Is Edward Wayne Edwards the Zodiac Killer? Did He Help Frame Steven Avery for Teresa Halbach's Murder?

Amy, The Closet Clairvoyant, said in January 2016:

He [Edward Wayne Edwards] smelled a rat. He knew they were framing Sad Man [Steven Avery]; that got him involved. It was a new way of playing the game. He is the ultimate framer… how dare they [the prosecution/law enforcement] think that no one is smart enough to notice they’re framing Sad Man [Steven Avery]! He wanted to taunt them. He totally gets off on the “framing” and seeing the players suffer and being so smart that no one figures it out. So when he saw that here the prosecution and police are playing the game he is so good at… he decided to give them a run for their money.

This [Edwards] is a very messed up person. I see basements…torture. I see sick, sick thoughts…I feel them. They make me sick to my stomach. This person leads a complete secret and double life. The things that go on in his head and then the way he presents himself? Two different things. He is a psychopath….sociopath. He has the capability of living in normal environments and people know something is off…but think it is just normal kind of “off-ness.” I know that sounds like an oxymoron….but there is a difference between “that guy is weird” to “that guy holds people prisoner in his basement.” He is the basement. He gets joy out of people’s fear. It turns him on.

I feel the [SiKiKey] letter written in that first picture you sent is connected to him? That is the first flash I get. Him and a connection to that letter. I don’t feel this has to do with Sad Man [Steven Avery]…Sad Man has nothing to do with this letter. At all. I am no handwriting expert or psychologist…but when I look at that letter, I get two things. One, two personalities. One prints, one writes in cursive…it shows a split to me. I also feel that the misspellings are intentional. To make the person(s) reading it to feel it is an uneducated person.

Okay… so I tuned into the word [SiKiKey]… and what I got immediately was the meaning is in the initials KK. Now, I didn’t look at the text you sent me when I got that. It wasn’t until after that I took a second look at the word and saw that the “k”s are written in uppercase. Whatever “KK” stands for is a person, or a place… that is what we need to figure out. What “KK” stands for.

[I promptly told her that the “fat man with the red tie,” who she’d guessed was in law, was named Ken Kratz.]

WTF!?!?! OMG, this is IT. Every hair on my body is standing up!



When asked in 2009 about murdering his foster son, Danny Boy Edwards, in 1996:

"Well -- yeah, I guess I'm a little sorry for him, but if I was that sorry about it I wouldn't have done it in the first place."

The Zodiac killer was a serial killer who used codes in his notes to reveal his identity, but the code wasn't deciphered until July 30, 2010.

Edward Wayne Edwards could have been the Zodiac killer.



An anonymous letter was found at a Post Office in Green Bay (image below). 

On Thursday, 11/10/05, at 1826 hours, I (Dedering) did speak with Officer Fred Laitinen of the Green Bay Police Department. He advised me the Green Bay Post Office pulled a piece of mail off their conveyor and reported it to Green Bay authorities. He indicated the piece of mail consisted of a letter without an envelope, which was folded in thirds. He stated there was no stamp attached. He advised me the note was addressed to Manitowoc Sheriff and had Avery written on it. He indicated to me the note, upon inspection, revealed that the writer indicated a body was burned up in the aluminum smelter at 3:00 a.m. on Friday morning (page 224).

The "S" in SikiKey is a "5"....the "A" in Avery is a backwards 4... the "y" in Avery is a backwards 7....it looks like scribbling, but it is scribbled with a purpose.

The number 5 could represent the fifth letter in the alphabet, E, and the number 4 could represent the fourth letter in the alphabet, D, which spells Ed. The number 7 could represent the 7 letters in Edwards' last name. Also, the "d" in "body" is a combination of the letter "e" and "d", spelling "ed."

The meaning of iKiK: the 9th letter in the alphabet is "I" and the 11th letter in the alphabet is "K," so "iK" equals 9-11, the date Avery was released for his wrongful conviction of the 1985 sexual assault of Penny Beernsten.

"Key" is the item planted in Avery's bedroom, the RAV4 key.



Another anonymous letter was sent to the county clerk at Manitowoc County. What was written in the letter ("I seen her") was documented in a report by CASO (page 751) but the actual letter may not have been entered into evidence:



The logo for Winnebago Mental Health Institute is a mirror image of sideways capital Es, which could stand for Edward Edwards [source].




There was a Dr. Siddiqui (Sikikey) who practiced at Winnebago Mental Health Institute during the time period that Teresa went missing [source].



Edwards' code was deciphered by retired police detective John A. Cameron's friend, Neal Best, both of Great Falls, Montana, on July 30, 2010, a year after Edwards was arrested for the 1980 Wisconsin double murder of 19-year-old high school sweethearts Tim Hack and Kelly Drew (see "Summary of How Edwards Was Caught" in this blog post).






Cameron is the author of "It's Me, Edward Wayne Edwards, the Serial Killer You Never Heard Of."

On June 25th, 1968, a family of six was murdered in their vacation cabin in Good Hart, Michigan. The murders went unsolved. Three years later, on June 28, 1971, detectives received a strange letter signed by "Queen Ester Best." The letter was hand written in large cursive script, six pages long, although the pages were marked A through F instead of being numbered. The author of the letter used the exact wording ("I seen") as used in the letter sent to Manitowoc County about the Winnebago Mental Health Institute ("I seen her") on April 25, 2006.

The following is the content of that letter as described by Mardi Link in her book, "When Evil Came to Good Hart." [University of Michigan Press, 2008, page 62].

Edwards tended to write a lowercase "d" in the same way in many of his notes and letters (see coldcasecameron.com and zodiackiller.com/Letters.htm for examples).

Based on Steven Avery's handwriting and signature (image below), it appears that Steven wrote Teresa's phone number and the words on the notepad and the Zander Road address on the backside of the "for sale" sign (trial exhibit 179) [AutoTrader or Teresa had given Avery her cell number sometime prior to October 10th (day 2, page 100)].

On the "for sale" sign it looks like someone was trying to imitate Avery's handwriting, but it's too neat.



On the front side of the "for sale" sign was written "1995 Pontiac Grand Am" (trial exhibit 178), but Avery's Grand Am that he drove as his primary car was a 1993 (page 230 and 886 of CASO file). Was this sign from the Grand Am that Avery listed for sale in AutoTrader in September 2005 (Teresa photographed a Grand Am for Avery on September 19th)?

Sgt. William Tyson, under cross examination by Buting (day 7, page 45), said he was there when Remiker found the Zander Road sign on Avery's desk (page 10); he testified that he had no idea of the significance of the sign (trial exhibits 149, 175 and 177). The Zander Road was found during a search on the first day, Saturday November 5th; Avery's trailer was searched from 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. by Manitowoc County sheriff deputies Lenk, Colborn and Remiker and Calumet County sheriff deputy Tyson (page 9).



Paul Metz, a farmer whose cattle are located at the intersection of Jambo Creek Road and Zander Road, said around 5:30 p.m. on November 1, 2005, while he was feeding his cattle, he heard a big "whoosh," which reminded him of when gasoline or highly volatile substances are poured on a fire (Metz's home address, not the land where his cows are located, is on County Road B, directly north of George Zipperer's). Metz said that approximately 10 minutes later he smelled a very vile smell. He said that his cows had gotten very spooked, damaging fences as he failed to get them back under control.

UPDATE JUNE 2017: Attached to Kathleen Zellner's post-conviction petition filed on June 7th, 2017, is a sworn affidavit from Paul Metz. He says that law enforcement misrepresented his statements. The following is from Metz's affidavit (PC exhibit 99):

"Around dusk on October 31, 2005, I heard a loud buzzing sound that reminded me of electrical wires pulsating. I then smelled what I thought was insulation burning. I initially thought that the high-power tension wires that run just south of my property were overloading, causing the buzzing sound and the bad odor. I did not confuse the smell with that of a burning body. I know what a burning body smells like from my time as a volunteer firefighter. I was interviewed by officers from the Manitowoc County Sheriff s Department ("MCSD"). I did not initiate contact with MCSD and I do not know how MCSD learned about this incident. During the interview, I would not have describe the sound I had heard as a 'whoosh.' Rather, it was a buzzing sound. I did not tell officers from MCSD that the sound reminded me of instances when I poured gasoline or other highly volatile substances on a fire. I did not tell anyone that I thought the smell was coming from the south or from the vicinity of the Avery property off of Highway 147."

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Metz's farm at the corner of West Zander Road and Jambo Creek Road is slightly east of 3302 West Zander Road (there are two 40-acre, wooded vacant parcels separating Metz's farm from 3302 West Zander Road). In the image below, Metz's farm at 2530 West Zander Road (parcel number 006-002-012-000.00) is marked on the right with a large, red rectangular-shaped box, and 3302 West Zander Road (parcel number 006-003-015-001.00) is marked on the left with a red box.

Note: According to John A. Cameron, on December 17, 2002, Edwards blogged on Zodiackiller.com as "Zander Kite," challenging them to look to Montana and Deer Lodge Prison for the answer (image below). Edwards left his real name, "ed," separated in the word “refer(r)ed.” Also, he misspelled “Christmass” just like he did in the Zodiac Killer Dear Melvin letter in 1970 (second image below). 

At 24:30 in the calls to Manitowoc County dispatch, turkey hunters at the Richard Drum Forest and the West Twin River bridge on highway 147 saw a dark or green-colored truck and a guy in waders in the trails below the bridge on Thursday, November 3rd. The hunters felt it was important enough to call the sheriff about what they saw. Whatever the turkey hunters saw was more than just a guy in waders and a truck. They're outdoor sportsman, and they know what is normal and what is not when it comes to hunting and fishing. It was something out of the ordinary that prompted them to take the time to call the sheriff about it. The call was forwarded to Calumet County. Several people, including Steven, referred to the Rav4 as a truck or jeep at times (rather than calling it a SUV), so it's possible the turkey hunters saw the Rav4 and just called it a truck when reporting it (Teresa's Rav4 looked blue in photographs but looked green in person to most people).

Just southwest of the West Twin River bridge on highway 147 in Maribel there is a hunting cabin with a cooker at 7507-7549 W. Main Street (image below). The cooker is used to cook wild game, such as deer and bear, at high temperatures. The secluded cabin with the cooker is only 200 meters south of the bridge and is probably less than a five-minute walk.





The following image and video by Altwolf at Reddit shows a turnaround near the hunting cabin with the cooker at 7507-7549 W. Main Street.



Robert Fabian, Earl Avery's brother-in-law, told CASO investigators that around 8:00 a.m. on November 3rd "he observed a green jeep backed all the way up at a parking area on STH 147 by the river." Investigators noted that "Robert described this area as a turnaround" and that "Robert recalls seeing this jeep at 8:00 a.m. because he had seen a male subject talking on TV about a green jeep being in the area" (page 320).



Ervin Koehnke would have been the "male subject" Fabian had seen on TV. Koehnke was interviewed by a local television station and he stated that on the morning of November 3rd, 2005, he saw Teresa's RAV4 in a turnaround on STH 147 east of I-43 (page 221).



UPDATE OCTOBER 4, 2017: Zellner's post-conviction motion had alleged a handful of Brady violations against special prosecutor Ken Kratz, allegations that Kratz withheld or hid from Avery and his original criminal defense lawyers evidence that would have been favorable to the defense. A Brady violation is when prosecutors are found by the court to have withheld exculpatory evidence that is favorable to the defendant and his lawyers.

Since the summer time, Zellner said, she has been contacted by a few people who have signed affidavits, providing information that wasn't known to Avery's trial lawyers Jerry Buting and Dean Strang back in 2006 and 2007, at the time they were preparing for their client's high-profile murder trial.

"We have a Brady witness who reported seeing Teresa's car after the murder partially hidden off of State Highway 147, and he reported it to (Manitowoc County Sheriff's Sgt.) Andrew Colborn in person," Zellner told Patch. "This witness also implicates another person in concealing this information from Brendan Dassey's attorneys."

UPDATE OCTOBER 23, 2017: Kathleen Zellner filed a new motion on October 23rd, 2017. The following is a screen shot from the motion as it pertains to a new witness (who didn't know his information was important until he watched Making A Murderer) coming forward to claim he saw Teresa Halbach's RAV4 on November 3rd and 4th, 2005, at a turnaround on highway 147, near the East Twin River in Mishicot.

 

Kevin Rahmlow saw Teresa's RAV4 parked in a turnaround by the East Twin River on November 3rd and 4th, 2005 (image above was captured on December 31, 2004). This is the same area on highway 147 (Main Street) where Jill Rhein saw a suspicious car on November 1st.

From the affidavit of Kevin Rahmlow, attached as Exhibit D to Zellner's October 23rd, 2017 motion:

"On November 3 and 4, 2005, I was in Mishicot. I saw Teresa Halbach's vehicle by the East Twin River dam in Mishicot at the turnabout [by] the bridge, as I drove west on Highway 147. Around midday on November 4, 2005, I stopped at the Cenex gas station at the intersection of Highway 147 and State Street in Mishicot. While there, I saw and read a missing person poster for Teresa Halbach. I remember that the poster had a picture of Teresa Halbach and written descriptions of Teresa Halbach and the car she was driving. I recognized the poster attached as Exhibit A to this affidavit as a copy of the one I saw at the Cenex station on November 4, 2005. I recognized that the written description of the vehicle on the poster matched the car I saw at the turnaround by the dam.

"While I was in the Cenex station, a Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department officer came into the station. I immediately told the officer that I had seen a car that matched the description of the car on Teresa Halbach's missing person poster at the turnaround by the dam. In December 2016, I watched Making a Murderer. In the series, I recognized the officer who I talked to at the Cenex station on November 4, 2005. A photograph of this officer is attached as exhibit B to this affidavit. Having watched Making a Murderer, I now know that his name is Andy Colborn."

 



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Two people who lived on or near Twin Bridge Road in Mishicot contacted the sheriff's office to report a suspicious vehicle parked for three consecutive days at Kruger Road and Twin Bridge Road, an area about two miles north of Avery Salvage Yard (see image below). The car was parked there during the day but was always gone in the evening. This was early in the week that Teresa went missing. The one witness described it as a black, four-door van (at the time of his arrest in 2009, Edwards drove a "specially equipped van," which police used to transport Edwards from Kentucky to Wisconsin). She also said that, during the first part of the week that Teresa went missing, her dog outside in the pen barked for a solid 20 minutes and she was unable to settle it down.





On November 11th, 2005, Jill J. Rhein stopped at Avery Salvage Yard to tell investigators that on November 1st she saw a suspicious car across the street from 3405 Main Street/Highway 147 in Mishicot. This is near the intersection of Ridge Road and STH 147 where a cellphone was found:

Deputy Craig Wendling of Calumet County was accompanied by Manitowoc County Sgt. Andy Colborn and Lt. Jim Lenk, who collected the evidence (tag no. 8451), which was a Audiovox phone, silver in color, Model CDM8815UT STAR CAM. It was found on the side of the road, the north ditch along the gravel line, of STH 147 just east of Ridge Road. The item was found by a John J. Campion, owner of Chiller's Bar & Grill (page 185), who was searching with Pam Sturm (page 234) on November 6th, although she testified that she couldn't recall the day that it was found.

Rhein's statement was noted in the Calumet County (CASO) log on page 79 (image below), but there was no follow up (no report by investigators in the CASO file).



The perpetrator could have forced Teresa off the road or lured her out of her vehicle. The perpetrator could have forced Teresa to stop or pullover, perhaps by causing her to rear-end his vehicle or running her off the road (this would explain the damage to the front end of the Rav4). Then, using a gun, he could have forced her to drive him in her Rav4 to a nearby location that he pre-selected, leaving his vehicle behind to later retrieve (he would have walked in the dead of night to come back to get it).

This is what psychics say the perpetrator did in the August 1st, 1999 murder of two 17-year-old girls in Ozark, Alabama (watch the videos titled "Haunted Evidence" in "Summary of Edward Wayne Edwards' Crimes").

In his autobiography, Edwards described how he purposely caused auto accidents in a 1959 scam to collect insurance money (page 261).



Alternatively, in the Zodiac killer's 1970 abduction of 23-year-old Kathleen Johns in California, she noticed a car on her tail, flashing its headlights, indicating for her to pull over. A man exited the vehicle, which he had parked to the rear of her car, and approached, claiming that he noticed one of her wheels was wobbling and offered to rectify the fault. If Edwards used this ploy on Teresa, she could have gotten out of her SUV to get the lug wrench from the rear cargo area. After handing the lug wrench to Edwards, he could have struck her in the head (which would explain the blood on the inside of the rear cargo door and frame), knocking her unconscious or killing her on the spot, and putting her body in the back of her vehicle and then driving it to another location.

Avery's attorney, Kathleen Zellner, wrote in her August 26, 2016 motion (page 20) for post conviction scientific testing that the lug wrench in Teresa's RAV4 appeared to have been moved from its original place in the cargo area, and the storage compartment covers for the rear cargo area, where the wrench would have been stored, were missing.



If Teresa's routine was to go to Avery's as her last appointment in Manitowoc County on Mondays (when Avery was on her appointment sheet) and then head home to the village of St. John's near Hilbert, she could have taken highway 147 to Maribel, south on "T" to Kellnersville, right (west) on "K" to WI-32, left (south) on 32 to County "B," and right (west) on "B", or she could have taken County "Q" or "T" to 310/10. If Edwards' plan was to force her off the road or to flag her down for help, he could have been lying in wait along highway 147.

To get home from Avery's (12930 Avery Road, Two Rivers), Teresa would have taken 147 to Maribel, south on "T" to Kellnersville, right (west) on "K" to WI-32, left (south) on 32 to County "B," and right (west) on "B," which is where she lived. Every theory put forth as to her route is just that, a theory. I am, however, a native of Manitowoc and know that area like the back of my hand. It is the most efficient and quickest route from Avery's back to her home on County B near St. John. If George Zipperer was her last stop (4433 County Road B, Manitowoc), she would have taken US-10 west to Forest Junction, south on WI-32, and west on "B." US-10 sucks: You have to go through a few communities, there is significant truck and farm traffic, and, because of the terrain, it's hard to pass. There are fatal crashes every year on the short stretch of highway. If you are a local, you avoid 10 whenever there are alternative routes available. Counties have been installing rotary intersections (roundabouts) hoping to improve some of the most dangerous intersections, but they don't solve the bigger problem, which is the fact that US-10, a two lane highway, is the only direct route from Manitowoc to the Fox Cities. [knowjustice, Reddit, July 19, 2016] 

If Edwards was the Zodiac killer, and if Edwards framed Steven Avery for Teresa Halbach's murder, his plan could have been foiled if Teresa went to Zipperer's after Avery's: instead of staying on highway 147 after turning left from Avery Road, she would have turned left onto County Road Q to go to Zipperer's. Edwards would have had to alter his plan at the last minute, which means he would have had to catch up to Teresa on whichever route she chose to drive that day. He would have had to: (1) get in front of her, or pull out in front of her, and then stop short to cause a collision and force her to stop; or (2) lie in wait and flag her down for help along a quiet section of the road with no other traffic. The mud and damage on the Rav4 all point to this being a critical component of Teresa's disappearance.

Cell tower records could provide answers to Teresa's movements. Kathleen Zellner, Avery's attorney, tweeted on March 6th, 2016 that "cellphone tower records of Avery and Halbach provide an airtight alibi for him: she left property, he didn't." And Zeller told Newsweek on March 29th, 2016: "It’s absolutely shocking to see cellphone records that were part of the discovery that were turned over to the defense [which] document her route leaving the property. She goes back the same way she came, she’s 12 miles from the property on the last ping. They screwed it up.”



Why would the Zodiac killer frame Avery? 

Paul Avery was a reporter with the San Francisco Chronicle that wrote many articles about the Zodiac killer, including an article claiming the Zodiac killer was responsible for the 1966 murder of Riverside City College student Cheri Jo Bates (the Zodiac killer denied this murder).

The Zodiac killer taunted Paul Avery with cryptic letters and cards about his identity, even sending him a Halloween card.





The Zodiac killer gave reporter Paul Avery a Halloween card in 1970. In it he described how he kills by knife, gun, rope and fire. He could have left his "Z" at the crime scene on the Zander Road sign.

John A. Cameron wrote:

Teresa Halbach lived in St. Johns, Wisconsin and went to Avery Salvage Yard to photograph on a regular basis. She knew Steve Avery. She was a member of St. John’s Catholic Parish. Teresa was also a coach at St. John’s Parochial School. Edwards targeted Catholics to kill his entire life. He could have met her at the salvage yard or the church prior to her murder. Edwards would have appeared to be a harmless old man to Teresa. Edwards may have attended her church prior to the murder so she would be familiar with his face. That was his M.O. throughout life. Edwards groomed his way into his victims’ lives so his face would be familiar when he was about to kill them. They never saw it coming in most instances.

Teresa Halbach was a freelance photographer working for a major publication, Auto Trader Magazine. Paul Avery, who chased “The Zodiac Killer,” was also a reporter and freelance photographer for the San Francisco Chronicle. Edwards targeted people that worked in journalism and magazines throughout life. He also targeted names that tied back to his past, like the name Avery.

Teresa was born March 22, 1980, which is the 10-year anniversary of Ed Edwards (as the Zodiac killer) kidnapping and terrorizing a woman named Kathleen Johns in 1970. Edwards used a ruse on Johns to get her to pull her car over to the side of the road, just as he would have done to Teresa Halbach. Edwards terrorized Kathleen Johns for several hours and then left Johns and her baby alive to describe him. He wanted to be “recognized.”  He then blew her car up with a bomb, like he did to Teresa’s Halbach’s remains. Edwards sent a letter in the Johns' case, taunting the police with his smarts as he did in most of his cases.

Edwards, a ritualistic killer, killed repeatedly, decade after decade on birthdays, Christmas, Easter, Solstice, full moons, New Year's, July 4th, October 12 (Aleister Crowley’s birthday), Columbus Day, Halloween, April 1st, June 14th and August in every decade. Edwards’ M.O. was to kill and steer the evidence towards the innocent: parents, husbands, boyfriends, wife cheaters, etc. 

Using the media to create hysteria, Edwards manipulated the justice system for decades. If the press and public destroyed an innocent person for one of his murders, Edwards would return and kill again. 

In 1980, he killed a Wisconsin couple on the anniversary of his mother’s death and funeral, August 8-10th. (On the third day he rises again.)

Edwards had three days with Teresa’s body and car without anyone knowing. On November 4th the Averys left town and that is when Edwards would have planted evidence. He stated in an anonymous letter to the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Office that Friday at 3:00 a.m. is when Teresa was burned; however, it really was the day the evidence was planted.

Steven Avery's wrongful conviction case was high profile. He was released on September 11th, 2003. Teresa was chosen because, beginning on June 20th, 2005, she regularly came to Avery's and happened to be there on Halloween, a day that had historical significance for Edwards, not just for his feud with Paul Avery, but it was the day he killed newspaper editor Kent Heitholt in Columbia, Missouri, in 2001 (Ryan Ferguson and his friend were wrongfully convicted for the crime after police received a tip that a man named Charles Erickson could not remember the evening of the murder and was concerned that he may have been involved with the murder; Ferguson's conviction was vacated in 2013 and his attorney was Kathleen Zellner, who also is Steven Avery's attorney for his latest court filings).

If Edwards was the Zodiac killer, and if Edwards framed Steven Avery for Teresa Halbach's murder, then the prosecution team falsified other evidence to put Teresa at Avery's after 2:45 p.m. on October 31st (and the prosecution team planted the bullet months later to "put Teresa in the garage"). The timeline had to be altered, meaning evidence was tampered with, in order to put Teresa at Zipperer's before Avery's.

The Zodiac killer wrote that he altered his style of writing over the years to fool experts.





In the images below, compare the Sikikey letter to letters in the Brown and Coleman murders, particularly the lowercase "m" and the lowercase "e".





It is worth noting that Pam Sturm testified that there was a man on the ridge or hill around the Rav4 at the time she discovered it at Avery's Salvage Yard on the morning of November 5th. Could this man have been Edward Edwards (Pam found the Rav4 on a 40-acre property within 25 minutes)? Was Edwards standing there while she was searching, and is that how she found it so quickly? She could not identify him or give a description.

The following is part of Pam Sturm's testimony during cross examination (page 241).

Q.   And you mentioned a man up on the ridge, or not on the ridge, but up on the hill, kind of back towards the buildings, when you were sitting there waiting for 20 minutes?
A.   Correct.
Q.   And Steven Avery wasn't that man either, was he?
A.   I don't know for sure.
Q.   Well, who was that man; do you know? 
A.   I don't know.
Q.   Do you have any description of him?
A.   No, sir.
Q.   Was it the same -- Was it Earl Avery?
A.   It could have been.  It's just too far away to see.
Q.   So you just -- wasn't anything in particular about that man, or what he was doing, that caused you concern; it was just the overall feeling you had that maybe this wasn't the safest place to be; is that fair?
A.   That's fair, yes.



In March 2009, Edwards’ daughter, April Edwards Balascio, age 40, called police after seeing a special cold case report by Dana Brueck on NBC15 News and recalling her father taking her and her brothers when they were very young to a cornfield that was the scene of a double murder in Jefferson County, Wisconsin in August 1980. The decomposed bodies of the victims, Tim Hack and Kelly Drew, were found by hunters 72 days after they went missing: Hack at the edge of a woods and Drew in a cornfield along Hustisford Road south of Highway 16 between Watertown and Ixonia, Wisconsin. The Associated Press reported: "An aging Kentucky con man's child told police he killed two teenage sweethearts in Wisconsin nearly 30 years ago. Jefferson County Sheriff's Detective Chard Garcia tells The Associated Press one of Edward Edwards' children contacted him in 2009 and said Edwards told his family investigators would find the bodies of Tim Hack and Kelly Drew in a field. The child said Edwards was very controlling and abusive, once stabbing his wife. Garcia says detectives had developed a DNA profile from semen found on Drew's body and were in the processing of using it to eliminate dozens of suspects when the child came forward. Analysts then matched the DNA sample to Edwards."

Edwards would go on to confess to that murder and another double murder, William Lavaco and Judith Straub, in Ohio in 1977. He also confessed to killing his foster son, Dannie Boy, in Ohio in 1996 and asked for the death sentence, which Ohio has but Wisconsin doesn't. Edwards murdered Danny Boy to collect $250,000 in life insurance. In March 2011, he was sentenced to death for this crime, but died in prison in Ohio of natural causes on April 11th, 2011, four months before his scheduled execution.

Edwards moved his family every few years and is known to have lived in Florida, Arizona, California, Colorado, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, Oklahoma and Kentucky. He admitted in a letter to the FBI on July 9th, 1993 that he had committed crimes in the following cities or that he was there long enough to have an FBI file on himself (the letter was provided to coldcasecameron.com by Edwards' daughter April):





On John A. Cameron's timeline there are about 120 murders that he asserts were committed by Edward Wayne Edwards.

Cameron, a former police officer, believes that Edwards also committed the "Lipstick Murders" in Chicago in 1945-46 and murdered Elizabeth Short, known as "The Black Dalia," in Los Angeles in 1947:

• June 5, 1945, Chicago Illinois: Josephine Ross.
• December 11, 1945, Chicago, Illinois: Frances Brown.
• January 6-7, 1946, Chicago, Illinois: Suzanne Degnan.
• January 15, 1947, Los Angeles, California: Elizabeth Short, known as The Black Dahlia.

According to Edwards NCIC records, he used two different dates of birth: the first was May 30th, 1928, and the second was June 14th, 1933, a five-year difference. If Edwards' year of birth is 1928 rather than 1934, then it would be believable that Edwards murdered Short and the others, since he would have been 17-18 years old, and not 12-13, at the time of the murders.

However, in Edwards' autobiography, he included psychological evaluations from his childhood, and the reports list his birth date as June 14, 1933 (pages 430-435). The reports appear to be legitimate, which means he was 12 1/2 years old when Josephine Ross, France Brown and Suzanne Degnan were murdered in Chicago ("the lipstick murders") and 13 1/2 years old when Elizabeth Short was murdered in Los Angeles ("The Black Dahlia murder").

The following timeline from Edwards' autobiography, Metamorphisis of a Criminal, suggests that he could not have committed the "lipstick murders" in Chicago in 1945-46 (in 1946, Richard Russell Thomas confessed to killing Suzanne Degnan but was let go when William George Heirens, after being tortured and threatened by cops, confessed to two of the murders but recanted his confession).

• In December 1935, Edwards' mother died (his father was not in the picture). 
• In 1937, Edwards' foster mother was told she had multiple sclerosis (she would die on October 3, 1945). 
• In 1940 Edwards was sent to the Parmadale orphanage in Parma, Ohio. 
• Over the next four years he made 15 attempts to escape, so the orphanage told his grandmother that they couldn't keep him any longer. 
• Around March 1945 he went to live with his grandmother in Akron and started to attend public school.
• When he was in sixth grade, 1945-46, he was accused of vandalizing a church and tearing out pages of a Bible, and he was regularly stealing bicycles in Akron. 
• In 1946, when he was 13, his set a dry cleaning truck on fire in his Akron neighborhood. 
• On October 21, 1946, he was voluntarily admitted to the Bureau of Juvenile Research in Akron for a period of observation and examination; a report was written about him by the Bureau on December 11, 1946. It is unclear how long he was at the Bureau and if or when he returned to Akron to live with his grandmother and continue in public school. Therefore, there is no account in his book of his activity in 1947. 
• In January 1948, he was sent to reform school, the Philadelphia Protectory for Boys, in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, where he stayed until March 1950.

Why and how would a 12 or 13-year-old travel to Chicago or Los Angeles to commit random murders? Why would a 22-year-old woman be hanging out with a 13-year-old boy? It's not plausible. The photo of Short with Edwards in a photo booth must be fake or it is not Edwards in the photo (the nose does not match Edwards' nose, which is sharp and pointed, and there isn't a distinctive mole on the left side of his face, near the nose, like Edwards had in photos of himself around that age).

If anything, Edwards was obsessed with the "Lipstick Murders" and "The Black Dahlia" murder, was spurred on by these crimes to commit murder, and became a copycat killer, as well as the Zodiac Killer.

In 2002, Edwards created a website about The Black Dahlia. The website was last updated on April 7, 2010.



Edwards wrote to Larry Harnisch of www.lmharnisch.com under the name of Jack Pico and using a mail drop in San Diego:

Q. What do you make of the "blackdahliasolution.org" claims?

A. I think the site's gross manipulation of photos--alterting Elizabeth Short's eyes and mouth, for example--is disturbing. The writing style is virtually unreadable, so it's hard to get through, but what I've read is dysfunctional and demented.

Using the same logic (that Elizabeth Short's body was a "pointer" to Degnan Boulevard in reference to the Suzanne Degnan murder), one could say that the killer was "Gene Rayburn" because the next street over is "Grayburn." It's lunacy.

And I wish the author, whoever he is, would stop sending me things under the phony name of "Jack Pico" from his mail drop in San Diego because I never read them. And for the record, there was no Ed Burns.

According to Redditers WeKnowWhooh and imaxfli, Cameron is now in Hollywood making a pilot for cable TV, or Cameron is now in Los Angeles producing a docudrama, about Edward Wayne Edwards.

The following is an excerpt from coldcasecameron.com.


1933, June 14th. Akron, Ohio. EDWARDS IS BORN. According to Edwards NCIC records, he had used two different dates of birth. The first was May 30th, 1928 and the second was June 14th, 1933, a five-year difference.

1954, July 13th, Cleveland, Ohio. Edwards mails a letter and misspells the word BUSINESS as BUSSNESS, the same way he would misspell it in his 1996 JonBenet Ramsey ransom note. [When John Camerson asked Edward Wayne Edwards' wife where Edwards was on Christmas 1996, his wife replied. "He was hiding out in Brighton, Colorado with my son, waiting the the smoke to clear in the murder of his stepson, Dannie Boy." Brighton is just a short distance from Boulder.]





1955, October 16-17. Chicago, Illinois: Three boys in Robinson Woods Park are murdered: 13-year-old Robert Peterson, 13-year-old Jon Schuessler and 11-year-old Anton Schuessler are laid out naked in the Sign of The Cross, one with a Big Dipper carved in his leg. (On The Third Day He Rose Again.) Edwards is a ritualistic killer, killing three days before and after his killings of his wife/girlfriend, Verna, and marriage to a new one, Jeanette. Edwards will replicate this murder in 1993 in Robin Hood Hills in West Memphis, Arkansas, killing three 8-year-old boys, and laying them out naked.



1971, March 22. Akron, Ohio. Edwards contacts the press, demanding they not use his name, and he tells the police and press that he knew the Zodiac in Deer Lodge Prison. Police never question him. The article was written by Bill Kezziah, a reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal (image below). Edwards tells the press everything needed to identify the Zodiac killer. (1) Deer Lodge Prison, Montana (2) Ancient Egyptian History, (3) Slaves in the afterlife, (4) Egyptian Book of the Dead. Edwards had studied ancient Egyptian history and Aleister Crowley in Deer Lodge Prison, Montana, 1955-59.

The Zodiac killer had told one of his victims in 1969, Bryan Hartnell, who survived the attack, that he had been in Montana's Deer Lodge Prison.


1971, March 22nd. San Francisco, California. Edwards mails “The Pines Card”.



1993, July 9th. After killing the three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, Edwards contacted the FBI by phone and letter, supplying them everything needed to identify him. The letter was recovered by Cameron from April Edwards Balascio in 2010. Edwards was taunting the FBI as he had done his entire life.



1996, February 20th. Denver, Colorado. Timothy McVeigh trial is moved to Denver, Colorado. Edwards will target Colorado and six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey (Adam Walsh was also six years old).

1996, May 5th. Columbus, Ohio. Edwards insures, lures and kidnaps Dannie Law Gloeckner, AKA Dannie Boy Edwards. Edwards had insured him for $250,000 and changed his name to Dannie Boy Edwards. Edwards will use Dannie's remains to plant DNA in the JonBenet Ramsey case.

1996, June. HBO releases Paradise Lost, The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley were arrested in 1993 and spent 18 years in prison for murders committed by Edwards. They were released August 2010 while Edwards was sitting in jail and confessing to murders.

1996-1999 Edwards began blogging on Google Groups, using the name joe1orbit and jen1orbit, taunting the bloggers to identify him and giving his theory.

1996, February 20th. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Timothy McVeigh's trial is ordered out of federal court in Oklahoma City and into federal court in Denver, Colorado. Edwards will kill JonBenet Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado, six months before the trial of Timothy McVeigh starts in Denver.

1996, April. Burton, Ohio. Edwards plans for two years to kill Army SPC Dannie Law Gloeckner, 22.

Edwards admitted in 2010 to the 1996 kidnapping, beheading and insurance fraud of Dannie Law Gloeckner. Dannie had changed his name to Dannie Boy Edwards in 1995. According to Edwards’ daughter, Edwards had five others lined up for the fraud.

In the YouTube video he claims that he shot Dannie in a cemetery in 1996, burying him in a shallow grave and hiding his body on purpose until collecting on his life insurance policy in 1997.







2002, September 11th. Boulder, Colorado. It is the one year anniversary of 9-11. Michael Tracy, a professor at the University of Colorado, starts receiving anonymous e-mails from someone claiming to be the killer of JonBenet Ramsey. The e-mail is sent the day before the one year anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. The writer calls himself “D” for DAXIS.

The following is an excerpt from an email to Michael Tracy signed by DAXIS.

 

Michael Tracy produced two documentaries in 1998 and 2004 on the killing of JonBenet Ramsey. The writer of the anonymous e-mails called himself “D” at first and then “DAXIS.” Edwards was DAXIS, and he sent e-mails directing the evidence to John Mark Karr. The DAXIS e-mails described how Edwards killed JonBenet Ramsey. The name DAXIS was a clue to the identity of the writer. 

It was the letter “D” that Edwards used in his identity cipher that had to be placed on the “Zodiac axis” and in mirror image in order to solve it.

Zodiac Identity Cipher solved by placing "D" in mirror image on Zodiac axis.

The name DAXIS E-MAILS was a clue to put the D on the Zodiac axis. When Neal Best solved the Zodiac identity cipher in 2010, the “Ds” in mirror image placed on the Zodiac axis was the solution. It named Edward Edwards as the Zodiac killer.







In November 1960, Larry Peyton and Beverly Allan were murdered — probably by the same guy who would later commit the Zodiac killings in California. The above video is is a presentation given at The Jack London Bar in Portland on Halloween night, 2013, about the Peyton-Allan murders and the man who probably committed them: serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards. Police did arrest a man named Edward Wayne Edwards a few days after Peyton's body was found. Edwards and a friend had been hanging around the crime scene, and Edwards had a bullet wound in his left arm. There was a bullet hole in the windshield of Peyton's car and there was a theory that Peyton, who fought with his killer and was known to carry a gun, put it there. Edwards escaped from Rocky Butte jail and went on to a long criminal career. In 2009, he was arrested in connection with a 1980 double murder in Wisconsin that was, as Phil Stanford writes in The Peyton-Allan Files, "a virtual carbon copy of the Peyton-Allan murders." In 2010, he confessed to the 1977 murder of a young couple in Ohio. Stanford wrote several letters to Edwards, asking about the bullet wound. He gave Edwards small amounts of money, $20 and then $30, "to get his attention." Stanford said he didn't think the money compromised his contacts with Edwards, who denied any involvement in the Peyton-Allan murders and said his girlfriend shot him, at his instruction, because she thought he was working for the CIA. [Transcript of Video]

Free PDF of Edwards' Book “Metamorphosis of a Criminal”



SUMMARY OF HOW EDWARDS WAS CAUGHT

SOURCE: NBC 15 NEWS

On August 9, 1980, 19-year-old high school sweethearts Tim Hack and Kelly Drew were last seen around 11 p.m. leaving a wedding reception at the Concord Hall dance hall in rural Wisconsin.

They were reported missing the next day after Hack's car was found parked at the Concord House. Five days after the couple's disappearance from the dance hall, items of Drew's clothing were found along a roadway. Their decomposed bodies were found nearly three months later at the edge of a woods (Kelly, who was found nude) and in a corn field (Hack, who was found clothed) along Hustisford Road south of Highway 16 between Watertown and Ixonia.

According to the complaint, witnesses recall that Edwards was at the dance hall the night of the couple's disappearance. It also says witnesses reported Edwards having a bloody nose the same weekend.

On September 8th, 1980, a month after the couple went missing, Jefferson Wisconsin police interviewed Edward Wayne Edwards, living with his wife and children in a campground adjacent to the Concord House. Edwards reported he injured his nose while deer hunting. Authorities believe Edwards initially lived with his family in the campground in the summer of 1980 and later moved to a home about three miles from the dance hall.

John Bender said his mother opened the Concord House in 1973. Bender, who was 16 in 1980, worked at the campground and remembers that Edwards usually wore bib overalls and did odd jobs for the campground in exchange for camping fees.

The murders went unsolved (in the image below is the partial timeline provided to John A Cameron by April Edwards Balascio, Ed’s oldest daughter).



In 2007, evidence was re-submitted to the state crime lab and a DNA profile was created. Drew's clothing items that were recovered back in 1980 were submitted and investigators found semen on her pants.

On March 9, 2009, NBC15 News profiled the unsolved case... which generated tips. The one tip that mattered was from Edwards' daughter April Edwards Balascio, who had seen the NBC special and remembered that when she was a child her father had taken her and her brothers to a field where bodies were found.

NBC 15 News reported that "investigators received a tip after NBC15 News profiled the case in March of 2009. Det. Sgt. Larry Lee with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said: "The tip made us look at Edwards hard as a suspect, and when we looked at him, things were starting to fall into place as him being a possible good suspect. Obviously good enough we were able to get a search warrant for his DNA."

On June 9, 2009, Wisconsin investigators went to Edwards' home in Louisville with a search warrant to obtain DNA evidence. He denied recognizing the names Hack and Drew, but told investigators he remembered living in the campgrounds next to the Concord House in 1980 and that he remembered being interviewed at the time of their disappearance. Edwards said he had never been deer hunting and the only time he hunted was for elk in Colorado. In another police interview, when the couple was described to Edwards, he says he may have seen them or maybe they had seen him as he had a couple of beers at the bar at the dance hall.

On July 8, 2009, DNA from semen on Drew's pants was connected to DNA from Edwards. "Due to new information, investigators from the Sheriff's Department and Department of Justice developed Mr. Edwards as a person of interest. Mr. Edwards is implicated by DNA evidence as well as other corroborating evidence," the sheriff said.

On July 30, 2009, Wisconsin investigators, armed with a DNA match, arrested Edwards at his home in Cedar Heights Mobile Home Park in Louisville, Kentucky, for the murders of Hack and Drew. Edwards did not waive extradition to Wisconsin.

It was first reported that "DNA analysis says Edwards is a possible match for fluids." At the time their bodies were discovered in 1980, authorities said decomposition prevented autopsies from determining the causes of death. However, in August of 2009, police stated that Drew was probably strangled and sexually assaulted while Hack was stabbed to death.

Public defender Jeffrey De La Rosa, representing Edwards, said his client would plead not guilty. De La Rosa said the state has no confessions or admissions from his client at this point. De La Rosa said he had not analyzed the evidence prosecutors say link Edwards to the murders.

District Attorney Susan Happ requested and was granted a cash bail of two-million dollars, saying her case was a strong one - with DNA evidence linking Edwards. Prosecutors said DNA from semen found on Drew's pants matched Edward's. She said Edwards has a criminal record, no ties to Wisconsin and was facing two life terms, if convicted. "In 1980, as soon as police talked to him, he packed up his entire family... in the middle of the night during the school year and left without any advanced notice to his landlord or to his employer," Happ told the court.

The defense disputed that is was a strong case, telling the judge the state has little physical evidence tying Edwards and no admission.

Court records show that investigators questioned Ed Edwards in Louisville after his July 30, 2009 arrest. In the complaint, he apparently denied knowing who killed the couple. He also denied being with Drew when she was killed.

Jeff De La Rosa said he was not talking or thinking about a plea for his client. "I think you assume DNA evidence is infallible... It's not. Lots of things can happen," De La Rosa said.

In April 2010, Edwards wrote a letter to Summit County, Ohio prosecutors, encouraging them to interview him about an unsolved double homicide of a couple in Ohio in 1977.

On May 4, 2010, a detective from Norton Police in Ohio and a representative from the prosecutors office made the trip to visit Edwards and spent three hours interviewing him. He told them that he killed a couple (Judith Straub, 18, and Billy Lavaco, 21) in 1977. Their bodies were found in a park in Norton, Ohio. Both had been shot point-blank in the neck.

On June 9, 2010, in a Jefferson County, Wisconsin courtroom, Edwards admitted, as part of a plea deal, to killing Tim Hack and Kelly Drew in 1980.

He was sentenced in Wisconsin to two consecutive life terms. He also was sentenced in Ohio to two consecutive life terms.

On June 16, 2010, in a jailhouse interview with the AP, Edwards admitted to killing his foster son, Dannie Boy Edwards, in 1996 in Ohio.

Edwards told The Associated Press he killed five people, no more.

Edwards said he confessed to killing Danny Boy to get the death penalty. "I deserve it .. want the death penalty," Edwards said.

Mike Drew, the brother of one of Edwards' victims, Kelly Drew, said he's convinced Edwards has more victims.

"I guess I have the same question everybody else does... How many more are out there? There's certainly gonna be more," Mike Drew said.

"It's amazing, but he's a con man. He knows how to play the game, and I think now he figured out killing Judy and Billie didn't put him on death row, and he seems to want to be on death row, so that's why he probably confessed to killing Danny Boy," Drew said. "It's sad... Here's five people he's confessed to killing, in just over a week."

Edwards public defender in Wisconsin, Jeff De La Rosa, said Edwards confessed to spare his family. "There'd been at least one family member subpoenaed... didn't want to see him... wife, didn't want to have her endure trial," De La Rosa said.

Edward Edwards told Todd Richmond of The Associated Press, "You hear a lot of people say conscience get the best of you... just didn't think of it... didn't bother me."

SUMMARY OF EDWARDS' TIMELINE OF INCARCERATION

SOURCE: MADISON.COM

1948: Sent to reform school in Pennsylvania.

1950: Returned to Akron, started committing burglaries; left juvenile detention in Akron to join the Marines; went AWOL from Camp LeJeune, N.C.; arrested in Jacksonville, Fla.; dishonorably discharged from the Marines.

April 1952: Sentenced to a federal reformatory in Chillicothe, Ohio, for two years for impersonating a Marine and interstate transportation of a stolen car.

April 1955: Broke out of Akron, Ohio jail while being held on burglary charges.

1956: Caught in Montana after a series of armed robberies, sentenced to penitentiary in Deer Lodge.

July 1959: Released in Montana, taken to Portland to stand trial for two armed robberies in 1956, sentenced to five years of probation.

1960: Broke out of jail in Portland, Oregon, where he'd been arrested for turning in a false fire alarm (pages 268-274). Questioned in connection with a double murder of a young couple. Traced to Colorado, where he cashed some checks on a Portland Bowling Club of which he was a member.

Nov. 10, 1961: Added to FBI's 10 Most Wanted fugitives list. A federal warrant charged him with unlawful interstate flight to avoid confinement after a robbery conviction.

Jan. 20, 1962: Captured in Atlanta with wife, Marlene.

May 18 1962: Sentenced to 16 years in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.

February 1967: Transferred to Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania.

September 1967: Paroled from federal prison.

1971-1973: Touring as a speaker on prison reform and published autobiography on his "rehabilitation".






September 1980: Left Wisconsin after being questioned about the Hack/Drew murders.

December 1982: Incarcerated in Pennsylvania prison for arson.

July 1986: Released from Pennsylvania prison.

July 30, 2009: Arrested in Louisville, Kentucky for 1980 murders of Timothy Hack and Kelly Drew.

June 9, 2010: Confessed to five murders. After his arrest on July 30, 2009 for a 1980 double murder in Wisconsin, Edwards wrote Ohio detectives in April 2010 to encourage them to visit him in prison in Wisconsin so that he could confess to an unsolved 1977 double murder in Ohio. On June 9, 2010, as part of a plea deal, he also confessed to the 1980 Wisconsin double murder on the condition that he first would serve his time in Ohio (he was sentenced to two life sentences in each state). On June 16, 2010, in a jailhouse interview with the AP, he admitted to killing his 25-year-old foster son in Ohio in 1996. He told the AP he confessed to killing his foster son because he wanted the death penalty. On March 8, 2011, a three-panel judge, upon his request, sentenced him to die by lethal injection. His execution date was scheduled for August 31, 2011.

April 8, 2011 - Died of natural causes at Corrections Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio.





In April of 1970, Edwards produced a religious motivational album (above videos). The album was a taunt to authorities to “catch him.” Edwards gained access to some of his victims through religious retreats.

Transcript of Edwards' 1970 Album







Composite Image of Zander Road Sign and Steven Avery Handwriting:

Edwards also was an FBI informant.

"Edward Wayne Edwards, going by the name Ralph Ulysses Brickenshaw, did do some work in Wilmington, NC. My father was a 32nd degree Mason and a union representative for the Carpenters in Charlotte, and that drew Edwards to us. My father went to a union meeting in San Francisco around 1971 at the height of Edwards’s Zodiac killings. Edwards was treated like a king here in North Carolina. At age nine my picture appeared in a full-page ad in one of the Charlotte newspapers. My birth date happens to be on the day the FBI busted Edwards in 1962. Edwards was hell-bent on dates, so he considered me to be his nemesis. And my name, Margene, was one letter off from the wife who left him, Marlene, when he was incarcerated at Leavenworth Prison after the FBI arrested him. In 1982, I went to the FBI for help, and they told me Edwards was an honorable man. Tell me one bank robber who was caught from the FBI's 'Most Wanted' list and went to prison and got out in five years. Isn't the penalty 25 years?! Name one person on a suspect list that actually extracted thousands of dollars posing as a psychiatrist while serving as an FBI informant." - Margene Marshall Morrison

"I would be happy to testify if Wayne Williams could get a new trial. Last month I was reading on the internet and I saw a 1970's picture of serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards. If you haven't read John Cameron's book 'It's Me' about Edwards, please do. Finally someone is saying what I said for years. Edward Wayne Edwards was killing men, women, and children all over the country. I just didn't have his name right. I kept reporting him as Ralph Ulysses Brickenshaw. But I drew a sketch of him. I remembered to look for a mole on his left cheek. They showed me a picture of him once and told me he was 'an honorable man' and I said 'No, he is a horrible person and I want you to remember I told you that!' The more I tried to get him stopped, the more my life was made hell. Edwards would call me and taunt me about his future murders. No one would even bug my phone. They just locked me up in a mental hospital. A few years ago a doctor told me that I did NOT have schizophrenia. Edwards came to my apt. in 1982, pushed through the door, and I found out that he had been following Wayne Williams. He also burnt me with a curling iron. He gave me a chance to run to the door but if we didn't make it out he was going to break my baby's neck. Can someone find out how he lost the tips of his fingers on the right hand? I was sleeping with a kitchen knife duct-taped around my hand and under the pillow in case when he broke in. No one would ever take me seriously. Then the book came out and said Edwards was a genius who killed 500 people, just like I thought. I've had depression and amnesia on and off since I was 12 years old because of Edwards. He was the Zodiac killer too, hell-bent on dates. I celebrated my first birthday the day he was busted by the FBI in Atlanta so he never gave me any peace." - Margene Morrison, December 22, 2015

"Edgar [J. Edgar Hoover ] was quite impressed with Edwards. That is what EWE told me. When I was a little girl and Nixon was President, the telephone repairman told my father that our phone had been bugged. At the time my father was a business agent for the Carpenter’s Union and it wasn’t the last time my dad and his union friends would be spied on. And we lived in the South. I know full well that the government failed me. They may have even set out to hurt me so I didn’t become a troublemaker like my father and great-grandfather. Without EWE/RUB* making my life hell, I would have organized the Textile Mills. That is probably what I would have done with my life. That is why I have a picture hanging on my wall of Ella May Wiggins. I knew him. I spent years of my life trying to get LE, FBI, CIA, JFK Researchers, ETC. to listen to me! I knew him as Ralph in North Carolina. After so many years I just figured I was crazy, and if he had been a genius with credentials that said he was a government agent, then surely to God he would be dead. Then I saw his pictures from the late 60’s to early 70’s on the internet. There was that Devil. How would you have liked to have spent your life trying to stop a serial killer? You would feel some obligation wouldn’t you? You know what some important person told me: 'We don’t want to open a can of worms.' If they had maybe some people would be alive, others wouldn’t be in prison for crimes they didn’t commit, and 2 of my babies wouldn’t have been taken overseas by their father. Apparently he had a close call in Seattle. Imagine my face when I looked at the picture of missing Jonathan Camacho in Washington State in the Post Office. Don’t tell me he couldn’t have killed all those people. I called the police on him back in the 1970’s and they acted like he was in charge of them!" - Margene Morrison, November 19, 2015