Though it's easy to think that nothing bad like that has happened in North Carolina, the Tar Heel State has seen plenty of heinous crimes through its history. In November 1991, Wallace relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina. The outcome: The three boys were all arrested and charged in July 1989 and the trial took place in January 1990. He has been through too much. Bush condemned Iraq's takeover of Kuwait. 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. He was arrested on March 13, 1994. Lieth Steins family owned the Camel City Dry Cleaning chain in Winston-Salem, and his estate was worth $2 million. The victims: It was the Rev. He also stole her TV and car, then returned to her apartment later to steal her VCR. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. reported in September 2017 that Stager participates in a Community Leave program, Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder, a true-crime book by Jerry Bledsoe, remained on the N.C. State campus the night of the attack, Blood Games by North Carolina author Jerry Bledsoe, attracted police attention to Blanche Moore, Moore was bringing him food laced with more arsenic, Preachers Girl: The Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore, Crime Magazine has a detailed account of Wallaces crimes, Faith Hedgepeth Memorial Scholarship fund, podcast series about the Hedgepeth murder called Pursuit., the full Hedgepeth timeline published at newsobserver.com, Raleigh clown sent joy to his sick friend with a song a day more than 1,300 of them, Chatham County housing authority director arrested, accused of $200,000+ in wire fraud, Alligator living at Walmart in NC stirs debate, as many demand it be allowed to stay, 2 popular chain restaurants get B grades: Triangle sanitation scores (Feb. 28). Over the next two years, Wallace's case was delayed over the choice of venue, DNA evidence from murdered victims, and jury selection. Serial killer Henry Louis Wallace killing spree began in 1990 with the murder of Tashonda Bethea in his hometown of Barnwell, South Carolina. Thorpe was the first of the Edgecombe County Serial Killer's victims to be found in this location, but not the last. [2] Slaughter's body was found on March 12, 1994. He eventually remarried and moved to Virginia. He stabbed her 38 times in the stomach and chest. Dr. Harold Shipman, nicknamed "Dr. Death" after his horrific killing spree came to light, was sentenced to life in prison after . 1. Barfields first husband, Thomas Burke, died in a house fire in 1969. On January 29, he was handed nine death sentences.[7]. 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. 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]. 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. Following his sentencing, Wallace made a statement to his victims' families. [2], Wallace went to several colleges before joining the U.S. Navy in 1985. Image credit: oxygen . 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. Sultan argued for a life sentence without parole instead of the death penalty. 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. He was good to us. Between May of 1992 and March of 1994, Henry Louis Wallace would take the lives of at least 10 innocent women. 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. Janet Branch Downing, the lead prosecutor at Blanche Moores trial, stepped into traffic on Interstate 485 in Charlotte in 2015 and was killed. 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. On June 22, Wallace raped and strangled his Taco Bell co-worker and manager, Audrey Spain, 24. 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. pic.twitter.com/8V9eyK0z12. Gary Michael Hilton, a serial killer sentenced to death for the 2007 murder of Crawfordville nurse Cheryl Dunlap is in court today for an evidentiary hearing for his sentence appeal. Chris Pritchard remained on the N.C. State campus the night of the attack in order to establish an alibi. 5. 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. Some serial killers are known for killing children, like David Meirhofer in Montana. 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. No trial date has been set. Will a warm February mean a brutal spring or summer? [2] She was also his girlfriend's roommate and a college student. These sisters hold the Guinness World Record for " Most Prolific Murder Partnership ," a dubious honor they earned due to their estimated 91 kills . 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 beat her to death when she asked for payment for her services, then dropped her body by railroad tracks. 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. 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. Famed American conductor Leonard Bernstein, composer of "West Side Story," died at 72. Wallace is sometimes called The Charlotte Strangler and The Taco Bell Strangler. 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. Tommy Dean Welch had reportedly been at Algarad's home, along with Burch and others. He was the fourth person to die in the electric chair after reinstatement of the death penalty in South Carolina. Mack had two young daughters. "In each case, defendant was heard to say that she hated the victim or that the victim was cruel or evil. "Well, she hasn't made a lot of comment about it, but in her chance to reflect on that, and see how she's going to take that, she's not going to take that. The following is a summary of other notable killers in South Carolina . [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". 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). Most of his victims were strippers and sex workers. 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. Investigation Discovery shows are usually available to stream on discovery+. Several weeks later, he was at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. Blanche Taylor Moore's current prison mugshot. He killed her and dumped her body in a lake, where it was discovered weeks later. "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. 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. 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. But as the guilty plea was read and jurors filed past, she wept. 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. In October 1990, Blanche Moore went on trial in Forsyth County for the death of Raymond Reid. But the jury disagreed, unanimously finding "the defendant, Blanche K. Taylor Moore, guilty of first-degree murder.". Wallace described in detail the women's appearances, as well as how he raped, robbed, and killed the women.[2][5]. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1985 and was honorably discharged in 1992 after he was caught stealing. The victims: Lieth Von Stein was stabbed to death, but Bonnie, stabbed and bludgeoned, survived. 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. Gaskins started his criminal patterns young . 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. Remarkably, Reid again improved. A couple months after she quit, Blanche had Ray Reid over on New Year's Eve and served him some of her homemade potato soup. A lock icon or https:// means you've safely connected to the official website. He confessed to the victims that could be tied to him. So, who are some of the most notorious criminals and serial killers in North Carolina history? Ten days later, she got a stay of execution pending an appeal. That confession letter is one of the many bizarre facets of this grim saga. He is being held at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, while his attorneys appeal. 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 repeatedly stabbed each of his victims with a knife and an ice pick before turning the blades on himself, though less severely. 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). On Jan. 1, 1986, he rang in the new year with severe nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Rodney Alcala was an American serial killer whose good looks and high IQ helped him lure victims. ", 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.". He later became a born-again Christian. Lee Roy Martin (?1938 - May 31, 1972) Juan Ignacio Blanco There is not much known about Lee Roy's childhood. Prosecutors argued that MacDonald had concocted the intruder story after reading a magazine story about the 1969 Manson Family killings. Insider compiled a list of the most notorious serial killer from each state, from widely-known murderers like Ted Bundy and Ed Kemper to local infamous killers like Lady Bluebird and the Honolulu Strangler. Ratfliffs body was exhumed by Durham investigators and an autopsy was performed, and her death was determined to be the result of blunt force trauma. 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. According to Jim Schutze's 1993 book about the case, "Preacher's Girl: The Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore," he met Blanche on Easter Sunday 1985 and the two began spending time together. The synopsis is culled from Bledsoes news stories, which were the basis of his best-selling book. A large dose will kill someone in. 11. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2001 denied his appeal. A native New Yorker who went off to Princeton University on a scholarship, Jeffrey MacDonald married his high school sweetheart, Colette Kathryn Stevenson, after she got pregnant with his child. In the letter, Thomas allegedly confessed to killing Reid and trying to fatally poison Reid. [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. Victims: 8-200. Thirty-five-year-old Jackie Thorpe was the next victim reported missing, and she was quickly found on August 17th near the Seven Bridges Road. According to several witnesses, Blanche told doctors in the moments after Reid's death that "We cannot have an autopsy. Wallace was tried for the last nine murders and found guilty on Jan. 7, 1997. After Wallace murdered her, he took a considerable amount of valuables from the house, then left the apartment with her car. Reid's son Steven Reid testified that he visited his father on Oct. 4 and found him eating breakfast prepared by Blanche. [citation needed]. He went on to rape and murder nine women in Charlotte, North Carolina between 1992 and 1994. She was convicted of killing her fiance, but eventually made official confessions to killing three others. [2], During his time in the Navy, Wallace began using several drugs, including crack cocaine. 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. This story was originally published June 24, 2022, 6:00 AM. Her body and Jadons both were found buried in the backyard of a vacant rental house in June 2011. Moore and Reid worked together for years at Kroger, beginning in 1962, according to court records, but didn't begin a romantic relationship until 1979. He was given three life sentences. Dwight Moores sudden and severe illness within days of his marriage in April 1989 that attracted police attention to Blanche Moore and got them wondering about the deaths of several men in her life over several decades. The story of The Black Widow, Blanche Taylor Moore. At Baptist Hospital, Dr. Robert Hamilton began with a preliminary diagnosis of Guillain Barre syndrome. On March 8, 1994, Wallace robbed, raped, and strangled 24-year-old Betty Jean Baucom a day after her birthday. He was nicknamed the Taco Bell Strangler due to several of his victims working for the fast food chain where he was also employed. Also attending was the manager of the Death Row unit at the prison. The story has also been the subject of multiple TV shows such as Forensic Files and American Justice. A TV movie based on Bledsoes book starred Jaclyn Smith. 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. Dwight Moore said in 1994 after a hearing before the State Supreme Court. 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. The Army dropped the charges, and MacDonald moved to California to work in a hospital emergency room. 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. Perkins drove Fritz to a wealthy Winston-Salem neighborhood to carry out his mission. 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. Daniel Glen Printz, 59, of Bostic,. On Nov. 16, 1990, she was sentenced to death. The shocking discovery led to an investigation. . Wallace was arrested on March 13, 1994. Petersons defense teams planning and the trial were recorded by a French documentary film crew, who had unprecedented access to Petersons family and attorneys. 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. Former "Bewitched" star Elizabeth Montgomery played Moore in "Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story.". Wallace raped and strangled another Taco Bell co-worker, Audrey Spain, in June 1993. In 1994, a TV movie based on Bitter Blood aired on CBS. When police spotted him in Greensboro in June 1985, they knew he was dangerous. From mass shootings to serial killers, the country has some of the most prolific and brutal killers ever recorded. Lee Roy Martin Martin, known as the Gaffney Strangler, was convicted of four murders and was sentenced to four life terms. He was 50 years old. Her husband, the Rev. 8. They discovered that her first husband as well as Reid had died under suspicious circumstances. Blanche Moore took the stand in her defense and denied ever feeding Reid in the ICU at the hospital. In the same article, her other daughter, Vanessa Woods, said Reid "was a very good man. Wallace accompanied his sister to Jumpers funeral. A glass dome was placed over the cake and it sat on display in the home for years. 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. After killing his family, Lawson walked into the nearby woods and shot himself to death. He then set her body on fire to cover up the crime. In 2009, he . "Mom never expected to spend the rest of her life by herself. Pee Wee Gaskins was put to death September 6, 1991. Less than five months later, Reid died at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. He raped Henderson while she held her baby and then strangled her. State Government websites value user privacy. "I mean that's just my opinion, but I think she did it.". Wallace later went with McKnight and Loves sister to file a missing persons report. Blanche Moore's family was also devastated. Soon after, Reid suffered a serious setback. 9. [2] A few days after her murder, Wallace and his sister went to Valencia's funeral, even sending her family condolences. America has a dark and checkered past. Can you imagine anything more pitiful in this whole world? In 2012, filmmaker Errol Morris set about proving MacDonald was innocent and published A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald.. Here are some of the other most famous serial killers from the area. Frederick Robert Klenner Jr. Frederick Rober Klenner Jr. was considered a mass murderer who killed several victims between 1984 and 1985. He attended Barnwell High School, where he was elected to the student council and was a cheerleader. MacDonald claimed that intruders three men and a woman with long blond hair who was chanting, Acid is groovy. Fast forward to 2019, and Moore, who will turn 86 on Sunday, is the oldest person on North Carolina's death row. 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. Her parents are Roland and Connie Hedgepeth. 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. We'll let you know the identity of some of the most active and famous South Carolina serial killers, and what makes them want to kill. Chris Pritchards sister, Angela, was asleep in another part of the house and told police she slept through the whole thing. Until Wallace's murder pace picked up in the early weeks of March 1994, the deaths were sporadic and not entirely similar. Ad the story has been repeated on popular true-crime podcasts, including Criminal and My Favorite Murder.. Societys fascination with real-life murders and mysteries is not new, despite the relatively new and ubiquitous true crime label it has received. 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. 22, 2022 at 9:22 AM PDT. "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. The victim: Kathleen Peterson, a Nortel Networks executive, died in a pool of blood at the bottom of the back staircase of the couples Durham mansion in the early morning hours of December 9, 2001. Two of those exhumed bodies, those of her father, who died in 1966, and mother-in-law, had high levels of arsenic, but not lethal doses, the medical examiner concluded. of serial killings: 793. 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. A judge sentenced him to two years of supervised probation. Donald Harry "Pee Wee" Gaskins Jr. 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. Or https: // means you & # x27 ; ve safely connected to the:... 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