Closer to home, an unimaginable murder trial was the talk of North Carolina. They called him the "Chameleon" because he went by so many names and aliases. He would attack women during their daily lives. Edgecombe and Halifax counties in North Carolina rarely make the news. Donald Harry "Pee Wee" Gaskins Jr. Moore adamantly denied ever giving Reid any food. What his wife didn't know was that Herb also cruised gay bars at night, picking up young men. 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. He recounted how he helped prove the confession letter was a forgery in a piece he wrote for Greensboro.com in December 2015. Despite the damning and disturbing evidence, the defense seemed optimistic. Thirteen women were killed in their own homes. Some never were found. He was hunting women like wild animals. Society is so quick to put monikers on people, name tags. "Well, she hasn't made a lot of comment about it, but in her chance to reflect on that, and see how she's going to take that, she's not going to take that. But these horrific murders are not unfamiliar to Americans. While Florida has seen the likes of Aileen Wuornos and Ted Bundy, one unknown serial killer makes this list for her brutality. Doctors Lucas Wong, Jonathan Serody, Mark Murphy, and George Sanders, after discussions with the hospital toxicologist, ordered a toxicology screen to check for herbicide poisoning. [6], During interviews, Moore stated that both her husband and Reid felt depressed and suggested they had probably been taking arsenic themselvessomething investigators found highly improbable. Pubic hair samples were used instead. 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]. Charlene got out of jail in 2013 after serving a 16-year sentence. Although this killer was never identified and spanned two states, The Phantom Killer earns his spot on the list for the terror he caused in 1946. All 34 onboard died. 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. Each one of the bodies was found with their hands tied behind their back and some were sexually assaulted. Those results had shown an extremely high level of arsenic in Reid's system. Simpson, but nothing ever came of it. "In each case, defendant was heard to say that she hated the victim or that the victim was cruel or evil. It makes sense because "Psycho's" Norman Bates and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" were based on this killer. Many knew 57-year-old Blanche Kiser Taylor Moore as a middle-aged churchgoer with a grandmotherly appearance and a cool demeanor - the last person you'd suspect of being a serial killer. Her father died, reportedly of a heart attack, in 1966. Her husband, the Rev. They were all found in pools of blood with their pants pulled halfway down. We'll take a look at the crimes of: Donald Gaskins Lee Roy Martin Todd Kohlhepp Patrick Tracy Burris Susan Smith ( Source) Donald Gaskins Donald Gaskins was born in 1933 in Southern Florence County, South Carolina. He refused appeal because "it would be unbearable to stay" here any longer. They later found 11 bodies just 50 feet from his home. Notes from the ICU unit read in court showed repeated instances where Reid complained later in the day of being nauseated after having been fed by Blanche. There are hundreds of them, categorized by those named killers think Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy and those whose identities have not been discovered, such as the Boston Strangler and the Zodiac Killer. JAN. 25: Police foundMichael Antown Hemphill, 46, on the 3200 block of Yanceyville St. The state had an easier time making such a complex case because Reid's ex-wife and sons sued Baptist Hospital for malpractice. I have no doubt that I was poisoned," the Rev. Sadly, Shannon Rippy Van Newkirk and Elisha Tucker suffered that very misfortune. During his "60 Minutes" interview, he apologized for his crimes but said, "I don't know if I would have stopped.". You'd pay an annual fee and receive a list of eligible lovers in your area. Prosecutor Janet Branch ripped into Blanche Moore time and again, making dramatic and emotionally wrought statements to the jury. It's believed Southard murdered her husbands for insurance purposes. When 10 women were murdered in the mid-'90s in Charlotte, North Carolina, they all had one thing in common: They all knew Henry Louis Wallace. On March 9, 2017, Amber Burch pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, armed robbery, and accessory after the fact to murder. Copyright 2023 WTVD-TV. "it would be unbearable to stay" here any longer. She was also charged with assault with a deadly weapon for the poisoning of Moore. Dr. John D. Butts, the state's chief medical examiner, concluded that "Reid died as a result of the complications of arsenic poisoning. One woman he brutally raped and murdered when she was vacuuming her car. [6] Blanche had to hide her budding relationship with Moore because her lawsuit against Kroger maintained that she was "completely alienated and antagonistic towards men and has not been able to maintain any meaningful social contacts with the opposite sex. He also recruited two teenage boys as accomplices to help him. So who is North Carolina's most notorious serial killer? In New Hampshire, he was known as "Bob Evans" who killed one woman and three small children. By 1959, she had been promoted to head cashier (roughly the equivalent of a customer service manager today), the highest job available to a female employee at Kroger. Between 1948 and 1980, Cole strangled and killed 13 women across multiple states because he said it felt like he was killing his mother, according to the Sioux City Journal. Former "Bewitched" star Elizabeth Montgomery played Moore in "Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story.". He was executed in 1985. Many knew 57-year-old Blanche Kiser Taylor Moore as a middle-aged churchgoer with a grandmotherly appearance and a cool demeanor - the last person you'd suspect of being a serial killer. Hes not the first one police have encountered in Greensboro. In the reenactment segment of the last episode of Season 1 of Deadly Women, Blanche Taylor Moore was portrayed by Maja Meschitschek. In Utah, he murdered three women. Although Harvey Robinson is known for being a young serial killer, Craig Price from Rhode Island was even younger. Paul Bernardo Paul Bernardo operated primarily out of east Toronto city of Scarborough with his wife, Karla Homolka. Dwight Moore said in 1994 after a hearing before the State Supreme Court. Simpson, but nothing ever came of it. Insider compiled a list of the most notorious serial killer from each state, from widely-known murderers like Ted Bundy and Ed Kemper to local infamous killers like Lady Bluebird and the Honolulu Strangler. Although she confessed, she was not put to death because she was so young instead, she was sentenced to life in prison. Todd Kohlhepp, convicted of killing seven people, is considered one of the South's most notorious serial killers. Shawn Grate was taken out of the home in handcuffs and later confessed to killing five women. 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. By the time she stopped her brutal reign over her family in the late '50s, she had murdered four of her husbands, one of her mother-in-laws, her two sisters, her grandson, her nephew, two of her own children, and even her own mother. The story of Clementine Barnabet is that of voodoo and the occult. Blanche Taylor Moore now passes the time in a cell in Raleigh. According to Jim Schutze's 1993 book about the case, "Preacher's Girl: The Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore," he met Blanche on Easter Sunday 1985 and the two began spending time together. Rogers is currently on death row. She wrote music in the past and spends her time writing poetry. [5] Within days of their return, Moore became severely ill and collapsed after eating a fast-food chicken sandwich that Blanche had given him. He appealed and the South Dakota Supreme Court (pictured) heard arguments about the case. The Insider compiled a list of the most notorious serial killer by state, and North Carolina's No. Just as fast as the killings started, they suddenly stopped. All five were women ranging in age from 17 to 36, Hawaii News Now reports. He is still in prison. When you think of Hawaii, you think of sunny beaches and peaceful islands. [5], After several days of extreme nausea and vomiting, Moore was admitted to Alamance County Hospital on April 28. 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Blanche Moore's family was also devastated. He is currently on death row, waiting to fulfill his death sentence. The smell of decay was overwhelming. In 1979, Lawrence Bittaker and his accomplice, Roy Norris, terrorized the Los Angeles area. According to several witnesses, Blanche told doctors in the moments after Reid's death that "We cannot have an autopsy. : police, A sweet tradition at First Presbyterian Church, Woman charged for Chewy warehouse bomb threat, Potential for damaging winds as storms roll through, Residents pleading after 105 accidents on 1 NC road, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. In the cases of Reid and Taylor, defendant was already seeing her next victim at the time of the arsenic assaults.". The FBI placed Rudolph on the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on May 5, 1998. He was the fourth person to die in the electric chair after reinstatement of the death penalty in South Carolina. Take a look at the most famous Canadian serial killers to date. They were between the ages of 15 and 18, a 911 call just outside of Columbus, Ohio, more of a cartoon character than a serial killer, four of her husbands, one of her mother-in-laws, her two sisters, her grandson, her nephew, two of her own children, and even her own mother, drafted into the NFL to play for the Green Bay Packers, 40 people along the interstate in Oregon state in the early '80s, he broke into a 5-year-old girl's home, raped, and strangled her, 1987, when he was just 13 years old, he stabbed Rebecca Spencer to death. The state expert, a "questioned documents examiner and forensic chemist," ruled out Thomas as the author to a 99-percent degree of certainty. Police found a strangled woman's body hiding under a pile of clothes. [2] He was sentenced to death for his crimes in South Carolina, and is currently awaiting execution. Blanche preferred to stay closer to home, working in Burlington her entire career, except for a brief stint at a store in Durham. John Joubert once said that when he was young he fantasized about killing his babysitter and eating her. The great white north's crop of serial killers are indicative of the region and involve everything from farms to inner cities as backdrops for the slayings. There is, of course, a Wikipedia page that purports to name every serial killer. The shocking discovery led to an investigation. If you want to look closer to home, South Carolina has had 162 victims and 3.03 per 100,000. She had too much to offer," Blanche's daughter, Cynthia Taylor Chatman told the Baltimore Sun in 1989. Before she could stand trial for her crimes, she was shot to death reportedly by a friend of one of the victims. He died Feb. 1, and the investigation was upgraded to homicide. 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. He would rob, rape, and kill his victims. That murderer turned out to be David Meirhofer, who confessed to four other murders during a four-hour interrogation. In 1954, she began working as a cashier at Kroger. [8] On November 17, the jury recommended the death penalty. She was just 19 years old when she murdered the children. Sometimes he let the women go after torturing them. She's maintained her innocence throughout her long incarceration, but the chilling evidence suggests otherwise. Kimball was the last to see all of them alive. He was sentenced to death but died from pneumonia in prison in 2013. The two were wed April 19, 1989. "She's guilty I think, you know, I think she did it," one man said during the hoopla surrounding the trial 29 years ago. In 1962, she began an affair with Raymond Reid, the store manager. He died of natural causes in 2013. The investigators had their guy: a seemingly harmless man who was a father, a husband, and an electrician. "She said to me, the end has to come. 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. Charlene would kidnap the girls and lure them in with the false promise of safety. Doss was sentenced to life in prison and died in 1965. There, he grew to hate his mother and women as a whole. In some cases, he would break into the victim's home. "In each case medical evidence suggests that multiple doses of arsenic were administered to the victim over a long period of time, as opposed to one large fatal dose. Instead, he was known as the I-5 killer after he murdered over 40 people along the interstate in Oregon state in the early '80s. ", 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.". DNA tests found Gary Ridgway was the murderer, and he confirmed that fact by confessing to over 75 murders. Additionally, it emerged she had still been sleeping with Reid around the same time she began dating Moore, raising further questions about her possible involvement with Reid's illness and death. told the News & Record that she is believed to have about 30 victims. He is on death row in Florida. She flatly denied slipping arsenic to either of her husbands or Reid. He then shot her point blank in the head and dragged her body into a wooded area. APRIL 19: Richardson is charged with first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a felon in the death of Mark Gilbert Jr. APRIL 22: Richardson is charged with first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a felon, felony robbery and two counts of felony concealment/tampering with a corpse in the death of James Goolsby. One of the world's most prolific serial killers might still be out there. They were given the name "Sex Slave Killers.". Legend has held that the first widely recognized first female serial killer in the United States is Lavinia Fisher, born in 1793, but the location of her birth, her maiden name, or any information about her childhood is unknown. 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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. In the 1980s, Harvey was a nurse's aid working at hospitals in Kentucky and Ohio, and he killed dozens of patients using cyanide, rat poison, and arsenic, according to WXIX. At one, he left a letter telling them he can't stop killing and gave himself the initials BTK. He was put to death in 2010. "Everything we've been able to learn about her is a picture of a model person," one of her defense attorneys said after her conviction. He confessed to the FBI that he killed 93 women between 1970 and 2012, most of them sex workers and drug users. The case of the Boston Strangler serial killer is still left unsolved. Soon after, Reid suffered a serious setback. The discovery of the corpses led to another newsflash: The area had a serial killer. In October 1990, Blanche Moore went on trial in Forsyth County for the death of Raymond Reid. Historical records do not agree with all of the legend, but Fisher was hanged for her crimes in the end. Some papers even described her as more of a cartoon character than a serial killer. He confessed to the FBI that he killed 93 women. He was found guilty of raping and killing four women and was put to death in 1994. However, he never regained full sensation in his hands and feet. Corll was that stranger who would lure children and teenagers into his van with the false promise of candy. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. We'll deal with it," defense attorney David Tamer said afterward. At just 17 years old, Robinson attacked and raped five women, killing three of them, The Morning Call reports. After a notorious escape from prison, she later died from a heart attack. Before his execution, he even penned an autobiography called "Final Truth: The Autobiography of a Serial Killer." "That in and of itself should have run up the reasonable-doubt flag for the jury, but I'm afraid there was just too much poison and too many different people. Alaska has had only 51 victims but has the highest ratio, at 7.08 victims per 100,000 residents. Woodfield didn't become well known as a football player. On July 18, 1989, Moore was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Reid and Taylor. The arsenic in Reid's brain tissue was approximately 67 times higher than normal. "I came to feel that if the state could prove she actually wrote the chilling details in that letter, she had signed her own death warrant," Rabil wrote. In each of the murders, he broke into their homes, raped and sodomized them, and then strangled them with a belt or rope. I'm not guilty. He is currently serving his 10 life sentences in prison. He drove her to a secluded area and sexually assaulted her in the front seat of his pick-up truck. The police were suddenly struck by a smell escaping from the trunk of his car. Eugene Butler was declared mentally insane in 1906 and died in an asylum a few years later. The most prolific serial killer in American history (he killed nearly 100 women between 1982-1989), Utah native Gary Ridgway was the focus of one of the nation's largest and longest manhunts. Terry is not the only member of the Blair family who has a murderous past. Clifford Olson. Hansen appeared to be the model father, husband, and business owner but he was harboring a terrible secret. His preferred method: having his victim lay down and shooting them in the back of the head. the Jeffrey MacDonald case was North . 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The prosecution also brought forth several witnesses to connect Blanche with Anti-Ant, an ant poison containing arsenic that was available for sale at the time. He lived on a farm in Indiana with his wife of 25 years and had three children. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Henley confessed and told the police about his work with Croll. Henry Louis Wallace is considered the most infamous killer in the history of North Carolina after murdering nearly a dozen women around Charlotte who all shared some connection with the man. I don't have an answer. he killed three boys, strangling them and taking bites into each. Can you imagine anything more pitiful in this whole world? A Supreme Court justice posed the question to state attorneys: "How do you tie the defendant into these similar poisoning incidents? 3. Pee Wee Gaskins was put to death September 6, 1991. Each of the women was friends with Wallace's girlfriend or worked with him, and each had his name in their phone books. [9] Health issues in prison have required Moore to undergo both chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Robert Sylvester Alston, who turns 53 in two weeks, is serving four life sentences at the Columbus Correctional Institution in Whiteville on four counts of second-degree murder and kidnapping and rape in the second degree. He was convicted and sentenced to death and is currently awaiting his execution on death row. Known as . A second victim was decomposing in the basement. On some occasions, he would have sex with the corpses. Harvey Robinson is known for being one of the youngest serial killers reported in the United States. There also was media infamy for the story of Frederick Robert Fritz Klenner, who is charged with killing eight family members in North Carolina and Kentucky. No one knew for years who killed four women in Southern Virginia. I'm not supposed to be in jail at all,'" one of her defense attorneys proclaimed. [5] Subsequent autopsies showed elevated levels of arsenic in all three bodies. John Richardson: Serial Murder Suspect Follow the investigation, Unmasked: My Life Solving Americas Cold Cases,. His long and distinguished career ended May 29, 1986. He would often lure them to him by faking an injury. Reid, not known as someone who got sick much, missed more than four weeks of work during the next few months. But, it's what he did with their bodies that really shocked the nation. Her killer cut up her body. [12] Dwight Moore told Winston-Salem station WXII-TV that he has no objections to his ex-wife seeking to have her death sentence overturned. For others, he cut them into pieces and threw their bodies into lakes and ravines. I wont feed anyones fascination with my crimes, Alston told her. The body count rose across state lines, as his list of aliases grew. When Israel Keyes killed himself in prison in 2012, he took a lot of answers with him. Essentially, the issue was the racial composition of the juries. Former Forsyth County prosecutor Vince Rabil, along with Branch, was one of two attorneys tasked in 1990 with convicting Blanche Taylor Moore. His arsenic levels were 60 times higher than normal. Henry Louis Wallace was convicted of the murders of 10 young black women in Charlotte, North Carolina. They were able to get the normal statute of limitations for wrongful death thrown out because they were able to prove that Blanche, as executor of Reid's estate, should have been the person to find out about the toxicology screen. Henry Louis Wallace is considered the most infamous killer in the history of North Carolina after murdering nearly a dozen women around Charlotte who all shared some connection with the man. The mere sight of a woman enraged these feelings made them pulsate and grate in the pit of my stomach.". In October of 1990, President George H.W. ", 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'. Some serial killers are known for killing children, like David Meirhofer in Montana. 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.
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