The real killer was eventually caught, confessed and was put to death. "He was very good with kids," says Farley. He was, at one time, considered the prime suspect. The deputy put Humphrey in the back of his patrol car. "Get his good side," offers Marti Mackenzie, the publicist. "This was Danny looking for something that would make what happened more dramatic and minimize his own culpability by saying, 'The devil made me do it.'". He has been hounded by the press. "I had to know what Sonja went through. I mean, I was amped. However, Rolling was able to break through it. ", Marti Mackenzie nods. "He was just the wrong boy at the wrong place at the wrong time--with the wrong malady.". Ed's co-worker at the Humane Society, Nancy Breslin, says people sometimes look warily at Ed and say things like: Who's that guy you've got working back there? "There's this girl at work--Kelly--and she didn't know at all until today. I got it done . Aug. 25,1990, approximately 0100 hours: At a party, Humphrey threatens two Pi Lambda Phi fraternity brothers with what they say is a straight razor. He had dreams of being an architect, his brother, Mario Taboada, said. "But when they first arrested him (for beating his grandmother), they basically trashed him in the press and said he was a serial killer.". The panel's action doesn't take Humphrey out of jeopardy, though. "And he said, 'Yeah, I'm the one.'". "Oh, that's Ed," the kennel workers will say. One said it was a "violent" environment. Humphrey also faces an assault charge in Gainesville and a 1988 attempted rape and burglary case in Indian River County. She disagrees. It was a tidy facade, but if you peeked around the corner, things turned messy. His grandmother, Elna Hlavaty, told a deputy that night that her grandson had beaten and choked her in the familys home in Indialantic. He knew what was happening. I had practiced so many times what I would say in this moment. "It didn't matter what the lyrics were or what he was saying at that point. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey (age 51) is listed at 1294 Port Malabar Blvd Ne Palm Bay, Fl 32905 and is affiliated with the Republican Party. Still, Rolling has pleaded innocent--and Don Lykkebak expects Ed will be a target in the trial. The muster roll references 44 names. Im happy I always have the support of family and friends, and Im happy with my family now.. He said a lot of grandiose things (that) caused him to be a suspect. I can't handle this.' "He has been persecuted. Humphrey shunned the media, and remained quiet through the years. Scott Grissom said he didn't know Rolling but he learned that Rolling had lived with his parents about a half-mile away from his father's house. 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. His DNA didnt match the semen found at the murder scene. He apologized, cried and told his pursuers: "Please don't hurt me.". He'd seen interviews with his new neighbors on the evening news, and they had said they were afraid of Ed Humphrey. "Of course you do.". Ed said. Sentencing was set The officer, now-retired Det. "Ed, you see, not only has been locked up in a cell for 76 days, he's been sent to a psychiatric hospital, kept in prison for a year, had charges for everything under the sun, had all this stuff hanging over his head. 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. And the sad, sad part about it is that we had the parents behind us on the stairs.". He was under surveillance for reports of odd behaviors, like wearing camouflage, and he had an obsession with knives. The media jumped on Humphrey as a prime suspect. ), "When he went in, I followed him in the apartment and I saw the young lady on the bed. Ed, his grandmother reported, had screamed at her, "You're going to hell and you're going to die." I just looked at God, and I said, 'God, why? Investigators had found bloodstained gloves at his home. August 5, 1990, 0128 hours: Elna Hlavaty, Humphrey's grandmother, phones deputies to report that her grandson is "high" on drugs. 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. And the day after Ed was arrested, an investigator interviewed Sydney McGrath, a college student who had long conversations with Ed about dissecting corpses. For months Edward Lewis Humphrey was the key suspect in the horrific slayings of five Gainesville students. Hospitals run by the Universities of Florida, Miami and South Florida refused to accept Humphrey for private commitment because of his notoriety, Russo said. His family took him to a private psychiatric hospital in Palm Bay, where he was admitted, locked up, medicated and ultimately diagnosed. It was kind of funny really that it hadn't clicked before. Her funeral is today. "It showed a picture of him, and he seemed trustworthy but kind of crestfallen. Humphrey was asked to leave the premises by Officer Smith, and he complied, but not before threatening Officer Smith that he (Humphrey) was going to cut his eyes out and send him to hell. Also known as Lewis E Humphrey has said he plans to have plastic surgery to remove facial scars from an automobile accident. He wore a blue Gator pullover and a voluptuous yawn. Lahey said seeing this man "who destroyed my life" made her feel "frozen to the chair.". Major Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), a veteran of the Italian campaign in World War II, arrives at Hotel Largo in Key Largo, Florida in the Florida Keys after the war to visit the family of his friend George Temple (who died in the campaign). According to another newspaper report, Humphrey's statements to police may be challenged because prosecutors stretched the law to keep defense attorneys away from him after he was arrested Aug. 30 in an attack on That's what did it.". Humphrey, 19, nodded when his 79-year-old grandmother blew him as kiss as he entered the courtroom but was generally oblivious to the proceedings. "That was real bad, because I couldn't walk," Ed says. "I don't want people to read about me. Family trouble, mental problems and sheer coincidence seem to be the main factors that put Ed Humphrey into legal limbo. The red sun marched its way toward the horizon, whipping at my windshield as I drove back to Gainesville. "It would not let me rest," she said. "I did not want to see that young lady that meant so much to me. "The difference was like night and day. It worked--but it also made him dull, sluggish, overweight. A television blared. Don Maines, an investigator on the case with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, said they received several tips pointing to Humphrey, then 18. "Sometimes he would put him up against the wall the marks of his fingers would be there and he shook him a lot of and sort of scared me," Claudia Rolling said. Larson's mother, Ada Larson, said she "hated the fact" that her daughter would be living off-campus, but all the dormitories were full. "Danny committed these crimes for one reason only -- he loved it.". The investigative records on the GainesviUe murders are filled with entries of Ed Humphrey scaring people in the final months before his arrest. View their profile including current address, phone number 321-259-XXXX, background check reports, and property record on Newspapers reported Humphrey revealed to investigators that he had an alter ego, named John, who knew the details about the crimes. This is the first extensive interview Ed Humphrey has ever granted. But most of Humphreys descriptions of the student mutilations were not accurate. Especially around his mouth, she says, the skin is much smoother and more elastic and natural-looking. The grand jury considered evidence against Humphrey but declined to indict him. His mother was well-intentioned and caring, but nervous. ", A police officer told state investigators that 10 days before the killings Ed claimed he was going to Gainesville to "cut up some women.". The world was watching to see how and when they would catch the killer. He said nothing more. 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, The killer used a "razor sharp" instrument.) Rolling also made it clear to investigators that he acted alone and that Ed Humphrey had no involvement in the student murders. 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. Law enforcement officials, as well as the prosecutors office, regretted the way Humphrey had been treated. This time, deputies couldn't just tell Ed to cool off, then file the fight away on an incident report. "It's a real tragedy for him and his family.". I knew, until he was gone, I couldn't really start my life again and be me," Lahey said. That man, Danny Rolling, had told her that one day he was going to leave Shreveport, where they lived. "So I wanted to have the last word.". Investigators wanted to confirm the details of Rolling's confession, so they arranged a meeting, but Rolling insisted that Lewis be present as well to act as his mouthpiece. It is like a car engine launching, willy-nilly, into a 180-mph frenzy, careening wildly through narrow streets and looping turns--then just as unexpectedly sputtering to a stall. A. By the time she reported Rolling, police had already arrested another man who they believed to be a suspect in the Gainesville murders. And when the jail returned it--saying it did not allow cash to be mailed to inmates--Kennedy got a money order. They didn't listen to the tape until months later. I don't want people to know who I am. WebView Edward Humphrey results in Florida (FL) including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. "All I want to know [is] what was she thinking. The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville cited sources it did not identify in today's story about Edward Lewis Humphrey. These police officers knew Christa they told Gary she died right away from the first stab, which was the truth but there were many hours before that.". The killer would enter the homes through the back doors, and each home was near a wooded area, which "allowed the killer to operate, to get in without being noticed," Donnelly said. (Edis Catholic.). "The grand jury said it's not true that he probably did it, but he's still left in limbo," said Pat Doherty, a prominent Pinellas County defense lawyer. On a breezy spring morning, I traveled from my home in Gainesville to coastal Palm Bay, tucked just under Melbourne on Floridas Atlantic coast. Marker Address Rent ? Ed ends up on the floor. She is a savvy and persistent woman who tenaciously guards Humphrey's contact with the media. He was facing the death penalty. They say Humphrey made a "sawing motion" across his throat with the knife and threatened to get a gun and shoot them. 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 It was upon revisiting the scene that he decided to decapitate her. He has lost 50 pounds and had plastic surgery since being a central figure on the evening news. said Laurie Lahey, Paules' older sister. In plaid shorts, Humphrey hunched down to make sure he could catch the cat before it ran out onto the street. Tracy Paules and Manny Taboada were found dead the next morning, on Aug. 28, 1990. Although Humphreys October trial was in Brevard County, a visiting judge from Gainesville presided over it. As for his own behavior, Ed says: "I can't help it if my body (needs) lithium. His eyes appeared glazed and barely open, his hair unkempt. WebLived In Palm Bay FL, Indialantic FL, Houston TX, Lyons IL. Sonja Larson and Powell's families became unable to reach them just days after they moved in. He is a white, non hispanic male registered to "It seemed like when I lost my cool, he would keep his. Maines said they tested the body fluids from the perpetrator in Shreveport and found that this person also had type B blood. Im happy its over, he said. "Whatever happened to change Ed Humphrey can be found back in October of his junior year," says John Stanford, his Spanish teacher at Melbourne High School. ", He pauses. She said she thought of Rolling, who, just a few months after the murders in their community, said something deeply disturbing to her then-husband, Steven Dobbin. But just all of a sudden I got a real bad depression, a real deep depression. (Nineteen-year-old Christa Hoyt was among the victims of the so-called Gainesville Ripper, Danny Rolling, in Gainesville, Florida in 1990. "Don't take a picture of me with the knife," he says. You know, it affects my self-esteem. Their leads took them to Humphreys doorstep. I wanted to ask him so many questions. He also decapitated her and posed the head on a bookshelf. WebDescription Muster roll for Humphrey Lewis' Company from Madison County, ca. His parents split up when Ed was about 11, but they didn't divorce for several years. She knew hmm only as Ed--a nice guy, hard worker, easy to get along with. He paced off the measurements--about 10 feet wide and 10 feet long. During the robbery, a teller had slipped a red dye pack into the bag of money, and later on that night, an officer noticed a man walking into a wooded area, Hewitt said. "I'd have taken a room full of him," says Bill Thomas, Ed's teacher in eighth grade. They wound up having a few drinks and getting in trouble with a security guard at a hotel bar. Humphrey's bail was set at $1-millionand he remained behind bars until well after investigators set their sights on a new suspect: Danny Rolling. (Manuel Taboada, left, and Tracy Paules, right, are seen in undated photos. (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. At the time, Humphrey was manic-depressive who was off his medication. "It was like, Oh, wow. Hewitt said they learned that Rolling had returned to the crime scene after killing Christa Hoyt because he thought he might've left his wallet there. The families whose loved ones were murdered in Gainesville say they are grateful for the simple memorial that remains today. Watch "20/20" FRIDAYS at 9 p.m. . ET on ABC. Now the scars on his face are softer, his smile boyish, a little shy--not at all the sinister young man he might have seemed when one corner of his lip curled upward. And she nagged at Ed constantly. "I said, 'What kind of problem,'" Juracich said, "[and Steven said], 'He likes to stick knives into people.'". They will not speak to reporters without Ed's approval. 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. SOMETIMES WHEN YOU LOSE your emotional grip on life--when all the joy seeps out of living and every face becomes an enemy's- it happens so slowly you hardly notice. "One day, I picked up the phone, I called Crime Stoppers, and I said, 'I think there's one guy y'all need to investigate -- Danny Rolling.'". Russo estimated Humphrey would be in custody for only another seven to nine months because of time served and the states early-release rules. And before I knew it, I went upstairs and I told Mom, 'Mom, I probably won't see you for a long time,' because I could see what was happening.". TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) _ Gainesville murder suspect Edward Lewis Humphrey was sentenced today to the maximum 22 months for beating his grandmother after his Police were called to his house repeatedly after reports he had gone "berserk.". ", "I wanted to know every little detail," Ada Larson said. A judge ordered him removed from the court. They wish it known that the Ed they know is a kind and decent young man. He was convicted of armed robbery in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi for several grocery store robberies, and spent most of the 1980s in prison. Earlier that summer, investigators learned, Ed had been kicked out of the Gatorwood apartment complex where two of the victims were killed. To girls it makes a difference. "I wanted to be there in the front row if I could. You could see [she was] in a bad position, and I just turned around and walked out," Curnutt said. Edward Lewis Humphrey, 19, had tears in his eyes upon hearing the conviction on a reduced charge of battery on a person over age 65. Rolling confessed to the murder of Hoyt and four others and was executed in 2006.). His brother, George, tried hard to clear his name. Many panicked. "He's one of our best employees. "I hit her and I'm sorry." Andy Pauwels, 52, a retired military intelligence officer, has been a probation officer now for five years, during which time he's supervised several hundred ex-convicts. Then he banged his head on the window so hard the deputy worried he would break the glass. And they don't even know what the terminology is. Officer Steven Smith responds. ), "I screamed," Ada Larson said about discovering her daughter had been killed. "I've never been told nothing in reality, I've never read nothing in a Stephen King novel that comes close to what the reality is of what this man did," Lewis said. On Wednesday, his grandmother, Elna Hlavaty, died at age 80 after suffering a heart attack in Indialantic. The image of him from law enforcement and the news media is that "he's a creature, he's a monster," George Humphrey said. Tell me she did not suffer.' His grandmother had asked to drop all charges. The neighbors will shake their heads and shrug their shoulders and echo cliches like He must have snapped. Always," recalls Scott Bedesem, a friend since junior high school. He was, by all accounts, a troubled young man with a wild streak. At this moment he would be home in Indialantic studying for a science test--and hoping, unrealistically, that people would just forget Ed Humphrey. 1870. 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. And he reportedly has been whispering details of the killings to a fellow inmate, who has been telling investigators. "I don't want to be on TV," he says. He'll never change his name, but some day, he says, when he's done with school, he might move somewhere far away. He wears a blue-green polo shirt and tan trousers and expensive sunglasses. Lookup the home address, phone numbers, email address for this person View Public Record Results ✓ Addresses. When the waiter brings him a birthday cake and large knife, Edward Humphrey prepares to make the first cut, then stops himself. Current address 1294 Port Malabar Blvd NE, Palm Bay, FL 32905 $1,080: B. "Knowing what happened, I can't erase that out of my mind, and nobody should have to go through that," said Scott Grissom. Includes Address (11) Phone (6) Email (5) See Results. There was a toilet, a sink and a military mattress on the floor. I felt bad for him. ", "If we had played the tape before, we would've had this guy three months ago," Maines said. The task force searched his Indialantic home and Gainesville apartment. Three of the women had been raped and one had been decapitated. 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