Moore is awaiting execution in North Carolina for her boyfriend's 1986 arsenic poisoning. 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. 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. Susie and Tom split in 1979 and she gained custody of their two sons, John and Jim. Wallace killed Michelle Stinson, a frequent Taco Bell customer who became friendly with him, in September 1993. Henry Louis Wallace was convicted of the murders of 10 young black women in Charlotte, North Carolina. Hawk had worked at Taco Bell where Wallace was her supervisor.[2]. Prosecutors said Burch shot him twice in the head with a .22-caliber rifle as he sat on the couch. Some of them seek out public notoriety, engaging with the crowds, actively creating their public image. He confessed to the victims that could be tied to him. Police said Moses shot and killed the child in the garage of the home in the fall of 2010 because he thought the boy was gay. Blanche Taylor Moore now passes the time in a cell in Raleigh. Thus ended the bizarre life of Fritz Klenner at 32 years old on June 3 36 years ago. She was convicted of killing her fiance, but eventually made official confessions to killing three others. Here's what Insider had to say: So the Army called him back to active duty to court-martial him on the charges, though the murders were committed off post. She had worked at a Bojangles at the time of the disappearance. There is no date set for his execution. Rodney Alcala was an American serial killer whose good looks and high IQ helped him lure victims. 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. On March 9, 2017, Amber Burch pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, armed robbery, and accessory after the fact to murder. He knew her through her sister, who was a co-worker of his at Taco Bell. (Wallace later confessed to visiting the remains three times.) He stabbed her 38 times in the stomach and chest. The arsenic in Reid's brain tissue was approximately 67 times higher than normal. Most of his victims were strippers and sex workers. 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. On February 20, 1994, a day after Shawnas mother appealed to the public to find her daughter's murderer, Wallace raped and strangled Vanessa Little Mack, 25, in her west Charlotte apartment. 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. [8] Mecklenburg County public defender Isabel Day served as an official witness and photographer. 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. Blanche Taylor Moore's current prison mugshot. He was charged with the murders. Alien pod on Outer Banks tree looks and feels like hair, park says. He raped, strangled, and stabbed her 38 times in the stomach and chest before taking money from the apartment for drugs. The outcome: Starting in July 1970, the Army held Article 32 proceedings. Victims: 8-200. She rose to head cashier, the highest position a woman could hold at the time and was said to be a good employee. 3 The Edgecombe County Serial Killer. 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. 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. In 1980, she became reacquainted with her cousin Fritz, whose mother was also the sister of Judge Susie Sharp. Frederick Robert Klenner Jr. Frederick Rober Klenner Jr. was considered a mass murderer who killed several victims between 1984 and 1985. Russ had even made audiotapes about his suspicions, noting that his wife would wake him up at 4:30 a.m. to give him sleeping pills. Perkins drove Fritz to a wealthy Winston-Salem neighborhood to carry out his mission. 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. Her daughters, Erin and Kara, ages 3 and 5, had been slashed and were dead. 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. Police described Pete Lucas Moses Jr. as the leader of a religious cult whose members lived with him at a house in Durham. He killed her and dumped her body in a lake, where it was discovered weeks later. An ID Murder Mystery aired. 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. "He's crying because his murderer isn't coming to see him! 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. Her defense argued before the North Carolina State Supreme Court that Moore had not received a fair trial and that the other deaths should not have been allowed as evidence. During the investigation, police also asked Barbara if she would reenact what happened the night Russ died. 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. All Rights Reserved. In 1994, the high court concluded that Moore had received a fair trial and rejected the defense's motions. He later became a born-again Christian. 8. Let it come. Toxicology tests showed Dwight Moore had ingested more than 100 times the amount of arsenic normally found in humans. [2] A few days after her murder, Wallace and his sister went to Valencia's funeral, even sending her family condolences. ", 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.". In October of 1990, President George H.W. 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. [2] Slaughter's body was found on March 12, 1994. The outcome: A military jury at his third trial found Hennis guilty of the murders and sentenced him to death. Historical records do not agree with all of the legend, but Fisher was hanged for her crimes in the end. INVESTIGATION YIELDS SHOCKING DISCOVERIES. Frederick Rober Klenner Jr. was considered a mass murderer who killed several victims between 1984 and 1985. "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. Blanche Moore had maintained a detached demeanor during the trial, with a tight smile for the cameras tightly trained on her throughout. 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. Dwight Moore became violently ill after eating a chicken sandwich his new wife offered him. 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. 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. 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. [2], During his time in the Navy, Wallace began using several drugs, including crack cocaine. He worked as a manager at the Taco Bell on North Sharon Amity Road in Charlotte and nearly all of his victims were employees there, or friends and co-workers of his girlfriend at Bojangles. 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. Published: Jun. 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. Stinson was a college student and single mother of two small sons. "I guess it brought back a lot of memories. But the end of his killing spree occurred in Florida, after he fled a Colorado prison ( for the . They returned to Rosarios apartment. 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. 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. Because of the publicity in the case, many family members never believed that she would get a fair trial. "But yet it all seems to point that way. According to probation officer Patrick Seaburg, Wallace did not show up for most mandatory meetings. On May 30, 1986, as Reid's condition worsened, he was admitted to Wesley Long Hospital in Greensboro. According to the FBI, a murderer becomes serial when they kill two or more people in separate events. Daniel Glen Printz, 59, of Bostic,. It was later determined that John and Jim were dead before the explosion, having been poisoned and shot in the head by their mother. America has a dark and checkered past. The Insider compiled a list of the most notorious serial killer by state, and North Carolina's No. When police spotted him in Greensboro in June 1985, they knew he was dangerous. She was at UNC on a Gates Millennium Scholarship for advanced minority students. The victims: In July 1984, Delores Lynch and Janie Lynch, the mother and sister of Tom Lynch, were shot at close range with a high-powered weapon inside Delores home in Kentucky. [2], On February 4, 1994, Wallace was arrested for shoplifting, but police did not make a connection between him and the murders.[2]. He went to medical school at Northwestern University in Chicago and, in 1969, joined the U.S. Army and moved to Fort Bragg, N.C., where he became a surgeon in the 6th Special Forces Group. ", 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 wouldn't want to be cut on like this. Puzzled physicians initially attributed his Oct. 7, 1986, death to Guillain-Barr syndrome. Pee Wee Gaskins was put to death September 6, 1991. She also testified that though she had heard of Anti-Ant, an ant poison containing arsenic, she had never bought it or asked anyone to do so. Authorities exhumed the bodies of Reid, Blanche's father, P.D. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand. Image credit: oxygen . After he killed her, Wallace, his girlfriend, and her sister filed a missing person's report at the police station. 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). Despite the damning and disturbing evidence, the defense seemed optimistic. Her death was ruled a suicide. 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. 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. Blanche Taylor Moore hears the jury's verdict at her murder trial in Winston-Salem. Both Pritchard and Henderson testified against Upchurch, who was found guilty of several charges, including first-degree murder. Here are some of the other most famous serial killers from the area. An older sister, Rolanda Hedgepeth, was 18 when Faith was born, and was like a second mother to her. Wallace raped her and then strangled and stabbed her in front of her 3-year-old son. She left Kroger on Oct. 17, 1985. Her parents are Roland and Connie Hedgepeth. He later told police he thought Spain might have the combination to the safe at Taco Bell. More twists and turns: But the story doesnt stop there. "'Please help me or I'm going to die," Hutchens recalled Reid telling her. 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. 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. 1 Volga Maniac. The story even spawned an FX docuseries in 2020 called A Wilderness of Error. 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. Some serial killers are known for killing children, like David Meirhofer in Montana. 4. At Baptist Hospital, Dr. Robert Hamilton began with a preliminary diagnosis of Guillain Barre syndrome. He was given three life sentences. There is now a Faith Hedgepeth Memorial Scholarship fund, which helps Native American women from a North Carolina tribe earn a higher education. Detectives heard Dwight Moore's story and then began probing into Blanche Moore's background. He is currently awaiting execution at a prison in Raleigh. Dr. Harold Shipman, nicknamed "Dr. Death" after his horrific killing spree came to light, was sentenced to life in prison after . The outcome: Moses pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder to avoid a trial and the possibility of the death penalty. A large dose will kill someone in. By March 12, 1994, Charlotte police were onto Wallace and there was a citywide hunt for him. 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. On Christmas Day in 1929, Stokes County tobacco farmer Charles Lawson brutally murdered his wife and six of his seven children and his motive for the massacre has become one of North Carolinas greatest mysteries. After killing his family, Lawson walked into the nearby woods and shot himself to death. We'll deal with it," defense attorney David Tamer said afterward. 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. In 2017, Peterson entered an Alford plea, pleading guilty to manslaughter while not admitting actual guilt, and was free with time served. 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. One of the world's worst serial killers remains unknown, even after killing 32 elderly women between 2011 and 2012. Brenda Green, a Kroger co-worker, testified that she heard Blanche recommend Anti-Ant to a customer as a good ant killer. The Army dropped the charges, and MacDonald moved to California to work in a hospital emergency room. 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. I'm not supposed to be in jail at all,'" one of her defense attorneys proclaimed. North Carolinas judicial history is filled with captivating true-crime tales, and many have drawn national attention and set legal precedent. Dwight Moore, filed for divorce in December of 1990. Kimberly was found dead in her bed. "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. After he graduated in 1983, Wallace became a disc jockey for a Barnwell radio station. In February 1991, Wallace broke into Barnwell High School and the radio station where he once worked as a disc jockey. North Carolina hasn't executed an inmate since Aug. 18, 2006. 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The case drew interest from around the world because of its many twists and turns, including but not limited to: Michael Peterson was found guilty of first-degree murder in 2003. Lavinia Fisher. Dwight Moore was the divorced pastor of what was then Carolina United Church of Christ in Alamance County. Brooke Cain is a North Carolina native who has worked at The News & Observer for more than 25 years. She also had been beaten in the head and stabbed in the neck at least eight times. 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 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.". He was good to us. 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. 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. In 2005, Superior Court Judge Charles Lamm rejected Wallace's latest appeal to overturn his convictions and death sentences. NC climate expert weighs in. 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.. After a subsequent trial and conviction, Wallace (a . Alaska has the second-highest rate at 7 per 100,000; Louisiana comes in third with 6.5 serial killings per 100,000. 6. Chris Pritchard, whose mother stood by him, admitted to being the mastermind of the scheme, and Henderson pleaded guilty to reduced charges. She has been at the N.C. Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh since Nov. 16, 1990. The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld the sentences in 2000. 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. 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. Perhaps it's the larger populations that lure serial killers to these states. 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. This is our view on which of those make the most notorious serial killers in the world. Over the past few centuries, arsenic poisoning has been a particularly popular way to kill someone. Some tourists even stole souvenir raisins from the top of the Christmas cake, which had sat undisturbed on the kitchen table. However, they never got a chance to arrest and charge him for his crimes. But the jury disagreed, unanimously finding "the defendant, Blanche K. Taylor Moore, guilty of first-degree murder.". Later that night, Wallace returned to The Lake apartment complex and murdered Brandi June Henderson, the girlfriend of a friend. 9. During the trial, the prosecution recounted Reid's agonizing death in meticulous and horrific detail. By that time, his marriage to Maretta had fallen apart. 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. According to court records, Blanche sought and got permission from Dr. Hamilton to bring Reid food from home. 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. An autopsy found that Kathleens death was a homicide, the result of blunt force trauma to the back of her head. She was born Blanche Kiser in Concord, North Carolina, but spent much of her adult life in Alamance County. Wallace raped and strangled Caroline Love at her apartment in June 1992 and then dumped her body in a wooded area in Charlotte. 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). Pedro Lopez is linked to more than 300 murders in his native Colombia and in Ecuador and Peru. Four other people in the cult Jadons mother, Vania Rae Sisk; Lavada Quinzetta Harris; LaRhonda Smith and Mosess brother, P. Leonard Moses pleaded guilty to related charges. Algarad was reportedly found bleeding from a deep wound on one of his arms. Both women worked at Bojangles. Antoinetta McKoy, 28, wrote in a diary that she feared Moses would kill her after she found out she could not have children. After Wallace murdered her, he took a considerable amount of valuables from the house, then left the apartment with her car. Love was a friend of Wallace's girlfriend. 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. Miraculously, some might say through divine intervention, the pastor survived. Because they struggled financially, the family lived a very no-frills lifestyle. It would be almost two years (March 1994) before her body was discovered in a wooded area in Charlotte. pic.twitter.com/LNq8pJSH0O. 7. In opening arguments, prosecutor Marsha Goodnow argued for the death penalty. 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 #wildernessoferror, an @fxdocs original series reexamining the infamous jeffrey macdonald murder case, premieres september 25 on fx & next day #FXonHulu. The victims: Lieth Von Stein was stabbed to death, but Bonnie, stabbed and bludgeoned, survived. 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. She remains on death row, where she is one of three women. 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. When police spotted him in Greensboro in June 1985, they knew he was dangerous. Blanche preferred to stay closer to home, working in Burlington her entire career, except for a brief stint at a store in Durham. Hennis was acquitted in the second trial and went back into the Army, retiring in 2004. 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. 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