As for his own behavior, Ed says: "I can't help it if my body (needs) lithium. 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. "It's been a while, you know?" They think, 'Well, there's a good chance he did it because he's on TV.' A brutal serial killer was on the loose. And they don't even know what the terminology is. It was repeated so authoritatively and so often that the term began to lose its inherent uncertainty. Many panicked. I hate having my picture taken.". 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. Edward Lewis Humphrey was an early suspect in the case of five grisly murders of college students in Gainesville, Florida; one Daniel Rolling was eventually All of Gainesville shuddered. "I don't know," he says. He says she knocked his contact lens out and that made him angry. (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. Humphrey was eventually convicted of a lesser charge of battery of a person over 65 and sentenced to 22 months in prison. Were gonna do whats best for Ed and put all these miserable stuff behind us.. The sheriff's office says it kept him there for his own safety--not as punishment--because he'd threatened suicide. He was a manic-depressive off his medication. Rolling wanted to address the court. Also known as Edward Humphery, Earl Edward Humphrey, Edward Humprey, Tara Edwards, E Edward. 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? The time frame is precise in his mind. On a breezy spring morning, I traveled from my home in Gainesville to coastal Palm Bay, tucked just under Melbourne on Floridas Atlantic coast. "He's one of our best employees. He glances again at the photographer. The deputy put Humphrey in the back of his patrol car. The Gainesville Sun broke the story of a knife hidden in a milk carton during a search of Humphreys home on Sept. 6. Genetic tests conducted on pubic hairs were similar to Ed's - and about 8,000 other people in Alachua County. Hes not capable of it., Hes gonna come back home, George Humphrey insisted. "That's all I need.". One grocery store clerk called him at kome later. How could this possibly happen? Humphrey, a sometime University of Florida student with a history of mental problems, has been labeled a suspect in the slayings of five students near the campus in Gainesville during the last week in August. 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. He spent a lot of that time in Chattahoochee, the state hospital for mentally ill prisoners. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey (age 51) is listed at 1294 Port Malabar Blvd Ne Palm Bay, Fl 32905 and is affiliated with the Republican Party. . And when the jail returned it--saying it did not allow cash to be mailed to inmates--Kennedy got a money order. It worked, but it also made him dull, sluggish, overweight. Kennedy even sent money. A task force of police agencies in Gainesville, searching for the killer who had "I wanted to be there in the front row if I could. For several years, the whole family lived with Ed's maternal grandparents. The first was named Ynnad -- "Danny" spelled backward. 1. It wasn't long after Maines' trip to Shreveport that Juracich called Crime Stoppers to report Danny Rolling. On Aug. 30, Humphrey returned to his Indialantic home from Gainesville, where he had enrolled as a freshman at the University of Florida. They didn't connect the robbery to the Gainesville murders until later on, when they listened to it. "The state attorney fully intends to prove the guilt of Danny Harold Rolling in these murders. He is released to the custody of his mother. Your story has never been told.. Claudia Rolling, Danny Rolling's mother, also testified. When I got a job, .when I got good grades in school, they weren't calling me. His grandmother, now passed away, forgave him. The questioning elicited new details about the murders. He said the officer tracked the man to a campsite. He'd seen interviews with his new neighbors on the evening news, and they had said they were afraid of Ed Humphrey. Dobbin told her that Rolling had told him he had a problem, Juracich said. Neither will police talk. ", He refused to carry the phone, but then he rarely left the house without George. 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. He'll never change his name, but some day, he says, when he's done with school, he might move somewhere far away. He was supposed to take lithium to temper his radical mood swings. A top official in the case points out the murders were methodical and elaborately planned. He landed on a grassy shoulder and wasn't hurt badly, but he spent the next three months in a psychiatric ward. And it got worse as more people came forward. She had been raped and stabbed multiple times and had been mutilated. Her funeral is today. Rolling pleaded guilty to all counts but, because he was facing the death penalty, a jury was still required to hear the evidence and make a recommendation on punishment to the judge: life in prison or death. Even though three decades had passed, I knew it wasnt going to be easy for Humphrey to talk about his darkest days; a time when his name was linked to grisly crimes. He surfed, played soccer and football, and joined the Boy Scout troop that his father founded, eventually becoming an Eagle Scout. Humphrey also faces an assault charge in Gainesville and a 1988 attempted rape and burglary case in Indian River County. He was facing the death penalty. In police audio recordings, he could be heard asking police to accompany him at the request of his manager. Always," recalls Scott Bedesem, a friend since junior high school. Anniversaries of the murders come and go, I explained. The killer used a "razor sharp" instrument.) They found that the suspect had type B blood, but Humphrey's blood was type A. Humphrey was still in police custody when investigators discovered a cold case in Shreveport, Louisiana, that had striking similarities to the murders in Gainesville. Ed said. "I thought it was totally unfair," Ed says. 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. The reports painted an eerie picture. Suddenly, Humphreys tabby snuck out the door. A neighbor also reports that the grandson is running in and out of the home - shouting that he is going to murder the grandparents. 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. Would you like to meet him?". Her right eye was swollen shut. "It was like, Oh, wow. I just looked at God, and I said, 'God, why? The son of a police officer and an aspiring country music singer, Rolling had spent a couple years in the U.S. Air Force before beginning a career of crime. "Should I smile? But I thought about the few words that Humphrey uttered in our brief conversation. She disagrees. These days Ed Humphrey lives at home with his mom in Indialantic. He may have more plastic surgery. He'll never change his name, but some day, he says, when he's done with school, he might move somewhere far away. "The main thing is, I'm just like anybody else," he says. Hammack stepped inside the wide front door into the living room. ", (Eighteen-year-old Sonja Larson was among the victims of the so-called Gainesville Ripper, Danny Rolling, in Gainesville, Florida, in 1990. All of them had been stabbed to death and some were left in sexually provocative positions. No way. After a bank robbery, police found the tape along with stolen money, a gun and a screwdriver. Includes Address (11) Phone (6) Email (5) See Results. I am still his friend, and I think what happened to him is wrong. Witnesses testified to the abuse they'd seen. But when you get up to that other accident, I can guarantee you 100 percent that I was not trying to commit suicide. She was found raped, stabbed to death, mutilated and beheaded. 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. Along with the similarities in which the victims were killed, there were other patterns investigators noted. They will not speak to reporters without Ed's approval. They immediately made her think about a man from her Louisiana hometown church who used to spend time with her and her family. "It would not let me rest," she said. Other names that Edward uses includes Edward Lewis Humphrey and Edward L Humphrey. There was enormous pressure on Gainesville police, on state investigators, on prosecutors, to find the killer and put him behind bars. Acquaintances claimed he went on late-night "missions" through the Alachua County woods. "The phone hadn't been installed yet. He stabbed a young man 30 times and cut another woman's torso from her pelvis to her chest. Why did this happen?". 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. "But, for some reason, somehow, that tape escaped us, and I'll freely admit it.". "I'd come in and there would be books open and calculators out.". She hadn't called us and, finally, the Powells, who lived closer, went over there.". As concerns of a killer on the loose mounted, police were inundated with calls from concerned parents. He told investigators about two of his darker personalities. "He just stole that and used that [as] part of his story," Smith said. There's many people that have abusive parents. Our children's names will be remembered over him.". And, his face bore a scar, it turned out, from a car wreck the year before. I thought, 'Here's a guy who's sort of down and I think I'll cheer him up.". "I can't blame them for making Ed a suspect, but I can blame them for sticking with it. Ed answered immediately, and the two have been exchanging letters at least once a month ever since. Russo expressed concern that Humphrey would be placed in the general prison population before the end of his sentence. ED HUMPHREY HAS NO REASON to trust a photographer or a reporter - or the criminal justice system or, especially, the people who recognize him on the street and point and whisper. No indictment was issued against Edward Lewis Humphrey, a former University of Florida freshman who was considered a secondary suspect. "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. It was a nasty, turbulent, protracted parting that left Ed's mother--a devout Catholic--devastated. In the aftermath of the murders, investigators discovered some highly unusual details at the scene. Although Humphreys October trial was in Brevard County, a visiting judge from Gainesville presided over it. WebLived In Honolulu HI, Morehead City NC, Orange Park FL, Saint Petersburg FL. Law enforcement officials, as well as the prosecutors office, regretted the way Humphrey had been treated. Instead, he got 62 hours of community service at the local Humane Society--which liked him so much it hired him afterward. ", He pauses. His family took him to a private psychiatric hospital in Palm Bay, where he was admitted, locked up, medicated and ultimately diagnosed. It lets him have his old smile back. Rolling confessed to the murder of Larson and four others and was executed in 2006. "I feel really bad about this," she confided, "but they knew who you were, and when you left they were all laughing and saying, 'Man, we're not going to give that guy a job."'. You know I'll never, ever get over it completely. Ed's bail, originally set at $10,250 was increased to $1 million - 100 to 200 times the scheduled rate for aggravated assault. All her clothes had been taken off, he said, and "she was lying back on the bed with her feet on the floor and her hair fanned out. 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.". Hammack had been with the Brevard County Sheriff's Offfice for less than a year, but he'd been to the plantation-style Indialantic house at least five times before. "[Investigators] were 100% sure he was the one that did it," Scott Grissom said. "My husband would just sit and say 'Just tell me she died right away. "I've got feelings, too, and that stuff really hurt me. Related To Gabrielle Humphrey, Graciela Humphrey, George Humphrey, Elna Humphrey. Maines said they tested the body fluids from the perpetrator in Shreveport and found that this person also had type B blood. Once Florida investigators realized that Rolling had multiple convictions for armed robbery, they realized he could have also been responsible for the bank robbery that occurred on the day that Christa Hoyt's body was found. Sonja Larson and Powell's families became unable to reach them just days after they moved in. The killer always managed to avoid being spottedby potential witnesses. Both parents drank too much. The old woman's face, Deputy Doug Hammack saw, was wet with her own blood. 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. (Manuel Taboada, left, and Tracy Paules, right, are seen in undated photos. Who is Ed Humphrey? I want to get married some day and have kids. Humphrey was arrested just days after the murders and held in jail on a $1 million bond. That was the start of it all. Humphrey has said he plans to have plastic surgery to remove facial scars from an automobile accident. I just couldn't even sleep. 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 Watch "20/20" FRIDAYS at 9 p.m. "My mouth dropped open when he told me," she says. Danny Rolling is talking about the murders now. 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. He also said he hopes to resume his studies _ but not at the University of Florida. He is saying, as he's said before, that he never met Ed Humphrey. Doherty said authorities later tried to show a connection between Humphrey and Danny Rolling, the Louisiana drifter who was indicted Friday in the Gainesville killings. He knew what was happening. Crime lab experts had damning evidence that semen found at the murder scene came from Rolling. 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. ), "When he went in, I followed him in the apartment and I saw the young lady on the bed. During that stretch when Ed couldn't get work, Kennedy sent him $1,000. Do you understand that? The red sun marched its way toward the horizon, whipping at my windshield as I drove back to Gainesville. But months passed and Humphrey was never charged with the crimes, the Alachua County grand jury deciding that there was no case against him. Ray Barber, called for backup and with more investigators on the scene, they found Powell dead on the first floor of the apartment. "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 wears a blue-green polo shirt and tan trousers and expensive sunglasses. Im sorry that we didnt clear him sooner, said Alachua County State Attorney Rod Smith, who wrote a letter to Gov. "Danny committed these crimes for one reason only -- he loved it.". 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 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. He sent $25. 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 mostly stared off into space as the judge imposed the maximum prison term, to be served, at least at the start, in the prison systems psychiatric facility. ), "I screamed," Ada Larson said about discovering her daughter had been killed. Lawn placed Humphrey on probation for 14 months after his prison term with the condition that he continue psychiatric treatment. (Danny Harold Rolling appears at his trial in Tampa, Fla., Feb. 13, 1994. In late August of 1990, five Gainesville college students were murdered and their bodies sexually assaulted. The second, more sinister personality, was named "Gemini" and Rolling blamed him for his deadliest acts. He is questioned and officers search his car, finding two knives under the seat. On the 30th anniversary of the murders, I was eager to seek out Humphrey. "Every time they'd mention [Tracy's] name, it was like a punch in the head," Lahey said. Later, after Ed has gone, one approaches the young woman behind the counter. One woman had also been found with soap on her body and the perpetrator had used duct tape on both of the victims, but the tape had been removed. Lookup the home address, phone numbers, email address for this person View Public Record Results ✓ Addresses. "It was important because he was participating in the confession," Hewitt said. Some of the other inmates had made threats. Other Juracich said she dismissed these comments when she heard about them because she didn't want to believe that Rolling could be responsible for the triple murders in Shreveport. The accidents left him with a rod in his leg and scars on his face, and a Lithium prescription kept him chunky and bloated-looking. I told him: 'Your real friends will stand by you."'. in 11th grade, and I got an 850 on that, which is, like, really low. He had been an exemplary student. "The main thing that triggered it was Dad putting all this pressure on me to get into a really good college and to make really good grades and do really good on the S.A T. Well, I took the P.S.A.T. "And, like, they point in my face telling me, 'Don't do that again, man. He said a lot of grandiose things (that) caused him to be a suspect. 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 "I can only afford to fill the tank halfway," he says, settling into a window seat at an upscale downtown restaurant. Ed remembers their reaction: "Oh, it's a celebrity.". ET on ABC. WebDescription Muster roll for Humphrey Lewis' Company from Madison County, ca. 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