It was obvious that he had just woken up. ", George Humphrey says "John" was a reference to John the Apostle. The task force searched his Indialantic home and Gainesville apartment. Smith said Rolling also talked about the best way to kill a deer. 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. "Ed--everywhere he went he caused a scene," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Betty Curnutt, the manager of the apartment complex, said she was standing behind the worker when he broke down the door and that a police officer was behind her. "Ed's a good friend. TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) _ Gainesville murder suspect Edward Lewis Humphrey was sentenced today to the maximum 22 months for beating his grandmother after his 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. And the sad, sad part about it is that we had the parents behind us on the stairs.". "It's a place for all of us families to go and see their children's names still living there," Dianna Hoyt said. I really don't like reporters. 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. Ray Barber, called for backup and with more investigators on the scene, they found Powell dead on the first floor of the apartment. Her family said she collapsed after arguing with a relative about talking to a reporter. His eyes appeared glazed and barely open, his hair unkempt. She had been raped and stabbed multiple times and had been mutilated. ), "I screamed," Ada Larson said about discovering her daughter had been killed. 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 was the one to call investigators. The second, more sinister personality, was named "Gemini" and Rolling blamed him for his deadliest acts. And rarely does anyone say anything to his face, except to tell him they're on his side. Rolling's trial for the five student murders began on Feb. 15, 1994, nearly four years after he killed the five students. There was a large window from the ceiling to about waist high, so they could see his every move. However, Rolling was "unwelcome" at his parents' house, Juracich said, especially if his father was there. Hammack would have to arrest him. He is released to the custody of his mother. Before I could say anything, Humphrey came to the door, visibly shaken and upset, his face fraught with worry. 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.". I want to get married some day and have kids. 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. Donvan said. 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. He would, for many years, remain connected to the Gainesville murders, though he played no role. Danny Harold Rolling pleaded guilty to their murders and three other people in Gainesville in August 1990.). Yet, it would later prove crucial to finding out who the Gainesville murderer was. "I think Ed could have done something like this," he told them. "It's a real tragedy for him and his family.". He had Sgt. Always," recalls Scott Bedesem, a friend since junior high school. I had to know it. I understand why it went in the direction it did, didnt agree with it.. Don Maines, an investigator on the case with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, said they received several tips pointing to Humphrey, then 18. ", Marti Mackenzie nods. Some of the other inmates had made threats. Your story has never been told.. He went from a motivated, friendly student into a deep depression.". As for his own behavior, Ed says: "I can't help it if my body (needs) lithium. Russo estimated Humphrey would be in custody for only another seven to nine months because of time served and the states early-release rules. Police were called to his house repeatedly after reports he had gone "berserk.". ET on ABC. ", "I wanted to know every little detail," Ada Larson said. The two had gone bowling, played pool, hung out together. 1. So I kept on pressing the button because I wanted her to open the door. "It didn't matter what the lyrics were or what he was saying at that point. The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville cited sources it did not identify in today's story about Edward Lewis Humphrey. Ed didnt do it, said George, then a 22-year-old law student, told WUFT in a 1991. I did not want that to be what I carried in my mind of her for the rest of my life," Barber said. Now he works six days a week, attends community college and wants to become an X-ray technician. The spokesman, Will Irby, thinks it over, consults his boss and tries again. The killer would enter the homes through the back doors, and each home was near a wooded area, which "allowed the killer to operate, to get in without being noticed," Donnelly 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. "It was the desperation of the time, and the need to get that guy," Smith said. The sheriff's office says it kept him there for his own safety--not as punishment--because he'd threatened suicide. In late August of 1990, five Gainesville college students were murdered and their bodies sexually assaulted. A top official in the case points out the murders were methodical and elaborately planned. "It's hard to say what was inside my head. 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. Humphrey has said he plans to have plastic surgery to remove facial scars from an automobile accident. "He has been persecuted. "He was just the wrong boy at the wrong place at the wrong time--with the wrong malady.". But Humphrey had not. Who is Ed Humphrey? 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. When asked if she ever felt that her husband was treating her son inappropriately, she said, "Sure, I guess.". He may have more plastic surgery. ", "If we had played the tape before, we would've had this guy three months ago," Maines said. "Recon lock and load!" Ed was still serving 14 months probation at the time, and drinking was a violation of his terms. That man, Danny Rolling, had told her that one day he was going to leave Shreveport, where they lived. Glenn Ruppel, Sean Dooley, and Anthony Rivas. One said it was a "violent" environment. "We made a mistake.". Investigators had found bloodstained gloves at his home. in 11th grade, and I got an 850 on that, which is, like, really low. He wasnt interested in doing an interview. Meanwhile, Lykkebak hopes eventually to get Ed's record wiped clean of a felony --a move that would require a governor's pardon. He's had a tough row to hoe.". After she failed to show up to work on the night of Aug. 26, 1990, Det. "That was real bad, because I couldn't walk," Ed says. Sonja Larson and Christina "Christi" Powell were new students at the University of Florida in 1990. Brevard sheriffs officials also released reports showing the agency responded to at least 14 emergency calls of Humphrey allegedly attacking his grandmother or mother. By the time she reported Rolling, police had already arrested another man who they believed to be a suspect in the Gainesville murders. 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. This little fracas could have sent him back to prison. And he paid his dues--both in time and torment. Marker Address Rent ? 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. These days Ed Humphrey lives at home with his mom in Indialantic. "He was always very grateful and surprised and pleased," Kennedy says. 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. The transcript of that interview has never been made public. 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 They say Humphrey made a "sawing motion" across his throat with the knife and threatened to get a gun and shoot them. His mother was well-intentioned and caring, but nervous. 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. Kennedy even sent money. Rolling confessed to the murder of Hoyt and four others and was executed in 2006.). "My mouth dropped open when he told me," she says. A judge ordered him removed from the court. As concerns of a killer on the loose mounted, police were inundated with calls from concerned parents. 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.". GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Cindy Juracich was on a trip through the Florida Panhandle in August 1990 when she heard a news report about a grisly string of murders. Major Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), a veteran of the Italian campaign in World War II, arrives at Hotel Largo in Key Largo, Florida in the Florida Keys after the war to visit the family of his friend George Temple (who died in the campaign). He also decapitated her and posed the head on a bookshelf. It was repeated so authoritatively and so often that the term began to lose its inherent uncertainty. 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. He remembers arriving home after midnight and awakening his grandmother. Under state guidelines, he could get nearly two years in prison at sentencing Nov. 8. He spent a lot of that time in Chattahoochee, the state hospital for mentally ill prisoners. You could see [she was] in a bad position, and I just turned around and walked out," Curnutt said. Family trouble, mental problems and sheer coincidence seem to be the main factors that put Ed Humphrey into legal limbo. When she saw Rolling, she ran back to her bedroom, where she tried to lock her door. "But, for some reason, somehow, that tape escaped us, and I'll freely admit it.". On bad days, witnesses claim, he would act out his military fantasies on the Indialantic boardwalk. Prior to his death, he spoke to a pastor and handed him a note. John Donvan, a To Christina Powell's friend, Alison Emery, said the defense's strategy was a "slap in the face. WebLived In Honolulu HI, Morehead City NC, Orange Park FL, Saint Petersburg 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. And nothing the driver does makes a bit of difference. ", "Honestly, Marti," Ed says, "that plastic surgery didn't do that great of a job.". WebEdward Lewis Humphrey, Age 51. aka Lewis E Humphrey, Edward J Humphrey, Humphrey Edward Lewis, Humphrey Humphrey. "I wanted to represent [Tracy]," said Lahey, Paules' sister. 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. Ed's bail, originally set at $10,250 was increased to $1 million - 100 to 200 times the scheduled rate for aggravated assault. ", (Eighteen-year-old Sonja Larson was among the victims of the so-called Gainesville Ripper, Danny Rolling, in Gainesville, Florida, in 1990. "He trusts me and I trust him," Pauwels says. Hospitals run by the Universities of Florida, Miami and South Florida refused to accept Humphrey for private commitment because of his notoriety, Russo said. So investigators sat with Lewis and Rolling and had Lewis answer questions for Rolling. The magnitude of the murders sparked national media attention, and Gainesville police and the Alachua County Sheriff's Office called in agents from around the state to help with the investigation, Maines said. They returned to the evidence locker, where the gun, screwdriver, bag of money and cassette player had been stored. Includes Address (11) Phone (6) Email (5) See Results. His grandmother, now passed away, forgave him. "I feel 100 percent that the media is the main reason our country is the way it is," Ed says afterward, disgusted. "If any evidence comes out later, he can still be indicted. Then, at one point, the man on the tape says his name: Danny Harold Rolling. On Aug. 26, 1990, Emery said Powell's parents arrived at the apartment and banged on the door. She knew hmm only as Ed--a nice guy, hard worker, easy to get along with. "Don't take a picture of me with the knife," he says. "We had no way of reaching her," Ada Larson said. "They're gone but their memory has to always endure," Mario Taboada said. But at the trial, she testified she had fallen and hurt herself in the dark. Dobbin told her that Rolling had told him he had a problem, Juracich said. 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. Scott Grissom, the son of William Grissom, brother of Julie Grissom and father to Sean, said they were killed just a week after his wedding, on his first day back at work from his honeymoon. 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. There is still a court order not to discuss evidence m the case. "It was a small-caliber gun, and the father survives it, but not without permanent damage," Smith said. Why did this happen?". (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. 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.". I got it done . "I said, 'What kind of problem,'" Juracich said, "[and Steven said], 'He likes to stick knives into people.'". His bail, originally set at $10,250, spiked to $1 million. However, Rolling was able to break through it. But more investigative files are expected to be released later this month--evidence that may seem incriminating to Ed. After his arrest, Humphrey lived in a 10-foot-by-10-foot concrete cell at the Brevard County Jail. But he has not been charged in those cases. "It sucked man.". They also learned that as Rolling fought with Manny Taboada, Tracy Paules heard the commotion and came into Toboada's room. His parents split up when Ed was about 11, but they didn't divorce for several years. And he reportedly has been whispering details of the killings to a fellow inmate, who has been telling investigators. It wasn't long after Maines' trip to Shreveport that Juracich called Crime Stoppers to report Danny Rolling. "I'd have taken a room full of him," says Bill Thomas, Ed's teacher in eighth grade. Her daughter overheard her, and the argument ensued. 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. Would he answer? He was, at one time, considered the prime suspect. Acquaintances claimed he went on late-night "missions" through the Alachua County woods. "Here was a kid who was held up as a ass murderer," Mackenzie says. The tape contained recordings of a man talking and singing, Hewitt said. "I kept saying to myself, it's the last thing I can do for her. But Humphrey was left torn and tarnished. 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. I thought they'd already filled her in on who I was and it just kind of slipped. She was quite shocked.". "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. 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. He knew what was happening. 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. The reports painted an eerie picture. Lawton Chiles in 1994 that helped restore Humphreys civil rights. He tried repeatedly to find work, but kept being turned away, often with no explanation. "The state attorney fully intends to prove the guilt of Danny Harold Rolling in these murders. Their leads took them to Humphreys doorstep. "My husband didn't know what was happening. He wears a blue-green polo shirt and tan trousers and expensive sunglasses. And I hated looking in the mirror every time, seeing scars on my face. A classic film noir, it features a great cast and a great storyline. Hes not capable of it., Hes gonna come back home, George Humphrey insisted. 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 All of them had been stabbed to death and some were left in sexually provocative positions. The investigative records on the GainesviUe murders are filled with entries of Ed Humphrey scaring people in the final months before his arrest. Still, Rolling has pleaded innocent--and Don Lykkebak expects Ed will be a target in the trial. View their profile including current address, phone number 321-259-XXXX, background check reports, and property record on 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. Don Lykkebak, Ed's attorney, says, "He was a medical patient at the time who was not being treated. Rolling confessed to the murder of Larson and four others and was executed in 2006. 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. "Was she thinking of me? It worked, but it also made him dull, sluggish, overweight. I fell asleep there.". I did the work. The Gainesville Sun broke the story of a knife hidden in a milk carton during a search of Humphreys home on Sept. 6. Soon across the country, on network news, CNN and in papers from Seattle to New York, Edward Humphrey, this big, pudgy kid with unkempt hair and scars on his face and a glazed look in his eyes. Related To Gabrielle Humphrey, Graciela Humphrey, George Humphrey, Elna Humphrey. "And, like, they point in my face telling me, 'Don't do that again, man. I just looked at God, and I said, 'God, why? I mean, I was amped. That's who you are?! 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