11. But how many other victims does he have?#murdersquadmondays #keepdigging pic.twitter.com/u9k7jtiThR. All Rights Reserved. The outcome: A military jury at his third trial found Hennis guilty of the murders and sentenced him to death. 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. The victims: It was the Rev. She was born Blanche Kiser in Concord, North Carolina, but spent much of her adult life in Alamance County. A glass dome was placed over the cake and it sat on display in the home for years. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2001 denied his appeal. When police spotted him in Greensboro in June 1985, they knew he was dangerous. Remarkably, Reid again improved. 0:56. Yet, in the weeks before Christmas, Lawson drove his family to Winston-Salem and bought new clothes for everyone and had them sit for a family portrait, something extremely out of character for the frugal farmer. Some of the most known serial killers in the world have performed heinous acts all over the country, and this article will present the ones that were considered the most famous. "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. 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. 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. 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. But the end of his killing spree occurred in Florida, after he fled a Colorado prison ( for the . North Carolina hasn't executed an inmate since Aug. 18, 2006. UNC college student Faith Hedgepeth was found beaten to death on Sept. 7, 2012 inside the off-campus Durham/Chapel Hill apartment she shared with another student. Frederick Robert Klenner Jr. Frederick Rober Klenner Jr. was considered a mass murderer who killed several victims between 1984 and 1985. He was convicted and sentenced to death and is currently awaiting his execution on death row. Blanche Moore's family was also devastated. She had worked at a Bojangles at the time of the disappearance. 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. He raped her and some time later strangled and stabbed her in front of her oldest son. 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. Wallace later went with McKnight and Loves sister to file a missing persons report. [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. Learn more: The New Yorker magazine has a thorough summary of the case through 2011. He later became a born-again Christian. 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. 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. Blanche Taylor Moore Talk Read Edit View history Blanche Kiser Taylor Moore (born February 17, 1933) is an American convicted murderer and possible serial killer from Alamance County, North Carolina. pic.twitter.com/8V9eyK0z12. Susie Newsom grew up in Winston-Salem and married Tom Lynch, the son of a high-ranking GE executive, whom she met while the two attended Wake Forest University. There is no date set for his execution. Though Hilton was already on Death Row in Florida for those murders, he pleaded guilty in 2012 to killing the North Carolina couple and received an additional four life sentences, to be held consecutively. His long and distinguished career ended May 29, 1986. 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. Theodis Hill has said in letters that he has committed five murders. "'Please help me or I'm going to die," Hutchens recalled Reid telling her. Petersons defense teams planning and the trial were recorded by a French documentary film crew, who had unprecedented access to Petersons family and attorneys. Historical records do not agree with all of the legend, but Fisher was hanged for her crimes in the end. For 12 hours, he confessed to the murders of 10 Charlotte women. She was convicted of killing her fiance, but eventually made official confessions to killing three others. Other killers are so famous they are known all over the country, like Ted Bundy, the BTK Killer, and John Wayne Gacy. In the letter, Thomas allegedly confessed to killing Reid and trying to fatally poison Reid. As the Blazer got on the road, police surrounded it and waved for Klenner to stop. 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. Dr. John D. Butts, the state's chief medical examiner, concluded that "Reid died as a result of the complications of arsenic poisoning. His arsenic levels were 60 times higher than normal. Police described Pete Lucas Moses Jr. as the leader of a religious cult whose members lived with him at a house in Durham. The following is a summary of other notable killers in South Carolina . Those drug traffickers were actually Susies parents and grandmother: Bob and Florence Newsom, and Bobs mother, Hattie. They returned to Rosarios apartment. He then confessed to an 11th murder he committed before moving to Charlotte. 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. Since the case is technically unresolved, here are some facts about Hedgepeth and the national attention on the case: About Faith Hedgepeth: Hedgepeth grew up in Hollister, North Carolina, a small community on the Warren-Halifax County border. According to the FBI, a murderer becomes serial when they kill two or more people in separate events. 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. After Wallace murdered her, he took a considerable amount of valuables from the house, then left the apartment with her car. Dwight Moore was the divorced pastor of what was then Carolina United Church of Christ in Alamance County. [2] He also strangled her son, who survived.[4]. 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. He was convicted and sentenced to death and is currently awaiting his execution on death row. The group in Israel has been a source of strife in the past between the U.S. and Israeli governments, because it was started by immigrants from the U.S. who settled there illegally. The Outcome: The entire family was buried in a mass grave in Germanton. Learn more: There may be as many as 50,000 people around the world who identify as members of different sects of Black Hebrews, including several thousand living in Israel, which they consider their ancestral homeland though they are not recognized as Jews or given most rights of citizenship. In opening arguments, prosecutor Marsha Goodnow argued for the death penalty. Chris Pritchard, whose mother stood by him, admitted to being the mastermind of the scheme, and Henderson pleaded guilty to reduced charges. I'm not supposed to be in jail at all,'" one of her defense attorneys proclaimed. 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. 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. Rosario told police that she left the door unlocked. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department apologized to Charlotte citizens for not spotting a link between the murders sooner. Send me a song, his fellow clown said after being diagnosed with cancer. Attorneys have appealed, asked for a retrial and argued that MacDonald should be exonerated. 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. So who is North Carolina's most notorious serial killer? Until Wallace's murder pace picked up in the early weeks of March 1994, the deaths were sporadic and not entirely similar. In 2009, he . On June 5, 1998, Wallace married a former prison nurse, Rebecca Torrijas, in a ceremony next to the state's execution chamber. [2], Wallace went to several colleges before joining the U.S. Navy in 1985. Since the 1900's, nearly 800 serial killer murders took place in Texas, the highest body count after California. Mitchell's body did not have elevated levels of arsenic. 2) Delfina and Mara de Jess Gonzlez. "Mom never expected to spend the rest of her life by herself. 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. The police increased their patrols in east Charlotte after two bodies of young black women were found at The Lake Apartments complex. . In January 1988, Wallace was arrested for breaking into a hardware store. Since being sentenced to death in 1997, Wallace has appealed to overturn the death sentences, stating that his confessions were coerced and his constitutional rights were violated in the process. But as the guilty plea was read and jurors filed past, she wept. The serial killer committed the crimes between May 1992 and March 1994. He was 50 years old. "But yet it all seems to point that way. 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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Blanche Moore had maintained a detached demeanor during the trial, with a tight smile for the cameras tightly trained on her throughout. 3 The Edgecombe County Serial Killer. "Connecting the death of James Taylor with that of Raymond Reid and illness of Dwight Moore, unless they make that direct connection, then the evidence is clearly not admissible," her defense team argued. By that time, his marriage to Maretta had fallen apart. "Everything we've been able to learn about her is a picture of a model person," one of her defense attorneys said after her conviction. By: Mike McPadden. He wasn't expected to live.Doctors threw a Hail Mary: They ordered blood tests for herbicide poisoning, because he had used the chemicals before his illness.The results revealed more arsenic than his doctors had ever seen in a living person - 100 times the normal amount.The hospital alerted police, who interviewed him as he lay on what was supposed to be his deathbed. A man named Antwan Maurice Pittman has since been convicted of one of the murders, the 2009 strangling of Tahara Nicholson, and is likely behind several of . was convicted of Taylors murder and executed on Nov. 2, 1984. Both women worked at Bojangles. He stole valuable video and recording equipment and was caught trying to pawn them. It's also home to some of. Investigation Discovery shows are usually available to stream on discovery+. Barbara Stager: Barbara Stager is a Durham county native who was convicted in the first-degree murder of her second husband in 1988. 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. He was convicted and sentenced to death and is currently awaiting his execution on death row. Most of his victims were strippers and sex workers. It's odorless, tasteless, and builds up in the human body. 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. In November 1991, Wallace relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina. Puzzled physicians initially attributed his Oct. 7, 1986, death to Guillain-Barr syndrome. "We're talking about an average, ordinary neighborhood lady," former Alamance County Sheriff Richard Frye told The Associated Press in 1989. He also stole her TV and car, then returned to her apartment later to steal her VCR. The most prolific serial killer in American history (he killed nearly 100 women between 1982-1989), Utah native Gary Ridgway was the focus of one of the nation's largest and longest manhunts. While Arthur was gone, Lawson killed the entire remaining family by shooting and bludgeoning them to death. On March 8, 1990, Wallace murdered 18-year-old Tashanda Bethea,[3] a Barnwell High School student. According to reports, Lawson owned a farm near Germanton. ", 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. INVESTIGATION YIELDS SHOCKING DISCOVERIES. Wallace was tried for the last nine murders and found guilty on Jan. 7, 1997. 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 . He was the fourth person to die in the electric chair after reinstatement of the death penalty in South Carolina. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1985 and was honorably discharged in 1992 after he was caught stealing. Former "Bewitched" star Elizabeth Montgomery played Moore in "Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story.". What is the evidence that connects her to them? Coast To Coast Image credit: dailymail.co.uk The outcome: Starting in July 1970, the Army held Article 32 proceedings. Kill the pigs attacked the family during the night. 7. He fired a 9mm submachine gun at officers, injuring a Greensboro police officer and a Kentucky detective. 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. 20/20 aired a special in 2016 called Love, Hope and Faith: The Faith Hedgepeth Murder. In 2018, the Investigation Discovery series Breaking Homicide looked into Hedgepeths murder. In 1998, Wallace married prison nurse Rebecca Torrijas, 23 years his elder. He eventually remarried and moved to Virginia. He'd been scheduled to appear in court the next day. Authorities exhumed the bodies of Reid, Blanche's father, P.D. Baucom and Wallace's girlfriend were co-workers at Bojangles, where she was the assistant manager. Her husband, the Rev. In 2008, Petersons neighbor, Larry Pollard, held a news conference announcing his theory that an owl attacked Kathleen Peterson and that she died as a result of those injuries. She flatly denied slipping arsenic to either of her husbands or Reid. [2], On February 4, 1994, Wallace was arrested for shoplifting, but police did not make a connection between him and the murders.[2]. Henry Louis Wallace is a convicted serial killer who was accused of killing 10 women in Charlotte during the early 1990s. It is a fate she didn't leave to her suspected string of victims. Her parents are Roland and Connie Hedgepeth. Her favorite source of the poison was said to be a brand of insect killer called Anti-Ant. She left Kroger on Oct. 17, 1985. "I came to feel that if the state could prove she actually wrote the chilling details in that letter, she had signed her own death warrant," Rabil wrote. 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. Yes, Ted Bundy primarily operated in the western part of the United States, raping and murdering girls and young women in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado. 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 . Soon, the nation would see her in another light - as the "Black Widow," a diminutive figure with a dark side -- suspected of methodically poisoning at least four other people close to her, going back as far as 1966. After killing his family, Lawson walked into the nearby woods and shot himself to death. 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. This time he set the body on fire to cover up his crime. An older sister, Rolanda Hedgepeth, was 18 when Faith was born, and was like a second mother to her. Moore got a job at Kroger in the 1950s and worked there until she was arrested. He then set her body on fire to cover up the crime. Lisa Hutchens, the head nurse in the Intensive Care Unit, testified that she saw Blanche feeding Reid banana pudding on Oct. 1. Updated on May 23, 2019. Wallace was questioned by the police regarding her disappearance and death but was never formally charged with her murder. Secure websites use HTTPS certificates. McGinnis concluded that MacDonald was guilty. Wallace stole from nearly all the victims to fund his crack addiction. Detectives heard Dwight Moore's story and then began probing into Blanche Moore's background. Susie and Tom split in 1979 and she gained custody of their two sons, John and Jim. The revelation of Michaels bisexuality (and the question of whether Kathleen knew) and his multiple affairs. He was bloated and his "eyeballs were even starting to swell and his skin was splitting.". ", 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.". 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. The book was made into a TV miniseries in 1996. Miraculously, some might say through divine intervention, the pastor survived. 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. That same year, he married his high school sweetheart, the former Maretta Brabham. On October 28, 2015, prison guards reportedly discovered self-proclaimed "Satanist" and accused murderer Pazuzu Illah Algarad dead in his cell. Instead, Reid became deathly ill and was transferred to North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem on June 13. 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. 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. Hedgepeth was a sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill when she was killed. He later told police he thought Spain might have the combination to the safe at Taco Bell. Kroger made Reid move around quite a bit, transferring him several times in 1979 and 1980 until he became a store manager at a Winston-Salem location. Dr. Harold Shipman, nicknamed "Dr. Death" after his horrific killing spree came to light, was sentenced to life in prison after . Yet Moore was convicted of murder in the 1986 arsenic-poisoning death of her boyfriend, Raymond Carlton Reid Sr. A book would be written, and a TV movie made. The outcome: The three boys were all arrested and charged in July 1989 and the trial took place in January 1990. Victims: 8-200. By March 12, 1994, Charlotte police were onto Wallace and there was a citywide hunt for him. He is currently awaiting execution at Central Prison in Raleigh. Kiser Sr., her mother-in-law, Isla Taylor, her first husband, James N. Taylor, and a former co-worker, Joseph Mitchell. Known as the Volga Maniac, this Russian serial killer struck in several states, including Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Izhevsk, Perm, Ufa, Samara, and Ulyanovsk. In the same article, her other daughter, Vanessa Woods, said Reid "was a very good man. [2] Her body was found on June 25. He was arrested on March 13, 1994. An official website of the State of North Carolina An official website of NC How you know . Several weeks later, he was at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. ", During the capital sentencing phase, the jury found as aggravating circumstances that Blanche Moore was motivated to kill for financial gain and that Reid's murder was "especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.". 8. The NC Supreme Court wrote that "the letter was offered into evidence by the State not as the dying declaration of Garvin Thomas but as evidence of defendant's "deceptive plan to throw suspicion away from herself.". The victims: Lieth Von Stein was stabbed to death, but Bonnie, stabbed and bludgeoned, survived. 3. Algarad was reportedly found bleeding from a deep wound on one of his arms. In. Her body was discovered nearly two years later. The outcome: Wallace was finally arrested on March 13, 1994, and he confessed in detail to the 10 murders in Charlotte and one in Barnwell. It would be almost two years (March 1994) before her body was discovered in a wooded area in Charlotte. He raped Henderson while she held her baby and then strangled her. A Supreme Court justice posed the question to state attorneys: "How do you tie the defendant into these similar poisoning incidents? the Jeffrey MacDonald case was North . "In each case, defendant was heard to say that she hated the victim or that the victim was cruel or evil. Love was a friend and roommate of Wallaces then-girlfriend, Sadie McKnight. This is our view on which of those make the most notorious serial killers in the world. He repeatedly stabbed each of his victims with a knife and an ice pick before turning the blades on himself, though less severely. 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 victims: Jadon Higganbotham, 4, was the son of Vania Rae Sisk, a member of Moses cult. They were married in the room next to the execution chamber. The two were wed April 19, 1989. During her time in prison, Barfield got off drugs, became a born-again Christian and received praise from Billy Graham for ministering to prisoners. 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. 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. 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. Many knew 57-year-old Blanche Kiser Taylor Moore as a middle-aged churchgoer with a grandmotherly appearance and a cool demeanor - the last person you'd suspect of being a serial killer. Wallace raped and strangled another Taco Bell co-worker, Audrey Spain, in June 1993. She was verbally abusive, criticizing her son for even the smallest mistakes. 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. Frederick Rober Klenner Jr. was considered a mass murderer who killed several victims between 1984 and 1985. 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. On July 18, 1989, authorities arrested Blanche Moore and charged her with first-degree murder in the deaths of Taylor and Reid and assault with a deadly weapon in the poisoning of Dwight Moore. She was also the first woman to be executed by lethal injection. Blanche preferred to stay closer to home, working in Burlington her entire career, except for a brief stint at a store in Durham. In October of 1990, President George H.W. One of the world's worst serial killers remains unknown, even after killing 32 elderly women between 2011 and 2012. The Newsoms, who lived directly across the street from poet and author Maya Angelou, had been assisting Tom Lynch in getting more visitation rights for his sons, which had enraged Susie. A fellow Kroger employee, Gloria Head, recalled visiting Reid in the hospital and seeing a container of red Jell-O in Blanche's purse. According to. [2] She was also his girlfriend's roommate and a college student. 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. Chris Pritchard remained on the N.C. 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