The state had an easier time making such a complex case because Reid's ex-wife and sons sued Baptist Hospital for malpractice. Meirhofer was one of the first serial killers to be identified using FBI's newly developed profiling system that helped catch countless other serial killers. DeAngelo is charged with killing 50 women and raping 13. Virginia had 238 deaths and a 2.76 ratio. He was found guilty of raping and killing four women and was put to death in 1994. Between the years of 1992 and 1994, the City of Charlotte was home to a man who would become the city's most prolific serial killer. Date apprehended. He brought them to an abandoned house and shot Bill to death. Dennis Lynn Rader is better known by his other name: the "BTK Killer." Two years after his death, a small town in North Dakota learned Butler may have been a serial killer. Charlene would kidnap the girls and lure them in with the false promise of safety. In fact, Gaskins claimed he killed 200 hitchhikers. GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) The family of one of John Richardsons victims says he is a serial killer. DNA testing confirmed years later that Timothy Wilson Spencer was "The Southside Strangler." He was hunting women like wild animals. Bartlett is described as Wyoming's first and worst serial killer. Blanche Kiser Taylor Moore (born February 17, 1933) is an American convicted murderer and possible serial killer from Alamance County, North Carolina. It's believed Southard murdered her husbands for insurance purposes. Black children in the neighborhood were being targeted and murdered one-by-one, murdered her four former husbands, her brother-in-law, and ever her own daughter by poisoning. Mark Goudeau became known as the "Baseline Killer" when he terrorized the Phoenix, Arizona, community in the summer of 2006. Copyright 2023 WTVD-TV. Since he was a minor at the time, he has not been sentenced for those crimes. She maintains her innocence to this day. Between May of 1992 and March of 1994, Henry Louis Wallace would take the lives of at least 10 innocent women. Her crimes were also portrayed in the Evil Lives Here episode "The Black Widow", and the Snapped episode "Blanche Taylor Moore". He was attending law school at the University of Utah at the time and tricked women with his clean, preppy looks. North Carolina hasn't executed an inmate since Aug. 18, 2006. 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. Will Harris on Nov. 1, 1906, in Asheville killed five women and injured 12 before being killed by an angry mob. He was known as "The Serial Stabber" because between 2009 and 2010, Elias Abuelazam stabbed 18 people in Flint, Michigan. In each case, defendant had motive (financial), opportunity (close relationship), and means (knowledge of and access to Anti-Ant). He stuffed their bodies in barrels in the woods. 7-year-old girl in Michigan was abducted and strangled to death, one of the first serial killers to be identified using FBI's newly developed profiling system, the couple killed 10 teenagers in Nevada and California, New Hampshire, he was known as "Bob Evans" who killed one woman and three small children, he killed upwards of 40 people over his 16-year career as a nurse, , he cut them into pieces and threw their bodies into lakes and ravines, The police were suddenly struck by a smell escaping from the trunk of his car, they found the bodies of six boys and young men buried under the floorboards. First, he would abduct them and then he would torture them. They had a deal. He was found guilty on eight counts 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. William Devin Howell can best be described as a drifter. 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. There are indications that she began to date Robert J. Hutton, Kroger's regional manager for the Piedmont Triad area; however, that relationship ended, and she filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Hutton and Kroger in October 1985. A couple months after she quit, Blanche had Ray Reid over on New Year's Eve and served him some of her homemade potato soup. For others, he cut them into pieces and threw their bodies into lakes and ravines. ", According to court records, Dr. Guinn noted that on June 24, 1986, the arsenic in Reid's hair sample was "roughly 70 times the normal level.". He was sentenced to death but died from pneumonia in prison in 2013. Several weeks later, he was at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. In the early '70s, Kemper started to pick up young hitchhikers who were Fresno State students. But he survived her arsenic attack and testified against her. Robert Kenneth Wayne Stewart on March 29, 2009, in Carthage killed eight women and injured two and was sentenced to life in prison. "In each case medical evidence suggests that multiple doses of arsenic were administered to the victim over a long period of time, as opposed to one large fatal dose. [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. He is currently serving his 10 life sentences in prison. Some serial killers are known for killing children, like David Meirhofer in Montana. Harvey Robinson is known for being one of the youngest serial killers reported in the United States. North Carolina: Henry Louis Wallace. Alaska has had only 51 victims but has the highest ratio, at 7.08 victims per 100,000 residents. August 14, 2002. This much was for certain: He killed two sex workers between 2001 and 2005, according to WCVB. The wedding date was pushed back to November 1988,[5] but Moore developed a mysterious intestinal ailment that required two surgeries to correct. On March 9, 2017, Amber Burch pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, armed robbery, and accessory after the fact to murder. Bush condemned Iraq's takeover of Kuwait. 20 of the most infamous female killers Stephanie Ashe Dorothea Puente with attorney Kevin Clymo during her arraignment in municipal court. in February and March he killed three people. Like his more famous namesake, this ripper . As the bodies began to pile up, investigators struggled to find the culprit. In some cases, he would break into the victim's home. Lyda Southard makes the list because she's often credited with being Idaho's (and sometimes the country's) first woman serial killer. Inside the trailer, he made a personal torture chamber, fitted with sex toys, handcuffs, whips, and chains. Blanche Moore's family was also devastated. In each case defendant was frequently alone with the victim in the hospital, and medical testimony suggests that certain of defendant's visits in which she fed the victim corresponded with an onset of symptoms characteristic of arsenic poisoning. Although the courts have interpreted the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination very broadly for criminal cases, such protections usually don't apply in civil cases. But autopsies revealed a new cause of death - arsenic poisoning - for Reid, who had arsenic levels 30 times higher than normal, and James Taylor, whose 1973 death at age 45 had been attributed to a heart attack. He told authorities he started his killing spree because his parents did not approve of his girlfriend, according to Wyoming History's website. Authorities also link him to a couple's murder in Burlington, Vermont. 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. There, he grew to hate his mother and women as a whole. She pled guilty and said she killed the children she babysat for because she had to satisfy a sudden urge to choke them, according to The New York Times. On Jan. 1, 1986, he rang in the new year with severe nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Mitchell's body did not have elevated levels of arsenic. Grate was found guilty and was sentenced to death in 2018. I wont feed anyones fascination with my crimes, Alston told her. She is also suspected of the death of her father, mother-in-law, and first husband and the attempted murder of her second husband in 1989. His killing sparked a full panic in the small city. There was no sign of forced entry, so police believe each victim let their murderer in voluntarily. 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. 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 . They were between the ages of 15 and 18, a 911 call just outside of Columbus, Ohio, more of a cartoon character than a serial killer, 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, drafted into the NFL to play for the Green Bay Packers, 40 people along the interstate in Oregon state in the early '80s, he broke into a 5-year-old girl's home, raped, and strangled her, 1987, when he was just 13 years old, he stabbed Rebecca Spencer to death. "Mom never expected to spend the rest of her life by herself. Gaskins claimed he killed 200 hitchhikers. He'd pick them up in his electrician van. Ted Bundy is perhaps one of the most recognizable serial killers on this list. In 1971, he started to abduct sex workers and strippers and bring them to his remote cabin in the woods where he would torture them. The letters stand for "bind, torture, kill" and that is exactly what he did. He was good to us. Moore was charged as a serial killerbecause she is believed to have killed a series of people since 1966, including her father, a mother-in-law, a husband and almost a second husband. Her time there has been mostly uneventful, marked by two violations, one for disobeying orders on Feb. 22, 2008, and more alarmingly, for misuse of medicine in November 1996. In the '92 book, he wrote, "The bothersomeness was getting worse. Every three weeks to the day this murderer would shoot a couple to death in their car. [5] Within days of their return, Moore became severely ill and collapsed after eating a fast-food chicken sandwich that Blanche had given him. But in interviews with the Baltimore Sun for a 1989 story, other workers called her "vindictive," and "two-faced.". By 1973, Corll had killed 28 boys in Texas just outside of Houston. In 2017, he was beaten to death in prison. While on trial for his murders, he was described as "being a cold, calculating killer determined to kill as many women who worked as sex workers.". Here's what Insider had to say: All Rights Reserved. Gacy would sexually assault the boys, strangle them with rope, and then bury their bodies under his house. Authorities exhumed the bodies of Reid, Blanche's father, P.D. Alaska has more serial killings per its population size than any other state, according to HuffPost. She also was acclaimed because Bewitched star Elizabeth Montgomery portrayed her in a made-for-TV movie calledThe Black Widow Murders,which depicted how she fed her husbandarsenic-laced banana pudding. Although he killed women all over the country, Bundy made his way to Utah in 1974. 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. He was called "The Lonely Hearts Murderer.". [5] Subsequent autopsies showed elevated levels of arsenic in all three bodies. Kimball was the last to see all of them alive. Data collected by Worldpopulationreview.com confirm that the United States has had more serial killers than any other country, and the numbers of victims are in the thousands, ranging from as many as 1,628 in California to as few as seven in South Dakota. They discovered that her first husband as well as Reid had died under suspicious circumstances. The results came back on March 13, showing Moore had 20 times the lethal dose of arsenic in his system the most arsenic found in a living patient in the hospital's history. Shawn Grate was taken out of the home in handcuffs and later confessed to killing five women. He lived on a farm in Indiana with his wife of 25 years and had three children. The smell turned out to be Tiffany Bresciani decomposing body. Ray would often record the torture on video. 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. ", Amy Anderson was the only woman to escape the clutches of Robert Leroy Anderson, authorities call him a serial killer that would have killed again if he had not been stopped, Corll had killed 28 boys in Texas just outside of Houston, He and the other accomplice are now serving their life sentence in prison, sentenced to death and met the electric chair in 1989, link him to a couple's murder in Burlington, Vermont, who killed four women in Southern Virginia, found guilty of raping and killing four women. In light of these revelations, exhumations of her first husband James Taylor, her lover Raymond Reid, and her father Parker Kiser was ordered by investigators. Moore is awaiting execution in North Carolina for her boyfriend's 1986 arsenic poisoning. His preferred method: having his victim lay down and shooting them in the back of the head. 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.". Terry is not the only member of the Blair family who has a murderous past. He eventually remarried and moved to Virginia. But as the guilty plea was read and jurors filed past, she wept. When police arrived at the home, the place was filled with garbage to the ceiling. The town of Texarkana which spanned Texas and Arkansas lived in fear, as he apparently attacked eight people and killed five. During the trial, the prosecution recounted Reid's agonizing death in meticulous and horrific detail. He also had a history of psychological problems. In October 1976, Thomas Warren Whisenhant abducted Cheryl Lynn Payton from the convenience store where she worked. Hansen appeared to be the model father, husband, and business owner but he was harboring a terrible secret. Brenda Green, a Kroger co-worker, testified that she heard Blanche recommend Anti-Ant to a customer as a good ant killer. The intrigue of true crime and the psychology of serial killers is something that seems to have taken the world by storm over the past couple of years, which is probably why an upcoming talk lead by an expert in the field is already proving . Henry Louis Wallace, Harrison Graham, and Samuel Little are some of the leading on the list. ", "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.". 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. Doss was sentenced to life in prison and died in 1965. Episode 66 (Case 66: The Black Widow) of the Casefile True Crime podcast covers the case of Blanche Taylor Moore, including her crimes, the investigation of them, and her trial. By 1932, he killed and robbed five people, according to the New York Daily News. "it would be unbearable to stay" here any longer. Moore adamantly denied ever giving Reid any food. 1998 - 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. | All Rights Reserved. Blanche Taylor Moore hears the jury's verdict at her murder trial in Winston-Salem. Rogers is currently on death row. On Nov. 16, 1990, she was sentenced to death. In 1954, she began working as a cashier at Kroger. When you think of Hawaii, you think of sunny beaches and peaceful islands. [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. Fast forward to 2019, and Moore, who will turn 86 on Sunday, is the oldest person on North Carolina's death row. He was bloated and his "eyeballs were even starting to swell and his skin was splitting.". Moore was convicted on November 14, 1990. 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. Gacy killed 33 boys and young men in the '70s, They later found 11 bodies just 50 feet from his home, 1948 and 1980, Cole strangled and killed 13 women across multiple states. He died later that day, and court records allege that Richardson had taken Gilberts car, phone and wallet. "I mean that's just my opinion, but I think she did it.". Kiser Sr., her mother-in-law, Isla Taylor, her first husband, James N. Taylor, and a former co-worker, Joseph Mitchell. Two of those exhumed bodies, those of her father, who died in 1966, and mother-in-law, had high levels of arsenic, but not lethal doses, the medical examiner concluded. So who is North Carolina's most notorious serial killer? Herbert Baumeister led a double life. Four days after the photo was taken, Anderson took his life in prison. [6] Schutze found evidence that seemed to indicate that Moore set up Hutton in the sexual harassment suit, and she may have intentionally set the two fires. There was no pattern or clear idea as to who would be next. After a brutal car chase, Kimball was arrested and plead guilty to four charges of second-degree murder. He dismembered their bodies and disposed of the pieces all over New York. 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. When finally caught, Hansen confessed to murdering 17 people but was only convicted for four. The case of the Boston Strangler serial killer is still left unsolved. Lee Roy Martin (?1938 - May 31, 1972) Juan Ignacio Blanco There is not much known about Lee Roy's childhood. Turns out, Metheny also owned a food stand where he would mix the human flesh from his victims with animal meat and then sell it to his customers, according to The Sun.
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