Upchurch will be eligible for parole in 2022. 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. 6. He detonated an explosive inside his vehicle, killing himself as well has his girlfriend, Susie Lynch, and her two sons. "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. Wallace accompanied his sister to Jumpers funeral. These sisters hold the Guinness World Record for " Most Prolific Murder Partnership ," a dubious honor they earned due to their estimated 91 kills . The shocking discovery led to an investigation. Brooke Cain is a North Carolina native who has worked at The News & Observer for more than 25 years. [8] Mecklenburg County public defender Isabel Day served as an official witness and photographer. In each case defendant was frequently alone with the victim in the hospital, and medical testimony suggests that certain of defendant's visits in which she fed the victim corresponded with an onset of symptoms characteristic of arsenic poisoning. Hedgepeth was a sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill when she was killed. "He's crying because his murderer isn't coming to see him! 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. 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.". [2] He pawned everything except the car, which he left at a local shopping center. Fritz worked in Reidsville with his father, Dr. Fred Klenner, while pretending to be in medical school at Duke. In chronological order, here are some of the most memorable cases in our states history. Hawk and Wallace both worked at Taco Bell. Some serial killers are known for killing children, like David Meirhofer in Montana. Attorneys in North Carolina still consider the Hennis case when determining whether and how to display crime scene photos at trial. The victims: Jadon Higganbotham, 4, was the son of Vania Rae Sisk, a member of Moses cult. Police said it looked like a professional hit. He was arrested on March 13, 1994. 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. Some of them seek out public notoriety, engaging with the crowds, actively creating their public image. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1985 and was honorably discharged in 1992 after he was caught stealing. ", 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.". In each case, defendant had motive (financial), opportunity (close relationship), and means (knowledge of and access to Anti-Ant). Her body and Jadons both were found buried in the backyard of a vacant rental house in June 2011. On January 29, he was handed nine death sentences.[7]. [2] A few days after her murder, Wallace and his sister went to Valencia's funeral, even sending her family condolences. Learn more: The whole sordid story is detailed in Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder, a true-crime book by Jerry Bledsoe. Todd Kohlhepp, convicted of killing seven people, is considered one of the South's most notorious serial killers. A month later, on September 14, 1993, Wallace went to the apartment of 20-year-old Michelle Stinson, a college student and friend of his from Taco Bell. 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. [2], Wallace went to several colleges before joining the U.S. Navy in 1985. . The revelation of Michaels bisexuality (and the question of whether Kathleen knew) and his multiple affairs. 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. His arsenic levels were 60 times higher than normal. Following his sentencing, Wallace made a statement to his victims' families. Juana Barraza next to a bust the police used to help in the search for a serial murder suspect at the Mexico City police headquarters. ", 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.". In 1994, the high court concluded that Moore had received a fair trial and rejected the defense's motions. 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. That year, Elizabeth Montgomery (Samantha from Bewitched) played Moore in a TV movie called Black Widow Murders, based on the book. Ad the story has been repeated on popular true-crime podcasts, including Criminal and My Favorite Murder.. She was verbally abusive, criticizing her son for even the smallest mistakes. [2] In Washington, he was served warrants for several burglaries in and around the Seattle metro area. She was born in North Carolina in 1933, one of seven children. Wallace is sometimes called The Charlotte Strangler and The Taco Bell Strangler. Here's what Insider had to say: It is a fate she didn't leave to her suspected string of victims. Kiser Sr., her mother-in-law, Isla Taylor, her first husband, James N. Taylor, and a former co-worker, Joseph Mitchell. 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. We'll take a look at the crimes of: Donald Gaskins Lee Roy Martin Todd Kohlhepp Patrick Tracy Burris Susan Smith ( Source) Donald Gaskins Donald Gaskins was born in 1933 in Southern Florence County, South Carolina. He also strangled her son, but the baby survived. Police Chief Dennis Nowicki later apologized for not recognizing a link between all of the murders earlier. However, they never got a chance to arrest and charge him for his crimes. 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. The outcome: A military jury at his third trial found Hennis guilty of the murders and sentenced him to death. During her time in prison, Barfield got off drugs, became a born-again Christian and received praise from Billy Graham for ministering to prisoners. 4. She was the first woman in the United States to be executed after the 1976 resumption of capital punishment and the first since 1962. Susie Newsom Lynch, along with her first cousin and lover Fritz Klenner, killed nine people, including themselves, in 1984 and 1985. The revelation of the death of family friend Elizabeth Ratliff, also found dead at the bottom of a staircase in Germany in 1985. 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. 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: The New Yorker magazine has a thorough summary of the case through 2011. That confession letter is one of the many bizarre facets of this grim saga. In 2017, Peterson entered an Alford plea, pleading guilty to manslaughter while not admitting actual guilt, and was free with time served. Dwight Moore became violently ill after eating a chicken sandwich his new wife offered him. In the letter, Thomas allegedly confessed to killing Reid and trying to fatally poison Reid. She was a member of the Haliwa-Saponi tribal community. So, who are some of the most notorious criminals and serial killers in North Carolina history? He'd been scheduled to appear in court the next day. "'Please help me or I'm going to die," Hutchens recalled Reid telling her. 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. 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). 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. But the dramatically increased interest in the genre is evidenced by and likely fueled by our increased access to the stories. Here are some of the other most famous serial killers from the area. Thorpe was the first of the Edgecombe County Serial Killer's victims to be found in this location, but not the last. Historical records do not agree with all of the legend, but Fisher was hanged for her crimes in the end. One of America's most notorious serial killers, Robert Hansen was called 'The Butcher Baker' as he owned a bakery. 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. But how many other victims does he have?#murdersquadmondays #keepdigging pic.twitter.com/u9k7jtiThR. At some point during the editing of the series, the editor Sophie Brunet fell in love with Peterson and began a relationship with him, traveling from Paris to North Carolina to visit him in prison, and even lived in Durham for a time. He later told police he thought Spain might have the combination to the safe at Taco Bell. [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. Daniel Glen Printz, 59, of Bostic,. 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. 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.". Brenda Green, a Kroger co-worker, testified that she heard Blanche recommend Anti-Ant to a customer as a good ant killer. The victims were: Fannie, 37; Marie, 17; Carrie, 12; Maybell, 7; James, 4; Raymond, 2; and Mary Lou, 4 months old. Barfield also confessed to poisoning and killing her mother, Lillian Bullard, in 1974; Dollie Edwards, an elderly woman for whom Barfield was a caretaker, in 1976; and John Henry Lee, the husband of a woman for whom Barfield was a caretaker, in 1977. South Carolina's most prolific serial killer is from Florence County. 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. The serial killer committed the crimes between May 1992 and March 1994. Lee Roy Martin (?1938 - May 31, 1972) Juan Ignacio Blanco There is not much known about Lee Roy's childhood. But the end of his killing spree occurred in Florida, after he fled a Colorado prison ( for the . Moore is awaiting execution in North Carolina for her boyfriend's 1986 arsenic poisoning. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2001 denied his appeal. Surviving son Arthur died in an automobile accident in 1945 at age 31. 8. In 1975, after continued pressure from Colettes father, a U.S. Justice Department attorney presented a case against MacDonald to a grand jury in North Carolina. Wallace raped and strangled Caroline Love at her apartment in June 1992 and then dumped her body in a wooded area in Charlotte. ", 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.". He was convicted and sentenced to death and is currently awaiting his execution on death row. It was later determined that John and Jim were dead before the explosion, having been poisoned and shot in the head by their mother. In October of 1990, President George H.W. During the trial, the prosecution recounted Reid's agonizing death in meticulous and horrific detail. In 1985, U.S. Army soldier Timothy Hennis quickly became a suspect in the murder of a Fayetteville woman and two of her young daughters. 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. 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. Both Pritchard and Henderson testified against Upchurch, who was found guilty of several charges, including first-degree murder. An older sister, Rolanda Hedgepeth, was 18 when Faith was born, and was like a second mother to her. After Lopez's arrest in 1980, police found the graves of more than 50 of his preteen victims. pic.twitter.com/8V9eyK0z12. After being treated for his injuries, all the while claiming they were attacked by three men, he was charged for his family's murder. In 2013, Hill, 50, of Jennings, pleaded guilty to strangling Janice Mayhew in 2008 and Sierra Sullivan in 2009. Stinson was a college student and single mother of two small sons. ", 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. 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. He is currently awaiting execution at Central Prison in Raleigh. Janet Branch Downing, the lead prosecutor at Blanche Moores trial, stepped into traffic on Interstate 485 in Charlotte in 2015 and was killed. pic.twitter.com/LNq8pJSH0O. On March 8, 1990, Wallace murdered 18-year-old Tashanda Bethea,[3] a Barnwell High School student. Blanche Taylor Moore hears the jury's verdict at her murder trial in Winston-Salem. "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. In fact, she denied ever seeing him "have any food at all during that time" or having ever taken food to him in the hospital. Here are just a few of the other twists and turns, which never seem to stop coming. That June, he pled guilty to second-degree burglary. One of the world's most prolific serial killers might still be out there. For 12 hours, he confessed to the murders of 10 Charlotte women. Wallace would sexually assault, beat, and strangle his victims, including once in front of the woman's son. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Harold Shipman: "Dr. Death" who killed 218 patients. So he did, from Honeysuckle Rose to Lets Talk Dirty in Hawaiian.. 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 . The outcome: Starting in July 1970, the Army held Article 32 proceedings. Multiple cable TV and streaming outlets are now devoted entirely to telling true crime stories, not to mention hundreds of podcasts and tens of thousands of books and news stories (like this one). Dwight Moore was the divorced pastor of what was then Carolina United Church of Christ in Alamance County. [citation needed]. This story was originally published June 24, 2022, 6:00 AM. Donald Harry "Pee Wee" Gaskins Jr. Jennings Barfield, Velmas second husband who died in 1971 less than a year after their marriage, was exhumed after Taylors death and found to have arsenic in his system. 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. Ted Bundy Ted Bundy. [2] In 1992, Wallace was honorably discharged from the Navy. Closer to home, an unimaginable murder trial was the talk of North Carolina. Her dream was to become a pediatrician and return to her community to work. She's maintained her innocence throughout her long incarceration, but the chilling evidence suggests otherwise. Despite the damning and disturbing evidence, the defense seemed optimistic. The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld the sentences in 2000. 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. He raped, strangled, and stabbed her 38 times in the stomach and chest before taking money from the apartment for drugs. In 1998, Wallace married prison nurse Rebecca Torrijas, 23 years his elder. 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. 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. By March 12, 1994, Charlotte police were onto Wallace and there was a citywide hunt for him. Victims: 8-200. He attended Barnwell High School, where he was elected to the student council and was a cheerleader. 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. Dr. Harold Shipman, nicknamed "Dr. Death" after his horrific killing spree came to light, was sentenced to life in prison after . Lieth Steins family owned the Camel City Dry Cleaning chain in Winston-Salem, and his estate was worth $2 million. Active: 1969-1975. Police found that Katie Eastburn had been raped and stabbed and her throat had been slit. MacDonald claimed that intruders three men and a woman with long blond hair who was chanting, Acid is groovy. 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 . 9. 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? He knew her through her sister, who was a co-worker of his at Taco Bell. The story of Helen Clevenger. In November 1991, Wallace relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina. 0:56. 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. 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. Thus ended the bizarre life of Fritz Klenner at 32 years old on June 3 36 years ago. The FBI coined the term serial killer during the 1970s, because of all the killings that were happening across the country. 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. Sultan argued for a life sentence without parole instead of the death penalty. America has a dark and checkered past. 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. Perkins drove Fritz to a wealthy Winston-Salem neighborhood to carry out his mission. And a meteorite exploded above the Pacific Ocean. 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. 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 . Because of the publicity in the case, many family members never believed that she would get a fair trial. 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. Wallace raped her and then strangled and stabbed her in front of her 3-year-old son. We'll deal with it," defense attorney David Tamer said afterward. 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. Repealing North Carolinas pistol permit law makes everyone less safe | Opinion, A raw bar, Asian restaurant, ice cream shop and arcade debut at Concord food hall, Lottery player heard of unclaimed $1 million Powerball win. 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. 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. [1], Henry Louis Wallace was born in Barnwell, South Carolina,[2] the son of Lottie Mae Wallace. Reid's son Steven Reid testified that he visited his father on Oct. 4 and found him eating breakfast prepared by Blanche. North Carolinas judicial history is filled with captivating true-crime tales, and many have drawn national attention and set legal precedent. Let it come. So the Army called him back to active duty to court-martial him on the charges, though the murders were committed off post. It's odorless, tasteless, and builds up in the human body. He killed her and dumped her body in a lake, where it was discovered weeks later. 1 Volga Maniac. Those drug traffickers were actually Susies parents and grandmother: Bob and Florence Newsom, and Bobs mother, Hattie. Surveillance footage shows them arriving at 12:40 a.m. and surveillance footage shows them leaving the club at 2:06 a.m. Pete Moses, 34, remains in prison in Columbus County. 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. For full coverage of HBO Maxs The Staircase and other background on the death of Kathleen Peterson and the murder trial of Michael Peterson, visit: newsobserver.com/topics/staircase. INVESTIGATION YIELDS SHOCKING DISCOVERIES. She was convicted of killing her fiance, but eventually made official confessions to killing three others. She was beaten by Moses and the others and then shot. Perkins went on to wear a wire for the police in an effort to catch Fritz. Dwight Moore, filed for divorce in December of 1990. Prosecutors said Burch shot him twice in the head with a .22-caliber rifle as he sat on the couch. 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. I'm not guilty. ", "I think if there's any doubt about the tie-in between Blanche Moore and these three individuals and their arsenic poisoning, it comes from the actual confession letter itself, your honor.". Chris Pritchard remained on the N.C. State campus the night of the attack in order to establish an alibi. I'm not supposed to be in jail at all,'" one of her defense attorneys proclaimed. She'll likely die from cancer (which she's fought in the past) or natural causes rather than for her crimes. 5. She is suspected of killing at least two additional people. Steven Reid testified that when he arrived on the evening of Oct. 6, he hardly recognized his father. After he graduated in 1983, Wallace became a disc jockey for a Barnwell radio station. A large dose will kill someone in. 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 . 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