After a brutal car chase, Kimball was arrested and plead guilty to four charges of second-degree murder. Each of the women was friends with Wallace's girlfriend or worked with him, and each had his name in their phone books. Instead, Reid became deathly ill and was transferred to North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem on June 13. Cullen only confessed to the 40 murders, but investigators and experts believe his body count might reach the hundreds. Bodies of her alleged victims were exhumed in Alamance County. The two were wed April 19, 1989. It's hard to pin down Terry Peder Rasmussen. Police suspect foul play. There have been plenty of those killings in North Carolina, but there has been only one other person in Greensboro to be labeled a serial killer. In the 1990s Robert Sylvester Alston of Greensboro admitted to killing four women. 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. Barnabet killed entire families as they slept in what became known as the "Voodoo Murders" in the 1910s. 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. Kimball killed his uncle, his cellmate's girlfriend, and a 19-year-old girl. He was convicted and sentenced to death and is currently awaiting his execution on death row. William Devin Howell can best be described as a drifter. This much was for certain: He killed two sex workers between 2001 and 2005, according to WCVB. Clifford Robert Olson Jr. (January 1, 1940 - September 30, 2011) was a convicted Canadian serial killer who confessed to murdering 11 children and young adults between the ages of 9 and 18 years in the early 1980s. Her body was completely hairless, a side effect of exposure to arsenic. Christine Falling became known as the "Babysitter from Hell" when she choked and killed five children in the early '80s, including an 8-month-old baby. Charlene would kidnap the girls and lure them in with the false promise of safety. There, he grew to hate his mother and women as a whole. 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. Since he worked as a clown performer for children's parties, he would often kill his victims while wearing the clown costume that he called Pogo the Clown. Frederick Robert Klenner Jr. Frederick Rober Klenner Jr. was considered a mass murderer who killed several victims between 1984 and 1985. 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. Gaskins started his criminal patterns young . When Israel Keyes killed himself in prison in 2012, he took a lot of answers with him. Soon, the nation would see her in another light - as the "Black Widow," a diminutive figure with a dark side -- suspected of methodically poisoning at least four other people close to her, going back as far as 1966. The prosecution got a boost in the case just days before the trial when Forsyth County Superior Court Judge William Freeman ruled that prosecutors could discuss the poisonings James Taylor, Dwight Moore and Kiser even though the trial was only about the murder of Reid. "She said to me, the end has to come. He buried the bodies in his "garden" behind a strip mall as a memorial. A couple days later, she testified, she visited Reid's room and said he was in "acute respiratory distress" and was very frightened. Remarkably, Reid again improved. APRIL 13: Richardson is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Hemphill. At just 19 years old he killed 11 people. [1][2][3], Blanche Taylor Moore was born Blanche Kiser to Flonnie Blanche (ne Honeycutt) and Parker Davis Kiser, a mill-worker, ordained Baptist minister, and womanizer. His stabbings became national news when he crossed state lines to stab even more people. Clifford Olson. Some never were found. Henry Louis Wallace is a serial killer who raped and murdered 10 women in Charlotte and one woman in his hometown of Barnwell, S.C., from 1990 to 1994. . On Easter Sunday, she met Rev. They ended the lives of the five young women within the span of about six months. Prosecutors later dropped the charges in the cases of Taylor and Moore, after she was sentenced to death for Reid's murder. 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. Technically, Charles Starkweather is a spree killer but that doesn't make him any less terrifying. In the same article, her other daughter, Vanessa Woods, said Reid "was a very good man. 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. And the plane crashed in North Carolina. But these horrific murders are not unfamiliar to Americans. During the trial, the prosecution recounted Reid's agonizing death in meticulous and horrific detail. She flatly denied slipping arsenic to either of her husbands or Reid. APRIL 8: Jonathan Murphy, 38, of Greensboro, was arrested and chargedwith first-degree murder in the death of Hemphill, as well as possession of a firearm by a felon. One of his more brutal cases was when he broke into a 5-year-old girl's home, raped, and strangled her. He is charged in the death of Michael Hemphill, who died Feb. 1 after being shot on Yanceyville Street in Greensboro in late January; the killing of Mark Anthony Gilbert Jr., whose body was found on West Terrell Street in Greensboro on March 10; and in the disappearance on March 25 of James Goolsby, whose body was found buried in Virginia in mid-April. On March 9, 2017, Amber Burch pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, armed robbery, and accessory after the fact to murder. Yet Moore was convicted of murder in the 1986 arsenic-poisoning death of her boyfriend, Raymond Carlton Reid Sr. A book would be written, and a TV movie made. In 2016, police received a 911 call just outside of Columbus, Ohio. 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. ", During the capital sentencing phase, the jury found as aggravating circumstances that Blanche Moore was motivated to kill for financial gain and that Reid's murder was "especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.". He was only found guilty of one murder and was sent to a mental institution. Their lives were cut short by James Bradley, who in 2013 was released from prison in Wilmington after serving time for the murder of his own 8-year-old step daughter. He was put to death in 2010. So although it's hard to choose just one killer that terrorized the state, Robert Hansen seems to leave a really bone-chilling scare. The Insider compiled a list of the most notorious serial killer by state, and North Carolinas No. 20 of the most infamous female killers Stephanie Ashe Dorothea Puente with attorney Kevin Clymo during her arraignment in municipal court. In 1993, Rifkin was pulled over by police for not having a license plate. Blanche preferred to stay closer to home, working in Burlington her entire career, except for a brief stint at a store in Durham. The Green River in Washington state became notorious because of the number of bodies that were found there in the '90s. Eventually, the two began meeting for meals. Blanche Moore's family was also devastated. 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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.". Blanche Taylor Moore now passes the time in a cell in Raleigh. Known as . . Other killers are so famous they are known all over the country, like Ted Bundy, the BTK Killer, and John Wayne Gacy. In doing so, the Supreme Court justices noted that "the State presented extensive circumstantial evidence marking the similarities between Reid's death and the arsenic poisoning death of Taylor and the arsenic poisoning of Moore. The case remains open. When police spotted him in Greensboro in June 1985, they knew he was dangerous. He would often lure them to him by faking an injury. It is believed that Wayne Williams a freelance photographer may have been responsible for the murders. 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. He was bloated and his "eyeballs were even starting to swell and his skin was splitting.". Because of the publicity in the case, many family members never believed that she would get a fair trial. She had too much to offer," Blanche's daughter, Cynthia Taylor Chatman told the Baltimore Sun in 1989. Detectives heard Dwight Moore's story and then began probing into Blanche Moore's background. In 1958, for two short months, Starkweather shocked the nation with his crimes. 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. In each of the murders, he broke into their homes, raped and sodomized them, and then strangled them with a belt or rope. of Corrections records, showing current status of Blanche Taylor Moore, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blanche_Taylor_Moore&oldid=1141314706, This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 12:28. But as the guilty plea was read and jurors filed past, she wept. Holes, in his book, Unmasked: My Life Solving Americas Cold Cases, writes that he has seen statistics suggesting there are some two thousand serial killers prowling the United States today, operating in a way that allows them to stay hidden, as DeAngelo had. 3. The day before Halloween, Price, a redhead, was found dead in the bathtub, and Rogers fled the scene. That murderer turned out to be David Meirhofer, who confessed to four other murders during a four-hour interrogation. She was born Blanche Kiser in Concord, North Carolina, but spent much of her adult life in Alamance County. But the jury disagreed, unanimously finding "the defendant, Blanche K. Taylor Moore, guilty of first-degree murder.". 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. In 1973, a 7-year-old girl in Michigan was abducted and strangled to death. In 1974, Randall Woodfield was drafted into the NFL to play for the Green Bay Packers. What made him particularly noteworthy is the cat and mouse game he played with authorities. That's probably because, statistically as far as we know, women are responsible for around 11% of all murders. 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. He was convicted of two murders and sentenced to death. But, it's what he did with their bodies that really shocked the nation. He'd let them loose in the woods of Anchorage and then he'd hunt them down for mere pleasure. 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. North Carolina by that accounting has had 266 victims of serial killers, and if you rank them by a ratio of 100,000 residents, thats 2.46, which ranks North Carolina roughly 34th nationally. This is not to be confused with a rampage or spree killer, who murders several people at one time and is just less than a mass murder, which is a person who kills a lot of people at one time, such as at a school or a concert or a movie theater or a workplace. told the News & Record that she is believed to have about 30 victims. It became known as the Atlanta Child Murders. He met his fate in the electric chair on July 17, 1996. The Story Of The Serial Killer Who Terrorized This North Carolina City Is Truly Frightening. Can you imagine anything more pitiful in this whole world? operating in a way that allows them to stay hidden, as DeAngelo had. In fact, she denied ever seeing him "have any food at all during that time" or having ever taken food to him in the hospital. The FBI defines as a person committing two or more murders as separate events and usually done by one person acting alone.. "Connecting the death of James Taylor with that of Raymond Reid and illness of Dwight Moore, unless they make that direct connection, then the evidence is clearly not admissible," her defense team argued. However, he never regained full sensation in his hands and feet. Those victims include his cousin/girlfriend Susie Newsom Lynch of Rockingham County and her two children, who died when their vehicle blew up on NC 150 in Summerfield in 1985 while the police pursued them. He was hospitalized in April of that year and died on October 7, 1986. After first meeting while in prison, Bittaker and Norris quickly cultivated a bond over sadism, and in June 1979, they picked up their first victim, 16-year-old Lucinda . By 1973, Corll had killed 28 boys in Texas just outside of Houston. Another woman met a similar fate when she was just waiting at a bus stop. Rank the Most Wicked 19th Century American Criminals. He had been unable to keep down any solid food and according to court testimony, Dr. Norman H. Garrett Jr. thought he had acute gastroenteritis based on "his profound dehydration, nausea and vomiting.". Some of the most infamous North Carolina murders that remain unsolved include the 1998 abduction and murder of Brittany Locklear, the 1971 double murder of Patricia Mann and Jesse McBane, as well as many well-known disappearances throughout North Carolina. More troubling for the defense, a nurse testified that she saw Blanche bring peanut butter milkshakes, banana pudding, tomato pudding, corn bread, and milk for Reid and feeding him herself. My back all the way down into my groin. July 18th, 2008. She's going to come back out and she's going to testify eventually, and her response to it is, 'you'll see. Victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy identified as North Carolina man October 25, 2021 / 1:51 PM / CBS/AP A North Carolina man who moved to Chicago was one of the victims of John. At Baptist Hospital, Dr. Robert Hamilton began with a preliminary diagnosis of Guillain Barre syndrome. They later found 11 bodies just 50 feet from his home. In fact, Gaskins claimed he killed 200 hitchhikers. Get the Android Weather app from Google Play, Have a tax filing extension this year? Lavinia Fisher. His arsenic levels were 60 times higher than normal. He died of natural causes in 2013. He'd pick them up in his electrician van. Donald Harvey is better known as "The Angel of Death" after he confessed to 57 murders. Pee Wee Gaskins was put to death September 6, 1991. DNA testing confirmed years later that Timothy Wilson Spencer was "The Southside Strangler." Each state has a connection to an infamous serial killer. He wouldn't want to be cut on like this. I wont feed anyones fascination with my crimes, Alston told her. It was supposedly a deathbed confession written by a homeless, now-deceased man named Garvin Thomas, who was said to be infatuated with Moore. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. During his sentencing, Pennel bizarrely asked to be put to death; however, he never admitted to the crimes. 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. He died of cancer in 1984. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. 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. "We're talking about an average, ordinary neighborhood lady," former Alamance County Sheriff Richard Frye told The Associated Press in 1989. 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 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. So who is North Carolina's most notorious serial killer? He was executed in 1959. Some believe Williams has nothing to do with these crimes and think that police pinned them on him because they wanted an answer. They were between the ages of 15 and 18. Thirteen women were killed in their own homes. By 1980, the couple killed 10 teenagers in Nevada and California. After California,Texas, with 893, Florida, 845, Illinois, 629, and New York, 628, sit atop that list. He is on death row in Florida. Former Forsyth County prosecutor Vince Rabil, along with Branch, was one of two attorneys tasked in 1990 with convicting Blanche Taylor Moore. Moore was 57 when she was sentenced, and at 89 she isthe oldest person on North Carolinas death row. He refused appeal because "it would be unbearable to stay" here any longer. In the reenactment segment of the last episode of Season 1 of Deadly Women, Blanche Taylor Moore was portrayed by Maja Meschitschek. If you mix it together no one can tell the difference," he told The Sun in 2015. He would rob, rape, and kill his victims. In all, he murdered seven people, becoming known as the "Fast Food Killer.". According to several witnesses, Blanche told doctors in the moments after Reid's death that "We cannot have an autopsy. He is currently serving a 70-year sentence. Robinson was sentenced to death and remains on death row. In 1994, the high court concluded that Moore had received a fair trial and rejected the defense's motions. INVESTIGATION YIELDS SHOCKING DISCOVERIES. In the late '70s, Joubert made his fantasies a reality when he killed three boys, strangling them and taking bites into each. During those years free from jail, he killed four people. It is a fate she didn't leave to her suspected string of victims. That's how he earned his name "The Cannibal." An investigatortold the News & Record that she is believed to have about 30 victims. Although Harvey Robinson is known for being a young serial killer, Craig Price from Rhode Island was even younger. In 1987, when he was just 13 years old, he stabbed Rebecca Spencer to death. Copyright 2023 WTVD-TV. Two years later, he killed Joan Heaton and her two daughters. When the Golden State Killer was caught in 2018 more than three decades after his crimes the country was stunned. That trigger, that one thing that pushed me over the edge, Ill die with that. "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. [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. He died Feb. 1, and the investigation was upgraded to homicide. "But yet it all seems to point that way. Price is currently in jail after confessing to the brutal murders. Stephani admitted to beating and stabbing three women between the years 1980 and 1982. North Carolina: Henry Louis Wallace. After pushing her car off the road, he grabbed her and pulled her into a ditch. Society is so quick to put monikers on people, name tags. No one knew for years who killed four women in Southern Virginia.