Alison Emery, Powell's high school best friend, said she was so excited to be moving into the next phase of her life. He's jaded, you know.". He paced off the measurements--about 10 feet wide and 10 feet long. he would yell. His mug shot fueled growing public speculation and drew hordes of reporters from around the country. He returned gasping for breath, and asked me to come back later in the day. But that's pretty much how I feel.". A television blared. 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I felt bad for him. The perils of his loose lips kept him in custody. "All I want to know [is] what was she thinking. They didn't listen to the tape until months later. The optics were not good for Humphrey. "I thought it was totally unfair," Ed says. "But there are some things that you just can't run from and this being one of those.". And nothing the driver does makes a bit of difference. 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. He drove to Orlando on a blustery fall day in a black 1978 Cadillac that gets 10 miles to the gallon. State Troops Humphrey Lewis' Company (Madison County, Fla.) Military service, Voluntary 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. Ed Humphrey, on that August morning, had not been taking his medication for some time. "He was very good with kids," says Farley. Now he works six days a week, attends community college and wants to become an X-ray technician. Investigators had found bloodstained gloves at his home. Sentencing was set He said the officer tracked the man to a campsite. He caught a glimpse of a tall young man climbing the stairs. Lawn placed Humphrey on probation for 14 months after his prison term with the condition that he continue psychiatric treatment. Would he answer? "Ed's a good friend. His brother George moved to Texas and practices law in Houston, but he did not respond to my request for an interview. I wanted to know whether he still carried the weight of what he had endured almost three decades earlier. Neither will police talk. I did not want that to be what I carried in my mind of her for the rest of my life," Barber said. As for his own behavior, Ed says: "I can't help it if my body (needs) lithium. I was not there for surf or sun, but in search of a man who had eluded journalists for nearly three decades. She saw what happened to him once, and she will not risk letting it happen again. Well, they're influenced so much by what they watch and they think, 'Oh, yeah, I saw where they got the suspect.' The world was watching to see how and when they would catch the killer. ", "Always studying. "Knowing what happened, I can't erase that out of my mind, and nobody should have to go through that," said Scott Grissom. "My maintenance man, unfortunately, ran down the stairs screaming, 'Oh my God,' and came out and threw up. I told him: 'Your real friends will stand by you."'. But Friday, a grand jury declared there was no probable cause to charge the 20-year-old former University of Florida freshman. His court appearances were riveting. "It was a small-caliber gun, and the father survives it, but not without permanent damage," Smith said. His parents split up when Ed was about 11, but they didn't divorce for several years. Police found Paules on their living room floor. "I didn't buy it," said forensic psychologist Harry Krop. 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. They also learned that as Rolling fought with Manny Taboada, Tracy Paules heard the commotion and came into Toboada's room. ET on ABC. TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) _ Gainesville murder suspect Edward Lewis Humphrey was sentenced today to the maximum 22 months for beating his grandmother after his He was tall, good-looking, athletic, polite. So I kept on pressing the button because I wanted her to open the door. He spent a lot of that time in Chattahoochee, the state hospital for mentally ill prisoners. She had been raped and stabbed multiple times and had been mutilated. A task force of police agencies in Gainesville, searching for the killer who had 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. Larson's mother, Ada Larson, said she "hated the fact" that her daughter would be living off-campus, but all the dormitories were full. WebEdward Humphrey 's birthday is 10/05/1971 and is 50 years old. Humphrey could not have possibly understood at the time how high the stakes were or the consequences of the suspicion cast on him. He may have more plastic surgery. Also known as Edward Humphery, Earl Edward Humphrey, Edward Humprey, Tara Edwards, E Edward. Earlier that summer, investigators learned, Ed had been kicked out of the Gatorwood apartment complex where two of the victims were killed. The fraternity brothers do not report the incident until Sept. 4, after publicity that Humphrey is a suspect. I really don't like reporters. Among the evidence was a pubic hair _ similar to Humphrey's _ found at a murder scene, and statements from two witnesses who said they saw Humphrey and Rolling together. He landed on a grassy shoulder and wasn't hurt badly, but he spent the next three months in a psychiatric ward. 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. 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. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey, Age 51. aka Lewis E Humphrey, Edward J Humphrey, Humphrey Edward Lewis, Humphrey Humphrey. Newspapers reported Humphrey revealed to investigators that he had an alter ego, named John, who knew the details about the crimes. Soon across the country, on network news, CNN and in papers from Seattle to New York, Edward Humphrey, this big, pudgy kid with unkempt hair and scars on his face and a glazed look in his eyes. A. It made his mouth dry. Humphrey was hospitalized a half-dozen times, diagnosed as a manic-depressive. This time, deputies couldn't just tell Ed to cool off, then file the fight away on an incident report. He has lost 50 pounds and had plastic surgery since being a central figure on the evening news. We just got in the car and headed for Gainesville. And Ed Humphrey is still a free man with a lingering cloud over his head: suspect. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey, Age 51 aka Lewis E Humphrey, Edward J Humphrey, Humphrey Edward Lewis, Humphrey Humphrey Current Address: YVXK San Paulo Cir, Melbourne, FL Past Addresses: Palm Bay FL, Indialantic FL +5 more Phone Number: (321) 544- IQVS +7 phones Email Address: e NNQI @hotmail.com +1 email UNLOCK PROFILE Phone & Email "Ed--everywhere he went he caused a scene," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. This is the first extensive interview Ed Humphrey has ever granted. He also said he hopes to resume his studies _ but not at the University of Florida. "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. They wish it known that the Ed they know is a kind and decent young man. "And honestly, they advised that he'd die much faster in Florida, and I said, 'Well, leave him there. To girls it makes a difference. The roommates and University of Florida students, were found dead Aug. 28, 1990, in their Gainesville, Fla. apartment. He stabbed a young man 30 times and cut another woman's torso from her pelvis to her chest. Authorities believe Taboada was the first to be attacked after the killer broke into their home, and that they fought for some time before Taboada was killed by multiple stab wounds. 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. Her funeral is today. "But, for some reason, somehow, that tape escaped us, and I'll freely admit it.". The hot air folded in waves over the highway. How could this possibly happen? He was convicted of armed robbery in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi for several grocery store robberies, and spent most of the 1980s in prison. The new students had met each other during the summer and decided to be roommates, ultimately finding an apartment off-campus in a complex called Williamsburg Apartments. "Tracy asked him, 'You're the one, aren't you?'" "It's hard for me to picture him doing anything discreetly.". He was the youngest of four kids. Still, Rolling has pleaded innocent--and Don Lykkebak expects Ed will be a target in the trial. Over the course of three days, police in Gainesville discovered the bodies of five college students, a man and four women. 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. "I said, 'What kind of problem,'" Juracich said, "[and Steven said], 'He likes to stick knives into people.'". Kelly McClory, 24, had joined the kennel staff last October. Authorities subsequently cleared Humphrey of any involvement in the murders. I can't get past that.". 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. And that, perhaps, was all I needed to know. There's many people that have abusive parents. The cops came and asked for identification. She was hoping to become a lawyer. ", George Humphrey says "John" was a reference to John the Apostle. And then he disappeared from public view. "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. One said it was a "violent" environment. He was a manic-depressive off his medication. I knew little more about Humphrey than what I knew before this day. Humphrey was chased and fell as he fled. His friends didn't understand: You really don't need that stuff they'd say. 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. The next day Humphrey is reported to be running in circles and talking to himself on Patrick Air Force Base. "I don't want people to read about me. The rest of the time he sat in his cell, building card houses, reading books his mother sent, or sleeping. (Manuel Taboada, left, and Tracy Paules, right, are seen in undated photos. He had He was under surveillance for reports of odd behaviors, like wearing camouflage, and he had an obsession with knives. "The state attorney fully intends to prove the guilt of Danny Harold Rolling in these murders. His brother, George, tried hard to clear his name. He had a violent history, an unstable personality. So investigators sat with Lewis and Rolling and had Lewis answer questions for Rolling. "Was she thinking of me? On bad days, witnesses claim, he would act out his military fantasies on the Indialantic boardwalk. Before moving to Edward's current city of Palm Bay, FL, Edward lived in Melbourne FL and Indialantic FL. "He's one of our best employees. And he paid his dues--both in time and torment. These police officers knew Christa they told Gary she died right away from the first stab, which was the truth but there were many hours before that.". He tried repeatedly to find work, but kept being turned away, often with no explanation. Current address 1294 Port Malabar Blvd NE, Palm Bay, FL 32905 $1,080: B. His bail, originally set at $10,250, spiked to $1 million. Without warning, Ed jumped out of the car. The killer mutilated the breasts of two of the young women. ", Dianna Hoyt said she didn't believe "any of it. "I had to know what Sonja went through. Our children's names will be remembered over him.". 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. In plaid shorts, Humphrey hunched down to make sure he could catch the cat before it ran out onto the street. 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