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 In 2005, Superior Court Judge Charles Lamm rejected Wallace's latest appeal to overturn his convictions and death sentences. Prosecutor Janet Branch ripped into Blanche Moore time and again, making dramatic and emotionally wrought statements to the jury. He was convicted and sentenced to death and is currently awaiting his execution on death row. Secure websites use HTTPS certificates. On March 8, 1990, Wallace murdered 18-year-old Tashanda Bethea,[3] a Barnwell High School student. During her time in prison, Barfield got off drugs, became a born-again Christian and received praise from Billy Graham for ministering to prisoners. She is suspected of killing at least two additional people. Closer to home, an unimaginable murder trial was the talk of North Carolina. He was later fired from working as Chemical Operator for Sandoz Chemical Co. However, they never got a chance to arrest and charge him for his crimes. Lisa Hutchens, the head nurse in the Intensive Care Unit, testified that she saw Blanche feeding Reid banana pudding on Oct. 1. Here's what Insider had to say: According to the FBI, a murderer becomes serial when they kill two or more people in separate events. 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. Wallace was questioned by the police regarding her disappearance and death but was never formally charged with her murder. He was nicknamed the Taco Bell Strangler due to several of his victims working for the fast food chain where he was also employed. Let it come. "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. Rodney Alcala was an American serial killer whose good looks and high IQ helped him lure victims. On May 30, 1986, as Reid's condition worsened, he was admitted to Wesley Long Hospital in Greensboro. It's not likely Blanche Taylor Moore will meet that fate. In June 1992, Wallace raped and strangled Caroline Love, 20, at her apartment,[2] then dumped her body in a wooded area. 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. Her body and Jadons both were found buried in the backyard of a vacant rental house in June 2011. Stinson was a college student and single mother of two small sons. She had too much to offer," Blanche's daughter, Cynthia Taylor Chatman told the Baltimore Sun in 1989. 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. 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. [2] Her body was found on June 25. These sisters hold the Guinness World Record for " Most Prolific Murder Partnership ," a dubious honor they earned due to their estimated 91 kills . 10. In February 1993, Wallace had sex with Shawna Hawk at her home and then strangled her. The 22-month-old baby, Jana, had not been attacked but had been without food and drink for days. There is no date set for his execution. It would take another remarkable case of poisoning, suffering and astonishing survival to explain Reid's mysterious demise and send a murderer to death row. 2. In 1980, she became reacquainted with her cousin Fritz, whose mother was also the sister of Judge Susie Sharp. Chris Pritchards sister, Angela, was asleep in another part of the house and told police she slept through the whole thing. Her daughters, Erin and Kara, ages 3 and 5, had been slashed and were dead. 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. ", During the capital sentencing phase, the jury found as aggravating circumstances that Blanche Moore was motivated to kill for financial gain and that Reid's murder was "especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.". He was convicted in state court and sentenced to death in 1986, but he was given a new trial in 1989 when the N.C. Supreme Court found that gory crime scene photos shown on the wall above Hennis head during his first trial were inflammatory. Barbara Stager: Barbara Stager is a Durham county native who was convicted in the first-degree murder of her second husband in 1988. 512 North Salisbury Street, Raleigh . Investigation Discovery shows are usually available to stream on discovery+. While Arthur was gone, Lawson killed the entire remaining family by shooting and bludgeoning them to death. She's going to come back out and she's going to testify eventually, and her response to it is, 'you'll see. Alaska has the second-highest rate at 7 per 100,000; Louisiana comes in third with 6.5 serial killings per 100,000. 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. Updated on May 23, 2019. It was reported in September 2017 that Stager participates in a Community Leave program that allows her to leave the N.C. Correctional Institute for Women in Raleigh for lunch as long as she is with a prison-approved sponsor. What is it? Barfields last meal was a bag of Cheetos and two 8-ounce glass bottles of Coca-Cola. 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. The victims: Barbara Stager shot Russell Stager, a well-loved baseball coach at Durham High School, in the head with a handgun while he slept on Feb. 1, 1988. He detonated an explosive inside his vehicle, killing himself as well has his girlfriend, Susie Lynch, and her two sons. On Nov. 16, 1990, she was sentenced to death. However, many in the area's black community criticized the police's conduct during the investigation, accusing them of neglecting the murders of black women. Klenner, a fake doctor in a small town who occasionally posed as a covert CIA agent, was implicated in the . Thus ended the bizarre life of Fritz Klenner at 32 years old on June 3 36 years ago. 1. When police spotted him in Greensboro in June 1985, they knew he was dangerous. 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. The story of The Black Widow, Blanche Taylor Moore. Wallace grew up with his mother working long hours as a textile worker. He is currently awaiting execution at Central Prison in Raleigh. For decades, the Jeffrey MacDonald case was North Carolinas most famous crime, but the notoriety surrounding the mysterious death of Durhams Kathleen Peterson and the murder trial of her husband, Michael Peterson, may have changed that. Reid, not known as someone who got sick much, missed more than four weeks of work during the next few months. Wallace raped her and then strangled and stabbed her in front of her 3-year-old son. Harold Shipman: "Dr. Death" who killed 218 patients. 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.". 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. Rosario told police that she left the door unlocked. Antoinetta McKoy, 28, wrote in a diary that she feared Moses would kill her after she found out she could not have children. On March 8, 1994, Wallace robbed, raped, and strangled 24-year-old Betty Jean Baucom a day after her birthday. She was born in North Carolina in 1933, one of seven children. 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. He repeatedly stabbed each of his victims with a knife and an ice pick before turning the blades on himself, though less severely. 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). Dwight Moore was the divorced pastor of what was then Carolina United Church of Christ in Alamance County. Susie and Tom split in 1979 and she gained custody of their two sons, John and Jim. [2], On February 4, 1994, Wallace was arrested for shoplifting, but police did not make a connection between him and the murders.[2]. I'm not supposed to be in jail at all,'" one of her defense attorneys proclaimed. But the jury disagreed, unanimously finding "the defendant, Blanche K. Taylor Moore, guilty of first-degree murder.". In 1994, a TV movie based on Bitter Blood aired on CBS. Perkins drove Fritz to a wealthy Winston-Salem neighborhood to carry out his mission. 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. Dr. Harold Shipman, nicknamed "Dr. Death" after his horrific killing spree came to light, was sentenced to life in prison after . Sultan argued for a life sentence without parole instead of the death penalty. Blanche Moore took the stand in her defense and denied ever feeding Reid in the ICU at the hospital. More troubling for the defense, a nurse testified that she saw Blanche bring peanut butter milkshakes, banana pudding, tomato pudding, corn bread, and milk for Reid and feeding him herself. On May 18, 1985, Fritz, having convinced 21-year-old Ian Perkins of Reidsville that he was in the CIA, recruited Perkins to assist him in killing what Klenner alleged were communist drug traffickers in Winston-Salem. Wallace raped and strangled Caroline Love at her apartment in June 1992 and then dumped her body in a wooded area in Charlotte. Less than five months later, Reid died at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. We just - we cannot have one. Remarkably, Reid again improved. Pritchard was convicted of aiding and abetting in the assault against his mother and was sentenced to life in prison, but was paroled in 2007. Former Forsyth County prosecutor Vince Rabil, along with Branch, was one of two attorneys tasked in 1990 with convicting Blanche Taylor Moore. Even so, Wallace sneaked into rob and strangled Debra Ann Slaughter, 35, who had been his girlfriend's co-worker. The victims: Wallaces last nine victims all had a seemingly obvious connection (the Taco Bell where Wallace worked and the Bojangles where his girlfriend worked), but the clues were somehow ignored. His under-the-radar reign of terror is something residents of The Queen City will never forget. He is the only U.S. citizen so far to have been sent to death row by a civilian court, exonerated, then sent back to death row via military court. On January 7, 1997, Wallace was found guilty of nine murders. 0:56. Lieth Steins family owned the Camel City Dry Cleaning chain in Winston-Salem, and his estate was worth $2 million. 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. During her time in prison, Barfield got off drugs, became a born-again Christian and received praise from Billy Graham for ministering to prisoners. "I guess it brought back a lot of memories. Colette had been beaten with a piece of wood that broke both her arms, and she had been stabbed 37 times with an ice pick and a knife. Some tourists even stole souvenir raisins from the top of the Christmas cake, which had sat undisturbed on the kitchen table. Ad the story has been repeated on popular true-crime podcasts, including Criminal and My Favorite Murder.. Attorneys in North Carolina still consider the Hennis case when determining whether and how to display crime scene photos at trial. Active: 1969-1975. This is our view on which of those make the most notorious serial killers in the world. Ted Bundy. He was convicted for nine murders in 1997 and sentenced to death. But in interviews with the Baltimore Sun for a 1989 story, other workers called her "vindictive," and "two-faced.". Police found that Katie Eastburn had been raped and stabbed and her throat had been slit. Here are some of the other most famous serial killers from the area. 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. Then she checked NC ticket, 74,000 & growing: Some NC police departments stockpile guns rather than release them, EPA reviewing much-criticized water pollution rules for industrial-sized CAFO farms. The arsenic in Reid's brain tissue was approximately 67 times higher than normal. Wallace attended her funeral. In each case, Barfield had been stealing money from her victims to fund her addiction to pills. Both women worked at Bojangles. At least one-third of those murders were tribal women. Wallace raped and strangled another Taco Bell co-worker, Audrey Spain, in June 1993. 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. Societys fascination with real-life murders and mysteries is not new, despite the relatively new and ubiquitous true crime label it has received. They watched Fritz and Susie load a Chevy Blazer with camping supplies and then John and Jim and the family dog. Get more details on Hedgepeths case in the full Hedgepeth timeline published at newsobserver.com. Other killers are so famous they are known all over the country, like Ted Bundy, the BTK Killer, and John Wayne Gacy. His arsenic levels were 60 times higher than normal. Blanche Taylor Moore hears the jury's verdict at her murder trial in Winston-Salem. And he loves her with all his heart," she said, describing Reid as he lay dying in the hospital. He was also questioned about the attempted rape of a 16-year-old Barnwell girl but was never charged for that. The outcome: Barfield, who became known as the Death Row Granny, was convicted of Taylors murder and executed on Nov. 2, 1984. On June 22, Wallace raped and strangled his Taco Bell co-worker and manager, Audrey Spain, 24. Hennis case was one of those N.C. Chief Justice I. Beverly Lake cited when pushing for reformation of the N.C. justice system, which helped lead to the creation of the states Actual Innocence Commission. 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. He was convicted and sentenced to death and is currently awaiting his execution on death row. Charlotte's police chief rejoiced at Wallace's arrest, reassuring the community that the women of east Charlotte were safe. He was 50 years old. NC climate expert weighs in. On March 9, 2017, Amber Burch pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, armed robbery, and accessory after the fact to murder. A couple of days later, Steven had returned to school at East Carolina University when he got a call from Blanche telling him to get back to see his father as quickly as possible. The book was made into a TV miniseries in 1996. Here, a sampling of some other notorious South Carolina killers. Moses called the women his wives, and they often called him Lord. Moses was affiliated with the Black Hebrews, a religious sect that teaches that Black people are the descendants of ancient Israelites. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1985 and was honorably discharged in 1992 after he was caught stealing. Fritz worked in Reidsville with his father, Dr. Fred Klenner, while pretending to be in medical school at Duke. There is now a Faith Hedgepeth Memorial Scholarship fund, which helps Native American women from a North Carolina tribe earn a higher education. Juana Barraza next to a bust the police used to help in the search for a serial murder suspect at the Mexico City police headquarters. Check out Insider's full list to see the most notorious serial killer in each state. She was a member of the Haliwa-Saponi tribal community. State handwriting experts, however, said Blanche Moore wrote the letter herself. "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. So, who are some of the most notorious criminals and serial killers in North Carolina history? Pete Moses, 34, remains in prison in Columbus County. 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. Rosario got a ride back to her apartment the next morning with a friend, Marisol Rangel, and they arrived around 11 a.m. How Faith Hedgepeth died: Rosario and Rangel discovered Hedgepeth on the bed with blood under her head. On March 8, 1994, at The Lake apartment complex, Wallace robbed and strangled Betty Jean Baucom, one of his girlfriends friends and coworkers at Bojangles. 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. Dwight Moore testified that during the summer of 1985, Blanche showed him a bottle of Anti-Ant and asked him to buy some for her from Byrd's Food Center in Glen Raven. According to reports, Lawson owned a farm near Germanton. Hedgepeth was a sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill when she was killed. The two were wed April 19, 1989. In. The outcome: Starting in July 1970, the Army held Article 32 proceedings. Blanche Moore's family was also devastated. 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. 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