A civilian defense attorney tore apart the militarys investigation of the killings and tried to give credence to MacDonalds claims of intruders. Charlotte's police chief rejoiced at Wallace's arrest, reassuring the community that the women of east Charlotte were safe. The arsenic in Reid's brain tissue was approximately 67 times higher than normal. In May 1993, a made-for-TV movie about Moore aired on network television. On January 29, he was handed nine death sentences.[7]. Velma Barfield: Margie Velma Barfield was born in South Carolina in 1932 but raised in Robeson County, where she lived nearly her whole life. In November 1991, Wallace relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina. Instead, Reid became deathly ill and was transferred to North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem on June 13. Hennis, then 27, had been to the home a few days before the killings to adopt a dog. She had worked at a Bojangles at the time of the disappearance. Theodis Hill has said in letters that he has committed five murders. By: Mike McPadden. Wallace raped and strangled another Taco Bell co-worker, Audrey Spain, in June 1993. He also stole her TV and car, then returned to her apartment later to steal her VCR. But as the guilty plea was read and jurors filed past, she wept. 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. On Jan. 1, 1986, he rang in the new year with severe nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. 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. Pee Wee Gaskins was put to death September 6, 1991. 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. Perhaps it's the larger populations that lure serial killers to these states. But the dramatically increased interest in the genre is evidenced by and likely fueled by our increased access to the stories. 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). Books, songs and poems were written about the Lawson murders (a bluegrass song about the crime became so popular that mothers reportedly sang it to their babies instead of lullabies). 5. Susie and Fritz had blown up the Blazer and everything inside it. In chronological order, here are some of the most memorable cases in our states history. 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. According to several witnesses, Blanche told doctors in the moments after Reid's death that "We cannot have an autopsy. [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. He was charged with the murders. Some of them seek out public notoriety, engaging with the crowds, actively creating their public image. There have been a number of appeals attempting to overturn the death sentence even to the U.S. Supreme Court but the decision has been upheld. 2. 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. Over the past few centuries, arsenic poisoning has been a particularly popular way to kill someone. There is now a Faith Hedgepeth Memorial Scholarship fund, which helps Native American women from a North Carolina tribe earn a higher education. South Carolina's most prolific serial killer is from Florence County. Gaskins started his criminal patterns young . In 1994, a TV movie based on Bitter Blood aired on CBS. The state expert, a "questioned documents examiner and forensic chemist," ruled out Thomas as the author to a 99-percent degree of certainty. The police increased their patrols in east Charlotte after two bodies of young black women were found at The Lake Apartments complex. [1], Henry Louis Wallace was born in Barnwell, South Carolina,[2] the son of Lottie Mae Wallace. In 2012, filmmaker Errol Morris set about proving MacDonald was innocent and published A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald.. Even so, Wallace sneaked into rob and strangled Debra Ann Slaughter, 35, who had been his girlfriend's co-worker. At least one-third of those murders were tribal women. Ten days later, she got a stay of execution pending an appeal. Daniel Printz pleaded guilty Tuesday to the kidnapping and murder of 80-year-old Edna Suttles . On March 9, 2017, Amber Burch pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, armed robbery, and accessory after the fact to murder. His long and distinguished career ended May 29, 1986. [2] He found jobs at several fast-food restaurants in East Charlotte before becoming a manager at a Taco Bell near the now-defunct Eastland Mall. Lisa Hutchens, the head nurse in the Intensive Care Unit, testified that she saw Blanche feeding Reid banana pudding on Oct. 1. Learn more: The case is the subject of two true crime books: Blood Games by North Carolina author Jerry Bledsoe, and Cruel Doubt by Joe McGinnis. The victims: Lieth Von Stein was stabbed to death, but Bonnie, stabbed and bludgeoned, survived. Henry Louis Wallace was convicted of the murders of 10 young black women in Charlotte, North Carolina. 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. ", 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.". He was convicted and sentenced to death and is currently awaiting his execution on death row. The outcome: The Durham jury deliberated just 44 minutes before finding Barbara Stager guilty of first-degree murder. Attorneys in North Carolina still consider the Hennis case when determining whether and how to display crime scene photos at trial. Secure websites use HTTPS certificates. 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). MacDonald claimed that intruders three men and a woman with long blond hair who was chanting, Acid is groovy. 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. 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. Other killers are so famous they are known all over the country, like Ted Bundy, the BTK Killer, and John Wayne Gacy. Henry was apprehended and charged in May 1994. 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. He raped, strangled, and stabbed her 38 times in the stomach and chest before taking money from the apartment for drugs. 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. Alaska has the second-highest rate at 7 per 100,000; Louisiana comes in third with 6.5 serial killings per 100,000. This time he set the body on fire to cover up his crime. "But yet it all seems to point that way. He wasn't expected to live.Doctors threw a Hail Mary: They ordered blood tests for herbicide poisoning, because he had used the chemicals before his illness.The results revealed more arsenic than his doctors had ever seen in a living person - 100 times the normal amount.The hospital alerted police, who interviewed him as he lay on what was supposed to be his deathbed. Send me a song, his fellow clown said after being diagnosed with cancer. The Insider compiled a list of the most notorious serial killer by state, and North Carolina's No. The outcome: Barfield, who became known as the Death Row Granny, was convicted of Taylors murder and executed on Nov. 2, 1984. Her death was ruled a suicide. MacDonald went on trial in July 1979 and was convicted of first-degree murder in Kristens death, and of second-degree murder in Colettes and Kimberlys deaths. 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. During her time in prison, Barfield got off drugs, became a born-again Christian and received praise from Billy Graham for ministering to prisoners. He received nine death sentences. [2], On February 4, 1994, Wallace was arrested for shoplifting, but police did not make a connection between him and the murders.[2]. After being treated for his injuries, all the while claiming they were attacked by three men, he was charged for his family's murder. Get more details on Hedgepeths case in the full Hedgepeth timeline published at newsobserver.com. His arsenic levels were 60 times higher than normal. She was verbally abusive, criticizing her son for even the smallest mistakes. 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). She was beaten by Moses and the others and then shot. Dr. John D. Butts, the state's chief medical examiner, concluded that "Reid died as a result of the complications of arsenic poisoning. Although, Texas also executes its serial killers. She flatly denied slipping arsenic to either of her husbands or Reid. 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. Blanche Taylor Moore Talk Read Edit View history Blanche Kiser Taylor Moore (born February 17, 1933) is an American convicted murderer and possible serial killer from Alamance County, North Carolina. He fired a 9mm submachine gun at officers, injuring a Greensboro police officer and a Kentucky detective. According to probation officer Patrick Seaburg, Wallace did not show up for most mandatory meetings. The victims: It was the Rev. 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. 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. 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. Brooke Cain is a North Carolina native who has worked at The News & Observer for more than 25 years. Wallace was arrested on March 13, 1994. Lynch was the daughter of R.J. Reynolds executive Bob Newsom and was named after her maternal aunt, Susie Sharp, the first female North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice. Image credit: oxygen . That same year, he married his high school sweetheart, the former Maretta Brabham. 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. Blanche Moore had maintained a detached demeanor during the trial, with a tight smile for the cameras tightly trained on her throughout. 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. He raped her and some time later strangled and stabbed her in front of her oldest son. But how many other victims does he have?#murdersquadmondays #keepdigging pic.twitter.com/u9k7jtiThR. Ad the story has been repeated on popular true-crime podcasts, including Criminal and My Favorite Murder.. Her time there has been mostly uneventful, marked by two violations, one for disobeying orders on Feb. 22, 2008, and more alarmingly, for misuse of medicine in November 1996. 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. In the letter, Thomas allegedly confessed to killing Reid and trying to fatally poison Reid. CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - New information is coming to light about a Rutherford County man found guilty of kidnapping and killing a Greenville County, S.C. woman, with the FBI referring to him as a serial killer. Active: 1969-1975. Moore is awaiting execution in North Carolina for her boyfriend's 1986 arsenic poisoning. Frederick Rober Klenner Jr. was considered a mass murderer who killed several victims between 1984 and 1985. "'Please help me or I'm going to die," Hutchens recalled Reid telling her. Henry Louis Wallace is a convicted serial killer who was accused of killing 10 women in Charlotte during the early 1990s. Barfields first husband, Thomas Burke, died in a house fire in 1969. 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. Wallace beat her to death when she asked for payment for her services, then dropped her body by railroad tracks. Dr. Harold Shipman, nicknamed "Dr. Death" after his horrific killing spree came to light, was sentenced to life in prison after . Dwight Moore said in 1994 after a hearing before the State Supreme Court. 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. By that time, his marriage to Maretta had fallen apart. 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. this story is far from over. Gary Michael Hilton was arrested for the kidnapping, murder, and beheading of hikers in Florida, Georgia, as well as a North Carolina couple in a national forest in 2007. He was arrested on March 13, 1994. Perkins drove Fritz to a wealthy Winston-Salem neighborhood to carry out his mission. 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. 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 2013, Hill, 50, of Jennings, pleaded guilty to strangling Janice Mayhew in 2008 and Sierra Sullivan in 2009. They watched Fritz and Susie load a Chevy Blazer with camping supplies and then John and Jim and the family dog. In 2011, citing misconduct in the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation involving agent Duane Deaver specifically Judge Orlando Hudson granted Peterson a new trial and he was released from prison. He dumped her body by railroad tracks. After a subsequent trial and conviction, Wallace (a . Learn more: The New Yorker magazine has a thorough summary of the case through 2011. was convicted of Taylors murder and executed on Nov. 2, 1984. 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.". Kimberly was found dead in her bed. 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. On Nov. 16, 1990, she was sentenced to death. 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. Thus ended the bizarre life of Fritz Klenner at 32 years old on June 3 36 years ago. She rose to head cashier, the highest position a woman could hold at the time and was said to be a good employee. 512 North Salisbury Street, Raleigh . 0:56. 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. 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. The revelation of the death of family friend Elizabeth Ratliff, also found dead at the bottom of a staircase in Germany in 1985. What is it? Officers arrived to find MacDonald on his bedroom floor next to his wifes body. So who is North Carolina's most notorious serial killer? 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. Less than five months later, Reid died at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. Prosecutors argued that MacDonald had concocted the intruder story after reading a magazine story about the 1969 Manson Family killings. Victims: 8-200. 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. Yet Moore was convicted of murder in the 1986 arsenic-poisoning death of her boyfriend, Raymond Carlton Reid Sr. A book would be written, and a TV movie made. They returned to Rosarios apartment. He continues to live in Durham. She is suspected of killing at least two additional people. Here are Wallaces victims: 1. Sultan argued for a life sentence without parole instead of the death penalty. 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.". 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. He was later fired from working as Chemical Operator for Sandoz Chemical Co. 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. She's maintained her innocence throughout her long incarceration, but the chilling evidence suggests otherwise. According to the FBI, a murderer becomes serial when they kill two or more people in separate events. Surveillance footage shows them arriving at 12:40 a.m. and surveillance footage shows them leaving the club at 2:06 a.m. ", "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.". According to. It's not likely Blanche Taylor Moore will meet that fate. 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. They were married in the room next to the execution chamber. To learn more, view our full privacy policy. 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. She has been at the N.C. Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh since Nov. 16, 1990. In each case, defendant had motive (financial), opportunity (close relationship), and means (knowledge of and access to Anti-Ant). 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]. Psychologist Faye Sultan testified during the trial that Wallace had been a victim of physical and mental abuse at the hands of his mother since birth and that he had a mental illness at the time of the killings. In August 1993, Wallace raped and strangled Valencia M. Jumper, a friend of Wallaces sister. In May 1992, Wallace picked up 33-year-old Sharon Nance, a convicted drug dealer and prostitute. Her husband, the Rev. A large dose will kill someone in. 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. A glass dome was placed over the cake and it sat on display in the home for years. Some tourists even stole souvenir raisins from the top of the Christmas cake, which had sat undisturbed on the kitchen table. She is the service journalism editor and writes about TV and local media for The N&Os Happiness is a Warm TV blog. 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. One of the world's most prolific serial killers might still be out there. "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. The FBI is seeking the public's help in identifying some of the victims of Samuel Little, who has been confirmed as the nation's most prolific serial killer after confessing to 93 murders . Pedro Lopez is linked to more than 300 murders in his native Colombia and in Ecuador and Peru. Hennis was acquitted in the second trial and went back into the Army, retiring in 2004. They discovered that her first husband as well as Reid had died under suspicious circumstances. ", Strengthening the state's case, Dr. Vincent Guinn, a chemistry professor at the University of California-Irvine and an expert in the field of nuclear chemistry, concluded that the arsenic levels found in Reid's hair corresponded "to a long period of ingestion of arsenic, multiple ingestions. 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. Perkins went on to wear a wire for the police in an effort to catch Fritz. During the trial, the prosecution recounted Reid's agonizing death in meticulous and horrific detail. Police collected tons of forensic evidence from the scene (including the murder weapon and DNA), performed hundreds of DNA tests and even generated a composite image of the killer based on DNA, but the case went unsolved for nearly 20 years. In October 1990, Blanche Moore went on trial in Forsyth County for the death of Raymond Reid. That year, Elizabeth Montgomery (Samantha from Bewitched) played Moore in a TV movie called Black Widow Murders, based on the book. 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. Thorpe was the first of the Edgecombe County Serial Killer's victims to be found in this location, but not the last. All 50 states have had a notorious serial killer, such as Florida 's Ted Bundy, Illinois 's John Wayne Gacy, and New Jersey 's Charles Edmund Cullen. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1985 and was honorably discharged in 1992 after he was caught stealing. Hawk and Wallace both worked at Taco Bell. Residents heard more gunfire, then clicks, then an explosion. Wallace would sexually assault, beat, and strangle his victims, including once in front of the woman's son. Former "Bewitched" star Elizabeth Montgomery played Moore in "Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story.". [2], During his time in the Navy, Wallace began using several drugs, including crack cocaine. And a meteorite exploded above the Pacific Ocean. Reid, not known as someone who got sick much, missed more than four weeks of work during the next few months. The night Faith Hedgepeth died: On Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012, the day before Hedgepeth was killed, she went with friend and roommate Karena Rosario to a Chapel Hill nightclub on Rosemary Street called The Thrill. She was at UNC on a Gates Millennium Scholarship for advanced minority students. pic.twitter.com/8V9eyK0z12. More twists and turns: But the story doesnt stop there. 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. In January 1988, Wallace was arrested for breaking into a hardware store. Former Forsyth County prosecutor Vince Rabil, along with Branch, was one of two attorneys tasked in 1990 with convicting Blanche Taylor Moore. Both women worked at Bojangles. Daniel Glen Printz, 59, of Bostic,. She remains on death row, where she is one of three women. An ID Murder Mystery aired. According to reports, Lawson owned a farm near Germanton. It was later determined that John and Jim were dead before the explosion, having been poisoned and shot in the head by their mother. "I mean that's just my opinion, but I think she did it.". Frederick Robert Klenner Jr. Frederick Rober Klenner Jr. was considered a mass murderer who killed several victims between 1984 and 1985. "I guess it brought back a lot of memories. All Rights Reserved. She left Kroger on Oct. 17, 1985. Klenner, a fake doctor in a small town who occasionally posed as a covert CIA agent, was implicated in the . The story even spawned an FX docuseries in 2020 called A Wilderness of Error. Henderson was paroled in 2000. Alien pod on Outer Banks tree looks and feels like hair, park says. She also denied discussing Reid's autopsy with anyone and told the courtroom that she would not have been opposed to an autopsy. 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. 22, 2022 at 9:22 AM PDT. In October of 1990, President George H.W. This story was originally published June 24, 2022, 6:00 AM. 10. 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. 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 had been unable to keep down any solid food and according to court testimony, Dr. Norman H. Garrett Jr. thought he had acute gastroenteritis based on "his profound dehydration, nausea and vomiting.". For 12 hours, he confessed to the murders of 10 Charlotte women. 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. 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. McGinnis concluded that MacDonald was guilty. He is said to have killed seventeen women and raped many others in and around Anchorage, Alaska, during the 1970s and 1980s. The shocking discovery led to an investigation. Police Chief Dennis Nowicki later apologized for not recognizing a link between all of the murders earlier. He raped Henderson while she held her baby and then strangled her. 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. We just - we cannot have one. Following his sentencing, Wallace made a statement to his victims' families. Miraculously, some might say through divine intervention, the pastor survived. 1. Investigation Discovery shows are usually available to stream on discovery+. Chris Pritchard remained on the N.C. State campus the night of the attack in order to establish an alibi. However, they never got a chance to arrest and charge him for his crimes. He later became a born-again Christian. An older sister, Rolanda Hedgepeth, was 18 when Faith was born, and was like a second mother to her. of serial killings: 793. The victims: On Christmas morning, sometime after oldest daughter Marie baked a special cake topped with raisins, the oldest son, Arthur, went into town to buy ammunition for a hunting trip. 1 is Henry Louis Wallace, who was charged with strangling 10 women in Charlotte in the. "He's crying because his murderer isn't coming to see him! . 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