[2], During his time in the Navy, Wallace began using several drugs, including crack cocaine. 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. 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. 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. Published: Jun. Between the years of 1992 and 1994, the City of Charlotte was home to a man who would become the city's most prolific serial killer. During her time in prison, Barfield got off drugs, became a born-again Christian and received praise from Billy Graham for ministering to prisoners. Soon after, Reid suffered a serious setback. 3 The Edgecombe County Serial Killer. His trial began in September 1996. Historical records do not agree with all of the legend, but Fisher was hanged for her crimes in the end. [2], On February 4, 1994, Wallace was arrested for shoplifting, but police did not make a connection between him and the murders.[2]. The revelation of Michaels bisexuality (and the question of whether Kathleen knew) and his multiple affairs. Chris Pritchards sister, Angela, was asleep in another part of the house and told police she slept through the whole thing. That confession letter is one of the many bizarre facets of this grim saga. #wildernessoferror, an @fxdocs original series reexamining the infamous jeffrey macdonald murder case, premieres september 25 on fx & next day #FXonHulu. A couple of days later, Steven had returned to school at East Carolina University when he got a call from Blanche telling him to get back to see his father as quickly as possible. The late-case courtroom surprise discovery of the missing blow poke, a suspected murder weapon. She also denied discussing Reid's autopsy with anyone and told the courtroom that she would not have been opposed to an autopsy. When police spotted him in Greensboro in June 1985, they knew he was dangerous. It would be almost two years (March 1994) before her body was discovered in a wooded area in Charlotte. 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. Bush condemned Iraq's takeover of Kuwait. Susie Newsom Lynch, along with her first cousin and lover Fritz Klenner, killed nine people, including themselves, in 1984 and 1985. 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. On May 18, 1985, Fritz, having convinced 21-year-old Ian Perkins of Reidsville that he was in the CIA, recruited Perkins to assist him in killing what Klenner alleged were communist drug traffickers in Winston-Salem. Though modern DNA testing in 2006 linked him conclusively to the crime scene, he could not be tried again in state court. Moore got a job at Kroger in the 1950s and worked there until she was arrested. But how many other victims does he have?#murdersquadmondays #keepdigging pic.twitter.com/u9k7jtiThR. 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. He raped Henderson while she held her baby and then strangled her. Perkins went on to wear a wire for the police in an effort to catch Fritz. 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. 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. Can you imagine anything more pitiful in this whole world? 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]. Her father was an itinerant Baptist preacher described by investigators as an alcoholic who cheated on his wife and prostituted Moore when she was a child. Mack had two young daughters. She remains on death row, where she is one of three women. MacDonald claimed that intruders three men and a woman with long blond hair who was chanting, Acid is groovy. Alien pod on Outer Banks tree looks and feels like hair, park says. 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. The outcome: Barfield, who became known as the Death Row Granny, was convicted of Taylors murder and executed on Nov. 2, 1984. 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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Closer to home, an unimaginable murder trial was the talk of North Carolina. Tommy Dean Welch had reportedly been at Algarad's home, along with Burch and others. State handwriting experts, however, said Blanche Moore wrote the letter herself. In October 1990, Blanche Moore went on trial in Forsyth County for the death of Raymond Reid. An ID Murder Mystery aired. She was born in North Carolina in 1933, one of seven children. the Jeffrey MacDonald case was North . He was charged with the murders. "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. 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. According to reports, Lawson owned a farm near Germanton. 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. Because they struggled financially, the family lived a very no-frills lifestyle. 0:56. Kristen lay dead in her bed, stabbed 48 times with a knife and an ice pick. It's odorless, tasteless, and builds up in the human body. Between May of 1992 and March of 1994, Henry Louis Wallace would take the lives of at least 10 innocent women. 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. I'm not supposed to be in jail at all,'" one of her defense attorneys proclaimed. His arsenic levels were 60 times higher than normal. Charles Lawsons motives in the killings remain a mystery, but some point to a head injury he suffered in the years before the murder, which family members said changed his personality. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand. The outcome: A military jury at his third trial found Hennis guilty of the murders and sentenced him to death. 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. 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'd been scheduled to appear in court the next day. The victims: Lieth Von Stein was stabbed to death, but Bonnie, stabbed and bludgeoned, survived. 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 . 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. It was reported in September 2017 that Stager participates in a Community Leave program that allows her to leave the N.C. Correctional Institute for Women in Raleigh for lunch as long as she is with a prison-approved sponsor. From mass shootings to serial killers, the country has some of the most prolific and brutal killers ever recorded. During the investigation, police also asked Barbara if she would reenact what happened the night Russ died. He died of natural causes in 2013. Donald Harry "Pee Wee" Gaskins Jr. In doing so, the Supreme Court justices noted that "the State presented extensive circumstantial evidence marking the similarities between Reid's death and the arsenic poisoning death of Taylor and the arsenic poisoning of Moore. The Outcome: The entire family was buried in a mass grave in Germanton. 3. On March 9, 2017, Amber Burch pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, armed robbery, and accessory after the fact to murder. But the end of his killing spree occurred in Florida, after he fled a Colorado prison ( for the . Wallace was arrested on March 13, 1994. Wallace accompanied his sister to Jumpers funeral. He is being held at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, while his attorneys appeal. He was convicted and sentenced to death and is currently awaiting his execution on death row. 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. "I mean that's just my opinion, but I think she did it.". He also stole her TV and car, then returned to her apartment later to steal her VCR. 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). He received nine death sentences. Learn more: The New Yorker magazine has a thorough summary of the case through 2011. In October of 1990, President George H.W. 10. The Greensboro News & Record described the ordeal in a 2015 retrospective on the case: He was near death at a Chapel Hill hospital, hooked to a ventilator, his liver, kidneys and heart failing. She's going to come back out and she's going to testify eventually, and her response to it is, 'you'll see. In each case, defendant had motive (financial), opportunity (close relationship), and means (knowledge of and access to Anti-Ant). During the trial, the prosecution recounted Reid's agonizing death in meticulous and horrific detail. 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. Her body and Jadons both were found buried in the backyard of a vacant rental house in June 2011. 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. His long and distinguished career ended May 29, 1986. Famed American conductor Leonard Bernstein, composer of "West Side Story," died at 72. 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. An older sister, Rolanda Hedgepeth, was 18 when Faith was born, and was like a second mother to her. 1 is Henry Louis Wallace, who was charged with strangling 10 women in Charlotte in the. He killed her and dumped her body in a lake, where it was discovered weeks later. Attorneys have appealed, asked for a retrial and argued that MacDonald should be exonerated. 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.". Books, songs and poems were written about the Lawson murders (a bluegrass song about the crime became so popular that mothers reportedly sang it to their babies instead of lullabies). 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. 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. 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. On Jan. 1, 1986, he rang in the new year with severe nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. So he did, from Honeysuckle Rose to Lets Talk Dirty in Hawaiian.. One of the world's worst serial killers remains unknown, even after killing 32 elderly women between 2011 and 2012. Moore testified that he bought the Anti-Ant at Byrd's and gave the bottle to Blanche. Learn more: True-crime writer Jim Schutze published Preachers Girl: The Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore in 1993. In 1994, a TV movie based on Bitter Blood aired on CBS. Henry Louis Wallace is a convicted serial killer who was accused of killing 10 women in Charlotte during the early 1990s. 5. Hedgepeth was a sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill when she was killed. 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 a subsequent trial and conviction, Wallace (a . So, who are some of the most notorious criminals and serial killers in North Carolina history? The two were wed April 19, 1989. Both women worked at Bojangles. 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. 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