This little fracas could have sent him back to prison. He had a violent history, an unstable personality. He was rambling. They think, 'Well, there's a good chance he did it because he's on TV.' But that's pretty much how I feel.". 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. ", (Eighteen-year-old Sonja Larson was among the victims of the so-called Gainesville Ripper, Danny Rolling, in Gainesville, Florida, in 1990. Humphrey also faces an assault charge in Gainesville and a 1988 attempted rape and burglary case in Indian River County. Your story has never been told.. He has lost 50 pounds and had plastic surgery since being a central figure on the evening news. A once-peaceful university town panicked. 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. Both parents drank too much. Legran Hewitt said they dispatched Barber and another officer to Christa Hoyt's home. "He was just the wrong boy at the wrong place at the wrong time--with the wrong malady.". After she failed to show up to work on the night of Aug. 26, 1990, Det. (This is the day after the first murders are believed to have taken place, but before the victims, are discovered. When I --what else?--oh, how about when I got off probation?". "It didn't matter what the lyrics were or what he was saying at that point. 1. 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. In custody, he was questioned about the killings. He was the youngest of four kids. One grocery store clerk called him at kome later. "I wanted to represent [Tracy]," said Lahey, Paules' sister. 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. Then he would drop into a crouch pretending to open fire. "He was very good with kids," says Farley. I had to have my husband stop at the side of the road, and I looked outside and the stars were shining. When I got a job, .when I got good grades in school, they weren't calling me. Hes not capable of it., Hes gonna come back home, George Humphrey insisted. Discount stores, supermarkets, a slew of fast-food joints --a lot of places where he applied didn't bother to call, though Ed knew they were hiring. One said it was a "violent" environment. Humphrey says 10 men chased him and that he pulled a pocketknife--not a razor--in self-defense. "I thought it was totally unfair," Ed says. He finally moved back to Indialantic with his mother, where things went smoothly until March 1992, when he and some buddies went on a spring break camping trip to Key West. But he has not been charged in those cases. Many panicked. "That was real bad, because I couldn't walk," Ed says. It was kind of funny really that it hadn't clicked before. Her body had also been arranged in a posed position, sitting with her feet on the floor and her torso slumped forward, Donnelly said. I mean, it's just a really bad feeling--knowing that wherever you go people are judging you, and they don't even know you. ", "Always studying. He has been hounded by the press. Humphrey was hospitalized a half-dozen times, diagnosed as a manic-depressive. August 5, 1990, 0128 hours: Elna Hlavaty, Humphrey's grandmother, phones deputies to report that her grandson is "high" on drugs. At this moment he would be home in Indialantic studying for a science test--and hoping, unrealistically, that people would just forget Ed Humphrey. It worked, but it also made him dull, sluggish, overweight. Rolling pleaded guilty to the serial killings of five young people at the University of Florida in Gainesville.). Ed Humphrey, on that August morning, had not been taking his medication for some time. Always," recalls Scott Bedesem, a friend since junior high school. Brevard sheriffs officials also released reports showing the agency responded to at least 14 emergency calls of Humphrey allegedly attacking his grandmother or mother. The transcript of that interview has never been made public. It wasn't long after Maines' trip to Shreveport that Juracich called Crime Stoppers to report Danny Rolling. Well, they're influenced so much by what they watch and they think, 'Oh, yeah, I saw where they got the suspect.' "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. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey (age 51) is listed at 1294 Port Malabar Blvd Ne Palm Bay, Fl 32905 and is affiliated with the Republican Party. ET on ABC. Ed answered immediately, and the two have been exchanging letters at least once a month ever since. "I did that at the time because I read that serial killers like to be in control," Mario Taboada told ABC News. (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. "Don't take a picture of me with the knife," he says. Other names that Edward uses includes Edward Lewis Humphrey and Edward L Humphrey. It was obvious that he had just woken up. Crime lab experts had damning evidence that semen found at the murder scene came from Rolling. I did the work. Those who knew Larson said she was a sweet girl, but reserved, and that she liked to work with children. I fell asleep there.". What fear did she have going through her mind?" He was on heavy medication. The perils of his loose lips kept him in custody. Who is Ed Humphrey? The rest of the time he sat in his cell, building card houses, reading books his mother sent, or sleeping. He described Ynnad as a bad person, but not evil. He looks around nervously. His DNA didnt match the semen found at the murder scene. 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. "The main thing is, I'm just like anybody else," he says. 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. The real killer was eventually caught, confessed and was put to death. Don Maines, an investigator on the case with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, said they received several tips pointing to Humphrey, then 18. I'm not able to make. (Edis Catholic.). 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. "It seemed like when I lost my cool, he would keep his. "Your honor, I've been running from first one thing and then another all my life," Rolling said. Rolling's defense presented mitigating factors for why he might have committed the murders, including his troubled history with his father. Edward Lewis Humphrey, 19, was found guilty Wednesday of battery on a person over 65. "Was she thinking of me? There was a toilet, a sink and a military mattress on the floor. 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. And the sad, sad part about it is that we had the parents behind us on the stairs.". 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. "They're gone but their memory has to always endure," Mario Taboada said. And she nagged at Ed constantly. And it just dropped me into a depression. And the day after Ed was arrested, an investigator interviewed Sydney McGrath, a college student who had long conversations with Ed about dissecting corpses. "Tracy asked him, 'You're the one, aren't you?'" And when the jail returned it--saying it did not allow cash to be mailed to inmates--Kennedy got a money order. I can't get past that.". "My brother is in jail now because of the image Gainesville gave him, not because of anything he did.". "It's a place for all of us families to go and see their children's names still living there," Dianna Hoyt said. He stabbed a young man 30 times and cut another woman's torso from her pelvis to her chest. He was at the wrong place at the wrong time, said Spencer Mann, the spokesman for the Alachua County Sheriffs Department at the time. He takes a slug of coffee and fidgets with an unlit cigarette. "The first night I was in there, no one told me anything," he says. John Donvan, a Danny Rolling is talking about the murders now. He was released from jail 10 months after he'd assaulted his grandmother. Mostly he made threats, but he also would gear up in combat fatigues, strap a knife to his leg and tell people he'd fought in Vietnam--though, of course, he was only 4 when the war ended. 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 Witnesses testified to the abuse they'd seen. After a bank robbery, police found the tape along with stolen money, a gun and a screwdriver. "He'd come over every night for a while, and then one night, Steven came in and he goes, 'He's got to go,'" Juracich said. Would he answer? Edward Lewis Humphrey, a former honors student and an Eagle Scout from Brevard County, began classes at the University of Florida in the summer of 1990. There is muffled conversation by a table of three-piece suits, who glance over suspiciously at Ed. "So I pressed this button to find out what was going on. But just as the fall semester was beginning, five students were killed in macabre fashion. Most of my friends got 1200 or something. ", He pauses. When he was arrested for hitting his grandmother and questioned by state agents, sources say, Ed spoke of someone named "John" and claimed to have knowledge of the Gainesville killings. Humphrey shunned the media, and remained quiet through the years. theres a lot more ahead, Humphrey told the Orlando Sentinel before the ceremony. He picked up smoking in prison. The families whose loved ones were murdered in Gainesville say they are grateful for the simple memorial that remains today. At the time, Humphrey was manic-depressive who was off his medication. 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 "If any evidence comes out later, he can still be indicted. "I didn't think I would ever be able to walk again. He spent a lot of that time in Chattahoochee, the state hospital for mentally ill prisoners. 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 made his mouth dry. He was under surveillance for reports of odd behaviors, like wearing camouflage, and he had an obsession with knives. On Nov. 15, 1991, Rolling was charged with five counts of first-degree murder in connection to the college students' deaths in Gainesville. "So, let's take it easy on him. "I should have just stayed in jail. A classic film noir, it features a great cast and a great storyline. "VVhen he was not taking his lithium, he was a clearly diagnosed manic-depressive," Marti Mackenzie says. It was going 60 mph at the time. Tracy Paules and Manny Taboada were found dead the next morning, on Aug. 28, 1990. But Humphrey had not. 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. Later, after Ed has gone, one approaches the young woman behind the counter. And nothing the driver does makes a bit of difference. "He trusts me and I trust him," Pauwels says. A neighbor also reports that the grandson is running in and out of the home - shouting that he is going to murder the grandparents. He said a lot of grandiose things (that) caused him to be a suspect. Unit Name Humphrey Lewis' Company (Madison County, Fla.) Unit Leader Lewis, Humphrey Unit Location Madison County Unit Subjects Florida. "Their strategy was to keep Ed in jail, to hold him without charging him in the Gainesville case," he says. How could this possibly happen? Anniversaries of the murders come and go, I explained. "I don't want people to read about me. His mother was well-intentioned and caring, but nervous. A serial killer, cunning and profoundly evil, was on the loose. Glenn Ruppel, Sean Dooley, and Anthony Rivas. 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. Other You're a killer, a drifter, gone insane.". She is a savvy and persistent woman who tenaciously guards Humphrey's contact with the media. The hot air folded in waves over the highway. Three of the women had been raped and one had been decapitated. The murders were eerily similar to three others that had occurred in Shreveport in November 1989. He called the match to the evidence in Gainesville a "revelation" in the case. 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. I am still his friend, and I think what happened to him is wrong. Especially around his mouth, she says, the skin is much smoother and more elastic and natural-looking. Sonja Larson's body was found on her waterbed on the second floor, with stab wounds in her arms and torso. We just got in the car and headed for Gainesville. It lets him have his old smile back. The task force searched his Indialantic home and Gainesville apartment. It was repeated so authoritatively and so often that the term began to lose its inherent uncertainty. He told me he had done interviews on this topic, and most of his experiences had not been pleasant. But Humphrey was left torn and tarnished. Journalist John Donnelly, who covered the story for the Miami Herald, said the officers noticed the unusual way in which Sonja Larson's body was posed. She knew hmm only as Ed--a nice guy, hard worker, easy to get along with. 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 Newspapers reported Humphrey revealed to investigators that he had an alter ego, named John, who knew the details about the crimes. He reportedly threatened several people there with a large knife and once warned a security guard: "God told me to kill you. They had softened with time, but they told his story. Related To Gabrielle Humphrey, Graciela Humphrey, George Humphrey, Elna Humphrey. On Aug. 30, Humphrey returned to his Indialantic home from Gainesville, where he had enrolled as a freshman at the University of Florida. 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, "He's one of our best employees. She briefs him before interviews; she and his attorney decide which questions he'll answer. Hewitt said the man also talked to his family, about life and how he felt he went down the "wrong road." 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. His mug shot fueled growing public speculation and drew hordes of reporters from around the country. Prior to his death, he spoke to a pastor and handed him a note. TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) _ Gainesville murder suspect Edward Lewis Humphrey was sentenced today to the maximum 22 months for beating his grandmother after his "It was a small-caliber gun, and the father survives it, but not without permanent damage," Smith said. On Wednesday, his grandmother, Elna Hlavaty, died at age 80 after suffering a heart attack in Indialantic. The killer mutilated the breasts of two of the young women. After Lewis told the investigators what Rolling had told him, investigators would then ask Rolling if what Lewis said was correct. said Laurie Lahey, Paules' older sister. Kennedy even sent money. Ed remembers their reaction: "Oh, it's a celebrity.". Edward Lewis Humphrey became a familiar figure to law enforcement officials as he shuttled between his apartment near the University of Florida and his Brevard County home in Indialantic. Following the sentencing, Manny Taboada's brother, Mario Taboada, stood up and shouted, "You're going down in five. ", Mackenzie answers quietly. They wound up having a few drinks and getting in trouble with a security guard at a hotel bar. "And he said, 'Yeah, I'm the one.'". Christa Hoyt was an aspiring police officer who'd been working part-time at the Alachua County Sheriff's Office while going to school, according to Gail Barber, the first officer on the scene of her murder. A television blared. On the 10th anniversary of the murders, Humphrey walked across the stage of UCF arena as a college graduate. 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. Current Address: YVXK San Paulo Cir, Melbourne, But there was one major problem for investigators: Even though DNA testing technology was still in its infancy, investigators were able to determine the suspect's blood type through semen left behind at all three crime scenes. Even today, a spokesman for the new state attorney hesitates: "Is Ed Humphrey still a suspect?Well, hmmm.One would think it ought to be a simple question.". Watch "20/20" FRIDAYS at 9 p.m. He was convicted of armed robbery in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi for several grocery store robberies, and spent most of the 1980s in prison. I had deliberately chosen 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning so that the chances of him being home would be greater. Humphrey, who was released from state prison in September after serving 10 months for beating his grandmother, had no comment Friday on the grand jury's action. . I just couldn't even sleep. Edward Lewis Humphrey, a former honors student and an Eagle Scout from Brevard County, began classes at the University of Florida in the summer of 1990. "I kept saying to myself, it's the last thing I can do for her. Rolling's affirmations were caught on tape. For several years, the whole family lived with Ed's maternal grandparents. 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. He was supposed to take lithium to temper his radical mood swings. Humphrey was chased and fell as he fled. They subsequently discovered that Rolling had type B blood just like the suspect in both the Gainesville and Shreveport murders. The time frame is precise in his mind. On a stretch of road running through the city, there is a graffiti-covered wall. He had 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 In police audio recordings, he could be heard asking police to accompany him at the request of his manager. (Manuel Taboada, left, and Tracy Paules, right, are seen in undated photos. You could see [she was] in a bad position, and I just turned around and walked out," Curnutt said. Humphrey stood 6 feet tall and weighed about 200 pounds. "And honestly, they advised that he'd die much faster in Florida, and I said, 'Well, leave him there. "He just stole that and used that [as] part of his story," Smith said. It has been the biggest manhunt in Florida history. Lawn placed Humphrey on probation for 14 months after his prison term with the condition that he continue psychiatric treatment. State Attorney Rod Smith said that before the court could proceed with the case, Rolling and his defense lawyer stood up. "Grandmother is another victim of those crimes.". He went from a motivated, friendly student into a deep depression.". I hate having my picture taken.". His eyes appeared glazed and barely open, his hair unkempt. But, his life was forever tainted. "But, for some reason, somehow, that tape escaped us, and I'll freely admit it.". They immediately made her think about a man from her Louisiana hometown church who used to spend time with her and her family. Ed, following his attorney's advice, won't talk about it--or anything else he may have said to police at the time. 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? "Some fiber, some hairs. I thought, 'Here's a guy who's sort of down and I think I'll cheer him up.". She hadn't called us and, finally, the Powells, who lived closer, went over there.". 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. ", Dianna Hoyt said she didn't believe "any of it. I thought they'd already filled her in on who I was and it just kind of slipped. She was quite shocked.". He was, at one time, considered the prime suspect. I want to get married some day and have kids. 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. More than a week later, The Sun reported another leak of damaging information about Humphrey. When the police arrested Ed, they put him in a solitary cell in the infirmary for 76 days. The two had gone bowling, played pool, hung out together. "I don't want to be on TV," he says. It is his 21st birthday, and he is spending it having lunch with a publicist--hired by his attorney--a reporter and a photographer. "I guess I kind of pushed her because she fell and hit her head on that mantle there. 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? She was found raped, stabbed to death, mutilated and beheaded. Some of the other inmates had made threats. On bad days, witnesses claim, he would act out his military fantasies on the Indialantic boardwalk. Maybe a little on the quiet side. The muster roll references 44 names. Along with the similarities in which the victims were killed, there were other patterns investigators noted. in 11th grade, and I got an 850 on that, which is, like, really low. Don Lykkebak, Ed's attorney, says, "He was a medical patient at the time who was not being treated. "Here was a kid who was held up as a ass murderer," Mackenzie says. A. "I had to know what Sonja went through. "But there are some things that you just can't run from and this being one of those.". "And, like, they point in my face telling me, 'Don't do that again, man. He was a blond, smooth-skinned, affable teen-ager who made good grades, played football and enjoyed surfing with a group of friends in the swells off Indialantic, a town on Florida's east coast. He is questioned and officers search his car, finding two knives under the seat. Then, at one point, the man on the tape says his name: Danny Harold Rolling. Although Humphreys October trial was in Brevard County, a visiting judge from Gainesville presided over it. One day in April 1988--after Ed had dropped out of school for a while and gone to live with his brother, George, in Gainesville--the two were taking a drive to the beach to talk about Ed moving home. It was a tidy facade, but if you peeked around the corner, things turned messy. The deputy put Humphrey in the back of his patrol car. 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