It was at the grocery store that Blanche Taylor, who was married in 1952 and widowed in 1973, met and later began dating Reid, a divorced store manager. Police arrested Richardson, 53, last month and have since charged him with three counts of first-degree murder. Quincy Jovan Allen (born November 7, 1979) [1] is an American serial killer who killed four people between July and August in a crime spree in 2002. But, it's what he did with their bodies that really shocked the nation. Investigators said they think there could be more victims. Dwight Moore testified that during the summer of 1985, Blanche showed him a bottle of Anti-Ant and asked him to buy some for her from Byrd's Food Center in Glen Raven. Terry is not the only member of the Blair family who has a murderous past. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. What is the evidence that connects her to them? [10] Because of the automatic appeals in progress, Moore has been able to avoid execution for over 31 years. In 1927, the American Friendship Society acted as a matchmaking business. In the letter, Thomas allegedly confessed to killing Reid and trying to fatally poison Reid. Gacy killed 33 boys and young men in the '70s, They later found 11 bodies just 50 feet from his home, 1948 and 1980, Cole strangled and killed 13 women across multiple states. The state had an easier time making such a complex case because Reid's ex-wife and sons sued Baptist Hospital for malpractice. Between May of 1992 and March of 1994, Henry Louis Wallace would take the lives of at least 10 innocent women. Court documents indicate that text messages between Murphy and Richardson connected them in the homicide. Henry Louis Wallace (born November 4, 1965) is an American serial killer who killed eleven black women in South Carolina and North Carolina from March 1990 to March 1994. However, the state introduced 53 witnesses who testified about her daily trips to the hospital, bearing food. Later that year, Elizabeth Montgomery played Moore in the television film based on the book entitled Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story.[13]. MARCH 10: Mark Anthony Gilbert Jr. was found injured after what police called a disorder,apparently beaten and lying near a Dumpster. All Rights Reserved. Dubbed the "Serial Killer Clown," Gacy killed 33 boys and young men in the '70s. North Carolina: Henry Louis Wallace. Wallace even attended some of their funerals. The Phantom Killer was never identified, but the terror he left in the small town was never lost, ultimately inspiring the classic horror film "The Town that Dreaded Sundown.". Just as fast as the killings started, they suddenly stopped. Famed American conductor Leonard Bernstein, composer of "West Side Story," died at 72. Rogers is currently on death row. I don't have an answer. Top editors give you the stories you want delivered right to your inbox each weekday. Lyda Southard makes the list because she's often credited with being Idaho's (and sometimes the country's) first woman serial killer. In 1954, she began working as a cashier at Kroger. They were given the name "Sex Slave Killers.". Shows like Netflix's "Mindhunter" or books like "I'll be Gone in the Dark" try to get into the minds of these terrifying killers to learn about motives and tactics. "It's hard to believe that any one person would do such a horrible thing," one woman said way back when. Moore was then admitted to North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. All they had for clues were blue carpet fibers on the bodies, WHYY reports. The mere sight of a woman enraged these feelings made them pulsate and grate in the pit of my stomach.". Several weeks later, he was at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. He was hospitalized in April of that year and died on October 7, 1986. Bodies of her alleged victims were exhumed in Alamance County. They later found 11 bodies just 50 feet from his home. He drove her to a secluded area and sexually assaulted her in the front seat of his pick-up truck. It depends what, Tom Sizemore, actor who starred in Heat, Saving, Thunderstorms to roll through Piedmont Triad in the, WATCH: Snowboarder escapes narrowly avalanche, Thunderstorms to sweep through Piedmont Triad Friday,, DCs cherry blossoms arriving early thanks to confusing, March could bring colder weather to North Carolina. Prosecutor Janet Branch ripped into Blanche Moore time and again, making dramatic and emotionally wrought statements to the jury. Take a look at the most famous Canadian serial killers to date. With the rising interest in true crime podcasts and documentaries as well as popular television series following some of the most gruesome crimes ever recorded in American history, many people have become more curious to learn about the twisted details of a gory case and what circumstances led someone to go down the path of murder. 1998 - 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. | All Rights Reserved. In 1973, a 7-year-old girl in Michigan was abducted and strangled to death. In the early '70s, Kemper started to pick up young hitchhikers who were Fresno State students. more serial killers than any other country, he terrorized the Phoenix, Arizona, community in the summer of 2006, his nine death sentences were upheld in Phoenix. The two were wed April 19, 1989. Other killers are so famous they are known all over the country, like Ted Bundy, the BTK Killer, and John Wayne Gacy. She left Kroger on Oct. 17, 1985. He was found guilty of eight charges of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. She fought back and got away. Paul Holes is a cold-case detective in California who in 2016 caught the so-called Golden State Killer, James DeAngelo, who had been sought for 40 years. In the Triad, you might argue that the designation should go to Blanche Taylor Moore, who was convicted in Forsyth County in 1990 of the arsenic poisoning of a long-time boyfriend. In the cases of Reid and Taylor, defendant was already seeing her next victim at the time of the arsenic assaults.". According to court records, Blanche sought and got permission from Dr. Hamilton to bring Reid food from home. Once caught, Charlene turned on Gerald in return for a shorter sentence. The letters stand for "bind, torture, kill" and that is exactly what he did. He is even said to have worn a mask made from the skin of one of the victims. At one, he left a letter telling them he can't stop killing and gave himself the initials BTK. Harvey Robinson is known for being one of the youngest serial killers reported in the United States. Julian Andrew Frank in 1960 is charged with blowing up a National Airlines flight from New York to Miami. Two years later, he killed Joan Heaton and her two daughters. A fellow Kroger employee, Gloria Head, recalled visiting Reid in the hospital and seeing a container of red Jell-O in Blanche's purse. Pee Wee Gaskins was put to death September 6, 1991. James Taylor died on October 2, 1973; as with her father seven years earlier (1966), the cause of death was initially reported as a heart attack.[4][5]. On July 18, 1989, Moore was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Reid and Taylor. When police came into his house, they found body parts all over. And a meteorite exploded above the Pacific Ocean. Despite killing 11 of her own family members, Nannie Doss never broke a smile and was nicknamed "The Giggly Granny." Lisa Hutchens, the head nurse in the Intensive Care Unit, testified that she saw Blanche feeding Reid banana pudding on Oct. 1. Meirhofer was one of the first serial killers to be identified using FBI's newly developed profiling system that helped catch countless other serial killers. Some serial killers are known for killing children, like David Meirhofer in Montana. Henry Louis Wallace, Harrison Graham, and Samuel Little are some of the leading on the list. He brought them to an abandoned house and shot Bill to death. The story of Polly Bartlett dates all the way back to 1868 and is surrounded by local lore. Prosecutors said Burch shot him twice in the head with a .22-caliber rifle as he sat on the couch. The nurse testified that Blanche often brought Reid food from home such as iced tea, frozen yogurt, milkshakes, and soups. Brenda Green, a Kroger co-worker, testified that she heard Blanche recommend Anti-Ant to a customer as a good ant killer. In each case, defendant had motive (financial), opportunity (close relationship), and means (knowledge of and access to Anti-Ant). Five other relatives, including his mother, were convicted of murder. The Oscars will air on ABC and can be streamed on ABC.com and the ABC app as well as Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV, AT&T TV or FuboTV. The 20-month old toddler was the son of famous transatlantic aviator, Charles Lindbergh and his wife. ", NC mom finally gets refund from Southwest Airlines holiday meltdown, Tom Sizemore dead at 61 after suffering brain aneurysm, Car crash survivor delivers emotional performance on 'Idol'. It was making me ache. In 1958, for two short months, Starkweather shocked the nation with his crimes. She was known to switch from quoting Scripture to sexually explicit topics in the same breath. My back all the way down into my groin. For others, he cut them into pieces and threw their bodies into lakes and ravines. "Although she was strong in that regard, it was painful to see her broken by that verdict.". Dwight Moore, the divorced pastor of the Carolina United Church of Christ in rural Alamance County. The American "Jack the Ripper" later became known simply as the Atlanta Ripper. At just 17 years old, Robinson attacked and raped five women, killing three of them, The Morning Call reports. He was found guilty on three murder charges and was facing the death penalty, but in 2000 it was overturned to a life sentence. He dismembered their bodies and disposed of the pieces all over New York. he killed three boys, strangling them and taking bites into each. At least one-third of those murders were tribal women. The smell turned out to be Tiffany Bresciani decomposing body. Reid continued to get weaker and despite valiant efforts to save him, was pronounced dead Oct. 7 by Dr. Kyle Jackson, who blamed the death on complications from Guillain-Barre syndrome. ", According to court testimony, Reid told a Kroger co-worker that he and Blanche "probably would have been married, except she wanted to be there next to her family.". While on trial for his murders, he was described as "being a cold, calculating killer determined to kill as many women who worked as sex workers.". 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Garrett Jr. thought he had acute gastroenteritis based on "his profound dehydration, nausea and vomiting.". David Parker Ray bought a $100,000 trailer. It also emerged that doctors at Baptist Hospital, where Reid was admitted in 1986, had ordered a toxicology screen for him. In 1999, the Discovery Channel's The New Detectives series, Season 4, Episode 6, "Women Who Kill", featured Blanche Taylor Moore's crimes. In 2011, Bill and Lorraine Currier were asleep in their home when Keyes broke in and caused a "blitz attack," waking them from their sleep and dragging them to his car. Robinson was sentenced to death and remains on death row. Those results had shown an extremely high level of arsenic in Reid's system. In fact, some of the furnishings were made of body parts. In Utah, he murdered three women. His arsenic levels were 60 times higher than normal. In 1974, Randall Woodfield was drafted into the NFL to play for the Green Bay Packers. Eventually, he escalated to killing them and cutting their heads off. John Joubert once said that when he was young he fantasized about killing his babysitter and eating her. There are those who also believe the KKK were the real murderers of these children, but the FBI found no direct link between the group and these murders. He was sentenced to death but died from pneumonia in prison in 2013. [6], Under the terms of a deal between the Forsyth County district attorney's office and the Reid family's lawyers, most of the evidence against Moore was gathered by the latter party. Before earning this moniker, he killed his grandparents at 15 and was in jail for two years. After a notorious escape from prison, she later died from a heart attack. In the same article, her other daughter, Vanessa Woods, said Reid "was a very good man. She was sentenced to life in prison and is still there to this day. Before his execution, he even penned an autobiography called "Final Truth: The Autobiography of a Serial Killer." As he struggled to make his way into the country music scene, he took a job as a dishwasher at a local fast-food restaurant. Dwight Moore, filed for divorce in December of 1990. Two of his kills took place in Nebraska when he worked with the Air Force and the third happened in Maine when he abducted an 11-year-old boy who went out for a jog. remains unknown, even after killing 32 elderly women between 2011 and 2012. Iheart.com in 2021 compiled a list of worst murders to take place in North Carolina, and it included Gary Michael Hilton, who was charged with kidnapping, murdering and beheading hikers in Florida and Georgia, as well as a North Carolina couple in a national forest in 2007. An article in The Boston Globe said it best: "He stabbed four of his neighbors to death in their own homes before he was old enough to drive.". [5] Hutton was forced to resign, and Kroger settled the case out of court two years later for $275,000. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The FBI placed Rudolph on the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on May 5, 1998. Jeffrey Dahmer Between 1988-91, Jeffrey Dahmer killed 17 men in Milwaukee, WI before the escape of his would-be 18th victim led to his capture. the oldest person on North Carolinas death row. Eventually, they moved in together. Moore had told doctors he had been working with herbicide in their yard soon after their honeymoon. She is also suspected of the death of her father, mother-in-law, and first husband and the attempted murder of her second husband in 1989. "'Please help me or I'm going to die," Hutchens recalled Reid telling her. He is currently awaiting execution at Central Prison in Raleigh. She survived the attack. As the cops circled in on him, he panicked and died by suicide without ever facing trial. He had been shot. During his confession, he explained how he strangled each of his victims to death and disposed of their bodies in lakes or near railroad tracks, according to Charlotte Magazine. In California, he was "Gordon Jensen" where he killed two other women who were mothers of his babies. The name makes sense because, at that time, Howell abducted, assaulted, and murdered seven people, according to Oxygen. Mostly, he said, they prey on the marginalized, people whose lives have spiraled down.. I do not know myself," he said at the time. He died in prison. The case remains open. He lived on a farm in Indiana with his wife of 25 years and had three children. Before she could stand trial for her crimes, she was shot to death reportedly by a friend of one of the victims. During the trial, the prosecution recounted Reid's agonizing death in meticulous and horrific detail. He buried the bodies in his "garden" behind a strip mall as a memorial. It is a fate she didn't leave to her suspected string of victims. She also denied discussing Reid's autopsy with anyone and told the courtroom that she would not have been opposed to an autopsy. Her crimes were also portrayed in the Evil Lives Here episode "The Black Widow", and the Snapped episode "Blanche Taylor Moore". [11] In 2010, Moore and the 11 other death row inmates from Forsyth County filed a motion to convert their sentences to life imprisonment based on the state's Racial Justice Act. The NC Supreme Court wrote that "the letter was offered into evidence by the State not as the dying declaration of Garvin Thomas but as evidence of defendant's "deceptive plan to throw suspicion away from herself.". In May 1993, a made-for-TV movie about Moore aired on network television. He called his truck the toy box, so he took on the name "The Toy Box Killer.". Moore testified that he bought the Anti-Ant at Byrd's and gave the bottle to Blanche. APRIL 14: The Henry County Sheriffs Office in Virginia notifies detectives that Goolsbys remains had been dropped into the Mayo River from a bridge on George Taylor Road in Spencer, Virginia. The FBI defines as a person committing two or more murders as separate events and usually done by one person acting alone.. Ed Gein seems like a character out of a horror movie. It's a silly name for a sadistic man who took pleasure in torturing women sexually. He killed 10 people in Wichita between 1974 and 1991. When interviewed by police from his hospital bed, he mentioned that a former boyfriend of Blanche's died from GuillainBarr syndrome, which presents similar symptoms to arsenic poisoning. Donald Harry "Pee Wee" Gaskins Jr. Rank the Most Wicked 19th Century American Criminals. What his wife didn't know was that Herb also cruised gay bars at night, picking up young men. ", According to court records, Dr. Guinn noted that on June 24, 1986, the arsenic in Reid's hair sample was "roughly 70 times the normal level.". He was bloated and his "eyeballs were even starting to swell and his skin was splitting.". Richardson could join him on that list. The Southside Strangler, Richmond unmondoaccanto (blog) Timothy Spencer, better remembered as the Southside Strangler, began his killing spree as early as 1984. He died Feb. 1, and the investigation was upgraded to homicide. Who is the most famous black serial killer? But autopsies revealed a new cause of death - arsenic poisoning - for Reid, who had arsenic levels 30 times higher than normal, and James Taylor, whose 1973 death at age 45 had been attributed to a heart attack. He died of lethal injection in 1992. Let it come. Her defense argued before the North Carolina State Supreme Court that Moore had not received a fair trial and that the other deaths should not have been allowed as evidence. The Insider compiled a list of the most notorious serial killer by state, and North Carolina's No. They called him a "mindless monster," according to the Argus-Press. He confessed to several other murders just before dying in prison, according to the Star Tribune. 2) Delfina and Mara de Jess Gonzlez. Sometimes he let the women go after torturing them. Eugene Butler was declared mentally insane in 1906 and died in an asylum a few years later. the Jeffrey MacDonald case was North . July 18th, 2008. [7], In 1993, author Jim Schutze wrote a book about the murders, entitled Preacher's Girl. We'll let you know the identity of some of the most active and famous South Carolina serial killers, and what makes them want to kill. Although he killed women all over the country, Bundy made his way to Utah in 1974.