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 "I'd come in and there would be books open and calculators out.". "I guess I kind of pushed her because she fell and hit her head on that mantle there. 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'd stay up two or three days in a row with no sleep and even then I'd have to drink beer to calm down. At this moment he would be home in Indialantic studying for a science test--and hoping, unrealistically, that people would just forget Ed Humphrey. "That was exciting," Hewitt said. To do so, he claims, would jeopardize the prosecution. 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. He got out once a week--in leg chains and handcuffs--when his lawyer came, and twice a week to take a shower. The roommates and University of Florida students, were found dead Aug. 28, 1990, in their Gainesville, Fla. apartment. 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. You know, it affects my self-esteem. "Their strategy was to keep Ed in jail, to hold him without charging him in the Gainesville case," he says. "And I was glad to do it.". Edward Lewis Humphrey, 19, was found guilty Wednesday of battery on a person over 65. I had to have my husband stop at the side of the road, and I looked outside and the stars were shining. "So there will always be an association between him and the killer," Doherty said, and some people will say investigators just couldn't dig up the proof. "It's been a while, you know?" Ed was still serving 14 months probation at the time, and drinking was a violation of his terms. Then he would drop into a crouch pretending to open fire. 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. 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. Anyone else--they would have dropped the charges or maybe given him one year's probation. Smith said Rolling also talked about the best way to kill a deer. Im happy its over, he said. Juracich said she dismissed these comments when she heard about them because she didn't want to believe that Rolling could be responsible for the triple murders in Shreveport. Hoyt's stepmother, Dianna Hoyt, said she and her husband, Gary Hoyt, had a "very hard time" processing what happened to their daughter. Even today, a spokesman for the new state attorney hesitates: "Is Ed Humphrey still a suspect?Well, hmmm.One would think it ought to be a simple question.". And then he disappeared from public view. For several years, the whole family lived with Ed's maternal grandparents. "Ed--everywhere he went he caused a scene," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Now he works six days a week, attends community college and wants to become an X-ray technician. He landed on a grassy shoulder and wasn't hurt badly, but he spent the next three months in a psychiatric ward. But Friday, a grand jury declared there was no Rolling confessed to the murder of Larson and four others and was executed in 2006. Her funeral is today. "I hit her and I'm sorry." Later, after Ed has gone, one approaches the young woman behind the counter. And he reportedly has been whispering details of the killings to a fellow inmate, who has been telling investigators. Would he answer? Family members had asked that the media not disrupt their privacy during the grand jury proceedings, but a reporter persisted in interviewing Mrs. Hlavaty. ", Dianna Hoyt said she didn't believe "any of it. Don Lykkebak, Ed's attorney, says, "He was a medical patient at the time who was not being treated. Under state guidelines, he could get nearly two years in prison at sentencing Nov. 8. The neighbors will shake their heads and shrug their shoulders and echo cliches like He must have snapped. "It's just a negative," he says. It was upon revisiting the scene that he decided to decapitate her. 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.". I knew little more about Humphrey than what I knew before this day. He was tall, good-looking, athletic, polite. "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 like, Oh, wow. 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. I was not there for surf or sun, but in search of a man who had eluded journalists for nearly three decades. He was, at one time, considered the prime suspect. It has been the biggest manhunt in Florida history. Other names that Edward uses includes Edward Lewis Humphrey and Edward L Humphrey. And that, perhaps, was all I needed to know. 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. His brother, George, tried hard to clear his name. That was the start of it all. Why did this happen?". "We had no way of reaching her," Ada Larson said. 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. The killer used a "razor sharp" instrument.) "And honestly, they advised that he'd die much faster in Florida, and I said, 'Well, leave him there. Finally, they listened to the tape. Meanwhile, Lykkebak hopes eventually to get Ed's record wiped clean of a felony --a move that would require a governor's pardon. Some of the other inmates had made threats. One grocery store clerk called him at kome later. Hammack stepped inside the wide front door into the living room. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey, Age 51. aka Lewis E Humphrey, Edward J Humphrey, Humphrey Edward Lewis, Humphrey Humphrey. And she nagged at Ed constantly. But most of Humphreys descriptions of the student mutilations were not accurate. Her right eye was swollen shut. Then, Rolling came back with his own gun and shot his father in the face, state attorney Smith said. The transcript of that interview has never been made public. They also learned that as Rolling fought with Manny Taboada, Tracy Paules heard the commotion and came into Toboada's room. Sentencing was set For the family members of the Gainesville victims, it was another moment in this long and heartbreaking story. Hospitals run by the Universities of Florida, Miami and South Florida refused to accept Humphrey for private commitment because of his notoriety, Russo said. 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. "So, let's take it easy on him. Among Humphrey's friends - a group of sixteen surfers, who called themselves the Clan - Humphrey was unofficially acknowledged as most likely to succeed," Bedesem says. 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. Maines said they tested the body fluids from the perpetrator in Shreveport and found that this person also had type B blood. He would not be here, sharing his birthday with the media, were it not for the publicist. And rarely does anyone say anything to his face, except to tell him they're on his side. I fell asleep there.". There is muffled conversation by a table of three-piece suits, who glance over suspiciously at Ed. Then, at one point, the man on the tape says his name: Danny Harold Rolling. She knew hmm only as Ed--a nice guy, hard worker, easy to get along with. Ed ends up on the floor. He wore a blue Gator pullover and a voluptuous yawn. His grandfather, a retired Air Force officer, took the boys to ham radio shows and flea markets and the officers' club to play bingo and lunch with the big-wigs. He told investigators about two of his darker personalities. ", He refused to carry the phone, but then he rarely left the house without George. He also decapitated her and posed the head on a bookshelf. His eyes appeared glazed and barely open, his hair unkempt. His court appearances were riveting. "The first night I was in there, no one told me anything," he says. "I should have just stayed in jail. They had been responsible for maligning his name, reshaping his life. "I can't blame them for making Ed a suspect, but I can blame them for sticking with it. "[Investigators] were 100% sure he was the one that did it," Scott Grissom said. His grandmother had asked to drop all charges. Three of the women had been raped and one had been decapitated. It was repeated so authoritatively and so often that the term began to lose its inherent uncertainty. And it got worse as more people came forward. He was convicted of armed robbery in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi for several grocery store robberies, and spent most of the 1980s in prison. Most of my friends got 1200 or something. "And, like, they point in my face telling me, 'Don't do that again, man. His premonition came true the next day. But at the trial, she testified she had fallen and hurt herself in the dark. A classic film noir, it features a great cast and a great storyline. 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. I understand why it went in the direction it did, didnt agree with it.. 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. "So I wanted to have the last word.". Ed answered immediately, and the two have been exchanging letters at least once a month ever since. Edward Lewis Humphrey, 51. After she failed to show up to work on the night of Aug. 26, 1990, Det. The world is destroying us," said George Humphrey in a statement issued after the death. Watch the full story on "20/20," streaming now on Hulu. But that's pretty much how I feel.". Rolling's affirmations were caught on tape. "It sucked man.". Investigators and prosecutors race for justice in an effort that still affects them 30 years later. He is saying, as he's said before, that he never met Ed Humphrey. In the aftermath of the murders, investigators discovered some highly unusual details at the scene. He returned gasping for breath, and asked me to come back later in the day. WebEdward Humphrey 's birthday is 10/05/1971 and is 50 years old. "I thought it was totally unfair," Ed says. WebEdward Lewis Humphrey, age 50s, lives in Palm Bay, FL. "No offense." He was at the wrong place at the wrong time, said Spencer Mann, the spokesman for the Alachua County Sheriffs Department at the time. Legran Hewitt said they dispatched Barber and another officer to Christa Hoyt's home. "Your honor, I've been running from first one thing and then another all my life," Rolling said. There is still a court order not to discuss evidence m the case. 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. 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