They called Donald Henry Gaskins "Pee Wee." He was found guilty and sentenced to death. Doctors indicated the cause of death was GuillainBarr syndrome. Klenner also died in that explosion. However, the state introduced 53 witnesses who testified about her daily trips to the hospital, bearing food. She was sentenced to life in prison and is still there to this day. [9] Health issues in prison have required Moore to undergo both chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Investigators also discovered Blanche had attempted to change Moore's pension to make herself the principal beneficiary. During those years free from jail, he killed four people. His preferred method: having his victim lay down and shooting them in the back of the head. They only knew the suspect as "The Southside Strangler." It would take another remarkable case of poisoning, suffering and astonishing survival to explain Reid's mysterious demise and send a murderer to death row. He had set up a hotel, later known as the Murder Castle, specifically for this purpose. In fact, the United States has had more serial killers than any other country. the Jeffrey MacDonald case was North . She had too much to offer," Blanche's daughter, Cynthia Taylor Chatman told the Baltimore Sun in 1989. Corll was that stranger who would lure children and teenagers into his van with the false promise of candy. After Lopez's arrest in 1980, police found the graves of more than 50 of his preteen victims. 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. [5][6], On May 29, 1952, she married James Napoleon Taylor, a veteran and furniture restorer;[5] they had two children, one in 1953 and another in 1959. Instead, he was known as the I-5 killer after he murdered over 40 people along the interstate in Oregon state in the early '80s. By June 5, Reid had gotten better and Garrett told Reid, with Blanche present, that he might be able to go home within a week. Investigators said they think there could be more victims. When patients would look for him to care during their darkest times and he would respond by killing them, usually with prescription drugs. Her father died, reportedly of a heart attack, in 1966. Tommy Dean Welch had reportedly been at Algarad's home, along with Burch and others. He'd let them loose in the woods of Anchorage and then he'd hunt them down for mere pleasure. 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. Miraculously, some might say through divine intervention, the pastor survived. Dwight Moore became violently ill after eating a chicken sandwich his new wife offered him. Blanche Taylor Moore now passes the time in a cell in Raleigh. 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. She currently resides at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women as prisoner #0288088. State handwriting experts, however, said Blanche Moore wrote the letter herself. He then shot her point blank in the head and dragged her body into a wooded area. 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. when their vehicle blew up on NC 150 in Summerfield, That story became the basis of the book and TV miniseries Bitter Blood.. What his wife didn't know was that Herb also cruised gay bars at night, picking up young men. Pedro Lopez. 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. He was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes and remains in prison. 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. She wrote music in the past and spends her time writing poetry. On May 31, 2003, Rudolph was arrested by police officer J.S. They had a deal. He was known as "The Serial Stabber" because between 2009 and 2010, Elias Abuelazam stabbed 18 people in Flint, Michigan. Soon after, Reid suffered a serious setback. he killed three boys, strangling them and taking bites into each. Mitchell's body did not have elevated levels of arsenic. Before she could stand trial for her crimes, she was shot to death reportedly by a friend of one of the victims. She was known to switch from quoting Scripture to sexually explicit topics in the same breath. Copyright 2023 WTVD-TV. He was found guilty of eight charges of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. He was sentenced to death and hanged in 1932. In the reenactment segment of the last episode of Season 1 of Deadly Women, Blanche Taylor Moore was portrayed by Maja Meschitschek. Hamilton ran many tests but never saw the results of one that may have saved Reid's life - a urine sample from Reid taken between June 27-28 showed "quite elevated" levels of arsenic. Pedro Lopez is linked to more than 300 murders in his native Colombia and in Ecuador and Peru. Essentially, the issue was the racial composition of the juries. She maintains her innocence to this day. In the early '70s, Kemper started to pick up young hitchhikers who were Fresno State students. Despite hospitalization, his condition deteriorated further, threatening multiple organ failures and death. At least one-third of those murders were tribal women. The Story Of The Serial Killer Who Terrorized This North Carolina City Is Truly Frightening. The discovery of the corpses led to another newsflash: The area had a serial killer. Dubbed the "Serial Killer Clown," Gacy killed 33 boys and young men in the '70s. At one, he left a letter telling them he can't stop killing and gave himself the initials BTK. He was attending law school at the University of Utah at the time and tricked women with his clean, preppy looks. 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. By 1932, he killed and robbed five people, according to the New York Daily News. 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. They were given the name "Sex Slave Killers.". While Florida has seen the likes of Aileen Wuornos and Ted Bundy, one unknown serial killer makes this list for her brutality. more serial killers than any other country, he terrorized the Phoenix, Arizona, community in the summer of 2006, his nine death sentences were upheld in Phoenix. Remarkably, Reid again improved. The women who met with him for a date disappeared. He appealed and the South Dakota Supreme Court (pictured) heard arguments about the case. Two years later, he killed Joan Heaton and her two daughters. He is even said to have worn a mask made from the skin of one of the victims. He was executed in 1985. Gaskins claimed he killed 200 hitchhikers. "I mean that's just my opinion, but I think she did it.". What made him particularly noteworthy is the cat and mouse game he played with authorities. They planned to marry, but Blanche was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987. He called his truck the toy box, so he took on the name "The Toy Box Killer.". ", When Reid's body was exhumed from Pine Hill Cemetery in Burlington, an autopsy performed in Chapel Hill revealed "clearly recognizable" Mees lines across the fingernails of both hands, and the toxicology report showed arsenic in Reid's liver "30 times higher than one might see in an average individual.". On April 19, 1989, the couple were married and honeymooned over a long weekend in New Jersey. [6], The trial opened in Winston-Salem on October 21, 1990. Harvey Glenn McLeod, on May 29, 1972, in Raleigh killed four women and injured seven before committing suicide. 48 murders but was able to avoid the death sentence with a plea bargain. After Taylor's death on October 2, 1973, Moore and Reid began dating publicly. Gacy would sexually assault the boys, strangle them with rope, and then bury their bodies under his house. Between May of 1992 and March of 1994, Henry Louis Wallace would take the lives of at least 10 innocent women. Holmes was sentenced to death for the murder of his accomplice Benjamin Pitezel but confessed to 27 murders and might have killed almost 200 people. Blanche Kiser Taylor Moore (born February 17, 1933) is an American convicted murderer and possible serial killer from Alamance County, North Carolina.Moore is awaiting execution in North Carolina for her boyfriend's 1986 arsenic poisoning. Moore was then admitted to North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. Several weeks later, he was at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. In 1974, Randall Woodfield was drafted into the NFL to play for the Green Bay Packers. I'm not supposed to be in jail at all,'" one of her defense attorneys proclaimed. An article in The Boston Globe said it best: "He stabbed four of his neighbors to death in their own homes before he was old enough to drive.". Eventually, they moved in together. In each case, defendant had motive (financial), opportunity (close relationship), and means (knowledge of and access to Anti-Ant). 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. 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. Court documents indicate that text messages between Murphy and Richardson connected them in the homicide. Olson scored 38/40 on the Psychopathy Checklist. He also had a history of psychological problems. They nicknamed him "The Green River Killer.". The American "Jack the Ripper" later became known simply as the Atlanta Ripper. Known as . [5] Hutton was forced to resign, and Kroger settled the case out of court two years later for $275,000. In the same article, her other daughter, Vanessa Woods, said Reid "was a very good man. I dont see myself as a serial killer, but people do. Lyda Southard makes the list because she's often credited with being Idaho's (and sometimes the country's) first woman serial killer. "Bottom line was, Donald Harvey liked to kill," William Whalen, Harvey's former attorney, wrote in a book. [4], In 1986, Reid developed what was initially diagnosed as a case of shingles. Rogers is currently on death row. 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. Closer to home, an unimaginable murder trial was the talk of North Carolina. Moore had a particularly robust constitution and survived. In the '92 book, he wrote, "The bothersomeness was getting worse. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. Before his execution, he even penned an autobiography called "Final Truth: The Autobiography of a Serial Killer." Five other relatives, including his mother, were convicted of murder. Each state has a connection to an infamous serial killer. By clicking Sign up, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider The letters stand for "bind, torture, kill" and that is exactly what he did. Moore adamantly denied ever giving Reid any food. Lavinia Fisher. Let it come. Bodies of her alleged victims were exhumed in Alamance County. 1998 - 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. | All Rights Reserved. In October 1976, Thomas Warren Whisenhant abducted Cheryl Lynn Payton from the convenience store where she worked. Blanche Moore took the stand in her defense and denied ever feeding Reid in the ICU at the hospital. 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.". That confession letter is one of the many bizarre facets of this grim saga. Kroger made Reid move around quite a bit, transferring him several times in 1979 and 1980 until he became a store manager at a Winston-Salem location. Moore testified that he bought the Anti-Ant at Byrd's and gave the bottle to Blanche. 0:00. Quincy Jovan Allen (born November 7, 1979) [1] is an American serial killer who killed four people between July and August in a crime spree in 2002. He was sentenced to 15 years in Utah State Prison but was extradited to Colorado. She flatly denied slipping arsenic to either of her husbands or Reid. The story of Clementine Barnabet is that of voodoo and the occult. Police believed the murders were the act of a serial killer, but could never find the culprit. Since then, he raped and killed at least seven other women during his time in Kansas City, Missouri, the Daily Mail reports. She's maintained her innocence throughout her long incarceration, but the chilling evidence suggests otherwise. The wedding date was pushed back to November 1988,[5] but Moore developed a mysterious intestinal ailment that required two surgeries to correct. Scott Lee Kimball is an FBI informant turned serial killer. Eugene Butler was declared mentally insane in 1906 and died in an asylum a few years later. South Carolina's most prolific serial killer is from Florence County. I wont feed anyones fascination with my crimes, Alston told her. Bush condemned Iraq's takeover of Kuwait. He was hunting women like wild animals. These sisters hold the Guinness World Record for " Most Prolific Murder Partnership ," a dubious honor they earned due to their estimated 91 kills . When police arrived at the home, the place was filled with garbage to the ceiling. The body count rose across state lines, as his list of aliases grew. 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. Susie Lynchs aunt, Susie Sharp, was the first elected female chief justice of a state supreme court. Thats who I am.. The woman calling said she had been kidnapped. During his confession, he explained how he strangled each of his victims to death and disposed of their bodies in lakes or near railroad tracks, according to Charlotte Magazine. This much was for certain: He killed two sex workers between 2001 and 2005, according to WCVB. 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. Historical records do not agree with all of the legend, but Fisher was hanged for her crimes in the end. 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. "But yet it all seems to point that way. ", NC mom finally gets refund from Southwest Airlines holiday meltdown, Tom Sizemore dead at 61 after suffering brain aneurysm, Car crash survivor delivers emotional performance on 'Idol'. After pushing her car off the road, he grabbed her and pulled her into a ditch. 1932, he killed and robbed five people, according to the New York Daily News, 22 bodies of men who the innkeeper had allegedly killed, 6 of the most notorious serial killers who were never caught, The most infamous crime committed in every state, FBI data reveals some of the most violent cities in nearly every state, An expert reveals the 12 key traits common in serial killers, and some of them might surprise you. Barnabet killed entire families as they slept in what became known as the "Voodoo Murders" in the 1910s. When interviewed by police from his hospital bed, he mentioned that a former boyfriend of Blanche's died from GuillainBarr syndrome, which presents similar symptoms to arsenic poisoning. Although this killer was never identified and spanned two states, The Phantom Killer earns his spot on the list for the terror he caused in 1946. On July 18, 1989, authorities arrested Blanche Moore and charged her with first-degree murder in the deaths of Taylor and Reid and assault with a deadly weapon in the poisoning of Dwight Moore. remains unknown, even after killing 32 elderly women between 2011 and 2012. Just as fast as the killings started, they suddenly stopped. All 34 onboard died. They were all found in pools of blood with their pants pulled halfway down. Moore was convicted on November 14, 1990. If you mix it together no one can tell the difference," he told The Sun in 2015. "I came to feel that if the state could prove she actually wrote the chilling details in that letter, she had signed her own death warrant," Rabil wrote. He was sentenced to 224 years in prison, but he died in prison of a heart attack in 2002. He'd pick them up in his electrician van. Although he killed women all over the country, Bundy made his way to Utah in 1974. Active: 1969-1975. Gerald was found and was sentenced to death in both California and Nevada, but died of cancer before he was executed. 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. Two years after his death, a small town in North Dakota learned Butler may have been a serial killer. In 1994, Amy Anderson was the only woman to escape the clutches of Robert Leroy Anderson. Rank the Most Wicked 19th Century American Criminals. [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. According to several witnesses, Blanche told doctors in the moments after Reid's death that "We cannot have an autopsy. 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. 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. Ed Kemper is a particularly brutal serial killer who killed 10 young people, earning him the title "The Co-ed Killer." Reid, not known as someone who got sick much, missed more than four weeks of work during the next few months. Ted Bundy is perhaps one of the most recognizable serial killers on this list. He is on death row in Florida. Thirteen women were killed in their own homes. Julian Andrew Frank in 1960 is charged with blowing up a National Airlines flight from New York to Miami. In the late '70s, Joubert made his fantasies a reality when he killed three boys, strangling them and taking bites into each. The mere sight of a woman enraged these feelings made them pulsate and grate in the pit of my stomach.". According to court records, Blanche sought and got permission from Dr. Hamilton to bring Reid food from home. An Alford plea means that Williams admits that prosecutors have enough evidence to obtain a conviction, were the case to go to trial. [10] Because of the automatic appeals in progress, Moore has been able to avoid execution for over 31 years. The shocking discovery led to an investigation. It makes sense because "Psycho's" Norman Bates and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" were based on this killer. Each of the women was friends with Wallace's girlfriend or worked with him, and each had his name in their phone books. Once there, he would strangle them to death. 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. Postell while rummaging through a trash bin behind a rural . 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. 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. When Joubert was caught, he said was happy because he knew he would kill again, according to the New York Daily News. When he was caught, he told the police everything about Payton's murder and even confessed to other murders: the deaths of Venora Hyatt and Patricia Hitt. First, he would abduct them and then he would torture them. Scott Wilson Williams, who was charged in 2006 with the murders of three women in North and South Carolina entered an Alford plea, and received a sentence of life without the possibility of parole. By 1973, Corll had killed 28 boys in Texas just outside of Houston. He was found guilty on all 33 counts of murder and was put to death in 1994. He recounted how he helped prove the confession letter was a forgery in a piece he wrote for Greensboro.com in December 2015. The story of Polly Bartlett dates all the way back to 1868 and is surrounded by local lore. Imprisoned at. 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. Shawn Grate was taken out of the home in handcuffs and later confessed to killing five women. He died Feb. 1, and the investigation was upgraded to homicide. He was bloated and his "eyeballs were even starting to swell and his skin was splitting.". That story became the basis of the book and TV miniseries Bitter Blood.. The smell of decay was overwhelming. Wallace even attended some of their funerals. That murderer turned out to be David Meirhofer, who confessed to four other murders during a four-hour interrogation. In 1995, Glen Rogers met Linda Price at the Mississippi State Fair and they shared a drink. [5] Within days of their return, Moore became severely ill and collapsed after eating a fast-food chicken sandwich that Blanche had given him. When you think of Hawaii, you think of sunny beaches and peaceful islands. They called him the "Chameleon" because he went by so many names and aliases. She left Kroger on Oct. 17, 1985. Robert Sylvester Alston, who turns 53 in two weeks, is serving four life sentences at the Columbus Correctional Institution in Whiteville on four counts of second-degree murder and kidnapping and rape in the second degree. "She said to me, the end has to come. Eventually, an undercover cop was picked up by Pennell and she noticed his van was covered in blue carpet. We just - we cannot have one. Corll almost got away with the murders of almost 30 young boys because no one suspected him; he was a straight-laced man who worked at his mother's candy factory. He was sentenced to death. [5] The Kroger lawsuit was settled one year later. The FBI placed Rudolph on the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on May 5, 1998. In the '90s, Metheny would lure sex workers to his trailer to stab and strangle them. On March 9, 2017, Amber Burch pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, armed robbery, and accessory after the fact to murder. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. In fact, Gaskins claimed he killed 200 hitchhikers. On trial, Howell said he could not explain his motive behind the killings, referencing a "monster" inside him. 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. . But as the guilty plea was read and jurors filed past, she wept. Donald Harvey is better known as "The Angel of Death" after he confessed to 57 murders. If true, Williams could be guilty of killing close to 30 people. However, it wasn't until he went on a 10-week bender in 1987 that he was finally caught and convicted. ", 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 would often lure them to him by faking an injury. He also recruited two teenage boys as accomplices to help him. He eventually remarried and moved to Virginia. He was eventually murdered in prison. "I know everyone wants to know why I committed these crimes. There was no sign of forced entry, so police believe each victim let their murderer in voluntarily. Puzzled physicians initially attributed his Oct. 7, 1986, death to Guillain-Barr syndrome. He is currently serving his 10 life sentences in prison. In 2016, police received a 911 call just outside of Columbus, Ohio. That's how he earned his name "The Cannibal." Civil law also allows much more latitude for searches and subpoenas.[6]. This makes the Blair family one of the most murderous families in Missouri. Dennis Lynn Rader is better known by his other name: the "BTK Killer." Former Forsyth County prosecutor Vince Rabil, along with Branch, was one of two attorneys tasked in 1990 with convicting Blanche Taylor Moore. Reid's son Steven Reid testified that he visited his father on Oct. 4 and found him eating breakfast prepared by Blanche.

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