And rarely does anyone say anything to his face, except to tell him they're on his side. And he reportedly has been whispering details of the killings to a fellow inmate, who has been telling investigators. "I wanted to be there in the front row if I could. 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. "I can't blame them for making Ed a suspect, but I can blame them for sticking with it. Finally, they listened to the tape. When I got a job, .when I got good grades in school, they weren't calling me. "VVhen he was not taking his lithium, he was a clearly diagnosed manic-depressive," Marti Mackenzie says. To Christina Powell's friend, Alison Emery, said the defense's strategy was a "slap in the face. He said a lot of grandiose things (that) caused him to be a suspect. Do you understand that? Especially around his mouth, she says, the skin is much smoother and more elastic and natural-looking. And nothing the driver does makes a bit of difference. The next day Humphrey is reported to be running in circles and talking to himself on Patrick Air Force Base. The Gainesville Sun broke the story of a knife hidden in a milk carton during a search of Humphreys home on Sept. 6. "He has been persecuted. 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.". They returned to the evidence locker, where the gun, screwdriver, bag of money and cassette player had been stored. As the questioning went on, Rolling began to say he'd "dealt with different personalities all my life." Genetic tests conducted on pubic hairs were similar to Ed's - and about 8,000 other people in Alachua County. "So I pressed this button to find out what was going on. Chubby but cunning and fast, the cat ran from behind one bush to another. 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. Andy Pauwels, 52, a retired military intelligence officer, has been a probation officer now for five years, during which time he's supervised several hundred ex-convicts. Don Lykkebak, Ed's attorney, says, "He was a medical patient at the time who was not being treated. But just as the fall semester was beginning, five students were killed in macabre fashion. Lahey said seeing this man "who destroyed my life" made her feel "frozen to the chair.". Late last summer, an 18-year-old mental patient named Edward Lewis Humphrey became a suspect in the stabbing deaths of five students at the University of Florida, a grisly series of 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. "I didn't think I would ever be able to walk again. ), "When he went in, I followed him in the apartment and I saw the young lady on the bed. In Shreveport, Maines found that Julie Grissom's body had been posed in a similar position to some of the women killed in Gainesville. Over the course of three days, police in Gainesville discovered the bodies of five college students, a man and four women. But it didn't change the way I felt about him. When the police arrested Ed, they put him in a solitary cell in the infirmary for 76 days. "Recon lock and load!" Law enforcement officials, as well as the prosecutors office, regretted the way Humphrey had been treated. The officer, now-retired Det. Would you like to meet him?". He glances again at the photographer. I got it done . "I don't know," he says. You're a killer, a drifter, gone insane.". Humphrey has said he plans to have plastic surgery to remove facial scars from an automobile accident. "Here was a kid who was held up as a ass murderer," Mackenzie says. Mrs. Hlavaty died about 56 hours before the grand jury decided her grandson Ed should not be charged in the Gainesville murders. They wound up having a few drinks and getting in trouble with a security guard at a hotel bar. He wears a blue-green polo shirt and tan trousers and expensive sunglasses. His premonition came true the next day. The murders were eerily similar to three others that had occurred in Shreveport in November 1989. I wanted to know whether he still carried the weight of what he had endured almost three decades earlier. 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.. Ed said. The deputy put Humphrey in the back of his patrol car. Russo expressed concern that Humphrey would be placed in the general prison population before the end of his sentence. ED HUMPHREY HAS NO REASON to trust a photographer or a reporter - or the criminal justice system or, especially, the people who recognize him on the street and point and whisper. It was going 60 mph at the time. "Oh, that's Ed," the kennel workers will say. Karl Kennedy, a soft-spoken 70-year-old retired real-estate agent in California, was one of several hundred people who wrote Ed in jail, certain that he was a victim of injustice. 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. He was, by all accounts, a troubled young man with a wild streak. They had been responsible for maligning his name, reshaping his life. Watch the full story on "20/20," streaming now on Hulu. Rolling's trial for the five student murders began on Feb. 15, 1994, nearly four years after he killed the five students. Neither will police talk. Once Florida investigators realized that Rolling had multiple convictions for armed robbery, they realized he could have also been responsible for the bank robbery that occurred on the day that Christa Hoyt's body was found. Investigators wanted to confirm the details of Rolling's confession, so they arranged a meeting, but Rolling insisted that Lewis be present as well to act as his mouthpiece. Yet, it would later prove crucial to finding out who the Gainesville murderer was. She knew hmm only as Ed--a nice guy, hard worker, easy to get along with. The world is destroying us," said George Humphrey in a statement issued after the death. But months passed and Humphrey was never charged with the crimes, the Alachua County grand jury deciding that there was no case against him. Edward Lewis Humphrey, a former honors student and an Eagle Scout from Brevard County, began classes at the University of Florida in the summer of 1990. It happens too often, though less so now than when he first got out of prison. His grandmother would later try to drop the charges, insisting Ed never hit her, that she accidentally fell into the fireplace. ", Mackenzie answers quietly. "It's just a negative," he says. Ed Humphrey had been arrested and charged with assaulting his grandmother, but investigators were taking a hard look at him for the student murders as well. "If any evidence comes out later, he can still be indicted. His grandmother, Elna Hlavaty, told a deputy that night that her grandson had beaten and choked her in the familys home in Indialantic. "I can only afford to fill the tank halfway," he says, settling into a window seat at an upscale downtown restaurant. They think, 'Well, there's a good chance he did it because he's on TV.' I'm not able to make. He was, at one time, considered the prime suspect. He is questioned and officers search his car, finding two knives under the seat. 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, This is the first extensive interview Ed Humphrey has ever granted. "My mouth dropped open when he told me," she says. ", A police officer told state investigators that 10 days before the killings Ed claimed he was going to Gainesville to "cut up some women.". Scott Grissom, the son of William Grissom, brother of Julie Grissom and father to Sean, said they were killed just a week after his wedding, on his first day back at work from his honeymoon. 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. 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 His friends didn't understand: You really don't need that stuff they'd say. I really don't like reporters. (Danny Harold Rolling appears at his trial in Tampa, Fla., Feb. 13, 1994. He had a violent history, an unstable personality. So I got in my car and drove to Palm Bay to meet Ed Humphrey in person. ", "It was like, here's a reason he killed the person you loved," she said. And she's like, 'Oh, well, it says that you have 22 months left.' "The first night I was in there, no one told me anything," he says. She hadn't called us and, finally, the Powells, who lived closer, went over there.". They will not speak to reporters without Ed's approval. I'm standing by the door and I'm pressing the button, and the guards come up and they slam the door open." It lets him have his old smile back. I am still his friend, and I think what happened to him is wrong. Journalist John Donnelly, who covered the story for the Miami Herald, said the officers noticed the unusual way in which Sonja Larson's body was posed. Their leads took them to Humphreys doorstep. 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In police audio recordings, he could be heard asking police to accompany him at the request of his manager. At this moment he would be home in Indialantic studying for a science test--and hoping, unrealistically, that people would just forget Ed Humphrey. "So I wanted to have the last word.". On the 10th anniversary of the murders, Humphrey walked across the stage of UCF arena as a college graduate. But Public Defender J.R. Russo said today that some hospitals rejected Humphrey outright and the only ones that would admit him would charge $600 to $1,000 a day, more than the family could afford. I told him: 'Your real friends will stand by you."'. One piece of this wall has remained unchanged for more than 30 years: The section where the names of all five victims are painted in remembrance: Sonja Larson, Christina Powell, Christa Hoyt, Manuel Taboada, Tracy Paules. "And, like, they point in my face telling me, 'Don't do that again, man. in 11th grade, and I got an 850 on that, which is, like, really low. And then he disappeared from public view. I felt bad for him. "We think that was in an effort to keep investigators from discovering DNA, blood types, fingerprints," Maines said. Mostly he made threats, but he also would gear up in combat fatigues, strap a knife to his leg and tell people he'd fought in Vietnam--though, of course, he was only 4 when the war ended. This little fracas could have sent him back to prison. "That's all I need.". "No offense." "We treat our animals in our society better than Ed Humphrey has been treated," Russo said as he tried unsuccessfully to persuade a judge to free his client. On Nov. 10, 1989, driving alone on South Patrick Drive in Brevard County, Ed's car ran off the road and struck a concrete pole. And lately, it turned out, he'd been totally out of control-threatening people, talking about Satan, carrying knives and wearing camouflage. I just couldn't even sleep. "I should have just stayed in jail. The fraternity brothers do not report the incident until Sept. 4, after publicity that Humphrey is a suspect. 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. And the day after Ed was arrested, an investigator interviewed Sydney McGrath, a college student who had long conversations with Ed about dissecting corpses. He caught a glimpse of a tall young man climbing the stairs. 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. "I don't want to be on TV," he says. 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. He was the one to call investigators. At the time, Humphrey was manic-depressive who was off his medication. "Ed--everywhere he went he caused a scene," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. We will prevail. His face smashed into the windshield, leaving deep wounds, and he broke his leg so badly doctors had to implant a steel rod running from his hip to his knee. Watch "20/20" FRIDAYS at 9 p.m. He knew what was happening. A. His eyes appeared glazed and barely open, his hair unkempt. Sgt. I was not there for surf or sun, but in search of a man who had eluded journalists for nearly three decades. 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. She briefs him before interviews; she and his attorney decide which questions he'll answer. To do so, he claims, would jeopardize the prosecution. "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. Humphrey stood 6 feet tall and weighed about 200 pounds. But after the death of his grandfather and his parents' bitter divorce, Humphrey's personality began to disintegrate while he was a senior at Melbourne High School. "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. I want to get married some day and have kids. He has lost 50 pounds and had plastic surgery since being a central figure on the evening news. He didn't want to go to school because he didn't want to see anybody. The killer would enter the homes through the back doors, and each home was near a wooded area, which "allowed the killer to operate, to get in without being noticed," Donnelly said. Maines said Rolling fled the home after police issued a warrant for his arrest. "We had no way of reaching her," Ada Larson said. So investigators sat with Lewis and Rolling and had Lewis answer questions for Rolling. He had The transcript of that interview has never been made public. "And honestly, they advised that he'd die much faster in Florida, and I said, 'Well, leave him there. "The difference was like night and day. Im happy I always have the support of family and friends, and Im happy with my family now.. "But, for some reason, somehow, that tape escaped us, and I'll freely admit it.". And before I knew it, I went upstairs and I told Mom, 'Mom, I probably won't see you for a long time,' because I could see what was happening.". He is a white, non hispanic male registered to He said nothing more. When she saw Rolling, she ran back to her bedroom, where she tried to lock her door. "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. They were sexually assaulted and some were mutilated. "It was like, Oh, wow. The investigators didn't have to search far for Rolling; he had already been detained 40 miles south of Gainesville, in Marion County Jail, where he was being held for another robbery he'd committed at a supermarket 10 days after Paules' and Manny Taboada's bodies were found. 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. His court appearances were riveting. It is like a car engine launching, willy-nilly, into a 180-mph frenzy, careening wildly through narrow streets and looping turns--then just as unexpectedly sputtering to a stall. In custody, he was questioned about the killings. Ray Barber, called for backup and with more investigators on the scene, they found Powell dead on the first floor of the apartment. (Nineteen-year-old Christa Hoyt was among the victims of the so-called Gainesville Ripper, Danny Rolling, in Gainesville, Florida in 1990. "It's hard for me to picture him doing anything discreetly.". . ", Dianna Hoyt said they held hands as Rolling was brought into the court. Humphrey, a sometime University of Florida student with a history of mental problems, has been labeled a suspect in the slayings of five students near the campus in His grandmother, now passed away, forgave him. She saw what happened to him once, and she will not risk letting it happen again. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey, age 50s, lives in Palm Bay, FL. Without warning, Ed jumped out of the car. "Should I smile? His family took him to a private psychiatric hospital in Palm Bay, where he was admitted, locked up, medicated and ultimately diagnosed. The second, more sinister personality, was named "Gemini" and Rolling blamed him for his deadliest acts. And, then, as far as newspapers go, half the things that lthey) deal with are just negative things about people. "I'd have taken a room full of him," says Bill Thomas, Ed's teacher in eighth grade. WHEN THE PATROL CAR PULLED up that day, Elna Hlavaty was waiting in fear on the columned front porch of her home. Humphrey was arrested just days after the murders and held in jail on a $1 million bond. Related To Gabrielle Humphrey, Graciela Humphrey, George Humphrey, Elna Humphrey. (A high school portrait shows Christina Powell, who, along with roommate Sonja Larson were the first victims of the serial killer at the University of Florida campus. 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. She disagrees. August 5, 1990, 0128 hours: Elna Hlavaty, Humphrey's grandmother, phones deputies to report that her grandson is "high" on drugs. Would he answer? I understand why it went in the direction it did, didnt agree with it.. That Saturday, later in the afternoon as Humphrey had requested, I rang his doorbell for the second time. The way I- see it, he got the shaft when they sentenced him. "One day, I picked up the phone, I called Crime Stoppers, and I said, 'I think there's one guy y'all need to investigate -- Danny Rolling.'". John Donvan, a He landed on a grassy shoulder and wasn't hurt badly, but he spent the next three months in a psychiatric ward. Investigators had found bloodstained gloves at his home. After Lewis told the investigators what Rolling had told him, investigators would then ask Rolling if what Lewis said was correct. Ed ends up on the floor. On a breezy spring morning, I traveled from my home in Gainesville to coastal Palm Bay, tucked just under Melbourne on Floridas Atlantic coast. "It's a place for all of us families to go and see their children's names still living there," Dianna Hoyt said. 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. Claudia Rolling, Danny Rolling's mother, also testified. ", He pauses. I thought, 'Here's a guy who's sort of down and I think I'll cheer him up.". Then 28, he received a bachelors degree in business administration with a 3.76 grade-point average, graduating magna cum laude. "It's hard to say what was inside my head. Earlier that summer, investigators learned, Ed had been kicked out of the Gatorwood apartment complex where two of the victims were killed. Ed Humphrey and his 79-year-old grandmother had been fighting again. Also known as Lewis E Danny Rolling was put to death by lethal injection on Oct. 25, 2006. Her right eye was swollen shut. "Your honor, I've been running from first one thing and then another all my life," Rolling said. The time frame is precise in his mind. For months Edward Lewis Humphrey was the key suspect in the horrific slayings of five Gainesville students. And so Grandma was bleeding and everything, and I got, like, a cloth and stuff and tried to help her out. Lewis wrote a five-page letter outlining the details, many of which Hewitt said "only the killer knew.". He also said he hopes to resume his studies _ but not at the University of Florida. A once-peaceful university town panicked. However, Rolling was able to break through it. The two 23-year-olds had been close friends since high school and had just begun living together. "Grandmother is another victim of those crimes.". "I wish the waves would pick up," he says. Alison Emery, Powell's high school best friend, said she was so excited to be moving into the next phase of her life. This time, deputies couldn't just tell Ed to cool off, then file the fight away on an incident report. His parents split up when Ed was about 11, but they didn't divorce for several years. 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. Then, at one point, the man on the tape says his name: Danny Harold Rolling. He went from a motivated, friendly student into a deep depression.". The two talked in June at the Krispy Kreme doughnut store where McGrath worked. "My maintenance man, unfortunately, ran down the stairs screaming, 'Oh my God,' and came out and threw up. Following the sentencing, Manny Taboada's brother, Mario Taboada, stood up and shouted, "You're going down in five. "He just stole that and used that [as] part of his story," Smith said. He demanded officials exonerate his brother. To girls it makes a difference. The media jumped on Humphrey as a prime suspect. Humphrey, who was released from state prison in September after serving 10 months for beating his grandmother, had no comment Friday on the grand jury's action. Lawn placed Humphrey on probation for 14 months after his prison term with the condition that he continue psychiatric treatment. "I'd come in and there would be books open and calculators out.". He no longer saw any point in getting up in the morning. Her daughter overheard her, and the argument ensued. That setting seemed to fit what investigators and the media had made of Ed Humphrey, said his brother George, a 1991 University of Florida graduate who was his biggest defender. All of Gainesville shuddered. "The main thing is, I'm just like anybody else," he says. I knocked on his front door with trepidation. The neighbors will shake their heads and shrug their shoulders and echo cliches like He must have snapped. He was under surveillance for reports of odd behaviors, like wearing camouflage, and he had an obsession with knives. And an odd thing happened: Agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement showed up and began questioning him about 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. The real killer was eventually caught, confessed and was put to death. 1. 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. Maines said they tested the body fluids from the perpetrator in Shreveport and found that this person also had type B blood. It was a nasty, turbulent, protracted parting that left Ed's mother--a devout Catholic--devastated. Ed remembers their reaction: "Oh, it's a celebrity.". They wish it known that the Ed they know is a kind and decent young man. When I --what else?--oh, how about when I got off probation?". Prosecutors also attacked Rollings' claims that he had multiple personalities and that he was overtaken by his evil "Gemini" side when he murdered his victims. "I thought it was totally unfair," Ed says. He had been an exemplary student. The article also stated that Humphreys grandmother said the gloves belonged to her. "And I was glad to do it.". "I feel 100 percent that the media is the main reason our country is the way it is," Ed says afterward, disgusted. Unit Name Humphrey Lewis' Company (Madison County, Fla.) Unit Leader Lewis, Humphrey Unit Location Madison County Unit Subjects Florida. TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) _ Gainesville murder suspect Edward Lewis Humphrey was sentenced today to the maximum 22 months for beating his grandmother after his That's what did it.". It's going to be worse next time.' Humphrey reportedly had been in the surf shop "raising hell" with the female patrons, making general threats, saying they didn't know how many people he had killd, and that he would cut their hearts out. During that stretch when Ed couldn't get work, Kennedy sent him $1,000. Before he could stand trial for the murders, however, Rolling was convicted on federal bank robbery charges, Smith said. 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. It was a tidy facade, but if you peeked around the corner, things turned messy. 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. THERE IS A FORTRESS of friends surrounding Ed Humphrey now. When Ed first got out of prison, he tried living in Orlando with his older brother, George, who gave him a cellular phone to carry around as protection. State Attorney Rod Smith said that before the court could proceed with the case, Rolling and his defense lawyer stood up. Still, Rolling has pleaded innocent--and Don Lykkebak expects Ed will be a target in the trial. But I thought about the few words that Humphrey uttered in our brief conversation. He would, for many years, remain connected to the Gainesville murders, though he played no role. But at the trial, she testified she had fallen and hurt herself in the dark. 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. While the man had gotten away, the officer found a screwdriver at the campsite, along with the bag of money defaced by the dye and a cassette player with a tape inside. As Ed talks about it now, his voice is small and his eyes diverted. 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. "It showed a picture of him, and he seemed trustworthy but kind of crestfallen. They found that the suspect had type B blood, but Humphrey's blood was type A. Humphrey was still in police custody when investigators discovered a cold case in Shreveport, Louisiana, that had striking similarities to the murders in Gainesville. 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