At this moment he would be home in Indialantic studying for a science test--and hoping, unrealistically, that people would just forget Ed Humphrey. ", Oak pollen already a big problem, but strong storms could wash it away, Man admits to sex trafficking waitresses out of family-owned cantina, At least 36 dead, 66 injured after trains collide in Greece: officials. There is still a court order not to discuss evidence m the case. Im happy its over, he said. I was not there for surf or sun, but in search of a man who had eluded journalists for nearly three decades. (Edis Catholic.). "I should have just stayed in jail. She is a savvy and persistent woman who tenaciously guards Humphrey's contact with the media. On a breezy spring morning, I traveled from my home in Gainesville to coastal Palm Bay, tucked just under Melbourne on Floridas Atlantic coast. "So I wanted to have the last word.". Were gonna do whats best for Ed and put all these miserable stuff behind us.. "It's hard to say what was inside my head. The investigation has cost more than $5 million, taken over 130,000 man-hours, amassed 1,500 pieces of evidence and involved more than 6,600 investigative leads. He was the one to call investigators. "Their strategy was to keep Ed in jail, to hold him without charging him in the Gainesville case," he says. I don't want people to know who I am. The killer mutilated the breasts of two of the young women. Blood spattered an easy chair, the carpet, the coffee table. When she saw Rolling, she ran back to her bedroom, where she tried to lock her door. The investigators didn't have to search far for Rolling; he had already been detained 40 miles south of Gainesville, in Marion County Jail, where he was being held for another robbery he'd committed at a supermarket 10 days after Paules' and Manny Taboada's bodies were found. WebDescription Muster roll for Humphrey Lewis' Company from Madison County, ca. All of them had been stabbed to death and some were left in sexually provocative positions. Ed Humphrey had been arrested and charged with assaulting his grandmother, but investigators were taking a hard look at him for the But just all of a sudden I got a real bad depression, a real deep depression. But at the trial, she testified she had fallen and hurt herself in the dark. "I just thought it sounded like he was being railroaded,"says Kennedy, who noticed an article about Ed one day in the San Francisco Chronicle. One piece of this wall has remained unchanged for more than 30 years: The section where the names of all five victims are painted in remembrance: Sonja Larson, Christina Powell, Christa Hoyt, Manuel Taboada, Tracy Paules. "First of all, a lot of people watch TV a lot--five hours a day, on the average. Ed already worked there. Why did this happen?". Rolling's defense presented mitigating factors for why he might have committed the murders, including his troubled history with his father. She also had tape residue on her body and vinegar -- rather than soap -- which was used to clean her body. (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. 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.". Watch the full story on "20/20," streaming now on Hulu. Russo expressed concern that Humphrey would be placed in the general prison population before the end of his sentence. The questioning elicited new details about the murders. ET on ABC. "I thought it was totally unfair," Ed says. 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. Then he banged his head on the window so hard the deputy worried he would break the glass. "It's hard for me to picture him doing anything discreetly.". Tell me she did not suffer.' The Gainesville Sun broke the story of a knife hidden in a milk carton during a search of Humphreys home on Sept. 6. ", Mackenzie, looking pained, interrupts: "But that was before the plastic surgery. The officer, now-retired Det. Ed has what doctors call bipolar disorder--known more commonly as manic-depression, a devastating roller coaster of fantastical elation and utter despair. Officer Steven Smith responds. The nude artwork embarrasses him. But most of Humphreys descriptions of the student mutilations were not accurate. WebEdward Humphrey 's birthday is 10/05/1971 and is 50 years old. In plaid shorts, Humphrey hunched down to make sure he could catch the cat before it ran out onto the street. It worked, but it also made him dull, sluggish, overweight. 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. He described Ynnad as a bad person, but not evil. He says she knocked his contact lens out and that made him angry. "He was rambling things that could be totally misinterpreted. And if you recognize that, then no matter what this jail-house) interview says when it comes out, it's not going to mean sh--.". The new students had met each other during the summer and decided to be roommates, ultimately finding an apartment off-campus in a complex called Williamsburg Apartments. "There's this girl at work--Kelly--and she didn't know at all until today. Maines said they tested the body fluids from the perpetrator in Shreveport and found that this person also had type B blood. Russo estimated Humphrey would be in custody for only another seven to nine months because of time served and the states early-release rules. On bad days, witnesses claim, he would act out his military fantasies on the Indialantic boardwalk. Chubby but cunning and fast, the cat ran from behind one bush to another. I knocked on his front door with trepidation. Edward has no feeling of elation. Would he answer? WebEdward Humphrey 's birthday is 10/05/1971 and is 50 years old. ), "When he went in, I followed him in the apartment and I saw the young lady on the bed. Meanwhile, Lykkebak hopes eventually to get Ed's record wiped clean of a felony --a move that would require a governor's pardon. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey, age 50s, lives in Palm Bay, FL. As Ed talks about it now, his voice is small and his eyes diverted. He wore a blue Gator pullover and a voluptuous yawn. 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. There is muffled conversation by a table of three-piece suits, who glance over suspiciously at Ed. The second, more sinister personality, was named "Gemini" and Rolling blamed him for his deadliest acts. View their profile including current address, phone number 321-259-XXXX, background check reports, and property record on Ed didnt do it, said George, then a 22-year-old law student, told WUFT in a 1991. Genetic tests conducted on pubic hairs were similar to Ed's - and about 8,000 other people in Alachua County. Former state attorney Rod Smith said that when investigators then searched his home, they found magazines about knives, guns and girls. He knew what was happening. It was going 60 mph at the time. It lets him have his old smile back. Current Address: YVXK San Paulo Cir, Melbourne, I felt bad for him. For Ed's 21st birthday, he sent $221.21. "Here was a kid who was held up as a ass murderer," Mackenzie says. Ed ends up on the floor. They were sexually assaulted and some were mutilated. Both parents drank too much. The grand jury considered evidence against Humphrey but declined to indict him. His eyes appeared glazed and barely open, his hair unkempt. He picked up smoking in prison. Family members had asked that the media not disrupt their privacy during the grand jury proceedings, but a reporter persisted in interviewing Mrs. Hlavaty. These days Ed Humphrey lives at home with his mom in Indialantic. The publicity about the Gainesville slayings made it impossible to find a private psychiatric facility to take Humphrey, and he was sentenced to the Corrections Mental Institution in Chattahoochee, where he landed among the most violent and deranged criminals in the state. But it didn't change the way I felt about him. Sgt. 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. The two 23-year-olds had been close friends since high school and had just begun living together. On the 10th anniversary of the murders, Humphrey walked across the stage of UCF arena as a college graduate. Claudia Rolling, Danny Rolling's mother, also testified. It was a tidy facade, but if you peeked around the corner, things turned messy. 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. Even Ed's best friend at the time, Eric Bedesem (Scott's brother), had doubts. He was supposed to take lithium to temper his radical mood swings. On Nov. 4, 1989, William Grissom, 55, his 24-year-old daughter Julie Grissom and his 8-year-old grandson Sean Grissom were killed in his home in the Louisiana city. ", A police officer told state investigators that 10 days before the killings Ed claimed he was going to Gainesville to "cut up some women.". "My maintenance man, unfortunately, ran down the stairs screaming, 'Oh my God,' and came out and threw up. Among Humphrey's friends - a group of sixteen surfers, who called themselves the Clan - Humphrey was unofficially acknowledged as most likely to succeed," Bedesem says. 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. The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville cited sources it did not identify in today's story about Edward Lewis Humphrey. Hoyt's stepmother, Dianna Hoyt, said she and her husband, Gary Hoyt, had a "very hard time" processing what happened to their daughter. I'm not able to make. He returned gasping for breath, and asked me to come back later in the day. 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. Sentencing was set I did the work. "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. "That was real bad, because I couldn't walk," Ed says. He spent a lot of that time in Chattahoochee, the state hospital for mentally ill prisoners. Christopher Slobogin, a professor at the University of Florida Law School, said suspicions about Mr. Humphrey's possible connection with the Gainesville murders increased the likelihood that he would be prosecuted on assault charges that otherwise would probably have been dropped. Good Student and Boy Scout They will not speak to reporters without Ed's approval. On Aug. 26, 1990, Emery said Powell's parents arrived at the apartment and banged on the door. He'd seen interviews with his new neighbors on the evening news, and they had said they were afraid of Ed Humphrey. The two talked in June at the Krispy Kreme doughnut store where McGrath worked. "Every time they'd mention [Tracy's] name, it was like a punch in the head," Lahey said. They returned to the evidence locker, where the gun, screwdriver, bag of money and cassette player had been stored. Ed says. "I said, 'What kind of problem,'" Juracich said, "[and Steven said], 'He likes to stick knives into people.'". 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. said Laurie Lahey, Paules' older sister. And, then, as far as newspapers go, half the things that lthey) deal with are just negative things about people. 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-year-old grandmother. "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. And I said, 'Holy sh--.' For several years, the whole family lived with Ed's maternal grandparents. "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. 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. "The difference was like night and day. Lookup the home address, phone numbers, email address for this person View Public Record Results ✓ Addresses. It was obvious that he had just woken up. As concerns of a killer on the loose mounted, police were inundated with calls from concerned parents. Three of the women had been raped and one had been decapitated. Following the sentencing, Manny Taboada's brother, Mario Taboada, stood up and shouted, "You're going down in five. 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 I knew that many people with connections to the Gainesville murders had left Florida. 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. They wish it known that the Ed they know is a kind and decent young man. He's had a tough row to hoe.". His brother, George, tried hard to clear his name. "If any evidence comes out later, he can still be indicted. 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.' But Humphrey had not. "Get his good side," offers Marti Mackenzie, the publicist. "I guess I kind of pushed her because she fell and hit her head on that mantle there. Related To Sarah Humphrey, Gail Humphrey, Erin Humphrey, Bud Humphrey, B Humphrey. theres a lot more ahead, Humphrey told the Orlando Sentinel before the ceremony. They didn't connect the robbery to the Gainesville murders until later on, when they listened to it. "Some fiber, some hairs. He had used the word happy three times. 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, Edward Lewis Humphrey, 51. A task force of police agencies in Gainesville, searching for the killer who had 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. I told him: 'Your real friends will stand by you."'. And it got worse as more people came forward. The rest of the time he sat in his cell, building card houses, reading books his mother sent, or sleeping. 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. And Ed Humphrey is still a free man with a lingering cloud over his head: suspect. I thought, 'Here's a guy who's sort of down and I think I'll cheer him up.". ", "Honestly, Marti," Ed says, "that plastic surgery didn't do that great of a job.". "I'd have taken a room full of him," says Bill Thomas, Ed's teacher in eighth grade. I mean, I was amped. 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. Smith said Rolling also talked about the best way to kill a deer. He had no reason to trust one. 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. Lawton Chiles in 1994 that helped restore Humphreys civil rights. A television blared. I mean, why don't the girls tell me that? His grandmother, now passed away, forgave him. It made his mouth dry. He went from a motivated, friendly student into a deep depression.". These details were important because, on the day of Christa Hoyt's murder, police also responded to a robbery at a bank a half-mile away from her home. His DNA didnt match the semen found at the murder scene. 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. He had a promising future ahead of him. He is a white, non hispanic male registered to 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. I fell asleep there.". A classic film noir, it features a great cast and a great storyline. The neighbors will shake their heads and shrug their shoulders and echo cliches like He must have snapped. 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. Humphrey could not have possibly understood at the time how high the stakes were or the consequences of the suspicion cast on him. The spokesman, Will Irby, thinks it over, consults his boss and tries again. The panel's action doesn't take Humphrey out of jeopardy, though. 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. Also known as Lewis E I had to know it. And residents there had seen the scar-faced youth wandering around at odd times carrying long knives. Hes not capable of it., Hes gonna come back home, George Humphrey insisted. His bail, originally set at $10,250, spiked to $1 million. On Nov. 10, 1989, driving alone on South Patrick Drive in Brevard County, Ed's car ran off the road and struck a concrete pole. A suspect in the slayings of five college students has been convicted of beat ing up his grandmother, despite her testimony that her injuries came from a fall. Humphreys off behavior, Mann said, drew attention to him. "He's one of our best employees. He was supposed to take lithium to temper his mood swings. The reports painted an eerie picture. On the 30th anniversary of the murders, I was eager to seek out Humphrey. He paced off the measurements--about 10 feet wide and 10 feet long. Would you like to meet him?". She saw what happened to him once, and she will not risk letting it happen again. 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. ), "I screamed," Ada Larson said about discovering her daughter had been killed. "Before that, I was doing awesome. He stabbed a young man 30 times and cut another woman's torso from her pelvis to her chest. And it goes to this officer that's in-the control booth and I'm like 'Yeah, how much longer do I have to sit in this cell, man? He has been hounded by the press. Don Maines, an investigator on the case with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, said they received several tips pointing to Humphrey, then 18. 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