"I can't blame them for making Ed a suspect, but I can blame them for sticking with it. "I'd have taken a room full of him," says Bill Thomas, Ed's teacher in eighth grade. Also known as Lewis E The next day Humphrey is reported to be running in circles and talking to himself on Patrick Air Force Base. Humphrey was arrested just days after the murders and held in jail on a $1 million bond. As for his own behavior, Ed says: "I can't help it if my body (needs) lithium. A once-peaceful university town panicked. I had learned he had married and had a daughter. He would, for many years, remain connected to the Gainesville murders, though he played no role. (Nineteen-year-old Christa Hoyt was among the victims of the so-called Gainesville Ripper, Danny Rolling, in Gainesville, Florida in 1990. Now the scars on his face are softer, his smile boyish, a little shy--not at all the sinister young man he might have seemed when one corner of his lip curled upward. "Ed--everywhere he went he caused a scene," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "It's a place for all of us families to go and see their children's names still living there," Dianna Hoyt said. And that, perhaps, was all I needed to know. They didn't listen to the tape until months later. On Aug. 30, Humphrey returned to his Indialantic home from Gainesville, where he had enrolled as a freshman at the University of Florida. "I didn't buy it," said forensic psychologist Harry Krop. Earlier that summer, investigators learned, Ed had been kicked out of the Gatorwood apartment complex where two of the victims were 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. "No offense." ", "If we had played the tape before, we would've had this guy three months ago," Maines said. Smith said Rolling also talked about the best way to kill a deer. He was at the wrong place at the wrong time, said Spencer Mann, the spokesman for the Alachua County Sheriffs Department at the time. The two had gone bowling, played pool, hung out together. Those who knew Larson said she was a sweet girl, but reserved, and that she liked to work with children. Newspapers reported Humphrey revealed to investigators that he had an alter ego, named John, who knew the details about the crimes. As they investigated the case, police grew convinced that Ed Humphrey might be their most likely suspect. 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. "My maintenance man, unfortunately, ran down the stairs screaming, 'Oh my God,' and came out and threw up. I thought, 'Here's a guy who's sort of down and I think I'll cheer him up.". 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 thought they'd already filled her in on who I was and it just kind of slipped. She was quite shocked.". Without a response, they asked a maintenance worker at the apartment complex for help. For the families of those students, being there to see him at trial was crucial. 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. When asked if she ever felt that her husband was treating her son inappropriately, she said, "Sure, I guess.". His court appearances were riveting. Ed Humphrey and his 79-year-old grandmother had been fighting again. He is saying, as he's said before, that he never met Ed Humphrey. WebLived In Honolulu HI, Morehead City NC, Orange Park FL, Saint Petersburg FL. He didn't want to go to school because he didn't want to see anybody. And so Grandma was bleeding and everything, and I got, like, a cloth and stuff and tried to help her out. ", Mackenzie answers quietly. 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. In custody, he was questioned about the killings. Authorities believe Taboada was the first to be attacked after the killer broke into their home, and that they fought for some time before Taboada was killed by multiple stab wounds. I am still his friend, and I think what happened to him is wrong. They will not speak to reporters without Ed's approval. His brother George moved to Texas and practices law in Houston, but he did not respond to my request for an interview. 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. "There's this girl at work--Kelly--and she didn't know at all until today. 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. "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."'. But more investigative files are expected to be released later this month--evidence that may seem incriminating to Ed. Would he demand I leave? He was rambling. He had used the word happy three times. 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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. 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 looks around nervously. "This death is devastating to us as a family. He has been hounded by the press. Ed looks out over the water, his face calm. I felt bad for him. One grocery store clerk called him at kome later. There is muffled conversation by a table of three-piece suits, who glance over suspiciously at Ed. It was too painful for them to remain here. He'll never change his name, but some day, he says, when he's done with school, he might move somewhere far away. "Every time they'd mention [Tracy's] name, it was like a punch in the head," Lahey said. 1. "Don't take a picture of me with the knife," he says. Brevard sheriffs officials also released reports showing the agency responded to at least 14 emergency calls of Humphrey allegedly attacking his grandmother or mother. "I guess I kind of pushed her because she fell and hit her head on that mantle there. In plaid shorts, Humphrey hunched down to make sure he could catch the cat before it ran out onto the street. You're a killer, a drifter, gone insane.". But that's pretty much how I feel.". She also had tape residue on her body and vinegar -- rather than soap -- which was used to clean her body. Ed's co-worker at the Humane Society, Nancy Breslin, says people sometimes look warily at Ed and say things like: Who's that guy you've got working back there? For months Edward Lewis Humphrey was the key suspect in the horrific slayings of five Gainesville students. "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. And, his face bore a scar, it turned out, from a car wreck the year before. I knew that many people with connections to the Gainesville murders had left Florida. So investigators sat with Lewis and Rolling and had Lewis answer questions for Rolling. Watch the full story on "20/20," streaming now on Hulu. Humphrey, 19, nodded when his 79-year-old grandmother blew him as kiss as he entered the courtroom but was generally oblivious to the proceedings. "It sucked man.". I really don't like reporters. "I don't want people to read about me. Edward Lewis Humphrey, 19, had tears in his eyes upon hearing the conviction on a reduced charge of battery on a person over age 65. You could see [she was] in a bad position, and I just turned around and walked out," Curnutt said. And I'll never be able to forget it. He knew the southwest neighborhoods where the killings took place. "I did that at the time because I read that serial killers like to be in control," Mario Taboada told ABC News. 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 Hammack would have to arrest him. "[Investigators] were 100% sure he was the one that did it," Scott Grissom said. He said nothing more. Humphreys off behavior, Mann said, drew attention to him. "That was exciting," Hewitt said. He was convicted of armed robbery in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi for several grocery store robberies, and spent most of the 1980s in prison. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey is a resident of Palm Bay. "My husband didn't know what was happening. Other Rolling's defense presented mitigating factors for why he might have committed the murders, including his troubled history with his father. ", "Honestly, Marti," Ed says, "that plastic surgery didn't do that great of a job.". He had a violent history, an unstable personality. But most of Humphreys descriptions of the student mutilations were not accurate. There were mood swings, sudden belligerence and two auto crashes that friends thought were suicide attempts. The first was named Ynnad -- "Danny" spelled backward. The questioning elicited new details about the murders. There is still a court order not to discuss evidence m the case. "I wanted to be there in the front row if I could. John Donvan, a In Shreveport, Maines found that Julie Grissom's body had been posed in a similar position to some of the women killed in Gainesville. Ed, following his attorney's advice, won't talk about it--or anything else he may have said to police at the time. It happens too often, though less so now than when he first got out of prison. Hospitals run by the Universities of Florida, Miami and South Florida refused to accept Humphrey for private commitment because of his notoriety, Russo said. The door opened and before me stood Ed Humphrey. Like moths to a lantern light on a summer night, the press surrounded Humphrey with flashing cameras, as he took the stand to plead, Not guilty.. Watch "20/20" FRIDAYS at 9 p.m. Her body had also been arranged in a posed position, sitting with her feet on the floor and her torso slumped forward, Donnelly said. Sentencing was set He paced off the measurements--about 10 feet wide and 10 feet long. "Tracy asked him, 'You're the one, aren't you?'" The two 23-year-olds had been close friends since high school and had just begun living together. He was a manic-depressive off his medication. A jury found him guilty of one count of battery upon a person over the age of 65, a third-degree felony, and he was sentenced to 22 months in prison, plus probation. Lewis wrote a five-page letter outlining the details, many of which Hewitt said "only the killer knew.". It was going 60 mph at the time. Your story has never been told.. 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. Related To Sarah Humphrey, Gail Humphrey, Erin Humphrey, Bud Humphrey, B Humphrey. Meanwhile, Lykkebak hopes eventually to get Ed's record wiped clean of a felony --a move that would require a governor's pardon. The killer always managed to avoid being spottedby potential witnesses. Lahey said seeing this man "who destroyed my life" made her feel "frozen to the chair.". Even though three decades had passed, I knew it wasnt going to be easy for Humphrey to talk about his darkest days; a time when his name was linked to grisly crimes. ), "When he went in, I followed him in the apartment and I saw the young lady on the bed. Before moving to Edward's current city of Palm Bay, FL, Edward lived in Melbourne FL and Indialantic FL. "I wish the waves would pick up," he says. For months Edward Lewis Humphrey was the key suspect in the horrific slayings of five Gainesville students. Edward Lewis Humphrey was an early suspect in the case of five grisly murders of college students in Gainesville, Florida; one Daniel Rolling was eventually He also said he hopes to resume his studies _ but not at the University of Florida. 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. Other names that Edward uses includes Edward Lewis Humphrey and Edward L Humphrey. He said a lot of grandiose things (that) caused him to be a suspect. A suspect in the slayings of five college students has been convicted of beat ing up his grandmother, despite her testimony that her injuries came from a fall. She saw what happened to him once, and she will not risk letting it happen again. To do so, he claims, would jeopardize the prosecution. Both parents drank too much. ET on ABC. 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. She had been raped and stabbed multiple times and had been mutilated. They also learned that as Rolling fought with Manny Taboada, Tracy Paules heard the commotion and came into Toboada's room. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey, Age 51 aka Lewis E Humphrey, Edward J Humphrey, Humphrey Edward Lewis, Humphrey Humphrey Current Address: YVXK San Paulo Cir, Melbourne, FL Past Addresses: Palm Bay FL, Indialantic FL +5 more Phone Number: (321) 544- IQVS +7 phones Email Address: e NNQI @hotmail.com +1 email UNLOCK PROFILE Phone & Email Humphrey shunned the media, and remained quiet through the years. Would you like to meet him?". "He was rambling things that could be totally misinterpreted. And if you recognize that, then no matter what this jail-house) interview says when it comes out, it's not going to mean sh--.". The deputy put Humphrey in the back of his patrol car. Danny Rolling is talking about the murders now. According to another newspaper report, Humphrey's statements to police may be challenged because prosecutors stretched the law to keep defense attorneys away from him after he was arrested Aug. 30 in an attack on Ed Humphrey had been arrested and charged with assaulting his grandmother, but investigators were taking a hard look at him for the "All I want to know [is] what was she thinking. "He always told us ' One day, I'm going to leave this town and I'm going to go where the girls are beautiful and I can just lay in the sun and watch beautiful women all day,'" Juracich said. 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. He was, by all accounts, a troubled young man with a wild streak. Ten years ago, 18-year-old Ed Humphrey seemed to be Florida's Public Enemy No. Rolling wanted to address the court. Finally, they listened to the tape. In police audio recordings, he could be heard asking police to accompany him at the request of his manager. The task force searched his Indialantic home and Gainesville apartment. His friends didn't understand: You really don't need that stuff they'd say. WHEN THE PATROL CAR PULLED up that day, Elna Hlavaty was waiting in fear on the columned front porch of her home. The old woman's face, Deputy Doug Hammack saw, was wet with her own blood. "I can only afford to fill the tank halfway," he says, settling into a window seat at an upscale downtown restaurant. Sonja Larson's body was found on her waterbed on the second floor, with stab wounds in her arms and torso. It might take years of interior erosion before the outside ever begins to crumble. TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) _ Gainesville murder suspect Edward Lewis Humphrey was sentenced today to the maximum 22 months for beating his grandmother after his Ray Barber, called for backup and with more investigators on the scene, they found Powell dead on the first floor of the apartment. "The state attorney fully intends to prove the guilt of Danny Harold Rolling in these murders. Ed answered immediately, and the two have been exchanging letters at least once a month ever since. "The phone hadn't been installed yet. His eyes appeared glazed and barely open, his hair unkempt. After Lewis told the investigators what Rolling had told him, investigators would then ask Rolling if what Lewis said was correct. Even today, a spokesman for the new state attorney hesitates: "Is Ed Humphrey still a suspect?Well, hmmm.One would think it ought to be a simple question.". She briefs him before interviews; she and his attorney decide which questions he'll answer. So I kept on pressing the button because I wanted her to open the door. I'd stay up two or three days in a row with no sleep and even then I'd have to drink beer to calm down. As a base police officer approaches him, he starts chewing on a tin can. The investigative records on the GainesviUe murders are filled with entries of Ed Humphrey scaring people in the final months before his arrest. All of them had been stabbed to death and some were left in sexually provocative positions. Glenn Ruppel, Sean Dooley, and Anthony Rivas. It worked, but it also made him dull, sluggish, overweight. The publicity about the Gainesville slayings made it impossible to find a private psychiatric facility to take Humphrey, and he was sentenced to the Corrections Mental Institution in Chattahoochee, where he landed among the most violent and deranged criminals in the state. THERE IS A FORTRESS of friends surrounding Ed Humphrey now. More than a week later, The Sun reported another leak of damaging information about Humphrey. 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. Humphrey will be transferred today or Friday to an Orlando hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and then to the state prison systems mental health facility at Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee, Russo said. August 5, 1990, 0128 hours: Elna Hlavaty, Humphrey's grandmother, phones deputies to report that her grandson is "high" on drugs. Christa Hoyt was an aspiring police officer who'd been working part-time at the Alachua County Sheriff's Office while going to school, according to Gail Barber, the first officer on the scene of her murder. These days Ed Humphrey lives at home with his mom in Indialantic. WebView Edward Humphrey results in Florida (FL) including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. The two talked in June at the Krispy Kreme doughnut store where McGrath worked. Current Address: YVXK San Paulo Cir, Melbourne, Police found Paules on their living room floor. And law enforcement officials felt intense pressure to bring in a suspect. Her right eye was swollen shut. It lets him have his old smile back. Humphrey has said he plans to have plastic surgery to remove facial scars from an automobile accident. (Edis Catholic.). "And honestly, they advised that he'd die much faster in Florida, and I said, 'Well, leave him there. A television blared. And an odd thing happened: Agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement showed up and began questioning him about the murders. It was repeated so authoritatively and so often that the term began to lose its inherent uncertainty. 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. And the sad, sad part about it is that we had the parents behind us on the stairs.". She said she thought of Rolling, who, just a few months after the murders in their community, said something deeply disturbing to her then-husband, Steven Dobbin. Rolling confessed to the murder of Hoyt and four others and was executed in 2006.). 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. It made his mouth dry. And I said, 'Holy sh--.' WebLived In Palm Bay FL, Indialantic FL, Houston TX, Lyons IL. I knew little more about Humphrey than what I knew before this day. Still, Rolling has pleaded innocent--and Don Lykkebak expects Ed will be a target in the trial. They think, 'Well, there's a good chance he did it because he's on TV.' He called the match to the evidence in Gainesville a "revelation" in the case. I had deliberately chosen 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning so that the chances of him being home would be greater. "Their strategy was to keep Ed in jail, to hold him without charging him in the Gainesville case," he says. 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. She knew hmm only as Ed--a nice guy, hard worker, easy to get along with. Would he answer? "Was she thinking of me? They subsequently discovered that Rolling had type B blood just like the suspect in both the Gainesville and Shreveport murders. "It seemed like when I lost my cool, he would keep his. The perils of his loose lips kept him in custody. 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