His arsenic levels were 60 times higher than normal. But he was fired one night in 1994, apparently setting him down a murderous path. Puzzled physicians initially attributed his Oct. 7, 1986, death to Guillain-Barr syndrome. He was found guilty on eight counts of first-degree murder. Getty Each state has a connection to an infamous serial killer. [5] Subsequent autopsies showed elevated levels of arsenic in all three bodies. No one knew for years who killed four women in Southern Virginia. Mark Goudeau became known as the "Baseline Killer" when he terrorized the Phoenix, Arizona, community in the summer of 2006. Despite the damning and disturbing evidence, the defense seemed optimistic. "She's guilty I think, you know, I think she did it," one man said during the hoopla surrounding the trial 29 years ago. Postell while rummaging through a trash bin behind a rural . Although he only killed two women, authorities call him a serial killer that would have killed again if he had not been stopped. Former Forsyth County prosecutor Vince Rabil, along with Branch, was one of two attorneys tasked in 1990 with convicting Blanche Taylor Moore. He had set up a hotel, later known as the Murder Castle, specifically for this purpose. In the book, he calls his need to kill his "bothersomeness." American serial killer H.H. Former "Bewitched" star Elizabeth Montgomery played Moore in "Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story.". 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 . Like his more famous namesake, this ripper . She has been at the N.C. Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh since Nov. 16, 1990. 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.". Lavinia Fisher. when their vehicle blew up on NC 150 in Summerfield, That story became the basis of the book and TV miniseries Bitter Blood.. Scott Lee Kimball is an FBI informant turned serial killer. Hes not the first one police have encountered in Greensboro. After California,Texas, with 893, Florida, 845, Illinois, 629, and New York, 628, sit atop that list. Since then, he raped and killed at least seven other women during his time in Kansas City, Missouri, the Daily Mail reports. 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. On trial, Howell said he could not explain his motive behind the killings, referencing a "monster" inside him. The shocking discovery led to an investigation. 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 also recruited two teenage boys as accomplices to help him. It became known as the Atlanta Child Murders. Thirteen women were killed in their own homes. 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. They ended the lives of the five young women within the span of about six months. Charles Edmund Cullen was the "Angel of Death" killer, and he killed upwards of 40 people over his 16-year career as a nurse in New Jersey. Her body was completely hairless, a side effect of exposure to arsenic. Prosecutors said Burch shot him twice in the head with a .22-caliber rifle as he sat on the couch. The women who met with him for a date disappeared. 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. That story became the basis of the book and TV miniseries Bitter Blood.. ", 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.". She'll likely die from cancer (which she's fought in the past) or natural causes rather than for her crimes. When patients would look for him to care during their darkest times and he would respond by killing them, usually with prescription drugs. 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. Pee Wee Gaskins was put to death September 6, 1991. Every three weeks to the day this murderer would shoot a couple to death in their car. 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. Olson scored 38/40 on the Psychopathy Checklist. Virginia had 238 deaths and a 2.76 ratio. Stephani admitted to beating and stabbing three women between the years 1980 and 1982. You'd pay an annual fee and receive a list of eligible lovers in your area. It is a fate she didn't leave to her suspected string of victims. The state had an easier time making such a complex case because Reid's ex-wife and sons sued Baptist Hospital for malpractice. He is still living out his life sentence. Since then, the country has become captivated with true crime, particularly serial killers. Those results had shown an extremely high level of arsenic in Reid's system. It also emerged that doctors at Baptist Hospital, where Reid was admitted in 1986, had ordered a toxicology screen for him. Police believed the murders were the act of a serial killer, but could never find the culprit. He died in prison in 2014 at 75. If you want to look closer to home, South Carolina has had 162 victims and 3.03 per 100,000. 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. He dismembered their bodies and disposed of the pieces all over New York. There are hundreds of them, categorized by those named killers think Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy and those whose identities have not been discovered, such as the Boston Strangler and the Zodiac Killer. He appealed and the South Dakota Supreme Court (pictured) heard arguments about the case. First, he would abduct them and then he would torture them. Moore testified that he bought the Anti-Ant at Byrd's and gave the bottle to Blanche. Woodfield didn't become well known as a football player. The story of Clementine Barnabet is that of voodoo and the occult. This much was for certain: He killed two sex workers between 2001 and 2005, according to WCVB. Some serial killers are known for killing children, like David Meirhofer in Montana. [12] Dwight Moore told Winston-Salem station WXII-TV that he has no objections to his ex-wife seeking to have her death sentence overturned. Pedro Lopez. 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.". In 1958, for two short months, Starkweather shocked the nation with his crimes. Blanche also had Moore's hair cut to prevent hair samples from being obtained by the SBI. "The human body taste was very similar to pork. "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. Eventually, an undercover cop was picked up by Pennell and she noticed his van was covered in blue carpet. 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. He would rob, rape, and kill his victims. He died later that day, and court records allege that Richardson had taken Gilberts car, phone and wallet. In total, Goudeau was found guilty of killing nine people, most of them women. South Carolina's most prolific serial killer is from Florence County. 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. Ted Bundy is perhaps one of the most recognizable serial killers on this list. The Green River in Washington state became notorious because of the number of bodies that were found there in the '90s. In the mid-'80s the tropical utopia was gripped with fear when five bodies were found near water. Cullen only confessed to the 40 murders, but investigators and experts believe his body count might reach the hundreds. 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.". "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. The Oscars will air on ABC and can be streamed on ABC.com and the ABC app as well as Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV, AT&T TV or FuboTV. 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. He died in prison. ", 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'. In 1982, Minnesota police received several phone calls from a man who was crying. They had a deal. Blanche Taylor Moore now passes the time in a cell in Raleigh. Soon, the nation would see her in another light - as the "Black Widow," a diminutive figure with a dark side -- suspected of methodically poisoning at least four other people close to her, going back as far as 1966. He was executed in 1959. 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. Moore adamantly denied ever giving Reid any food. Soon after, Reid suffered a serious setback. In each of the murders, he broke into their homes, raped and sodomized them, and then strangled them with a belt or rope. "Black Widow's" ex-husband reacts to death row challenge, Last edited on 24 February 2023, at 12:28, North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story, List of death row inmates in the United States, List of women on death row in the United States, "Blanche Taylor Moore remains on death row after 25 years", "Oxygen spotlights unassuming, Southern female killers, and Blanche Taylor Moore is one of them", "My First Supervisor Was a Serial Killer", "Deadly Dose Of Arsenic: Trial To Start In N.c. Blanche Moore, 57, Is Accused Of Killing Her Boyfriend. 1998 - 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. | All Rights Reserved. On March 9, 2017, Amber Burch pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, armed robbery, and accessory after the fact to murder. But one of his accomplices, Wayne Henley, turned on Corll and shot him to death. The arsenic in Reid's brain tissue was approximately 67 times higher than normal. When you think of Hawaii, you think of sunny beaches and peaceful islands. Holes, in his book, Unmasked: My Life Solving Americas Cold Cases, writes that he has seen statistics suggesting there are some two thousand serial killers prowling the United States today, operating in a way that allows them to stay hidden, as DeAngelo had. We'll take a look at the crimes of: Donald Gaskins Lee Roy Martin Todd Kohlhepp Patrick Tracy Burris Susan Smith ( Source) Donald Gaskins Donald Gaskins was born in 1933 in Southern Florence County, South Carolina. Henley confessed and told the police about his work with Croll. After Lopez's arrest in 1980, police found the graves of more than 50 of his preteen victims. I dont see myself as a serial killer, but people do. 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. It was discovered that over four years, the Long Islander killed 17 women most of them sex workers. Her husband, the Rev. This makes the Blair family one of the most murderous families in Missouri. A second victim was decomposing in the basement. Rogers is currently on death row. "Well, she hasn't made a lot of comment about it, but in her chance to reflect on that, and see how she's going to take that, she's not going to take that. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Blanche Taylor Moore's current prison mugshot. But as the guilty plea was read and jurors filed past, she wept. The smell of decay was overwhelming. And a meteorite exploded above the Pacific Ocean. In fact, he was called "The Candy Man." Jeffrey Dahmer Between 1988-91, Jeffrey Dahmer killed 17 men in Milwaukee, WI before the escape of his would-be 18th victim led to his capture. Those victims include his cousin/girlfriend Susie Newsom Lynch of Rockingham County and her two children, who died when their vehicle blew up on NC 150 in Summerfield in 1985 while the police pursued them. Reid's son Steven Reid testified that he visited his father on Oct. 4 and found him eating breakfast prepared by Blanche. Glen Rogers. I don't have an answer. In fact, some of the furnishings were made of body parts. Later, Rogers would be connected to two other murders of women with red hair and found slain in their bathtubs. He was hospitalized in April of that year and died on October 7, 1986. They were all found in pools of blood with their pants pulled halfway down. When 10 women were murdered in the mid-'90s in Charlotte, North Carolina, they all had one thing in common: They all knew Henry Louis Wallace. Kimball was the last to see all of them alive. Todd Kohlhepp, convicted of killing seven people, is considered one of the South's most notorious serial killers. The myths behind how some of history's most notorious serial killers are profiled in the media are to be uncovered at an event right here in Manchester.. 1 is Henry Louis Wallace, who was charged with strangling 10 women in Charlotte in the mid-1990s. [5] Hutton was forced to resign, and Kroger settled the case out of court two years later for $275,000. In 1973, a 7-year-old girl in Michigan was abducted and strangled to death. The FBI placed Rudolph on the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on May 5, 1998. The wedding date was pushed back to November 1988,[5] but Moore developed a mysterious intestinal ailment that required two surgeries to correct. Reid continued to get weaker and despite valiant efforts to save him, was pronounced dead Oct. 7 by Dr. Kyle Jackson, who blamed the death on complications from Guillain-Barre syndrome. After a notorious escape from prison, she later died from a heart attack. In 1962, she began an affair with Raymond Reid, the store manager. He buried the bodies in his "garden" behind a strip mall as a memorial. On her behalf, church followers killed upwards of 40 people. All they had for clues were blue carpet fibers on the bodies, WHYY reports. According to court records, Blanche sought and got permission from Dr. Hamilton to bring Reid food from home. The serial killer committed the crimes between May 1992 and March 1994. . During his "60 Minutes" interview, he apologized for his crimes but said, "I don't know if I would have stopped.". They called him a "mindless monster," according to the Argus-Press. 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. Once caught, Charlene turned on Gerald in return for a shorter sentence. These sisters hold the Guinness World Record for " Most Prolific Murder Partnership ," a dubious honor they earned due to their estimated 91 kills . So who is North Carolina's most notorious serial killer? Thirteen women were killed in their own homes. Dwight Moore was the divorced pastor of what was then Carolina United Church of Christ in Alamance County. Dennis Lynn Rader is better known by his other name: the "BTK Killer." This is a list of notable female murderers who committed their murders in North Carolina, USA. Here's a list of men, women, and, yes, even families who were serial killers in every state across the United States. Ed Kemper is a particularly brutal serial killer who killed 10 young people, earning him the title "The Co-ed Killer." In 1999, the Discovery Channel's The New Detectives series, Season 4, Episode 6, "Women Who Kill", featured Blanche Taylor Moore's crimes. Bush condemned Iraq's takeover of Kuwait. Donald Henry " Pee Wee " Gaskins Jr. (born Donald Henry Parrott Jr.; March 13, 1933 - September 6, 1991) was an American serial killer and rapist from South Carolina who stabbed, shot, drowned, and poisoned more than a dozen people. That trigger, that one thing that pushed me over the edge, Ill die with that. One of the world's most prolific serial killers might still be out there. The Greensboro News & Record described the ordeal in a 2015 retrospective on the case: He was near death at a Chapel Hill hospital, hooked to a ventilator, his liver, kidneys and heart failing. He would call after every time he killed a person, confessing to murder. 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 . He is on death row in Florida. Another former co-worker, Leonard Wolfe, who owned Ken's Quickie Mart in Burlington, testified that Blanche Moore came into his store in early April 1989 and asking if he "had any Anti-Ant in stock.". His victims were from 14 states, ranging from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., and from Lake Erie to Miami. Eventually, the two began meeting for meals. However, they never got a chance to arrest and charge him for his crimes. APRIL 14: The Henry County Sheriffs Office in Virginia notifies detectives that Goolsbys remains had been dropped into the Mayo River from a bridge on George Taylor Road in Spencer, Virginia. 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. [10] Because of the automatic appeals in progress, Moore has been able to avoid execution for over 31 years. Grate was found guilty and was sentenced to death in 2018. In 1974, Randall Woodfield was drafted into the NFL to play for the Green Bay Packers. There, he grew to hate his mother and women as a whole. Five other relatives, including his mother, were convicted of murder. In 2017, he was beaten to death in prison. According to several witnesses, Blanche told doctors in the moments after Reid's death that "We cannot have an autopsy. "I know everyone wants to know why I committed these crimes. Three different men either married to or intimately involved with (Blanche Taylor Moore) died, or barely escaped death, from arsenic poisoning, an unusual cause of death. Paul Bernardo Paul Bernardo operated primarily out of east Toronto city of Scarborough with his wife, Karla Homolka. With some poison, she killed every family member that she disagreed with. "Babysitter from Hell" when she choked and killed five children in the early '80s, including an 8-month-old baby. Bodies of her alleged victims were exhumed in Alamance County. Between 1962 and 1964, Boston was plagued with a serial killer. They said in February and March he killed three people. APRIL 8: Jonathan Murphy, 38, of Greensboro, was arrested and chargedwith first-degree murder in the death of Hemphill, as well as possession of a firearm by a felon. operating in a way that allows them to stay hidden, as DeAngelo had. In October 1976, Thomas Warren Whisenhant abducted Cheryl Lynn Payton from the convenience store where she worked. 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. In the cases of Reid and Taylor, defendant was already seeing her next victim at the time of the arsenic assaults.". A fellow Kroger employee, Gloria Head, recalled visiting Reid in the hospital and seeing a container of red Jell-O in Blanche's purse. As the cops circled in on him, he panicked and died by suicide without ever facing trial. Alaska has had only 51 victims but has the highest ratio, at 7.08 victims per 100,000 residents. Can you imagine anything more pitiful in this whole world? In the early '70s, Kemper started to pick up young hitchhikers who were Fresno State students. The first sign of trouble happened right after they returned from their honeymoon. Rank the Most Wicked 19th Century American Criminals. Dahmer is perhaps best known for dismembering and consuming parts of his victims, many of which were found in his apartment at the time of his arrest. Instead, Reid became deathly ill and was transferred to North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem on June 13. Society is so quick to put monikers on people, name tags. He was known as "The Serial Stabber" because between 2009 and 2010, Elias Abuelazam stabbed 18 people in Flint, Michigan. The most notorious mass killer though is an oddity. 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. In each case, defendant had motive (financial), opportunity (close relationship), and means (knowledge of and access to Anti-Ant). 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. . He called his truck the toy box, so he took on the name "The Toy Box Killer.". He broke their bones, bit them, and sometimes acted on his cannibalistic instincts. [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. Blanche Moore's family was also devastated. On Easter Sunday, she met Rev. 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. Bartlett is described as Wyoming's first and worst serial killer. Moore was 57 when she was sentenced, and at 89 she isthe oldest person on North Carolinas death row. The mere sight of a woman enraged these feelings made them pulsate and grate in the pit of my stomach.". Later, Anderson would be charged with two murders: Larisa Dumansky in 1994 and Piper Streyle in 1996. Court documents indicate that text messages between Murphy and Richardson connected them in the homicide. Less than five months later, Reid died at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. In an interview with the Daily News in 2010, Rifkin said, "I was surprised I didn't get caught sooner.". The 20-month old toddler was the son of famous transatlantic aviator, Charles Lindbergh and his wife.