1. More twists and turns: But the story doesnt stop there. In 2005, Superior Court Judge Charles Lamm rejected Wallace's latest appeal to overturn his convictions and death sentences. The study found that water signs Scorpio, Cancer, and Pisces are the deadliest element with the highest number of both killers and victims: 28 percent and 27 percent, respectively. Rodney Alcala was an American serial killer whose good looks and high IQ helped him lure victims. They returned to Rosarios apartment. He is currently awaiting execution at a prison in Raleigh. ", "I think if there's any doubt about the tie-in between Blanche Moore and these three individuals and their arsenic poisoning, it comes from the actual confession letter itself, your honor.". He is the only U.S. citizen so far to have been sent to death row by a civilian court, exonerated, then sent back to death row via military court. On June 5, 1998, Wallace married a former prison nurse, Rebecca Torrijas, in a ceremony next to the state's execution chamber. In the letter, Thomas allegedly confessed to killing Reid and trying to fatally poison Reid. Blanche preferred to stay closer to home, working in Burlington her entire career, except for a brief stint at a store in Durham. 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. But the dramatically increased interest in the genre is evidenced by and likely fueled by our increased access to the stories. Here are Wallaces victims: 1. The Outcome: The entire family was buried in a mass grave in Germanton. In October 1990, Blanche Moore went on trial in Forsyth County for the death of Raymond Reid. Blanche Moore had maintained a detached demeanor during the trial, with a tight smile for the cameras tightly trained on her throughout. Moore got a job at Kroger in the 1950s and worked there until she was arrested. Other killers are so famous they are known all over the country, like Ted Bundy, the BTK Killer, and John Wayne Gacy. "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. 0:00. Petersons defense teams planning and the trial were recorded by a French documentary film crew, who had unprecedented access to Petersons family and attorneys. Lee Roy Martin Martin, known as the Gaffney Strangler, was convicted of four murders and was sentenced to four life terms. Reid, not known as someone who got sick much, missed more than four weeks of work during the next few months. 9. Dwight Moore, who ingested what was at the time one of the highest doses of arsenic any person was known to have survived, died in 2013. 1. Those drug traffickers were actually Susies parents and grandmother: Bob and Florence Newsom, and Bobs mother, Hattie. Chris Pritchards sister, Angela, was asleep in another part of the house and told police she slept through the whole thing. He wouldn't want to be cut on like this. 11. Dwight Moore was the divorced pastor of what was then Carolina United Church of Christ in Alamance County. In each case, Barfield had been stealing money from her victims to fund her addiction to pills. 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. Another former co-worker, Leonard Wolfe, who owned Ken's Quickie Mart in Burlington, testified that Blanche Moore came into his store in early April 1989 and asking if he "had any Anti-Ant in stock.". Later that night, Wallace returned to The Lake apartment complex and murdered Brandi June Henderson, the girlfriend of a friend. In 2008, Petersons neighbor, Larry Pollard, held a news conference announcing his theory that an owl attacked Kathleen Peterson and that she died as a result of those injuries. North Carolina hasn't executed an inmate since Aug. 18, 2006. Perkins went on to wear a wire for the police in an effort to catch Fritz. Pete Moses, 34, remains in prison in Columbus County. [2] In 1992, Wallace was honorably discharged from the Navy. Just before her execution, it is reported that Barfield told her son Ronnie Burke that she probably killed him because she left a lit cigarette at the foot of the bed where he lay drunk. Janet Branch Downing, the lead prosecutor at Blanche Moores trial, stepped into traffic on Interstate 485 in Charlotte in 2015 and was killed. Frederick Robert Klenner Jr. Frederick Rober Klenner Jr. was considered a mass murderer who killed several victims between 1984 and 1985. Michael Peterson a novelist, a Durham Herald-Sun columnist and a former mayoral candidate called 911 and told the operator that his wife had fallen down the stairs but was still breathing. Her body and Jadons both were found buried in the backyard of a vacant rental house in June 2011. Books, songs and poems were written about the Lawson murders (a bluegrass song about the crime became so popular that mothers reportedly sang it to their babies instead of lullabies). MacDonald had facial injuries, superficial cuts on his abdomen and a more serious stab wound to the chest, caused by a different weapon from those used on others in his family. Wallace raped and strangled Caroline Love at her apartment in June 1992 and then dumped her body in a wooded area in Charlotte. While the majority of serial killers commit their crimes for the thrill and "enjoyment," others are done out of anger and financial reward. 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Carolina Serial Killer Weds Ex-nurse In Prison", https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-cemetery/66417, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Louis_Wallace&oldid=1141314754, African-American United States Navy personnel, People convicted of murder by North Carolina, Prisoners sentenced to death by North Carolina, Violence against women in the United States, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2007, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 12:29. Blanche Moore's family was also devastated. He fired a 9mm submachine gun at officers, injuring a Greensboro police officer and a Kentucky detective. The book was made into a TV miniseries in 1996. Here's what Insider had to say: He attended Barnwell High School, where he was elected to the student council and was a cheerleader. Died: August 21, 2014. According to FBI serial murder profiler Robert Ressler: In 1994 police had asked the FBI for assistance, but the FBI said that the murders were not the work of a serial killer.[2]. Love was a friend and roommate of Wallaces then-girlfriend, Sadie McKnight. 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. Serial killers like Jack the Ripper and Ted Bundy are known all over the world. In 2017, Peterson entered an Alford plea, pleading guilty to manslaughter while not admitting actual guilt, and was free with time served. They discovered that her first husband as well as Reid had died under suspicious circumstances. 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. 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. 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. A more likely answer comes from a 1990 book on the crime, White Christmas, Bloody Christmas, which cited Lawson family members revealing an old family rumor that Charles Lawson had gotten his daughter Marie pregnant, and killed the family to hide the horrible secret. Kill the pigs attacked the family during the night. Perkins drove Fritz to a wealthy Winston-Salem neighborhood to carry out his mission. 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. On February 20, 1994, a day after Shawnas mother appealed to the public to find her daughter's murderer, Wallace raped and strangled Vanessa Little Mack, 25, in her west Charlotte apartment. 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. No trial date has been set. During her time in prison, Barfield got off drugs, became a born-again Christian and received praise from Billy Graham for ministering to prisoners. Susie and Fritz had blown up the Blazer and everything inside it. 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. In May 1992, not long after moving to Charlotte, Wallace beat to death Sharon Nance, a sex worker whom Wallace had refused to pay after soliciting her services. Charlotte's police chief rejoiced at Wallace's arrest, reassuring the community that the women of east Charlotte were safe. 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. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand. So, who are some of the most notorious criminals and serial killers in North Carolina history? Barfields last meal was a bag of Cheetos and two 8-ounce glass bottles of Coca-Cola. In the same article, her other daughter, Vanessa Woods, said Reid "was a very good man. Known as the Volga Maniac, this Russian serial killer struck in several states, including Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Izhevsk, Perm, Ufa, Samara, and Ulyanovsk. 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. 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. Here are just a few of the other twists and turns, which never seem to stop coming. 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. He stabbed her 38 times in the stomach and chest. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Despite the damning and disturbing evidence, the defense seemed optimistic. His 1978 appearance on the television show 'The Dating Game' resulted in his nickname of "The . (Jennings grandson, singer-songwriter Jonathan Byrd, wrote the song Velma about Velma Barfield.). A glass dome was placed over the cake and it sat on display in the home for years. The first sign of trouble happened right after they returned from their honeymoon. What is the evidence that connects her to them? 7. 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. . The arsenic in Reid's brain tissue was approximately 67 times higher than normal. of serial killings: 793. She is suspected of killing at least two additional people. It was reported in September 2017 that Stager participates in a Community Leave program that allows her to leave the N.C. Correctional Institute for Women in Raleigh for lunch as long as she is with a prison-approved sponsor. That June, he pled guilty to second-degree burglary. On March 9, 2017, Amber Burch pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, armed robbery, and accessory after the fact to murder. That year, Elizabeth Montgomery (Samantha from Bewitched) played Moore in a TV movie called Black Widow Murders, based on the book. "Although she was strong in that regard, it was painful to see her broken by that verdict.". Both Pritchard and Henderson testified against Upchurch, who was found guilty of several charges, including first-degree murder. I'm not guilty. Even though the story places Charlotte in South Carolina, it does a good job of laying out all the clues and patterns overlooked by police. Colette had been beaten with a piece of wood that broke both her arms, and she had been stabbed 37 times with an ice pick and a knife. Stager was sentenced to death, but the sentence was later reduced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Stinson was a college student and single mother of two small sons. 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. South Carolina's most prolific serial killer is from Florence County. Attorneys have appealed, asked for a retrial and argued that MacDonald should be exonerated. He also stole her TV and car, then returned to her apartment later to steal her VCR. 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. Juana Barraza next to a bust the police used to help in the search for a serial murder suspect at the Mexico City police headquarters. After Lopez's arrest in 1980, police found the graves of more than 50 of his preteen victims. He was later fired from working as Chemical Operator for Sandoz Chemical Co. John Wayne Gacy, the Killer Clown Biography of Albert Fish, Serial Killer Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog The Green River Killer: Gary Ridgway Profile of Serial Killer Rodney Alcala Serial Killer Couple Ray and Faye Copeland Serial Killer Edward Gein Profile of Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross Profile of Serial Killer Debra Brown He raped, strangled, and stabbed her 38 times in the stomach and chest before taking money from the apartment for drugs. I have no doubt that I was poisoned," the Rev. She left Kroger on Oct. 17, 1985. "'Please help me or I'm going to die," Hutchens recalled Reid telling her. 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. Barfields first husband, Thomas Burke, died in a house fire in 1969. 512 North Salisbury Street, Raleigh . [2] In Washington, he was served warrants for several burglaries in and around the Seattle metro area. She was convicted of killing her fiance, but eventually made official confessions to killing three others. A couple days later, she testified, she visited Reid's room and said he was in "acute respiratory distress" and was very frightened. The story of The Black Widow, Blanche Taylor Moore. "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. In February 1991, Wallace broke into Barnwell High School and the radio station where he once worked as a disc jockey. [6] One woman stated that the police did not care because they viewed the young female murder victims as "fast girls who hang out a lot". He repeatedly stabbed each of his victims with a knife and an ice pick before turning the blades on himself, though less severely. 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