[2] Her body was found on June 25. In 2011, Moses was accused of killing a 5-year-old boy whose mother was one of his followers, and of directing members of his group to kill a woman who wanted to leave the fold. Fritz worked in Reidsville with his father, Dr. Fred Klenner, while pretending to be in medical school at Duke. Attorneys have appealed, asked for a retrial and argued that MacDonald should be exonerated. [2], Wallace went to several colleges before joining the U.S. Navy in 1985. In each case, defendant had motive (financial), opportunity (close relationship), and means (knowledge of and access to Anti-Ant). The trial: Michael Peterson was charged with his wifes murder and the trial, carried live each day on Court TV, became one of the longest murder trials in North Carolina history. It was supposedly a deathbed confession written by a homeless, now-deceased man named Garvin Thomas, who was said to be infatuated with Moore. The nurse testified that Blanche often brought Reid food from home such as iced tea, frozen yogurt, milkshakes, and soups. When police spotted him in Greensboro in June 1985, they knew he was dangerous. Perkins drove Fritz to a wealthy Winston-Salem neighborhood to carry out his mission. Despite the damning and disturbing evidence, the defense seemed optimistic. 1 is Henry Louis Wallace, who was charged with strangling 10 women in Charlotte in the. pic.twitter.com/8V9eyK0z12. The 22-month-old baby, Jana, had not been attacked but had been without food and drink for days. Moore got a job at Kroger in the 1950s and worked there until she was arrested. Learn more: Jerry Bledsoes book about this case, Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness and Multiple Murder, is one of the best in the true crime genre. On March 8, 1990, Wallace murdered 18-year-old Tashanda Bethea,[3] a Barnwell High School student. Hawk and Wallace both worked at Taco Bell. 3. The outcome: Wallace was finally arrested on March 13, 1994, and he confessed in detail to the 10 murders in Charlotte and one in Barnwell. He was convicted and sentenced to death and is currently awaiting his execution on death row. In 1985, U.S. Army soldier Timothy Hennis quickly became a suspect in the murder of a Fayetteville woman and two of her young daughters. Often referred to as North Carolinas Black Widow, Blanche Taylor Moore was charged in 1989 with killing her first husband and her boyfriend, and trying to kill her second husband, all by putting arsenic-based ant killer in their food. Daniel Glen Printz, 59, of Bostic,. Famed American conductor Leonard Bernstein, composer of "West Side Story," died at 72. Henry was apprehended and charged in May 1994. The victims: In July 1984, Delores Lynch and Janie Lynch, the mother and sister of Tom Lynch, were shot at close range with a high-powered weapon inside Delores home in Kentucky. The book was made into a TV miniseries in 1996. There is no date set for his execution. Active: 1969-1975. The story has also been the subject of multiple TV shows such as Forensic Files and American Justice. A TV movie based on Bledsoes book starred Jaclyn Smith. Blanche Moore took the stand in her defense and denied ever feeding Reid in the ICU at the hospital. Van Houten was convicted of assisting in the murder of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca and recently had a parole overturned by California Governor Jerry Brown. He was convicted and sentenced to death and is currently awaiting his execution on death row. On October 28, 2015, prison guards reportedly discovered self-proclaimed "Satanist" and accused murderer Pazuzu Illah Algarad dead in his cell. In 1998, Wallace married prison nurse Rebecca Torrijas, 23 years his elder. He went to medical school at Northwestern University in Chicago and, in 1969, joined the U.S. Army and moved to Fort Bragg, N.C., where he became a surgeon in the 6th Special Forces Group. Hennis case was one of those N.C. Chief Justice I. Beverly Lake cited when pushing for reformation of the N.C. justice system, which helped lead to the creation of the states Actual Innocence Commission. "I mean that's just my opinion, but I think she did it.". According to court records, Blanche sought and got permission from Dr. Hamilton to bring Reid food from home. North Carolinas judicial history is filled with captivating true-crime tales, and many have drawn national attention and set legal precedent. Kristen lay dead in her bed, stabbed 48 times with a knife and an ice pick. Moore and Reid worked together for years at Kroger, beginning in 1962, according to court records, but didn't begin a romantic relationship until 1979. Wallace returned to the same apartment complex on March 8, 1994, knowing that Berness Woods would be at work so he could murder his girlfriend, Brandi June Henderson, an 18-year-old high school student, homemaker, and mother of Woods child. At Baptist Hospital, Dr. Robert Hamilton began with a preliminary diagnosis of Guillain Barre syndrome. [1] Early life [ edit] Jeffrey Robert MacDonald, a U.S. Army officer and physician, was accused of brutally killing his two young daughters and pregnant wife in February 1970. A judge sentenced him to two years of supervised probation. Baucom and Wallace's girlfriend were co-workers at Bojangles, where she was the assistant manager. Dwight Moore became violently ill after eating a chicken sandwich his new wife offered him. Antoinetta McKoy, 28, wrote in a diary that she feared Moses would kill her after she found out she could not have children. In 2009, he . The shocking discovery led to an investigation. Two of those exhumed bodies, those of her father, who died in 1966, and mother-in-law, had high levels of arsenic, but not lethal doses, the medical examiner concluded. Wallace later went with McKnight and Loves sister to file a missing persons report. A civilian defense attorney tore apart the militarys investigation of the killings and tried to give credence to MacDonalds claims of intruders. On March 8, 1994, Wallace robbed, raped, and strangled 24-year-old Betty Jean Baucom a day after her birthday. It seemed a perfectly normal existence - the daughter of a preacher, she went to church, had children and grandchildren and worked for many years at Kroger in Burlington. He is currently awaiting execution at Central Prison in Raleigh. Died: August 21, 2014. was convicted of Taylors murder and executed on Nov. 2, 1984. Barbara Stager: Barbara Stager is a Durham county native who was convicted in the first-degree murder of her second husband in 1988. Moses called the women his wives, and they often called him Lord. Moses was affiliated with the Black Hebrews, a religious sect that teaches that Black people are the descendants of ancient Israelites. State handwriting experts, however, said Blanche Moore wrote the letter herself. Police collected tons of forensic evidence from the scene (including the murder weapon and DNA), performed hundreds of DNA tests and even generated a composite image of the killer based on DNA, but the case went unsolved for nearly 20 years. A couple of days later, Steven had returned to school at East Carolina University when he got a call from Blanche telling him to get back to see his father as quickly as possible. of serial killings: 793. "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. It was Russ first wife, Jo Lynn Snow, who told police about Russ and Barbaras many financial and marital troubles; about the circumstances of the shooting death of Barbaras first husband, Larry Ford; and about Russ fears that Barbara was trying to kill him. His under-the-radar reign of terror is something residents of The Queen City will never forget. He was later fired from working as Chemical Operator for Sandoz Chemical Co. Over the past few centuries, arsenic poisoning has been a particularly popular way to kill someone. The Outcome: The entire family was buried in a mass grave in Germanton. series following some of the most gruesome crimes. [8] Mecklenburg County public defender Isabel Day served as an official witness and photographer. Since being sentenced to death in 1997, Wallace has appealed to overturn the death sentences, stating that his confessions were coerced and his constitutional rights were violated in the process. Soon after, Reid suffered a serious setback. "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. The outcome: The three boys were all arrested and charged in July 1989 and the trial took place in January 1990. The outcome: Starting in July 1970, the Army held Article 32 proceedings. A month later, on September 14, 1993, Wallace went to the apartment of 20-year-old Michelle Stinson, a college student and friend of his from Taco Bell. On February 20, 1994, just weeks after being arrested for shoplifting, Wallace strangled the sister of one of his employees at Taco Bell, Vanessa Little Mack. Dwight Moores sudden and severe illness within days of his marriage in April 1989 that attracted police attention to Blanche Moore and got them wondering about the deaths of several men in her life over several decades. In May 1993, a made-for-TV movie about Moore aired on network television. The outcome: Moore was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of Raymond Reid and was sentenced to death by lethal injection in 1990. I'm not guilty. "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. 3 The Edgecombe County Serial Killer. Other killers are so famous they are known all over the country, like Ted Bundy, the BTK Killer, and John Wayne Gacy. Remarkably, Reid again improved. Susie and Tom split in 1979 and she gained custody of their two sons, John and Jim. Brenda Green, a Kroger co-worker, testified that she heard Blanche recommend Anti-Ant to a customer as a good ant killer. At the same time defense attorney Isabel Day asked for a life sentence, arguing that Wallace suffered from mental illness, and that the killings were not first-degree murder because they did not result from "premeditation and deliberation.". 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