallace (born November 4, 1965) is an American serial killer who killed eleven black women in South Carolina and North Carolina from March 1990 to March 1994. It was Russ first wife, Jo Lynn Snow, who told police about Russ and Barbaras many financial and marital troubles; about the circumstances of the shooting death of Barbaras first husband, Larry Ford; and about Russ fears that Barbara was trying to kill him. Coast To Coast Image credit: dailymail.co.uk Henry Louis Wallace is a serial killer who raped and murdered 10 women in Charlotte and one woman in his hometown of Barnwell, S.C., from 1990 to 1994. However, they never got a chance to arrest and charge him for his crimes. Reid continued to get weaker and despite valiant efforts to save him, was pronounced dead Oct. 7 by Dr. Kyle Jackson, who blamed the death on complications from Guillain-Barre syndrome. He also strangled her son, but the baby survived. Over the past few centuries, arsenic poisoning has been a particularly popular way to kill someone. His trial began in September 1996. Henry Louis Wallace is considered the most infamous killer in the history of North Carolina after murdering nearly a dozen women around Charlotte who all shared some connection with the man. Wallace later went with McKnight and Loves sister to file a missing persons report. ", 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. He was convicted for nine murders in 1997 and sentenced to death. He raped Henderson while she held her baby and then strangled her. Lavinia Fisher. ", When Reid's body was exhumed from Pine Hill Cemetery in Burlington, an autopsy performed in Chapel Hill revealed "clearly recognizable" Mees lines across the fingernails of both hands, and the toxicology report showed arsenic in Reid's liver "30 times higher than one might see in an average individual.". Police found that Katie Eastburn had been raped and stabbed and her throat had been slit. It was later determined that John and Jim were dead before the explosion, having been poisoned and shot in the head by their mother. After he graduated in 1983, Wallace became a disc jockey for a Barnwell radio station. was convicted of Taylors murder and executed on Nov. 2, 1984. He wouldn't want to be cut on like this. Rodney Alcala was an American serial killer whose good looks and high IQ helped him lure victims. Susie and Tom split in 1979 and she gained custody of their two sons, John and Jim. He continues to live in Durham. While Arthur was gone, Lawson killed the entire remaining family by shooting and bludgeoning them to death. The book was made into a TV miniseries in 1996. 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. Dwight Moore was the divorced pastor of what was then Carolina United Church of Christ in Alamance County. Pete Moses, 34, remains in prison in Columbus County. Despite the damning and disturbing evidence, the defense seemed optimistic. On July 25, Neal Henderson drove James Bart Upchurch to Washington, N.C., where Upchurch entered the Stein home and attacked Lieth and Bonnie while they slept. Her death was ruled a suicide. 22, 2022 at 9:22 AM PDT. From mass shootings to serial killers, the country has some of the most prolific and brutal killers ever recorded. It was only during the week of March 9, 1994, that Charlotte police warned the people in east Charlotte that there was a serial killer on the loose. Wallace would sexually assault, beat, and strangle his victims, including once in front of the woman's son. It is a fate she didn't leave to her suspected string of victims. Police described Pete Lucas Moses Jr. as the leader of a religious cult whose members lived with him at a house in Durham. 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 . The Greensboro News & Record, where Bledsoe worked at the time of the killing spree, revisited the case in 2015 on its 30th anniversary, with an excellent synopsis of the case and a look at where survivors are now. Learn more: Crime Magazine has a detailed account of Wallaces crimes. North Carolina hasn't executed an inmate since Aug. 18, 2006. Thorpe was the first of the Edgecombe County Serial Killer's victims to be found in this location, but not the last. The study found that water signs Scorpio, Cancer, and Pisces are the deadliest element with the highest number of both killers and victims: 28 percent and 27 percent, respectively. This story was originally published June 24, 2022, 6:00 AM. Hamilton ran many tests but never saw the results of one that may have saved Reid's life - a urine sample from Reid taken between June 27-28 showed "quite elevated" levels of arsenic. Learn more: Watch the 13-part French documentary series on Netflix (the final installments were released in 2018) and the eight-part scripted HBO series both projects are titled The Staircase. 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