When the waiter brings him a birthday cake and large knife, Edward Humphrey prepares to make the first cut, then stops himself. It lets him have his old smile back. In one of the songs, the man sings, "Mystery rider, what's your name? They will not speak to reporters without Ed's approval. Related To Gabrielle Humphrey, Graciela Humphrey, George Humphrey, Elna Humphrey. And I'll never be able to forget it. That man, Danny Rolling, had told her that one day he was going to leave Shreveport, where they lived. 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. But his attorney, Donald Lykkebak of Orlando, said: "The prolonged investigation has been emotionally and financially exhausting. The metamorphosis seemed to happen in a matter of days. "Should I smile? He had no reason to trust one. "I've got feelings, too, and that stuff really hurt me. "And I remember Grandma yelled when she hit her head, and Mom called the police immediately without knowing what was going on. She was found raped, stabbed to death, mutilated and beheaded. "My brother is in jail now because of the image Gainesville gave him, not because of anything he did.". The lack of indictment is the result that he and I both expected.". 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. 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 STROLLS INTO YAB YUM, A downtown coffee house, for a cup of hazelnut regular, the flavor of the day, and a book of matches. he would yell. She knew hmm only as Ed--a nice guy, hard worker, easy to get along with. . I had practiced so many times what I would say in this moment. Tracy Paules and Manny Taboada were found dead the next morning, on Aug. 28, 1990. There was a large window from the ceiling to about waist high, so they could see his every move. "I'd come in and there would be books open and calculators out.". The spokesman, Will Irby, thinks it over, consults his boss and tries again. When the police arrested Ed, they put him in a solitary cell in the infirmary for 76 days. When the discussion turned to a human anatomy class that McGrath was taking, McGrath said, Ed asked her what it was like to cut up bodies and if she ever took skin or body parts home to "mess around with it.". A judge ordered him removed from the court. A top official in the case points out the murders were methodical and elaborately planned. He reportedly threatened several people there with a large knife and once warned a security guard: "God told me to kill you. Hoyt's stepmother, Dianna Hoyt, said she and her husband, Gary Hoyt, had a "very hard time" processing what happened to their daughter. 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. Family trouble, mental problems and sheer coincidence seem to be the main factors that put Ed Humphrey into legal limbo. "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. Before moving to Edward's current city of Palm Bay, FL, Edward lived in Melbourne FL and Indialantic FL. Karl Kennedy, a soft-spoken 70-year-old retired real-estate agent in California, was one of several hundred people who wrote Ed in jail, certain that he was a victim of injustice. He said the officer tracked the man to a campsite. "So I pressed this button to find out what was going on. To girls it makes a difference. "We think that was in an effort to keep investigators from discovering DNA, blood types, fingerprints," Maines said. And when the jail returned it--saying it did not allow cash to be mailed to inmates--Kennedy got a money order. A classic film noir, it features a great cast and a great storyline. His grandfather, a retired Air Force officer, took the boys to ham radio shows and flea markets and the officers' club to play bingo and lunch with the big-wigs. He was at the wrong place at the wrong time, said Spencer Mann, the spokesman for the Alachua County Sheriffs Department at the time. I was like, God, I can't handle this.". They immediately made her think about a man from her Louisiana hometown church who used to spend time with her and her family. He had used the word happy three times. Especially around his mouth, she says, the skin is much smoother and more elastic and natural-looking. Many panicked. "He's one of our best employees. For Ed's 21st birthday, he sent $221.21. ", "Honestly, Marti," Ed says, "that plastic surgery didn't do that great of a job.". They subsequently discovered that Rolling had type B blood just like the suspect in both the Gainesville and Shreveport murders. Rolling's trial for the five student murders began on Feb. 15, 1994, nearly four years after he killed the five students. The real killer was eventually caught, confessed and was put to death. So investigators sat with Lewis and Rolling and had Lewis answer questions for Rolling. 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. Anyone else--they would have dropped the charges or maybe given him one year's probation. Blood spattered an easy chair, the carpet, the coffee table. I hate having my picture taken.". He was in a wheelchair for weeks. I fell asleep there.". It made his mouth dry. Danny Rolling is talking about the murders now. All of Gainesville shuddered. He had a violent history, an unstable personality. A once-peaceful university town panicked. That's who you are?! Anniversaries of the murders come and go, I explained. And he paid his dues--both in time and torment. Ed said. The rest of the time he sat in his cell, building card houses, reading books his mother sent, or sleeping. Chubby but cunning and fast, the cat ran from behind one bush to another. And then he disappeared from public view. 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. In police audio recordings, he could be heard asking police to accompany him at the request of his manager. ", Dianna Hoyt said they held hands as Rolling was brought into the court. His friends didn't understand: You really don't need that stuff they'd say. As the questioning went on, Rolling began to say he'd "dealt with different personalities all my life." The door opened and before me stood Ed Humphrey. Law enforcement officials, as well as the prosecutors office, regretted the way Humphrey had been treated. They wound up having a few drinks and getting in trouble with a security guard at a hotel bar. 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 did not want to see that young lady that meant so much to me. He apologized, cried and told his pursuers: "Please don't hurt me.". "Every time they'd mention [Tracy's] name, it was like a punch in the head," Lahey said. 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. It was a tidy facade, but if you peeked around the corner, things turned messy. "I'd have taken a room full of him," says Bill Thomas, Ed's teacher in eighth grade. I had learned he had married and had a daughter. That's what did it.". Hewitt said the man also talked to his family, about life and how he felt he went down the "wrong road." theres a lot more ahead, Humphrey told the Orlando Sentinel before the ceremony. He had dreams of being an architect, his brother, Mario Taboada, said. (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. "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. Ed answered immediately, and the two have been exchanging letters at least once a month ever since. Crime lab experts had damning evidence that semen found at the murder scene came from Rolling. 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. "Don't take a picture of me with the knife," he says. And I said, 'Holy sh--.' He said nothing more. "I had to know what Sonja went through. Edward Lewis Humphrey, 51. And Ed Humphrey is still a free man with a lingering cloud over his head: suspect. He described Ynnad as a bad person, but not evil. Although Humphreys October trial was in Brevard County, a visiting judge from Gainesville presided over it. Finally, they listened to the tape. 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. After Lewis told the investigators what Rolling had told him, investigators would then ask Rolling if what Lewis said was correct. 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 deputy put Humphrey in the back of his patrol car. He'd seen interviews with his new neighbors on the evening news, and they had said they were afraid of Ed Humphrey. As for his own behavior, Ed says: "I can't help it if my body (needs) lithium. "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. The article also stated that Humphreys grandmother said the gloves belonged to her. And so Grandma was bleeding and everything, and I got, like, a cloth and stuff and tried to help her out. Ed Humphrey, on that August morning, had not been taking his medication for some time. "The difference was like night and day. ", He pauses. 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 really don't like reporters. Also known as Edward Humphery, Earl Edward Humphrey, Edward Humprey, Tara Edwards, E Edward. Ed already worked there. "Oh, that's Ed," the kennel workers will say. Marker Address Rent ? Dave Farley, a senior patrol leader, remembers hiking the Appalachian Trail with Ed, his assistant. 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. "So there will always be an association between him and the killer," Doherty said, and some people will say investigators just couldn't dig up the proof. Then he banged his head on the window so hard the deputy worried he would break the glass. Humphrey was arrested just days after the murders and held in jail on a $1 million bond. 1870. "And, like, they point in my face telling me, 'Don't do that again, man. "I don't know," he says. 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. His mother was well-intentioned and caring, but nervous. 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. There was enormous pressure on Gainesville police, on state investigators, on prosecutors, to find the killer and put him behind bars. He was supposed to take lithium to temper his mood swings. Before I could say anything, Humphrey came to the door, visibly shaken and upset, his face fraught with worry. 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. The cops came and asked for identification. I wanted to ask him so many questions. He is released to the custody of his mother. "I did that at the time because I read that serial killers like to be in control," Mario Taboada told ABC News. JULY 14,1990,1609 HOURS: INDIALANtic police receive a reported trespass at the Crawford Surf Shop, on AlA and 5th Street. 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. August 5, 1990, 0128 hours: Elna Hlavaty, Humphrey's grandmother, phones deputies to report that her grandson is "high" on drugs. Ed ends up on the floor. "So I wanted to have the last word.". John Donvan, a former reporter for ABC News who covered the Gainesville cases, said Lewis claimed Rolling told him many of the details of the murders and that Rolling wanted to confess. He glances again at the photographer. Ed Humphrey had been arrested and charged with assaulting his grandmother, but investigators were taking a hard look at him for the student murders as well. Hammack stepped inside the wide front door into the living room. "We had no way of reaching her," Ada Larson said. It was repeated so authoritatively and so often that the term began to lose its inherent uncertainty. Ten years ago, 18-year-old Ed Humphrey seemed to be Florida's Public Enemy No. I'm not able to make. Don Lykkebak, Ed's attorney, says, "He was a medical patient at the time who was not being treated. Danny Harold Rolling pleaded guilty to their murders and three other people in Gainesville in August 1990.). The murders were eerily similar to three others that had occurred in Shreveport in November 1989. He was convicted of armed robbery in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi for several grocery store robberies, and spent most of the 1980s in prison. 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. "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."'. Larson's mother, Ada Larson, said she "hated the fact" that her daughter would be living off-campus, but all the dormitories were full. He talks about politics (he's a Perot man) and his reawakening social life (he just had his first date in two years). "The main thing is, I'm just like anybody else," he says. Always," recalls Scott Bedesem, a friend since junior high school. Few who knew him in his early high school days dreamed he would ever become a murder suspect. He looks around nervously. When I got a job, .when I got good grades in school, they weren't calling me. Prior to his death, he spoke to a pastor and handed him a note. "It was the desperation of the time, and the need to get that guy," Smith said. Humphreys off behavior, Mann said, drew attention to him. The muster roll references 44 names. It wasn't long after Maines' trip to Shreveport that Juracich called Crime Stoppers to report Danny Rolling. She was hoping to become a lawyer. At this moment he would be home in Indialantic studying for a science test--and hoping, unrealistically, that people would just forget Ed Humphrey. "Ed--everywhere he went he caused a scene," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. But at the trial, she testified she had fallen and hurt herself in the dark. He wears a blue-green polo shirt and tan trousers and expensive sunglasses. "He has been persecuted. For months Edward Lewis Humphrey was the key suspect in the horrific slayings of five Gainesville students. Humphrey was chased and fell as he fled. For the family members of the Gainesville victims, it was another moment in this long and heartbreaking story. He was facing the death penalty. However, Rolling was "unwelcome" at his parents' house, Juracich said, especially if his father was there. 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. Louisiana drifter Danny Harold Rolling was indicted Friday in the grisly killings of five college students stabbed in their off-campus apartments in August 1990. He also said he hopes to resume his studies _ but not at the University of Florida. Lewis wrote a five-page letter outlining the details, many of which Hewitt said "only the killer knew.". It was too painful for them to remain here. 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. And an odd thing happened: Agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement showed up and began questioning him about the murders. Hospitals run by the Universities of Florida, Miami and South Florida refused to accept Humphrey for private commitment because of his notoriety, Russo said. Humphrey could not have possibly understood at the time how high the stakes were or the consequences of the suspicion cast on him. All of them had been stabbed to death and some were left in sexually provocative positions. The world was watching to see how and when they would catch the killer. A neighbor also reports that the grandson is running in and out of the home - shouting that he is going to murder the grandparents. "We made a mistake.". These days Ed Humphrey lives at home with his mom in Indialantic. 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. I knocked on his front door with trepidation. "I guess I kind of pushed her because she fell and hit her head on that mantle there. As a base police officer approaches him, he starts chewing on a tin can. Instead, more than a year later, the grand jury indicted Danny Rolling, a Louisiana drifter also charged in the attempted murder of his father. Smith said Rolling also talked about the best way to kill a deer. One said it was a "violent" environment. The tape contained recordings of a man talking and singing, Hewitt said. 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. Meanwhile, Lykkebak hopes eventually to get Ed's record wiped clean of a felony --a move that would require a governor's pardon. And rarely does anyone say anything to his face, except to tell him they're on his side. Ed was still serving 14 months probation at the time, and drinking was a violation of his terms. "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. He had "I didn't buy it," said forensic psychologist Harry Krop. You're better off without it. "VVhen he was not taking his lithium, he was a clearly diagnosed manic-depressive," Marti Mackenzie says. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey, Age 51. aka Lewis E Humphrey, Edward J Humphrey, Humphrey Edward Lewis, Humphrey Humphrey. His mug shot fueled growing public speculation and drew hordes of reporters from around the country. Would he demand I leave? He was under surveillance for reports of odd behaviors, like wearing camouflage, and he had an obsession with knives. He'll never change his name, but some day, he says, when he's done with school, he might move somewhere far away. Maybe a little on the quiet side. His family took him to a private psychiatric hospital in Palm Bay, where he was admitted, locked up, medicated and ultimately diagnosed. 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