But, his life was forever tainted. "I can't blame them for making Ed a suspect, but I can blame them for sticking with it. He was released from jail 10 months after he'd assaulted his grandmother. Ed was still serving 14 months probation at the time, and drinking was a violation of his terms. Most of my friends got 1200 or something. Late last summer, an 18-year-old mental patient named Edward Lewis Humphrey became a suspect in the stabbing deaths of five students at the University of Florida, a grisly series of And when the jail returned it--saying it did not allow cash to be mailed to inmates--Kennedy got a money order. I knew little more about Humphrey than what I knew before this day. She hadn't called us and, finally, the Powells, who lived closer, went over there.". "Get his good side," offers Marti Mackenzie, the publicist. In late August of 1990, a string of Ted Bundy-like murders had shattered the college town of Gainesville, and Humphrey found himself in the center of it. On bad days, witnesses claim, he would act out his military fantasies on the Indialantic boardwalk. Leave him there.'". The killer mutilated the breasts of two of the young women. HE STROLLS INTO YAB YUM, A downtown coffee house, for a cup of hazelnut regular, the flavor of the day, and a book of matches. But it didn't change the way I felt about him. Donvan said. He also decapitated her and posed the head on a bookshelf. "Before that, I was doing awesome. Soon across the country, on network news, CNN and in papers from Seattle to New York, Edward Humphrey, this big, pudgy kid with unkempt hair and scars on his face and a glazed look in his eyes. (A high school portrait shows Christina Powell, who, along with roommate Sonja Larson were the first victims of the serial killer at the University of Florida campus. Her funeral is today. But I thought about the few words that Humphrey uttered in our brief conversation. Humphrey says 10 men chased him and that he pulled a pocketknife--not a razor--in self-defense. Discount stores, supermarkets, a slew of fast-food joints --a lot of places where he applied didn't bother to call, though Ed knew they were hiring. "The first night I was in there, no one told me anything," he says. "I'd come in and there would be books open and calculators out.". The next day Humphrey is reported to be running in circles and talking to himself on Patrick Air Force Base. GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Cindy Juracich was on a trip through the Florida Panhandle in August 1990 when she heard a news report about a grisly string of murders. "Every time they'd mention [Tracy's] name, it was like a punch in the head," Lahey said. When Ed first got out of prison, he tried living in Orlando with his older brother, George, who gave him a cellular phone to carry around as protection. "The state attorney fully intends to prove the guilt of Danny Harold Rolling in these murders. He was supposed to take lithium to temper his mood swings. Before moving to Edward's current city of Palm Bay, FL, Edward lived in Melbourne FL and Indialantic FL. Under state guidelines, he could get nearly two years in prison at sentencing Nov. 8. I hate having my picture taken.". He had dreams of being an architect, his brother, Mario Taboada, said. Humphrey reportedly had been in the surf shop "raising hell" with the female patrons, making general threats, saying they didn't know how many people he had killd, and that he would cut their hearts out. I wanted to ask him so many questions. "Here was a kid who was held up as a ass murderer," Mackenzie says. Then 28, he received a bachelors degree in business administration with a 3.76 grade-point average, graduating magna cum laude. He was sent to Florida State Prison, where he met another inmate named Bobby Lewis, who was on death row for killing a drug dealer in the 1970s. By the time she reported Rolling, police had already arrested another man who they believed to be a suspect in the Gainesville murders. He knew the southwest neighborhoods where the killings took place. The murders were eerily similar to three others that had occurred in Shreveport in November 1989. His face smashed into the windshield, leaving deep wounds, and he broke his leg so badly doctors had to implant a steel rod running from his hip to his knee. You know I'll never, ever get over it completely. Who is Ed Humphrey? TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) _ Gainesville murder suspect Edward Lewis Humphrey was sentenced today to the maximum 22 months for beating his grandmother after his Prior to his death, he spoke to a pastor and handed him a note. Investigators and prosecutors race for justice in an effort that still affects them 30 years later. Investigators had found bloodstained gloves at his home. He talks about politics (he's a Perot man) and his reawakening social life (he just had his first date in two years). That setting seemed to fit what investigators and the media had made of Ed Humphrey, said his brother George, a 1991 University of Florida graduate who was his biggest defender. Edward has no feeling of elation. Edward Lewis Humphrey, a former honors student and an Eagle Scout from Brevard County, began classes at the University of Florida in the summer of 1990. Investigators narrowed their list of prime suspects to four Sunday in the grisly slayings of five students and hinted that the serial killer left ``messages of some importance.' On a breezy spring morning, I traveled from my home in Gainesville to coastal Palm Bay, tucked just under Melbourne on Floridas Atlantic coast. WebLived In Honolulu HI, Morehead City NC, Orange Park FL, Saint Petersburg FL. A top official in the case points out the murders were methodical and elaborately planned. On Aug. 30, the day after the last of the bodies was found, Edward Humphrey--then 19, deeply troubled and wild-looking--was arrested and jailed for assaulting his 79 He was on heavy medication. "Of course you do.". ", "If we had played the tape before, we would've had this guy three months ago," Maines said. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey, Age 51. aka Lewis E Humphrey, Edward J Humphrey, Humphrey Edward Lewis, Humphrey Humphrey. After five students were found brutally slain, a shocked and terrified community demanded quick police action, and the media descended on Gainesville to monitor investigators' every move. Humphrey, who fit a vague FBI profile of the killer, was never charged with murder but the damage to his reputation had been done; his name, marred. Family trouble, mental problems and sheer coincidence seem to be the main factors that put Ed Humphrey into legal limbo. "Recon lock and load!" Others could not sleep. His friends didn't understand: You really don't need that stuff they'd say. The neighbors will shake their heads and shrug their shoulders and echo cliches like He must have snapped. The investigative records on the GainesviUe murders are filled with entries of Ed Humphrey scaring people in the final months before his arrest. And I hated looking in the mirror every time, seeing scars on my face. There is still a court order not to discuss evidence m the case. . He drove to Orlando on a blustery fall day in a black 1978 Cadillac that gets 10 miles to the gallon. When I got a job, .when I got good grades in school, they weren't calling me. "My husband would just sit and say 'Just tell me she died right away. Lawton Chiles in 1994 that helped restore Humphreys civil rights. It might take years of interior erosion before the outside ever begins to crumble. One said it was a "violent" environment. Although they had a confession for the Gainesville murders, investigators were not able to get Rolling to admit to the Shreveport murders during their questioning. He enrolled at University of Central Florida in 1995, taking classes around part-time jobs ranging from cleaning dog kennels and swimming pools to assembling tanning beds and working in factories, according to the Orlando Sentinel. And the sad, sad part about it is that we had the parents behind us on the stairs.". I can't get past that.". I wanted to know whether he still carried the weight of what he had endured almost three decades earlier. But just all of a sudden I got a real bad depression, a real deep depression. That's what did it.". The nude artwork embarrasses him. But after the death of his grandfather and his parents' bitter divorce, Humphrey's personality began to disintegrate while he was a senior at Melbourne High School. So I kept on pressing the button because I wanted her to open the door. He glances again at the photographer. He paced off the measurements--about 10 feet wide and 10 feet long. ", Mackenzie, looking pained, interrupts: "But that was before the plastic surgery. And lately, it turned out, he'd been totally out of control-threatening people, talking about Satan, carrying knives and wearing camouflage. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey was an early suspect in the case of five grisly murders of college students in Gainesville, Florida; one Daniel Rolling was eventually convicted of the killings, Among the evidence was a pubic hair _ similar to Humphrey's _ found at a murder scene, and statements from two witnesses who said they saw Humphrey and Rolling together. While the man had gotten away, the officer found a screwdriver at the campsite, along with the bag of money defaced by the dye and a cassette player with a tape inside. And nothing the driver does makes a bit of difference. I knew that many people with connections to the Gainesville murders had left Florida. ", Marti Mackenzie nods. I had to have my husband stop at the side of the road, and I looked outside and the stars were shining. Rolling wanted to address the court. As for his own behavior, Ed says: "I can't help it if my body (needs) lithium. For Ed's 21st birthday, he sent $221.21. Now he works six days a week, attends community college and wants to become an X-ray technician. And that, perhaps, was all I needed to know. Blood spattered an easy chair, the carpet, the coffee table. She also had tape residue on her body and vinegar -- rather than soap -- which was used to clean her body. It is his 21st birthday, and he is spending it having lunch with a publicist--hired by his attorney--a reporter and a photographer. Ed's bail, originally set at $10,250 was increased to $1 million - 100 to 200 times the scheduled rate for aggravated assault. Now, sitting on the beach, a breeze mussing his blond hair, having just let Eric borrow his surfboard, Ed says Eric was just trying to grab the spotlight, to make himself look good. John Donvan, a former reporter for ABC News who covered the Gainesville cases, said Lewis claimed Rolling told him many of the details of the murders and that Rolling wanted to confess. Copyright 2023 ABC News Internet Ventures. Then, at one point, the man on the tape says his name: Danny Harold Rolling. A judge ordered him removed from the court. "But, for some reason, somehow, that tape escaped us, and I'll freely admit it.". But news of the Gainesville murders haunted Juracich and, in November 1990, she decided to contact police on a hunch that Rolling was connected to the murders in both cities. "This death is devastating to us as a family. "It was the desperation of the time, and the need to get that guy," Smith said. I fell asleep there.". It was a tidy facade, but if you peeked around the corner, things turned messy. Ed ends up on the floor. He stabbed a young man 30 times and cut another woman's torso from her pelvis to her chest. He's had a tough row to hoe.". Maines said they found out that the suspect had broken in by wedging a screwdriver into the door jamb. Especially around his mouth, she says, the skin is much smoother and more elastic and natural-looking. I mean, why don't the girls tell me that? So I got in my car and drove to Palm Bay to meet Ed Humphrey in person. Their leads took them to Humphreys doorstep. Related To Gabrielle Humphrey, Graciela Humphrey, George Humphrey, Elna Humphrey. When does Ed stop being a suspect?". Hammack would have to arrest him. To do so, he claims, would jeopardize the prosecution. When she saw Rolling, she ran back to her bedroom, where she tried to lock her door. You're a killer, a drifter, gone insane.". Officer Steven Smith responds. You're better off without it. 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View their profile including current address, phone number 321-259-XXXX, background check reports, and property record on But Public Defender J.R. Russo said today that some hospitals rejected Humphrey outright and the only ones that would admit him would charge $600 to $1,000 a day, more than the family could afford. Maines said they tested the body fluids from the perpetrator in Shreveport and found that this person also had type B blood. Dave Farley, a senior patrol leader, remembers hiking the Appalachian Trail with Ed, his assistant. You could see [she was] in a bad position, and I just turned around and walked out," Curnutt said. Those who knew Larson said she was a sweet girl, but reserved, and that she liked to work with children. There were mood swings, sudden belligerence and two auto crashes that friends thought were suicide attempts. One grocery store clerk called him at kome later. Hammack stepped inside the wide front door into the living room. Current address 1294 Port Malabar Blvd NE, Palm Bay, FL 32905 $1,080: B. "All I want to know [is] what was she thinking. "It's been a while, you know?" (Edis Catholic.). Humphrey has been jailed on $1 million bond since the beating Aug. 30. His parents split up when Ed was about 11, but they didn't divorce for several years. After a bank robbery, police found the tape along with stolen money, a gun and a screwdriver. "It's a real tragedy for him and his family.". Humphrey will be transferred today or Friday to an Orlando hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and then to the state prison systems mental health facility at Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee, Russo said. He had 1870. Im sorry that we didnt clear him sooner, said Alachua County State Attorney Rod Smith, who wrote a letter to Gov. "I don't want to be on TV," he says. Many panicked. "Oh, that's Ed," the kennel workers will say. They didn't listen to the tape until months later. "It definitely all started when I was 16," he says now. His mug shot fueled growing public speculation and drew hordes of reporters from around the country. Would he answer? "I did that at the time because I read that serial killers like to be in control," Mario Taboada told ABC News. The spokesman, Will Irby, thinks it over, consults his boss and tries again. I mean, it's just a really bad feeling--knowing that wherever you go people are judging you, and they don't even know you. A. Journalist John Donnelly, who covered the story for the Miami Herald, said the officers noticed the unusual way in which Sonja Larson's body was posed. "Grandmother is another victim of those crimes.". To Christina Powell's friend, Alison Emery, said the defense's strategy was a "slap in the face. "But there are some things that you just can't run from and this being one of those.". Also known as Edward Humphery, Earl Edward Humphrey, Edward Humprey, Tara Edwards, E Edward. He is a white, non hispanic male registered to They don't go out and commit crimes like this.". He would not be here, sharing his birthday with the media, were it not for the publicist. Edward Lewis Humphrey, 18, of Indialantic, Fla., held in the Brevard County Jail on a charge of beating his 79-year-old grandmother, has been described by police as And it got worse as more people came forward. He'll never change his name, but some day, he says, when he's done with school, he might move somewhere far away. His brother George moved to Texas and practices law in Houston, but he did not respond to my request for an interview. "I had to know what Sonja went through. Don Lykkebak, Ed's attorney, says, "He was a medical patient at the time who was not being treated. He would, for many years, remain connected to the Gainesville murders, though he played no role. "They're gone but their memory has to always endure," Mario Taboada said. He was the one to call investigators. I walked to my car, trying not to look back, trying not to think about those scars Id seen on his face. He remembers arriving home after midnight and awakening his grandmother. Edward Lewis Humphrey was an early suspect in the case of five grisly murders of college students in Gainesville, Fla. Daniel Rolling was eventually convicted of the killings, but Humphrey was never officially cleared by the police. On Aug. 30, 1990, four days after the first victim was found, Humphrey was arrested after a fight with his grandmother and charged with battery. Yet the lead prosecutor in the case continued to insist that Ed was a suspect in three of the killings, that perhaps he and Rolling had acted together. The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville cited sources it did not identify in today's story about Edward Lewis Humphrey. The muster roll references 44 names. Betty Curnutt, the manager of the apartment complex, said she was standing behind the worker when he broke down the door and that a police officer was behind her. I really don't like reporters. For months Edward Lewis Humphrey was the key suspect in the horrific slayings of five Gainesville students. It was going 60 mph at the time. He was known to carry knives, had been off his medication for a mental health disorder and had visible scars on his face from a car accident. She saw what happened to him once, and she will not risk letting it happen again. During that stretch when Ed couldn't get work, Kennedy sent him $1,000. Without a response, they asked a maintenance worker at the apartment complex for help. This argument, Smith claims, was purely based on a character in the film "Exorcist III," which Danny Rolling had admitted to watching on the week he murdered in Gainesville. Genetic tests conducted on pubic hairs were similar to Ed's - and about 8,000 other people in Alachua County. Tell me she did not suffer.' And I said, 'Holy sh--.' George figured that if someone came after Ed, trying to kill him, Ed could just dial 911. It's going to be worse next time.' Still, Rolling has pleaded innocent--and Don Lykkebak expects Ed will be a target in the trial. "VVhen he was not taking his lithium, he was a clearly diagnosed manic-depressive," Marti Mackenzie says. The perils of his loose lips kept him in custody. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey, Age 51 aka Lewis E Humphrey, Edward J Humphrey, Humphrey Edward Lewis, Humphrey Humphrey Current Address: YVXK San Paulo Cir, Melbourne, FL Past Addresses: Palm Bay FL, Indialantic FL +5 more Phone Number: (321) 544- IQVS +7 phones Email Address: e NNQI @hotmail.com +1 email UNLOCK PROFILE Phone & Email They say Humphrey made a "sawing motion" across his throat with the knife and threatened to get a gun and shoot them. Few who knew him in his early high school days dreamed he would ever become a murder suspect. On it, he admitted to killing 55-year-old William Grissom, 24-year-old Julie Grissom and 8-year-old Sean Grissom in Shreveport. She disagrees. Humphreys off behavior, Mann said, drew attention to him. "He was just the wrong boy at the wrong place at the wrong time--with the wrong malady.". "I've got feelings, too, and that stuff really hurt me. Before moving to Edward's current city of Palm Bay, FL, Edward lived in Melbourne FL and Indialantic FL. And residents there had seen the scar-faced youth wandering around at odd times carrying long knives. A neighbor also reports that the grandson is running in and out of the home - shouting that he is going to murder the grandparents. Russo expressed concern that Humphrey would be placed in the general prison population before the end of his sentence. "Don't take a picture of me with the knife," he says. Do you understand that? The real killer was eventually caught, confessed and was put to death. Kelly McClory, 24, had joined the kennel staff last October. Kennedy even sent money. Current Address: YVXK San Paulo Cir, Melbourne, ), "I screamed," Ada Larson said about discovering her daughter had been killed. I thought, 'Here's a guy who's sort of down and I think I'll cheer him up.". He wore a blue Gator pullover and a voluptuous yawn. I had deliberately chosen 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning so that the chances of him being home would be greater. They wound up having a few drinks and getting in trouble with a security guard at a hotel bar. This time, deputies couldn't just tell Ed to cool off, then file the fight away on an incident report. A television blared. "Their strategy was to keep Ed in jail, to hold him without charging him in the Gainesville case," he says. I am still his friend, and I think what happened to him is wrong. His mother was well-intentioned and caring, but nervous. ), "We had a lot of physical evidence that, according to our technology at the time, placed Ed at some of the scenes," Maines said.
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