And it just dropped me into a depression. After she failed to show up to work on the night of Aug. 26, 1990, Det. "He has been persecuted. He had a promising future ahead of him. 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. On Nov. 15, 1991, Rolling was charged with five counts of first-degree murder in connection to the college students' deaths in Gainesville. . You know, it affects my self-esteem. Rolling pleaded guilty to the serial killings of five young people at the University of Florida in Gainesville.). Ed, his grandmother reported, had screamed at her, "You're going to hell and you're going to die." 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 Three of the women had been raped and one had been decapitated. ", He pauses. And the sad, sad part about it is that we had the parents behind us on the stairs.". Ultimately, the jury recommended five death sentences for Rolling and the judge agreed, sentencing him to execution. Over the course of three days, police in Gainesville discovered the bodies of five college students, a man and four women. Their leads took them to Humphreys doorstep. 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. When does Ed stop being a suspect?". Humphrey has said he plans to have plastic surgery to remove facial scars from an automobile accident. Sonja Larson and Christina "Christi" Powell were new students at the University of Florida in 1990. I really don't like reporters. View their profile including current address, phone number 321-259-XXXX, background check reports, and property record on She knew hmm only as Ed--a nice guy, hard worker, easy to get along with. "I didn't buy it," said forensic psychologist Harry Krop. Wayland Clifton, the former chief of police of the Gainesville Police Department, who also visited the crime scene, said his greatest concern while driving home that night was that the suspect would commit more murders. He'd tried to choke her, she said, and when she fell to the floor, he hit her in the face. Kennedy even sent money. Then, Rolling came back with his own gun and shot his father in the face, state attorney Smith said. By August 1990, when Humphrey enrolled as a freshman at the University of Florida, some close to him feared his violently unpredictable behavior was worsening. He described Ynnad as a bad person, but not evil. "They're gone but their memory has to always endure," Mario Taboada said. And residents there had seen the scar-faced youth wandering around at odd times carrying long knives. (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. Prosecutors also attacked Rollings' claims that he had multiple personalities and that he was overtaken by his evil "Gemini" side when he murdered his victims. He is released to the custody of his mother. "I wanted to represent [Tracy]," said Lahey, Paules' sister. Students left--some for good--and there was a run on the sale of guns, Mace and door locks. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey (age 51) is listed at 1294 Port Malabar Blvd Ne Palm Bay, Fl 32905 and is affiliated with the Republican Party. Anniversaries of the murders come and go, I explained. Then, when Ed was about 13, his grandfather died. Leave him there.'". "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. ", Dianna Hoyt said they held hands as Rolling was brought into the court. TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) _ Gainesville murder suspect Edward Lewis Humphrey was sentenced today to the maximum 22 months for beating his grandmother after his 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. They returned to the evidence locker, where the gun, screwdriver, bag of money and cassette player had been stored. I had practiced so many times what I would say in this moment. TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) _ Gainesville murder suspect Edward Lewis Humphrey was sentenced today to the maximum 22 months for beating his grandmother after his lawyer said no private psychiatric hospital could be found for him. It was kind of funny really that it hadn't clicked before. That's what did it.". 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. And then he disappeared from public view. State Attorney Rod Smith said that before the court could proceed with the case, Rolling and his defense lawyer stood up. "Recon lock and load!" Ed's dad, family friends told investigators, had a ferocious temper. His friends didn't understand: You really don't need that stuff they'd say. Three months before the Gainesville murders, in May 1990, Rolling and his father had an argument in which Rolling's father chased him out of the house at gunpoint, Hewitt said. ", A police officer told state investigators that 10 days before the killings Ed claimed he was going to Gainesville to "cut up some women.". That was the start of it all. He had no reason to trust one. 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. "My maintenance man, unfortunately, ran down the stairs screaming, 'Oh my God,' and came out and threw up. In custody, he was questioned about the killings. A task force of police agencies in Gainesville, searching for the killer who had ", "Honestly, Marti," Ed says, "that plastic surgery didn't do that great of a job.". "It was like, Oh, wow. Mrs. Hlavaty died about 56 hours before the grand jury decided her grandson Ed should not be charged in the Gainesville murders. Hewitt said the man also talked to his family, about life and how he felt he went down the "wrong road." ", George Humphrey says "John" was a reference to John the Apostle. ), "When he went in, I followed him in the apartment and I saw the young lady on the bed. "I had to know what Sonja went through. I had to have my husband stop at the side of the road, and I looked outside and the stars were shining. Circuit Judge Theron Yawn said last week he was inclined to order a mental commitment rather than prison for Humphrey. And nothing the driver does makes a bit of difference. It's going to be worse next time.' Still, Rolling has pleaded innocent--and Don Lykkebak expects Ed will be a target in the trial. I wanted to ask him so many questions. State Troops Humphrey Lewis' Company (Madison County, Fla.) Military service, Voluntary "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. It wasn't long after Maines' trip to Shreveport that Juracich called Crime Stoppers to report Danny Rolling. ", Dianna Hoyt said she didn't believe "any of it. 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. And an odd thing happened: Agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement showed up and began questioning him about the murders. He was on heavy medication. When I got a job, .when I got good grades in school, they weren't calling me. 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. She was hoping to become a lawyer. "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. Then 28, he received a bachelors degree in business administration with a 3.76 grade-point average, graduating magna cum laude. The article also stated that Humphreys grandmother said the gloves belonged to her. She was found raped, stabbed to death, mutilated and beheaded. "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. "But when they first arrested him (for beating his grandmother), they basically trashed him in the press and said he was a serial killer.". He also decapitated her and posed the head on a bookshelf. Maines said Rolling fled the home after police issued a warrant for his arrest. Former state attorney Rod Smith said that when investigators then searched his home, they found magazines about knives, guns and girls. in 11th grade, and I got an 850 on that, which is, like, really low. Edward has no feeling of elation. I felt bad for him. "Ed--everywhere he went he caused a scene," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. I knew little more about Humphrey than what I knew before this day. 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. "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 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. Im happy its over, he said. On bad days, witnesses claim, he would act out his military fantasies on the Indialantic boardwalk. "I did not want to see that young lady that meant so much to me. He has been hounded by the press. Smith said Rolling also talked about the best way to kill a deer. 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 old woman's face, Deputy Doug Hammack saw, was wet with her own blood. He was, at one time, considered the prime suspect. His mug shot fueled growing public speculation and drew hordes of reporters from around the country. As for his own behavior, Ed says: "I can't help it if my body (needs) lithium. Ed, following his attorney's advice, won't talk about it--or anything else he may have said to police at the time. Yet, it would later prove crucial to finding out who the Gainesville murderer was. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey, Age 51. aka Lewis E Humphrey, Edward J Humphrey, Humphrey Edward Lewis, Humphrey Humphrey. She hadn't called us and, finally, the Powells, who lived closer, went over there.". But that's pretty much how I feel.". 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. "I'm like, 'Yeah, right,"' Ed says. And he reportedly has been whispering details of the killings to a fellow inmate, who has been telling investigators. "It's hard for me to picture him doing anything discreetly.". She disagrees. And, his face bore a scar, it turned out, from a car wreck the year before. "This death is devastating to us as a family. Investigators and prosecutors race for justice in an effort that still affects them 30 years later. And when the jail returned it--saying it did not allow cash to be mailed to inmates--Kennedy got a money order. I want to get married some day and have kids. They've never even talked to you. I can't handle this.' 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. I'm not able to make. Would he demand I leave? 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. "It was a small-caliber gun, and the father survives it, but not without permanent damage," Smith said. Police found Paules on their living room floor. 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. "I wanted to be there in the front row if I could. Her family said she collapsed after arguing with a relative about talking to a reporter. He was convicted of armed robbery in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi for several grocery store robberies, and spent most of the 1980s in prison. He remembers arriving home after midnight and awakening his grandmother. Ed's bail, originally set at $10,250 was increased to $1 million - 100 to 200 times the scheduled rate for aggravated assault. 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. By the time she reported Rolling, police had already arrested another man who they believed to be a suspect in the Gainesville murders. WebView Edward Humphrey results in Florida (FL) including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. He surfed, played soccer and football, and joined the Boy Scout troop that his father founded, eventually becoming an Eagle Scout. More than a week later, The Sun reported another leak of damaging information about Humphrey. But at the trial, she testified she had fallen and hurt herself in the dark. "We treat our animals in our society better than Ed Humphrey has been treated," Russo said as he tried unsuccessfully to persuade a judge to free his client. I knocked on his front door with trepidation. He hates dredging this up. he would yell. 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. "Knowing what happened, I can't erase that out of my mind, and nobody should have to go through that," said Scott Grissom. ), "I screamed," Ada Larson said about discovering her daughter had been killed. "My husband would just sit and say 'Just tell me she died right away. I mean, why don't the girls tell me that? Rolling also made it clear to investigators that he acted alone and that Ed Humphrey had no involvement in the student murders. It was a nasty, turbulent, protracted parting that left Ed's mother--a devout Catholic--devastated. Also known as Edward Humphery, Earl Edward Humphrey, Edward Humprey, Tara Edwards, E Edward. His DNA didnt match the semen found at the murder scene. He was the one to call investigators. The sheriff's office says it kept him there for his own safety--not as punishment--because he'd threatened suicide. 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. That man, Danny Rolling, had told her that one day he was going to leave Shreveport, where they lived. I thought they'd already filled her in on who I was and it just kind of slipped. She was quite shocked.". Edward Lewis Humphrey, 51. "The main thing is, I'm just like anybody else," he says. 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 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. You're a killer, a drifter, gone insane.". 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. 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 Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville cited sources it did not identify in today's story about Edward Lewis Humphrey. His grandmother would later try to drop the charges, insisting Ed never hit her, that she accidentally fell into the fireplace. He looks around nervously. ET on ABC. There was a large window from the ceiling to about waist high, so they could see his every move. He enrolled at University of Central Florida in 1995, taking classes around part-time jobs ranging from cleaning dog kennels and swimming pools to assembling tanning beds and working in factories, according to the Orlando Sentinel. His public defender, J. R. Russo, said Humphrey's mental state deteriorated while he was jailed. As a base police officer approaches him, he starts chewing on a tin can. Humphrey was arrested just days after the murders and held in jail on a $1 million bond. They couldn't say definitively it was Ed's hair, but they couldn't say it wasn't.". "Every time they'd mention [Tracy's] name, it was like a punch in the head," Lahey said. (Edis Catholic.). Danny Rolling was put to death by lethal injection on Oct. 25, 2006. 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. So I got in my car and drove to Palm Bay to meet Ed Humphrey in person. As the questioning went on, Rolling began to say he'd "dealt with different personalities all my life." His court appearances were riveting. "Grandmother is another victim of those crimes.". Also known as Lewis E They were sexually assaulted and some were mutilated. 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 I don't want people to know who I am. In one of the songs, the man sings, "Mystery rider, what's your name? Were gonna do whats best for Ed and put all these miserable stuff behind us.. A top official in the case points out the murders were methodical and elaborately planned. Later, after Ed has gone, one approaches the young woman behind the counter. Tell me she did not suffer.' His grandmother, now passed away, forgave him. He was at the wrong place at the wrong time, said Spencer Mann, the spokesman for the Alachua County Sheriffs Department at the time. For the families of those students, being there to see him at trial was crucial. But months passed and Humphrey was never charged with the crimes, the Alachua County grand jury deciding that there was no case against him. I fell asleep there.". The next day Humphrey is reported to be running in circles and talking to himself on Patrick Air Force Base. It has been the biggest manhunt in Florida history. Among the evidence was a pubic hair _ similar to Humphrey's _ found at a murder scene, and statements from two witnesses who said they saw Humphrey and Rolling together. Legran Hewitt said they dispatched Barber and another officer to Christa Hoyt's home. "I'd come in and there would be books open and calculators out.". He would, for many years, remain connected to the Gainesville murders, though he played no role. He paced off the measurements--about 10 feet wide and 10 feet long. And, then, as far as newspapers go, half the things that lthey) deal with are just negative things about people. An article in The Orlando Sentinel followed up with Darnell on the discovery; she acknowledged investigators had found promising evidence toward wrapping up the case. After a bank robbery, police found the tape along with stolen money, a gun and a screwdriver. But Humphrey had not. "Ed's a good friend. But when you get up to that other accident, I can guarantee you 100 percent that I was not trying to commit suicide. The muster roll references 44 names. I can't get past that.". And so Grandma was bleeding and everything, and I got, like, a cloth and stuff and tried to help her out. "It's hard to say what was inside my head. 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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. 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. This is the first extensive interview Ed Humphrey has ever granted. "It definitely all started when I was 16," he says now. And legal experts say that even if Humphrey is innocent, he'll carry the stigma of the killings with him the rest of his days. Would he answer? No way. But just as the fall semester was beginning, five students were killed in macabre fashion. Claudia Rolling, Danny Rolling's mother, also testified. He was rambling. Your story has never been told.. Sonja Larson's body was found on her waterbed on the second floor, with stab wounds in her arms and torso. Glenn Ruppel, Sean Dooley, and Anthony Rivas. She briefs him before interviews; she and his attorney decide which questions he'll answer. And he paid his dues--both in time and torment. There's many people that have abusive parents. "It was important because he was participating in the confession," Hewitt said. I'm standing by the door and I'm pressing the button, and the guards come up and they slam the door open." The nude artwork embarrasses him. Maybe a little on the quiet side. ", "Always studying. He went from a motivated, friendly student into a deep depression.". His bail, originally set at $10,250, spiked to $1 million. (Danny Harold Rolling appears at his trial in Tampa, Fla., Feb. 13, 1994. "So I pressed this button to find out what was going on. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey, age 50s, lives in Palm Bay, FL. 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