"My husband didn't know what was happening. 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. Four Days, Five Murders Episode 5 The Ones Who Caught Him. Chubby but cunning and fast, the cat ran from behind one bush to another. As the questioning went on, Rolling began to say he'd "dealt with different personalities all my life." The two talked in June at the Krispy Kreme doughnut store where McGrath worked. He's jaded, you know.". The way I- see it, he got the shaft when they sentenced him. ", Mackenzie, looking pained, interrupts: "But that was before the plastic surgery. Smith said Rolling also talked about the best way to kill a deer. Mrs. Hlavaty died about 56 hours before the grand jury decided her grandson Ed should not be charged in the Gainesville murders. So investigators sat with Lewis and Rolling and had Lewis answer questions for Rolling. John Donvan, a former reporter for ABC News who covered the Gainesville cases, said Lewis claimed Rolling told him many of the details of the murders and that Rolling wanted to confess. Humphrey was chased and fell as he fled. No indictment was issued against Edward Lewis Humphrey, a former University of Florida freshman who was considered a secondary suspect. After Lewis told the investigators what Rolling had told him, investigators would then ask Rolling if what Lewis said was correct. ", Marti Mackenzie nods. Our children's names will be remembered over him.". 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. One said it was a "violent" environment. But more investigative files are expected to be released later this month--evidence that may seem incriminating to Ed. 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 "It was important because he was participating in the confession," Hewitt said. "Should I smile? A judge ordered him removed from the court. He had dreams of being an architect, his brother, Mario Taboada, said. He had a promising future ahead of him. Three of the women had been raped and one had been decapitated. He looks around nervously. Rolling pleaded guilty to all counts but, because he was facing the death penalty, a jury was still required to hear the evidence and make a recommendation on punishment to the judge: life in prison or death. They've never even talked to you. He knew the southwest neighborhoods where the killings took place. Then he banged his head on the window so hard the deputy worried he would break the glass. 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. "Get his good side," offers Marti Mackenzie, the publicist. "I wanted to represent [Tracy]," said Lahey, Paules' sister. His grandmother would later try to drop the charges, insisting Ed never hit her, that she accidentally fell into the fireplace. Russo expressed concern that Humphrey would be placed in the general prison population before the end of his sentence. "And he said, 'Yeah, I'm the one.'". Sentencing was set His DNA didnt match the semen found at the murder scene. "I did not want to see that young lady that meant so much to me. ", He refused to carry the phone, but then he rarely left the house without George. ", A police officer told state investigators that 10 days before the killings Ed claimed he was going to Gainesville to "cut up some women.". They had been responsible for maligning his name, reshaping his life. He was at the wrong place at the wrong time, said Spencer Mann, the spokesman for the Alachua County Sheriffs Department at the time. The world was watching to see how and when they would catch the killer. These days Ed Humphrey lives at home with his mom in Indialantic. He may have more plastic surgery. He'll never change his name, but some day, he says, when he's done with school, he might move somewhere far away. "The main thing is, I'm just like anybody else," he says. Would he answer? Maines said they found out that the suspect had broken in by wedging a screwdriver into the door jamb. We just got in the car and headed for Gainesville. He remembers arriving home after midnight and awakening his grandmother. The panel's action doesn't take Humphrey out of jeopardy, though. And an odd thing happened: Agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement showed up and began questioning him about the murders. I had to know it. "I've never been told nothing in reality, I've never read nothing in a Stephen King novel that comes close to what the reality is of what this man did," Lewis said. Yet, it would later prove crucial to finding out who the Gainesville murderer was. 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. They wound up having a few drinks and getting in trouble with a security guard at a hotel bar. He described Ynnad as a bad person, but not evil. Edward Lewis Humphrey, 19, was found guilty Wednesday of battery on a person over 65. The killer used a "razor sharp" instrument.) Genetic tests conducted on pubic hairs were similar to Ed's - and about 8,000 other people in Alachua County. The task force searched his Indialantic home and Gainesville apartment. Danny Rolling is talking about the murders now. "He just stole that and used that [as] part of his story," Smith said. He was rambling. "I'd have taken a room full of him," says Bill Thomas, Ed's teacher in eighth grade. 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. It happens too often, though less so now than when he first got out of prison. "It's hard for me to picture him doing anything discreetly.". 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. 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 Gainesville during the last week in August. "Don't take a picture of me with the knife," he says. Ed, following his attorney's advice, won't talk about it--or anything else he may have said to police at the time. Ed's bail, originally set at $10,250 was increased to $1 million - 100 to 200 times the scheduled rate for aggravated assault. And now, he doesn't volunteer his history unless people bring it up. "In a way, talking about [Manny], as I do sometimes with those who knew him they're kind of alive for that moment, and so, it's comforting. Others could not sleep. He is released to the custody of his mother. On Aug. 30, Humphrey returned to his Indialantic home from Gainesville, where he had enrolled as a freshman at the University of Florida. He has been hounded by the press. The nude artwork embarrasses him. All of them had been stabbed to death and some were left in sexually provocative positions. He was in a wheelchair for weeks. "The difference was like night and day. "The main thing is, I'm just like anybody else," he says. And it goes to this officer that's in-the control booth and I'm like 'Yeah, how much longer do I have to sit in this cell, man? I understand why it went in the direction it did, didnt agree with it.. Meanwhile, Lykkebak hopes eventually to get Ed's record wiped clean of a felony --a move that would require a governor's pardon. The first was named Ynnad -- "Danny" spelled backward. Edward Lewis Humphrey was an early suspect in the case of five grisly murders of college students in Gainesville, Florida; one Daniel Rolling was eventually Humphrey shunned the media, and remained quiet through the years. And they don't even know what the terminology is. ", "It was like, here's a reason he killed the person you loved," she said. "All I want to know [is] what was she thinking. On Wednesday, his grandmother, Elna Hlavaty, died at age 80 after suffering a heart attack in Indialantic. GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Cindy Juracich was on a trip through the Florida Panhandle in August 1990 when she heard a news report about a grisly string of murders. Ed remembers their reaction: "Oh, it's a celebrity.". (This is the day after the first murders are believed to have taken place, but before the victims, are discovered. "Here was a kid who was held up as a ass murderer," Mackenzie says. "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.'". A. Your story has never been told.. "He was very good with kids," says Farley. This is the first extensive interview Ed Humphrey has ever granted. The investigation has cost more than $5 million, taken over 130,000 man-hours, amassed 1,500 pieces of evidence and involved more than 6,600 investigative leads. I fell asleep there.". And residents there had seen the scar-faced youth wandering around at odd times carrying long knives. But when you get up to that other accident, I can guarantee you 100 percent that I was not trying to commit suicide. Includes Address (11) Phone (6) Email (5) See Results. 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. "I had to know what Sonja went through. He apologized, cried and told his pursuers: "Please don't hurt me.". The second, more sinister personality, was named "Gemini" and Rolling blamed him for his deadliest acts. And I'll never be able to forget it. As concerns of a killer on the loose mounted, police were inundated with calls from concerned parents. 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. THERE IS A FORTRESS of friends surrounding Ed Humphrey now. I can't handle this.' Her funeral is today. The publicity about the Gainesville slayings made it impossible to find a private psychiatric facility to take Humphrey, and he was sentenced to the Corrections Mental Institution in Chattahoochee, where he landed among the most violent and deranged criminals in the state. Sgt. He may have more plastic surgery. It worked, but it also made him dull, sluggish, overweight. Hoyt's stepmother, Dianna Hoyt, said she and her husband, Gary Hoyt, had a "very hard time" processing what happened to their daughter. He surfed, played soccer and football, and joined the Boy Scout troop that his father founded, eventually becoming an Eagle Scout. After a bank robbery, police found the tape along with stolen money, a gun and a screwdriver. In Shreveport, Maines found that Julie Grissom's body had been posed in a similar position to some of the women killed in Gainesville. Although police had collected the evidence, at the time, they did not connect the bank robbery to the student murders because a gun was found at the campsite and the murders didn't involve a gun. 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. He told me he had done interviews on this topic, and most of his experiences had not been pleasant. His friends didn't understand: You really don't need that stuff they'd say. Then, Rolling came back with his own gun and shot his father in the face, state attorney Smith said. In police audio recordings, he could be heard asking police to accompany him at the request of his manager. No way. That was the start of it all. Brevard sheriffs officials also released reports showing the agency responded to at least 14 emergency calls of Humphrey allegedly attacking his grandmother or mother. 1870. "I kept saying to myself, it's the last thing I can do for her. "The first night I was in there, no one told me anything," he says. We will prevail. "Danny committed these crimes for one reason only -- he loved it.". This time, deputies couldn't just tell Ed to cool off, then file the fight away on an incident report. "Your honor, I've been running from first one thing and then another all my life," Rolling said. In late August of 1990, five Gainesville college students were murdered and their bodies sexually assaulted. And it just dropped me into a depression. They had softened with time, but they told his story. A task force of police agencies in Gainesville, searching for the killer who had TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) _ Gainesville murder suspect Edward Lewis Humphrey was sentenced today to the maximum 22 months for beating his grandmother after his ", George Humphrey says "John" was a reference to John the Apostle. Unit Name Humphrey Lewis' Company (Madison County, Fla.) Unit Leader Lewis, Humphrey Unit Location Madison County Unit Subjects Florida. Authorities subsequently cleared Humphrey of any involvement in the murders. On a breezy spring morning, I traveled from my home in Gainesville to coastal Palm Bay, tucked just under Melbourne on Floridas Atlantic coast. He had used the word happy three times. On bad days, witnesses claim, he would act out his military fantasies on the Indialantic boardwalk. Over the course of three days, police in Gainesville discovered the bodies of five college students, a man and four women. The killer always managed to avoid being spottedby potential witnesses. This little fracas could have sent him back to prison. It was a tidy facade, but if you peeked around the corner, things turned messy. According to another newspaper report, Humphrey's statements to police may be challenged because prosecutors stretched the law to keep defense attorneys away from him after he was arrested Aug. 30 in an attack on And she's like, 'Oh, well, it says that you have 22 months left.' The image of him from law enforcement and the news media is that "he's a creature, he's a monster," George Humphrey said. 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. Earlier that summer, investigators learned, Ed had been kicked out of the Gatorwood apartment complex where two of the victims were killed. And law enforcement officials felt intense pressure to bring in a suspect. All her clothes had been taken off, he said, and "she was lying back on the bed with her feet on the floor and her hair fanned out. As Ed talks about it now, his voice is small and his eyes diverted. Don Lykkebak, Ed's attorney, says, "He was a medical patient at the time who was not being treated. 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. Current Address: YVXK San Paulo Cir, Melbourne, Witnesses testified to the abuse they'd seen. She hadn't called us and, finally, the Powells, who lived closer, went over there.". Hewitt said they learned that Rolling had returned to the crime scene after killing Christa Hoyt because he thought he might've left his wallet there. Claudia Rolling, Danny Rolling's mother, also testified. 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. 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