Humphrey says 10 men chased him and that he pulled a pocketknife--not a razor--in self-defense. The two had gone bowling, played pool, hung out together. So I kept on pressing the button because I wanted her to open the door. But Friday, a grand jury declared there was no probable cause to charge the 20-year-old former University of Florida freshman. 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 Yet the lead prosecutor in the case continued to insist that Ed was a suspect in three of the killings, that perhaps he and Rolling had acted together. ET on ABC. Maines said Rolling fled the home after police issued a warrant for his arrest. The task force investigating the killings put Humphrey under surveillance, and when a police spokesman described him as "an extremely valuable suspect," the media zeroed in on him. After his arrest, Humphrey lived in a 10-foot-by-10-foot concrete cell at the Brevard County Jail. WebLived In Honolulu HI, Morehead City NC, Orange Park FL, Saint Petersburg FL. Other names that Edward uses includes Edward Lewis Humphrey and Edward L Humphrey. But it didn't change the way I felt about him. WebLived In Palm Bay FL, Indialantic FL, Houston TX, Lyons IL. And law enforcement officials felt intense pressure to bring in a suspect. The real killer was eventually caught, confessed and was put to death. Who is Ed Humphrey? Glenn Ruppel, Sean Dooley, and Anthony Rivas. ), "When he went in, I followed him in the apartment and I saw the young lady on the bed. And, then, as far as newspapers go, half the things that lthey) deal with are just negative things about people. "He was just the wrong boy at the wrong place at the wrong time--with the wrong malady.". These days Ed Humphrey lives at home with his mom in Indialantic. He may have more plastic surgery. He'll never change his name, but some day, he says, when he's done with school, he might move somewhere far away. "The main thing is, I'm just like anybody else," he says. The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville cited sources it did not identify in today's story about Edward Lewis Humphrey. But months passed and Humphrey was never charged with the crimes, the Alachua County grand jury deciding that there was no case against him. "Ed, you see, not only has been locked up in a cell for 76 days, he's been sent to a psychiatric hospital, kept in prison for a year, had charges for everything under the sun, had all this stuff hanging over his head. The two 23-year-olds had been close friends since high school and had just begun living together. Humphrey, who fit a vague FBI profile of the killer, was never charged with murder but the damage to his reputation had been done; his name, marred. The investigative records on the GainesviUe murders are filled with entries of Ed Humphrey scaring people in the final months before his arrest. 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. Suddenly, Humphreys tabby snuck out the door. Hammack would have to arrest him. Still, Rolling has pleaded innocent--and Don Lykkebak expects Ed will be a target in the trial. Russo expressed concern that Humphrey would be placed in the general prison population before the end of his sentence. Rolling pleaded guilty to all counts but, because he was facing the death penalty, a jury was still required to hear the evidence and make a recommendation on punishment to the judge: life in prison or death. HE STROLLS INTO YAB YUM, A downtown coffee house, for a cup of hazelnut regular, the flavor of the day, and a book of matches. ", "Honestly, Marti," Ed says, "that plastic surgery didn't do that great of a job.". Don Maines, an investigator on the case with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, said they received several tips pointing to Humphrey, then 18. They had softened with time, but they told his story. "So I pressed this button to find out what was going on. "We had no way of reaching her," Ada Larson said. Finally, they listened to the tape. ", He pauses. 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. Scott Grissom said he didn't know Rolling but he learned that Rolling had lived with his parents about a half-mile away from his father's house. Edward Lewis Humphrey, 18, of Indialantic, Fla., held in the Brevard County Jail on a charge of beating his 79-year-old grandmother, has been described by police as It has been the biggest manhunt in Florida history. "Tracy asked him, 'You're the one, aren't you?'" Why did this happen?". And it just dropped me into a depression. But most of Humphreys descriptions of the student mutilations were not accurate. One said it was a "violent" environment. And it got worse as more people came forward. "Recon lock and load!" Unit Name Humphrey Lewis' Company (Madison County, Fla.) Unit Leader Lewis, Humphrey Unit Location Madison County Unit Subjects Florida. Mrs. Hlavaty died about 56 hours before the grand jury decided her grandson Ed should not be charged in the Gainesville murders. "My maintenance man, unfortunately, ran down the stairs screaming, 'Oh my God,' and came out and threw up. ", "Always studying. Anyone else--they would have dropped the charges or maybe given him one year's probation. 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. TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) _ Gainesville murder suspect Edward Lewis Humphrey was sentenced today to the maximum 22 months for beating his grandmother after his lawyer said no private psychiatric hospital could be found for him. "It's been a while, you know?" She hadn't called us and, finally, the Powells, who lived closer, went over there.". "Ed's a good friend. When she saw Rolling, she ran back to her bedroom, where she tried to lock her door. Maines said they found out that the suspect had broken in by wedging a screwdriver into the door jamb. Later, after Ed has gone, one approaches the young woman behind the counter. He had "My husband didn't know what was happening. You could see [she was] in a bad position, and I just turned around and walked out," Curnutt said. Brevard sheriffs officials also released reports showing the agency responded to at least 14 emergency calls of Humphrey allegedly attacking his grandmother or mother. "In a way, talking about [Manny], as I do sometimes with those who knew him they're kind of alive for that moment, and so, it's comforting. I can't handle this.' The accidents left him with a rod in his leg and scars on his face, and a Lithium prescription kept him chunky and bloated-looking. But news of the Gainesville murders haunted Juracich and, in November 1990, she decided to contact police on a hunch that Rolling was connected to the murders in both cities. For months Edward Lewis Humphrey was the key suspect in the horrific slayings of five Gainesville students. "I've got feelings, too, and that stuff really hurt me. John Donvan, a former reporter for ABC News who covered the Gainesville cases, said Lewis claimed Rolling told him many of the details of the murders and that Rolling wanted to confess. Rolling wanted to address the court. I wanted to ask him so many questions. To do so, he claims, would jeopardize the prosecution. He surfed, played soccer and football, and joined the Boy Scout troop that his father founded, eventually becoming an Eagle Scout. "Oh, that's Ed," the kennel workers will say. "He's one of our best employees. He'd seen interviews with his new neighbors on the evening news, and they had said they were afraid of Ed Humphrey. A judge ordered him removed from the court. Then, Rolling came back with his own gun and shot his father in the face, state attorney Smith said. That man, Danny Rolling, had told her that one day he was going to leave Shreveport, where they lived. 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 He caught a glimpse of a tall young man climbing the stairs. He was a manic-depressive off his medication. In one of the songs, the man sings, "Mystery rider, what's your name? He was under surveillance for reports of odd behaviors, like wearing camouflage, and he had an obsession with knives. He demanded officials exonerate his brother. Former state attorney Rod Smith said that when investigators then searched his home, they found magazines about knives, guns and girls. 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. Betty Curnutt, the manager of the apartment complex, said she was standing behind the worker when he broke down the door and that a police officer was behind her. Among the evidence was a pubic hair _ similar to Humphrey's _ found at a murder scene, and statements from two witnesses who said they saw Humphrey and Rolling together. I knew, until he was gone, I couldn't really start my life again and be me," Lahey said. Juracich said she dismissed these comments when she heard about them because she didn't want to believe that Rolling could be responsible for the triple murders in Shreveport. Edward Lewis Humphrey, 51. And when the jail returned it--saying it did not allow cash to be mailed to inmates--Kennedy got a money order. Her right eye was swollen shut. "It was important because he was participating in the confession," Hewitt said. That's who you are?! ", "If we had played the tape before, we would've had this guy three months ago," Maines said. "I'd come in and there would be books open and calculators out.". Investigators narrowed their list of prime suspects to four Sunday in the grisly slayings of five students and hinted that the serial killer left ``messages of some importance.' Sentencing was set His court appearances were riveting. Some of the other inmates had made threats. These details were important because, on the day of Christa Hoyt's murder, police also responded to a robbery at a bank a half-mile away from her home. Lahey said seeing this man "who destroyed my life" made her feel "frozen to the chair.". The investigation has cost more than $5 million, taken over 130,000 man-hours, amassed 1,500 pieces of evidence and involved more than 6,600 investigative leads. I knew that many people with connections to the Gainesville murders had left Florida. The metamorphosis seemed to happen in a matter of days. So investigators sat with Lewis and Rolling and had Lewis answer questions for Rolling. 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 And she's like, 'Oh, well, it says that you have 22 months left.' "My husband would just sit and say 'Just tell me she died right away. Humphrey's bail was set at $1-millionand he remained behind bars until well after investigators set their sights on a new suspect: Danny Rolling. He tried repeatedly to find work, but kept being turned away, often with no explanation. "He trusts me and I trust him," Pauwels says. When does Ed stop being a suspect?". It was a nasty, turbulent, protracted parting that left Ed's mother--a devout Catholic--devastated. "I just thought it sounded like he was being railroaded,"says Kennedy, who noticed an article about Ed one day in the San Francisco Chronicle. And the day after Ed was arrested, an investigator interviewed Sydney McGrath, a college student who had long conversations with Ed about dissecting corpses. Some had already begun to move their children out of the city, which is busiest during the school year. It happens too often, though less so now than when he first got out of prison. He has been hounded by the press. His grandmother, now passed away, forgave him. Meanwhile, Lykkebak hopes eventually to get Ed's record wiped clean of a felony --a move that would require a governor's pardon. She also had tape residue on her body and vinegar -- rather than soap -- which was used to clean her body. "They're gone but their memory has to always endure," Mario Taboada said. "There's this girl at work--Kelly--and she didn't know at all until today. There is muffled conversation by a table of three-piece suits, who glance over suspiciously at Ed. Edward Lewis Humphrey, 19, was found guilty Wednesday of battery on a person over 65. After a bank robbery, police found the tape along with stolen money, a gun and a screwdriver. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. Dobbin told her that Rolling had told him he had a problem, Juracich said. But when you get up to that other accident, I can guarantee you 100 percent that I was not trying to commit suicide. His grandmother had asked to drop all charges. He no longer saw any point in getting up in the morning. "First of all, a lot of people watch TV a lot--five hours a day, on the average. His friends didn't understand: You really don't need that stuff they'd say. Circuit Judge Theron Yawn said last week he was inclined to order a mental commitment rather than prison for Humphrey. And that, perhaps, was all I needed to know. 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. At this moment he would be home in Indialantic studying for a science test--and hoping, unrealistically, that people would just forget Ed Humphrey. His eyes appeared glazed and barely open, his hair unkempt. It wasn't long after Maines' trip to Shreveport that Juracich called Crime Stoppers to report Danny Rolling. "He has been persecuted. Edward has no feeling of elation. "I wanted to represent [Tracy]," said Lahey, Paules' sister. "This was Danny looking for something that would make what happened more dramatic and minimize his own culpability by saying, 'The devil made me do it.'". "I guess I kind of pushed her because she fell and hit her head on that mantle there. "And I remember Grandma yelled when she hit her head, and Mom called the police immediately without knowing what was going on. In police audio recordings, he could be heard asking police to accompany him at the request of his manager. The door opened and before me stood Ed Humphrey. When asked if she ever felt that her husband was treating her son inappropriately, she said, "Sure, I guess.". And I'll never be able to forget it. "VVhen he was not taking his lithium, he was a clearly diagnosed manic-depressive," Marti Mackenzie says. "The phone hadn't been installed yet. Although Humphreys October trial was in Brevard County, a visiting judge from Gainesville presided over it. "I don't want people to read about me. I thought, 'Here's a guy who's sort of down and I think I'll cheer him up.". Russo estimated Humphrey would be in custody for only another seven to nine months because of time served and the states early-release rules. When I got a job, .when I got good grades in school, they weren't calling me. That was the start of it all. In plaid shorts, Humphrey hunched down to make sure he could catch the cat before it ran out onto the street. "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--.". "I hit her and I'm sorry." "And, like, they point in my face telling me, 'Don't do that again, man. There was a toilet, a sink and a military mattress on the floor. ", Dianna Hoyt said she didn't believe "any of it. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey, Age 51. aka Lewis E Humphrey, Edward J Humphrey, Humphrey Edward Lewis, Humphrey Humphrey. Witnesses testified to the abuse they'd seen. "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."'. "Should I smile? WebView Edward Humphrey results in Florida (FL) including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. He finally moved back to Indialantic with his mother, where things went smoothly until March 1992, when he and some buddies went on a spring break camping trip to Key West. 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. "But when they first arrested him (for beating his grandmother), they basically trashed him in the press and said he was a serial killer.". August 5, 1990, 0128 hours: Elna Hlavaty, Humphrey's grandmother, phones deputies to report that her grandson is "high" on drugs. Current Address: YVXK San Paulo Cir, Melbourne, They were sexually assaulted and some were mutilated. His public defender, J. R. Russo, said Humphrey's mental state deteriorated while he was jailed. Rolling's defense presented mitigating factors for why he might have committed the murders, including his troubled history with his father. He hates dredging this up. How could this possibly happen? He told investigators about two of his darker personalities. Students left--some for good--and there was a run on the sale of guns, Mace and door locks. Now he works six days a week, attends community college and wants to become an X-ray technician. Ten years ago, 18-year-old Ed Humphrey seemed to be Florida's Public Enemy No. Christopher Slobogin, a professor at the University of Florida Law School, said suspicions about Mr. Humphrey's possible connection with the Gainesville murders increased the likelihood that he would be prosecuted on assault charges that otherwise would probably have been dropped. Good Student and Boy Scout The killer always managed to avoid being spottedby potential witnesses. Dave Farley, a senior patrol leader, remembers hiking the Appalachian Trail with Ed, his assistant. It's going to be worse next time.' Hes not capable of it., Hes gonna come back home, George Humphrey insisted. "The first night I was in there, no one told me anything," he says. I fell asleep there.". The roommates and University of Florida students, were found dead Aug. 28, 1990, in their Gainesville, Fla. apartment. Ed's dad, family friends told investigators, had a ferocious temper. I felt bad for him. Neither will police talk. He may have more plastic surgery. When the discussion turned to a human anatomy class that McGrath was taking, McGrath said, Ed asked her what it was like to cut up bodies and if she ever took skin or body parts home to "mess around with it.". He was at the wrong place at the wrong time, said Spencer Mann, the spokesman for the Alachua County Sheriffs Department at the time. Ed was still serving 14 months probation at the time, and drinking was a violation of his terms. As the questioning went on, Rolling began to say he'd "dealt with different personalities all my life." And the sad, sad part about it is that we had the parents behind us on the stairs.". He glances again at the photographer. There was a large window from the ceiling to about waist high, so they could see his every move. He had no reason to trust one. He had dreams of being an architect, his brother, Mario Taboada, said. This time, deputies couldn't just tell Ed to cool off, then file the fight away on an incident report. He called the match to the evidence in Gainesville a "revelation" in the case. He wasnt interested in doing an interview. 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. Before he could stand trial for the murders, however, Rolling was convicted on federal bank robbery charges, Smith said. As they investigated the case, police grew convinced that Ed Humphrey might be their most likely suspect. The optics were not good for Humphrey. Authorities subsequently cleared Humphrey of any involvement in the murders. And legal experts say that even if Humphrey is innocent, he'll carry the stigma of the killings with him the rest of his days. ", Oak pollen already a big problem, but strong storms could wash it away, Man admits to sex trafficking waitresses out of family-owned cantina, At least 36 dead, 66 injured after trains collide in Greece: officials. He was facing the death penalty. He picked up smoking in prison. He landed on a grassy shoulder and wasn't hurt badly, but he spent the next three months in a psychiatric ward. "It was a small-caliber gun, and the father survives it, but not without permanent damage," Smith said. For months Edward Lewis Humphrey was the key suspect in the horrific slayings of five Gainesville students. Humphrey was asked to leave the premises by Officer Smith, and he complied, but not before threatening Officer Smith that he (Humphrey) was going to cut his eyes out and send him to hell. In late August of 1990, a string of Ted Bundy-like murders had shattered the college town of Gainesville, and Humphrey found himself in the center of it. Ed didnt do it, said George, then a 22-year-old law student, told WUFT in a 1991. But his attorney, Donald Lykkebak of Orlando, said: "The prolonged investigation has been emotionally and financially exhausting. She had been raped and stabbed multiple times and had been mutilated. They couldn't say definitively it was Ed's hair, but they couldn't say it wasn't.". Well, they're influenced so much by what they watch and they think, 'Oh, yeah, I saw where they got the suspect.' On a breezy spring morning, I traveled from my home in Gainesville to coastal Palm Bay, tucked just under Melbourne on Floridas Atlantic coast. I had deliberately chosen 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning so that the chances of him being home would be greater. The next day Humphrey is reported to be running in circles and talking to himself on Patrick Air Force Base. He says she knocked his contact lens out and that made him angry. Humphreys off behavior, Mann said, drew attention to him. Related To Sarah Humphrey, Gail Humphrey, Erin Humphrey, Bud Humphrey, B Humphrey. For several years, the whole family lived with Ed's maternal grandparents. He said nothing more. Hewitt said the man also talked to his family, about life and how he felt he went down the "wrong road." ", "It was like, here's a reason he killed the person you loved," she said. She knew hmm only as Ed--a nice guy, hard worker, easy to get along with. And now, he doesn't volunteer his history unless people bring it up. The red sun marched its way toward the horizon, whipping at my windshield as I drove back to Gainesville. Police were called to his house repeatedly after reports he had gone "berserk.". His mother was well-intentioned and caring, but nervous. On a stretch of road running through the city, there is a graffiti-covered wall. The rest of the time he sat in his cell, building card houses, reading books his mother sent, or sleeping. In custody, he was questioned about the killings. "He'd come over every night for a while, and then one night, Steven came in and he goes, 'He's got to go,'" Juracich said. He was sent to Florida State Prison, where he met another inmate named Bobby Lewis, who was on death row for killing a drug dealer in the 1970s. I hate having my picture taken.". He was on heavy medication. He returned gasping for breath, and asked me to come back later in the day. "I had to know what Sonja went through. Ed said. "Here was a kid who was held up as a ass murderer," Mackenzie says. They subsequently discovered that Rolling had type B blood just like the suspect in both the Gainesville and Shreveport murders. Among Humphrey's friends - a group of sixteen surfers, who called themselves the Clan - Humphrey was unofficially acknowledged as most likely to succeed," Bedesem says. . Crime lab experts had damning evidence that semen found at the murder scene came from Rolling. Don Lykkebak, Ed's attorney, says, "He was a medical patient at the time who was not being treated. "So there will always be an association between him and the killer," Doherty said, and some people will say investigators just couldn't dig up the proof. Ultimately, the jury recommended five death sentences for Rolling and the judge agreed, sentencing him to execution. Her daughter overheard her, and the argument ensued. 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. Those who knew Larson said she was a sweet girl, but reserved, and that she liked to work with children. Lookup the home address, phone numbers, email address for this person View Public Record Results ✓ Addresses. A. "I thought it was totally unfair," Ed says. Ed ends up on the floor. He drove to Orlando on a blustery fall day in a black 1978 Cadillac that gets 10 miles to the gallon. Im happy I always have the support of family and friends, and Im happy with my family now.. As for his own behavior, Ed says: "I can't help it if my body (needs) lithium. Then he banged his head on the window so hard the deputy worried he would break the glass. She was found raped, stabbed to death, mutilated and beheaded. 1. "Some fiber, some hairs. She got hurt real bad," he says now. Her family said she collapsed after arguing with a relative about talking to a reporter. Without a response, they asked a maintenance worker at the apartment complex for help. Our children's names will be remembered over him.". The perils of his loose lips kept him in custody. I got it done . "I'm like, 'Yeah, right,"' Ed says. By the time she reported Rolling, police had already arrested another man who they believed to be a suspect in the Gainesville murders. Investigators and prosecutors race for justice in an effort that still affects them 30 years later. Ed already worked there. George figured that if someone came after Ed, trying to kill him, Ed could just dial 911. 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. I mean, it's just a really bad feeling--knowing that wherever you go people are judging you, and they don't even know you. Danny Harold Rolling pleaded guilty to their murders and three other people in Gainesville in August 1990.). He was rambling. WebEdward Humphrey 's birthday is 10/05/1971 and is 50 years old. The neighbors will shake their heads and shrug their shoulders and echo cliches like He must have snapped. Lawn placed Humphrey on probation for 14 months after his prison term with the condition that he continue psychiatric treatment. But Public Defender J.R. 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