And they don't even know what the terminology is. Danny Rolling is talking about the murders now. He enrolled at University of Central Florida in 1995, taking classes around part-time jobs ranging from cleaning dog kennels and swimming pools to assembling tanning beds and working in factories, according to the Orlando Sentinel. They were sexually assaulted and some were mutilated. "The main thing is, I'm just like anybody else," he says. 1. But Humphrey had not. "We think that was in an effort to keep investigators from discovering DNA, blood types, fingerprints," Maines said. And law enforcement officials felt intense pressure to bring in a suspect. Humphrey shunned the media, and remained quiet through the years. I had deliberately chosen 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning so that the chances of him being home would be greater. But, his life was forever tainted. But that's pretty much how I feel.". When does Ed stop being a suspect?". I had practiced so many times what I would say in this moment. "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. It lets him have his old smile back. Maines said they tested the body fluids from the perpetrator in Shreveport and found that this person also had type B blood. Do you understand that? He's had a tough row to hoe.". 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. He caught a glimpse of a tall young man climbing the stairs. I wanted to know whether he still carried the weight of what he had endured almost three decades earlier. Witnesses testified to the abuse they'd seen. HE STROLLS INTO YAB YUM, A downtown coffee house, for a cup of hazelnut regular, the flavor of the day, and a book of matches. But just as the fall semester was beginning, five students were killed in macabre fashion. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey is a resident of Palm Bay. And legal experts say that even if Humphrey is innocent, he'll carry the stigma of the killings with him the rest of his days. Now, sitting on the beach, a breeze mussing his blond hair, having just let Eric borrow his surfboard, Ed says Eric was just trying to grab the spotlight, to make himself look good. He finally moved back to Indialantic with his mother, where things went smoothly until March 1992, when he and some buddies went on a spring break camping trip to Key West. "Before that, I was doing awesome. One day after the last of the five bodies were discovered in Gainesville, police arrested Humphrey not for the murders but for assaulting his 79-year-old grandmother in Indialantic. In the aftermath of the murders, investigators discovered some highly unusual details at the scene. It might take years of interior erosion before the outside ever begins to crumble. "Knowing what happened, I can't erase that out of my mind, and nobody should have to go through that," said Scott Grissom. "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. He wears a blue-green polo shirt and tan trousers and expensive sunglasses. It was a tidy facade, but if you peeked around the corner, things turned messy. "It was a small-caliber gun, and the father survives it, but not without permanent damage," Smith said. But Friday, a grand jury declared there was no probable cause to charge the 20-year-old former University of Florida freshman. His mug shot fueled growing public speculation and drew hordes of reporters from around the country. View their profile including current address, phone number 321-259-XXXX, background check reports, and property record on And I'll never be able to forget it. They say Humphrey made a "sawing motion" across his throat with the knife and threatened to get a gun and shoot them. When I got a job, .when I got good grades in school, they weren't calling me. However, Rolling was able to break through it. he would yell. The hot air folded in waves over the highway. 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. She briefs him before interviews; she and his attorney decide which questions he'll answer. WebLived In Palm Bay FL, Indialantic FL, Houston TX, Lyons IL. You're a killer, a drifter, gone insane.". Family members had asked that the media not disrupt their privacy during the grand jury proceedings, but a reporter persisted in interviewing Mrs. Hlavaty. He's jaded, you know.". Still, Rolling has pleaded innocent--and Don Lykkebak expects Ed will be a target in the trial. Their leads took them to Humphreys doorstep. 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. On Nov. 15, 1991, Rolling was charged with five counts of first-degree murder in connection to the college students' deaths in Gainesville. "This was Danny looking for something that would make what happened more dramatic and minimize his own culpability by saying, 'The devil made me do it.'". And the sad, sad part about it is that we had the parents behind us on the stairs.". "Of course you do.". He would not be here, sharing his birthday with the media, were it not for the publicist. 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, And that, perhaps, was all I needed to know. And Ed Humphrey is still a free man with a lingering cloud over his head: suspect. A. Ed didnt do it, said George, then a 22-year-old law student, told WUFT in a 1991. "I don't know," he says. August 5, 1990, 0128 hours: Elna Hlavaty, Humphrey's grandmother, phones deputies to report that her grandson is "high" on drugs. I told him: 'Your real friends will stand by you."'. "It definitely all started when I was 16," he says now. Humphrey was arrested just days after the murders and held in jail on a $1 million bond. Meanwhile, Lykkebak hopes eventually to get Ed's record wiped clean of a felony --a move that would require a governor's pardon. Anyone else--they would have dropped the charges or maybe given him one year's probation. But Humphrey was left torn and tarnished. More than a week later, The Sun reported another leak of damaging information about Humphrey. His court appearances were riveting. "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."'. Always," recalls Scott Bedesem, a friend since junior high school. But it didn't change the way I felt about him. Investigators wanted to confirm the details of Rolling's confession, so they arranged a meeting, but Rolling insisted that Lewis be present as well to act as his mouthpiece. ", "Always studying. But just all of a sudden I got a real bad depression, a real deep depression. THERE IS A FORTRESS of friends surrounding Ed Humphrey now. They immediately made her think about a man from her Louisiana hometown church who used to spend time with her and her family. His face smashed into the windshield, leaving deep wounds, and he broke his leg so badly doctors had to implant a steel rod running from his hip to his knee. That Saturday, later in the afternoon as Humphrey had requested, I rang his doorbell for the second time. They wound up having a few drinks and getting in trouble with a security guard at a hotel bar. 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 "He trusts me and I trust him," Pauwels says. He says she knocked his contact lens out and that made him angry. ", He pauses. Then, when Ed was about 13, his grandfather died. They've never even talked to you. I did the work. Don Maines, an investigator on the case with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, said they received several tips pointing to Humphrey, then 18. 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. Three months before the Gainesville murders, in May 1990, Rolling and his father had an argument in which Rolling's father chased him out of the house at gunpoint, Hewitt said. I knocked on his front door with trepidation. Russo estimated Humphrey would be in custody for only another seven to nine months because of time served and the states early-release rules. They found that the suspect had type B blood, but Humphrey's blood was type A. Humphrey was still in police custody when investigators discovered a cold case in Shreveport, Louisiana, that had striking similarities to the murders in Gainesville. The neighbors will shake their heads and shrug their shoulders and echo cliches like He must have snapped. They don't go out and commit crimes like this.". Discount stores, supermarkets, a slew of fast-food joints --a lot of places where he applied didn't bother to call, though Ed knew they were hiring. The murders were eerily similar to three others that had occurred in Shreveport in November 1989. There were mood swings, sudden belligerence and two auto crashes that friends thought were suicide attempts. He was convicted of armed robbery in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi for several grocery store robberies, and spent most of the 1980s in prison. However, Rolling was "unwelcome" at his parents' house, Juracich said, especially if his father was there. "I wanted to represent [Tracy]," said Lahey, Paules' sister. He is a white, non hispanic male registered to "I wish the waves would pick up," he says. Tell me she did not suffer.' Humphrey has been jailed on $1 million bond since the beating Aug. 30. His eyes appeared glazed and barely open, his hair unkempt. The world was watching to see how and when they would catch the killer. TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) _ Gainesville murder suspect Edward Lewis Humphrey was sentenced today to the maximum 22 months for beating his grandmother after his He remembers arriving home after midnight and awakening his grandmother. Ed remembers their reaction: "Oh, it's a celebrity.". John Donvan, a Watch the full story on "20/20," streaming now on Hulu. He said nothing more. He drove to Orlando on a blustery fall day in a black 1978 Cadillac that gets 10 miles to the gallon. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey, Age 51. aka Lewis E Humphrey, Edward J Humphrey, Humphrey Edward Lewis, Humphrey Humphrey. There is still a court order not to discuss evidence m the case. Mostly he made threats, but he also would gear up in combat fatigues, strap a knife to his leg and tell people he'd fought in Vietnam--though, of course, he was only 4 when the war ended. He spent a lot of that time in Chattahoochee, the state hospital for mentally ill prisoners. And an odd thing happened: Agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement showed up and began questioning him about the murders. At the time, Humphrey was manic-depressive who was off his medication. And he reportedly has been whispering details of the killings to a fellow inmate, who has been telling investigators. Yet the lead prosecutor in the case continued to insist that Ed was a suspect in three of the killings, that perhaps he and Rolling had acted together. But when you get up to that other accident, I can guarantee you 100 percent that I was not trying to commit suicide. Humphreys off behavior, Mann said, drew attention to him. "It's hard to say what was inside my head. "I can't blame them for making Ed a suspect, but I can blame them for sticking with it. 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. He knew the southwest neighborhoods where the killings took place. Ed looks out over the water, his face calm. 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. The article also stated that Humphreys grandmother said the gloves belonged to her. A brutal serial killer was on the loose. For months Edward Lewis Humphrey was the key suspect in the horrific slayings of five Gainesville students. The Gainesville Sun broke the story of a knife hidden in a milk carton during a search of Humphreys home on Sept. 6. (Manuel Taboada, left, and Tracy Paules, right, are seen in undated photos. Humphrey was eventually convicted of a lesser charge of battery of a person over 65 and sentenced to 22 months in prison. He was facing the death penalty. "My brother is in jail now because of the image Gainesville gave him, not because of anything he did.". 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, And I hated looking in the mirror every time, seeing scars on my face. And, then, as far as newspapers go, half the things that lthey) deal with are just negative things about people. "Your honor, I've been running from first one thing and then another all my life," Rolling said. ET on ABC. The metamorphosis seemed to happen in a matter of days. Humphrey stood 6 feet tall and weighed about 200 pounds. ", "Honestly, Marti," Ed says, "that plastic surgery didn't do that great of a job.". Instead, he got 62 hours of community service at the local Humane Society--which liked him so much it hired him afterward. The optics were not good for Humphrey. Along with the similarities in which the victims were killed, there were other patterns investigators noted. And she nagged at Ed constantly. In late August of 1990, five Gainesville college students were murdered and their bodies sexually assaulted. Dobbin told her that Rolling had told him he had a problem, Juracich said. "[Investigators] were 100% sure he was the one that did it," Scott Grissom said. He apologized, cried and told his pursuers: "Please don't hurt me.". He has lost 50 pounds and had plastic surgery since being a central figure on the evening news. 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. Hewitt said the man also talked to his family, about life and how he felt he went down the "wrong road." Investigators had found bloodstained gloves at his home. He had dreams of being an architect, his brother, Mario Taboada, said. "I feel 100 percent that the media is the main reason our country is the way it is," Ed says afterward, disgusted. But after the death of his grandfather and his parents' bitter divorce, Humphrey's personality began to disintegrate while he was a senior at Melbourne High School. He told investigators about two of his darker personalities. By August 1990, when Humphrey enrolled as a freshman at the University of Florida, some close to him feared his violently unpredictable behavior was worsening. 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He returned gasping for breath, and asked me to come back later in the day. "Tracy asked him, 'You're the one, aren't you?'" "Should I smile? That man, Danny Rolling, had told her that one day he was going to leave Shreveport, where they lived. Hoyt's stepmother, Dianna Hoyt, said she and her husband, Gary Hoyt, had a "very hard time" processing what happened to their daughter. But news of the Gainesville murders haunted Juracich and, in November 1990, she decided to contact police on a hunch that Rolling was connected to the murders in both cities. "It's just a negative," he says. Rolling confessed to the murder of Hoyt and four others and was executed in 2006.). During that stretch when Ed couldn't get work, Kennedy sent him $1,000. I can't handle this.' The roommates and University of Florida students, were found dead Aug. 28, 1990, in their Gainesville, Fla. apartment. On the 30th anniversary of the murders, I was eager to seek out Humphrey. The nude artwork embarrasses him. "Recon lock and load!" Rolling wanted to address the court. Hammack had been with the Brevard County Sheriff's Offfice for less than a year, but he'd been to the plantation-style Indialantic house at least five times before. There was a toilet, a sink and a military mattress on the floor. Other names that Edward uses includes Edward Lewis Humphrey and Edward L Humphrey. Claudia Rolling, Danny Rolling's mother, also testified. And he paid his dues--both in time and torment. "That was exciting," Hewitt said. "So I wanted to have the last word.". "I don't want to be on TV," he says. Other Hammack stepped inside the wide front door into the living room. Ed was still serving 14 months probation at the time, and drinking was a violation of his terms. Would you like to meet him?". "It was important because he was participating in the confession," Hewitt said. One grocery store clerk called him at kome later. The fraternity brothers do not report the incident until Sept. 4, after publicity that Humphrey is a suspect. The panel's action doesn't take Humphrey out of jeopardy, though. This is the first extensive interview Ed Humphrey has ever granted. ", "I wanted to know every little detail," Ada Larson said. Im sorry that we didnt clear him sooner, said Alachua County State Attorney Rod Smith, who wrote a letter to Gov. On bad days, witnesses claim, he would act out his military fantasies on the Indialantic boardwalk. Ray Barber, called for backup and with more investigators on the scene, they found Powell dead on the first floor of the apartment. Then he banged his head on the window so hard the deputy worried he would break the glass. Edward Lewis Humphrey, 18, of Indialantic, Fla., held in the Brevard County Jail on a charge of beating his 79-year-old grandmother, has been described by police as You know, it affects my self-esteem. He was a blond, smooth-skinned, affable teen-ager who made good grades, played football and enjoyed surfing with a group of friends in the swells off Indialantic, a town on Florida's east coast. State Troops Humphrey Lewis' Company (Madison County, Fla.) Military service, Voluntary The cops came and asked for identification. "He'd come over every night for a while, and then one night, Steven came in and he goes, 'He's got to go,'" Juracich said. 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. One said it was a "violent" environment. Rolling confessed to the murder of Larson and four others and was executed in 2006. "My mouth dropped open when he told me," she says. They will not speak to reporters without Ed's approval. Rolling pleaded guilty to the serial killings of five young people at the University of Florida in Gainesville.). He called the match to the evidence in Gainesville a "revelation" in the case. "I'm like, 'Yeah, right,"' Ed says. I knew that many people with connections to the Gainesville murders had left Florida. "We had no way of reaching her," Ada Larson said. He also decapitated her and posed the head on a bookshelf. He had no reason to trust one. As Ed talks about it now, his voice is small and his eyes diverted. Ed Humphrey had been arrested and charged with assaulting his grandmother, but investigators were taking a hard look at him for the student murders as well. The next day Humphrey is reported to be running in circles and talking to himself on Patrick Air Force Base. I am still his friend, and I think what happened to him is wrong. I had to know it. He stabbed a young man 30 times and cut another woman's torso from her pelvis to her chest. In police audio recordings, he could be heard asking police to accompany him at the request of his manager. I mean, why don't the girls tell me that? Lookup the home address, phone numbers, email address for this person View Public Record Results ✓ Addresses. I understand why it went in the direction it did, didnt agree with it.. There's many people that have abusive parents. No indictment was issued against Edward Lewis Humphrey, a former University of Florida freshman who was considered a secondary suspect. I can't get past that.". 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. Ed answered immediately, and the two have been exchanging letters at least once a month ever since. He said the officer tracked the man to a campsite. (A high school portrait shows Christina Powell, who, along with roommate Sonja Larson were the first victims of the serial killer at the University of Florida campus. "Grandmother is another victim of those crimes.". (Edis Catholic.). It's going to be worse next time.' The transcript of that interview has never been made public. They didn't connect the robbery to the Gainesville murders until later on, when they listened to it. "It was the desperation of the time, and the need to get that guy," Smith said. In Shreveport, Maines found that Julie Grissom's body had been posed in a similar position to some of the women killed in Gainesville. "It's a place for all of us families to go and see their children's names still living there," Dianna Hoyt said. He was the youngest of four kids. As they investigated the case, police grew convinced that Ed Humphrey might be their most likely suspect. He is saying, as he's said before, that he never met Ed Humphrey. "I said, 'What kind of problem,'" Juracich said, "[and Steven said], 'He likes to stick knives into people.'". But most of Humphreys descriptions of the student mutilations were not accurate. When the police arrested Ed, they put him in a solitary cell in the infirmary for 76 days. Kennedy even sent money. Ed's dad, family friends told investigators, had a ferocious temper. In one of the songs, the man sings, "Mystery rider, what's your name? Few who knew him in his early high school days dreamed he would ever become a murder suspect. "Here was a kid who was held up as a ass murderer," Mackenzie says. When I --what else?--oh, how about when I got off probation?". 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. On the 10th anniversary of the murders, Humphrey walked across the stage of UCF arena as a college graduate. Humphrey could not have possibly understood at the time how high the stakes were or the consequences of the suspicion cast on him. "It's a real tragedy for him and his family.". The rest of the time he sat in his cell, building card houses, reading books his mother sent, or sleeping. WebEdward Humphrey 's birthday is 10/05/1971 and is 50 years old. Doherty said authorities later tried to show a connection between Humphrey and Danny Rolling, the Louisiana drifter who was indicted Friday in the Gainesville killings. The media jumped on Humphrey as a prime suspect. 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. "I can only afford to fill the tank halfway," he says, settling into a window seat at an upscale downtown restaurant. Especially around his mouth, she says, the skin is much smoother and more elastic and natural-looking. She knew hmm only as Ed--a nice guy, hard worker, easy to get along with. On it, he admitted to killing 55-year-old William Grissom, 24-year-old Julie Grissom and 8-year-old Sean Grissom in Shreveport. All of Gainesville shuddered. Im happy its over, he said. I got it done . That's who you are?! Investigators and prosecutors race for justice in an effort that still affects them 30 years later. For months Edward Lewis Humphrey was the key suspect in the horrific slayings of five Gainesville students. When she saw Rolling, she ran back to her bedroom, where she tried to lock her door. A classic film noir, it features a great cast and a great storyline. "There's this girl at work--Kelly--and she didn't know at all until today. On Aug. 26, 1990, Emery said Powell's parents arrived at the apartment and banged on the door. 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. "I didn't think I would ever be able to walk again. In less than five years. Edward Lewis Humphrey became a familiar figure to law enforcement officials as he shuttled between his apartment near the University of Florida and his Brevard County home in Indialantic. Today, she called the sentence a charade of justice.. He also said he hopes to resume his studies _ but not at the University of Florida. 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-year-old grandmother. And an odd thing happened: Agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement showed up and began questioning him about the murders. The sheriff's office says it kept him there for his own safety--not as punishment--because he'd threatened suicide. "He was rambling things that could be totally misinterpreted. And if you recognize that, then no matter what this jail-house) interview says when it comes out, it's not going to mean sh--.". 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