He's jaded, you know.". "All I want to know [is] what was she thinking. Suddenly, Humphreys tabby snuck out the door. Authorities subsequently cleared Humphrey of any involvement in the murders. 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 WebEdward Lewis Humphrey is a resident of Palm Bay. Well, they're influenced so much by what they watch and they think, 'Oh, yeah, I saw where they got the suspect.' He knew what was happening. He stabbed a young man 30 times and cut another woman's torso from her pelvis to her chest. Dobbin told her that Rolling had told him he had a problem, Juracich said. She said she thought of Rolling, who, just a few months after the murders in their community, said something deeply disturbing to her then-husband, Steven Dobbin. 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. The roommates and University of Florida students, were found dead Aug. 28, 1990, in their Gainesville, Fla. apartment. Rolling pleaded guilty to the serial killings of five young people at the University of Florida in Gainesville.). "Here was a kid who was held up as a ass murderer," Mackenzie says. It worked, but it also made him dull, sluggish, overweight. Instead, he got 62 hours of community service at the local Humane Society--which liked him so much it hired him afterward. He was supposed to take lithium to temper his radical mood swings. But Friday, a grand jury declared there was no probable cause to charge the 20-year-old former University of Florida freshman. "I wanted to represent [Tracy]," said Lahey, Paules' sister. In Shreveport, Maines found that Julie Grissom's body had been posed in a similar position to some of the women killed in Gainesville. Edward has no feeling of elation. "Get his good side," offers Marti Mackenzie, the publicist. THERE IS A FORTRESS of friends surrounding Ed Humphrey now. As they investigated the case, police grew convinced that Ed Humphrey might be their most likely suspect. "We had no way of reaching her," Ada Larson said. "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. Always," recalls Scott Bedesem, a friend since junior high school. One said it was a "violent" environment. "I'd come in and there would be books open and calculators out.". In plaid shorts, Humphrey hunched down to make sure he could catch the cat before it ran out onto the street. "He just stole that and used that [as] part of his story," Smith said. Following the sentencing, Manny Taboada's brother, Mario Taboada, stood up and shouted, "You're going down in five. Danny Harold Rolling pleaded guilty to their murders and three other people in Gainesville in August 1990.). Danny Rolling was put to death by lethal injection on Oct. 25, 2006. Humphrey was arrested just days after the murders and held in jail on a $1 million bond. Russo expressed concern that Humphrey would be placed in the general prison population before the end of his sentence. Humphrey was chased and fell as he fled. Ed Humphrey and his 79-year-old grandmother had been fighting again. You're a killer, a drifter, gone insane.". He had a violent history, an unstable personality. "VVhen he was not taking his lithium, he was a clearly diagnosed manic-depressive," Marti Mackenzie says. On bad days, witnesses claim, he would act out his military fantasies on the Indialantic boardwalk. At this moment he would be home in Indialantic studying for a science test--and hoping, unrealistically, that people would just forget Ed Humphrey. He was convicted of armed robbery in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi for several grocery store robberies, and spent most of the 1980s in prison. "I'm like, 'Yeah, right,"' Ed says. Ed's dad, family friends told investigators, had a ferocious temper. On Aug. 30, the day after the last of the bodies was found, Edward Humphrey--then 19, deeply troubled and wild-looking--was arrested and jailed for assaulting his 79 The killer mutilated the breasts of two of the young women. And the day after Ed was arrested, an investigator interviewed Sydney McGrath, a college student who had long conversations with Ed about dissecting corpses. Over the course of three days, police in Gainesville discovered the bodies of five college students, a man and four women. Lawton Chiles in 1994 that helped restore Humphreys civil rights. Her body had also been arranged in a posed position, sitting with her feet on the floor and her torso slumped forward, Donnelly said. I can't get past that.". 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. As concerns of a killer on the loose mounted, police were inundated with calls from concerned parents. Ed, following his attorney's advice, won't talk about it--or anything else he may have said to police at the time. He said a lot of grandiose things (that) caused him to be a suspect. I really don't like reporters. "It's hard for me to picture him doing anything discreetly.". When the discussion turned to a human anatomy class that McGrath was taking, McGrath said, Ed asked her what it was like to cut up bodies and if she ever took skin or body parts home to "mess around with it.". During that stretch when Ed couldn't get work, Kennedy sent him $1,000. He wore a blue Gator pullover and a voluptuous yawn. They had softened with time, but they told his story. He may have more plastic surgery. Chubby but cunning and fast, the cat ran from behind one bush to another. He went from a motivated, friendly student into a deep depression.". "[Investigators] were 100% sure he was the one that did it," Scott Grissom said. Now the scars on his face are softer, his smile boyish, a little shy--not at all the sinister young man he might have seemed when one corner of his lip curled upward. (Edward Lewis Humphrey was an early suspect in the case of five grisly murders of college students in Gainesville, Fla. Daniel Rolling was eventually convicted of the killings, but Humphrey was never officially cleared by the police. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey (age 51) is listed at 1294 Port Malabar Blvd Ne Palm Bay, Fl 32905 and is affiliated with the Republican Party. 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's a place for all of us families to go and see their children's names still living there," Dianna Hoyt said. The world is destroying us," said George Humphrey in a statement issued after the death. "It's hard to say what was inside my head. I want to get married some day and have kids. This is the first extensive interview Ed Humphrey has ever granted. "This death is devastating to us as a family. He caught a glimpse of a tall young man climbing the stairs. I walked to my car, trying not to look back, trying not to think about those scars Id seen on his face. He reportedly threatened several people there with a large knife and once warned a security guard: "God told me to kill you. On Aug. 30, 1990, four days after the first victim was found, Humphrey was arrested after a fight with his grandmother and charged with battery. They will not speak to reporters without Ed's approval. Sonja Larson and Powell's families became unable to reach them just days after they moved in. And she nagged at Ed constantly. I was not there for surf or sun, but in search of a man who had eluded journalists for nearly three decades. You know, it affects my self-esteem. It was obvious that he had just woken up. "He was just the wrong boy at the wrong place at the wrong time--with the wrong malady.". Family trouble, mental problems and sheer coincidence seem to be the main factors that put Ed Humphrey into legal limbo. Humphrey was asked to leave the premises by Officer Smith, and he complied, but not before threatening Officer Smith that he (Humphrey) was going to cut his eyes out and send him to hell. "I had to know what Sonja went through. And I said, 'Holy sh--.' "Knowing what happened, I can't erase that out of my mind, and nobody should have to go through that," said Scott Grissom. His parents split up when Ed was about 11, but they didn't divorce for several years. Then 28, he received a bachelors degree in business administration with a 3.76 grade-point average, graduating magna cum laude. He was rambling. ", He refused to carry the phone, but then he rarely left the house without George. It was upon revisiting the scene that he decided to decapitate her. One day in April 1988--after Ed had dropped out of school for a while and gone to live with his brother, George, in Gainesville--the two were taking a drive to the beach to talk about Ed moving home. And it got worse as more people came forward. Ed answered immediately, and the two have been exchanging letters at least once a month ever since. ", He pauses. Rolling's defense presented mitigating factors for why he might have committed the murders, including his troubled history with his father. For months Edward Lewis Humphrey was the key suspect in the horrific slayings of five Gainesville students. No indictment was issued against Edward Lewis Humphrey, a former University of Florida freshman who was considered a secondary suspect. And nothing the driver does makes a bit of difference. 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. "That was exciting," Hewitt said. August 5, 1990, 0128 hours: Elna Hlavaty, Humphrey's grandmother, phones deputies to report that her grandson is "high" on drugs. All of them had been stabbed to death and some were left in sexually provocative positions. I had to know it. "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. It was repeated so authoritatively and so often that the term began to lose its inherent uncertainty. She was found raped, stabbed to death, mutilated and beheaded. Crime lab experts had damning evidence that semen found at the murder scene came from Rolling. Without a response, they asked a maintenance worker at the apartment complex for help. "My mouth dropped open when he told me," she says. You know I'll never, ever get over it completely. Sgt. "Whatever happened to change Ed Humphrey can be found back in October of his junior year," says John Stanford, his Spanish teacher at Melbourne High School. His bail, originally set at $10,250, spiked to $1 million. "I did not want to see that young lady that meant so much to me. He apologized, cried and told his pursuers: "Please don't hurt me.". Hewitt said the man also talked to his family, about life and how he felt he went down the "wrong road." He is questioned and officers search his car, finding two knives under the seat. 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. On Aug. 26, 1990, Emery said Powell's parents arrived at the apartment and banged on the door. It happens too often, though less so now than when he first got out of prison. Christopher Slobogin, a professor at the University of Florida Law School, said suspicions about Mr. Humphrey's possible connection with the Gainesville murders increased the likelihood that he would be prosecuted on assault charges that otherwise would probably have been dropped. Good Student and Boy Scout "Don't take a picture of me with the knife," he says. The perils of his loose lips kept him in custody. "It showed a picture of him, and he seemed trustworthy but kind of crestfallen. He demanded officials exonerate his brother. "My husband would just sit and say 'Just tell me she died right away. Ed didnt do it, said George, then a 22-year-old law student, told WUFT in a 1991. The spokesman, Will Irby, thinks it over, consults his boss and tries again. SOMETIMES WHEN YOU LOSE your emotional grip on life--when all the joy seeps out of living and every face becomes an enemy's- it happens so slowly you hardly notice. There is muffled conversation by a table of three-piece suits, who glance over suspiciously at Ed. And now, he doesn't volunteer his history unless people bring it up. Ultimately, the jury recommended five death sentences for Rolling and the judge agreed, sentencing him to execution. That's what did it.". "I didn't buy it," said forensic psychologist Harry Krop. He takes a slug of coffee and fidgets with an unlit cigarette. But months passed and Humphrey was never charged with the crimes, the Alachua County grand jury deciding that there was no case against him. "He has been persecuted. "Sometimes he would put him up against the wall the marks of his fingers would be there and he shook him a lot of and sort of scared me," Claudia Rolling said. In late August of 1990, five Gainesville college students were murdered and their bodies sexually assaulted. Her funeral is today. You could see [she was] in a bad position, and I just turned around and walked out," Curnutt said. And rarely does anyone say anything to his face, except to tell him they're on his side. Kelly McClory, 24, had joined the kennel staff last October. 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.. He hates dredging this up. As for his own behavior, Ed says: "I can't help it if my body (needs) lithium. At the time, Humphrey was manic-depressive who was off his medication. He picked up smoking in prison. They wish it known that the Ed they know is a kind and decent young man. His grandmother, now passed away, forgave him. Like the previous murders, Paules, who'd been raped, was found posed and she had soap on her lower body as well as tape residue on her wrists and mouth. For several years, the whole family lived with Ed's maternal grandparents. He had dreams of being an architect, his brother, Mario Taboada, said. "My husband didn't know what was happening. "Your honor, I've been running from first one thing and then another all my life," Rolling said. He knew the southwest neighborhoods where the killings took place. He landed on a grassy shoulder and wasn't hurt badly, but he spent the next three months in a psychiatric ward. Ten years ago, 18-year-old Ed Humphrey seemed to be Florida's Public Enemy No. "The first night I was in there, no one told me anything," he says. It was going 60 mph at the time. Circuit Judge Theron Yawn said last week he was inclined to order a mental commitment rather than prison for Humphrey. "And I remember Grandma yelled when she hit her head, and Mom called the police immediately without knowing what was going on. Major Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), a veteran of the Italian campaign in World War II, arrives at Hotel Largo in Key Largo, Florida in the Florida Keys after the war to visit the family of his friend George Temple (who died in the campaign). Mrs. Hlavaty died about 56 hours before the grand jury decided her grandson Ed should not be charged in the Gainesville murders. When she saw Rolling, she ran back to her bedroom, where she tried to lock her door. They think, 'Well, there's a good chance he did it because he's on TV.' Both parents drank too much. "The grand jury said it's not true that he probably did it, but he's still left in limbo," said Pat Doherty, a prominent Pinellas County defense lawyer. "I don't want people to read about me. 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. He surfed, played soccer and football, and joined the Boy Scout troop that his father founded, eventually becoming an Eagle Scout. 1870. 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. 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? He has lost 50 pounds and had plastic surgery since being a central figure on the evening news. "It seemed like when I lost my cool, he would keep his. He no longer saw any point in getting up in the morning. It has been the biggest manhunt in Florida history. Especially around his mouth, she says, the skin is much smoother and more elastic and natural-looking. That man, Danny Rolling, had told her that one day he was going to leave Shreveport, where they lived. On the 10th anniversary of the murders, Humphrey walked across the stage of UCF arena as a college graduate. The media jumped on Humphrey as a prime suspect. Most of my friends got 1200 or something. Her daughter overheard her, and the argument ensued. They also learned that as Rolling fought with Manny Taboada, Tracy Paules heard the commotion and came into Toboada's room. "He was always very grateful and surprised and pleased," Kennedy says. Then, at one point, the man on the tape says his name: Danny Harold Rolling. Then, Rolling came back with his own gun and shot his father in the face, state attorney Smith said. His mother was well-intentioned and caring, but nervous. 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. There were mood swings, sudden belligerence and two auto crashes that friends thought were suicide attempts. Along with the similarities in which the victims were killed, there were other patterns investigators noted. Who is Ed Humphrey? Marker Address Rent ? View their profile including current address, phone number 321-259-XXXX, background check reports, and property record on These days Ed Humphrey lives at home with his mom in Indialantic. He has been hounded by the press. Before moving to Edward's current city of Palm Bay, FL, Edward lived in Melbourne FL and Indialantic FL. "I hit her and I'm sorry." He was known to carry knives, had been off his medication for a mental health disorder and had visible scars on his face from a car accident. Ed Humphrey, on that August morning, had not been taking his medication for some time. 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. But just as the fall semester was beginning, five students were killed in macabre fashion. "It didn't matter what the lyrics were or what he was saying at that point. 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. Wayland Clifton, the former chief of police of the Gainesville Police Department, who also visited the crime scene, said his greatest concern while driving home that night was that the suspect would commit more murders. It is his 21st birthday, and he is spending it having lunch with a publicist--hired by his attorney--a reporter and a photographer. "Should I smile? And I hated looking in the mirror every time, seeing scars on my face. Humphrey also faces an assault charge in Gainesville and a 1988 attempted rape and burglary case in Indian River County. He glances again at the photographer. I just looked at God, and I said, 'God, why? "It was a small-caliber gun, and the father survives it, but not without permanent damage," Smith said. 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, 1. 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. Includes Address (11) Phone (6) Email (5) See Results. And so Grandma was bleeding and everything, and I got, like, a cloth and stuff and tried to help her out. But just all of a sudden I got a real bad depression, a real deep depression. He was on heavy medication. But Humphrey was left torn and tarnished. After his arrest, Humphrey lived in a 10-foot-by-10-foot concrete cell at the Brevard County Jail. The task force investigating the killings put Humphrey under surveillance, and when a police spokesman described him as "an extremely valuable suspect," the media zeroed in on him. said Laurie Lahey, Paules' older sister. (Manuel Taboada, left, and Tracy Paules, right, are seen in undated photos. He told me he had done interviews on this topic, and most of his experiences had not been pleasant. JULY 14,1990,1609 HOURS: INDIALANtic police receive a reported trespass at the Crawford Surf Shop, on AlA and 5th Street. They say Humphrey made a "sawing motion" across his throat with the knife and threatened to get a gun and shoot them. I wanted to know whether he still carried the weight of what he had endured almost three decades earlier. To do so, he claims, would jeopardize the prosecution. Anyone else--they would have dropped the charges or maybe given him one year's probation. In custody, he was questioned about the killings. It was a tidy facade, but if you peeked around the corner, things turned messy. "And I was glad to do it.". It worked--but it also made him dull, sluggish, overweight. I had learned he had married and had a daughter. The killer always managed to avoid being spottedby potential witnesses. Related To Sarah Humphrey, Gail Humphrey, Erin Humphrey, Bud Humphrey, B Humphrey. After five students were found brutally slain, a shocked and terrified community demanded quick police action, and the media descended on Gainesville to monitor investigators' every move. "But there are some things that you just can't run from and this being one of those.". WHEN THE PATROL CAR PULLED up that day, Elna Hlavaty was waiting in fear on the columned front porch of her home. Leave him there.'". "My brother is in jail now because of the image Gainesville gave him, not because of anything he did.". It was kind of funny really that it hadn't clicked before. "I kept saying to myself, it's the last thing I can do for her. A task force of police agencies in Gainesville, searching for the killer who had State Attorney Rod Smith said that before the court could proceed with the case, Rolling and his defense lawyer stood up. Other Meanwhile, Lykkebak hopes eventually to get Ed's record wiped clean of a felony --a move that would require a governor's pardon. I was like, God, I can't handle this.". Humphrey has said he plans to have plastic surgery to remove facial scars from an automobile accident. It made his mouth dry. Related To Gabrielle Humphrey, Graciela Humphrey, George Humphrey, Elna Humphrey. He talks about politics (he's a Perot man) and his reawakening social life (he just had his first date in two years). I mean, why don't the girls tell me that? They don't go out and commit crimes like this.". But most of Humphreys descriptions of the student mutilations were not accurate. Rolling's trial for the five student murders began on Feb. 15, 1994, nearly four years after he killed the five students. And the sad, sad part about it is that we had the parents behind us on the stairs.". ET on ABC. I thought they'd already filled her in on who I was and it just kind of slipped. She was quite shocked.". ), "We had a lot of physical evidence that, according to our technology at the time, placed Ed at some of the scenes," Maines said. 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. The families whose loved ones were murdered in Gainesville say they are grateful for the simple memorial that remains today. "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. I told him: 'Your real friends will stand by you."'. "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. Other times it appears to happen in an instant. There was a large window from the ceiling to about waist high, so they could see his every move. WebEdward Humphrey 's birthday is 10/05/1971 and is 50 years old. "I said, 'What kind of problem,'" Juracich said, "[and Steven said], 'He likes to stick knives into people.'". "I feel really bad about this," she confided, "but they knew who you were, and when you left they were all laughing and saying, 'Man, we're not going to give that guy a job."'. So I got in my car and drove to Palm Bay to meet Ed Humphrey in person. Also known as Edward Humphery, Earl Edward Humphrey, Edward Humprey, Tara Edwards, E Edward. "No offense." But he has not been charged in those cases. He described Ynnad as a bad person, but not evil. Would you like to meet him?". ", Dianna Hoyt said they held hands as Rolling was brought into the court. A jury found him guilty of one count of battery upon a person over the age of 65, a third-degree felony, and he was sentenced to 22 months in prison, plus probation. 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, "The main thing is, I'm just like anybody else," he says. 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. What fear did she have going through her mind?" You're better off without it. 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