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Edward Wayne Edwards: Serial Killer

I was looking at some of the individual cases involving him.

The Larry Peyton and Beverly Allan case seems to be a reasonably likely case regarding him. He is known to have hung around the scene, was briefly arrested, and had a bullet wound at the time.

I actually came across this thread though looking to see what his health was like in 2001/2002 time frame. It was really bad in 2009.
 
I don't know the Avery case real well but I have issues with Edward Wayne Williams being to blame for every murder over 20 years. . . . .
 
It's like a conspiracy theory, but instead of every major catastrophe throughout history being blamed on a shadowy global cabal, it's a handful of murders being blamed on some guy.
 
I Am The Scum said:
It's like a conspiracy theory, but instead of every major catastrophe throughout history being blamed on a shadowy global cabal, it's a handful of murders being blamed on some guy.
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The word "some" does not work, it is most "high profile" murders from the late 1960s / early 1970s until the mid 2000s time frame.
 
geebee2 said:
News: Chandra Levy murder retrial granted by US judge

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33000019

Sure, it seems unbelievable, but Cameron is the real deal. I have the book.

Some facts about Cameron:

Cameron is retired police detective from Great Falls, Montana.
His career in law enforcement began in 1979.
He retired in 2005 as sergeant of detectives, working cold cases.
He has worked on FBI serial killer task forces, catching ritualistic child cannibal killer, Nathan Bar-Jonah.
His cases have been featured on America's Most Wanted, Dateline NBC
He helped produce a series known as "Most Evil" on Tru TV.
In 2010, he was working as an analyst for the Montana Board of Pardons and Parole, in Deer Lodge Prison, Montana.
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Thanks for chiming in. I ran into him over the course of the Steven Avery trial, and although it came from left field offered an intriguing theory.

Obviously, the sheer amount of murders attributed to him meets with argument from incredulity at first, but consider this:

The world record in modern times appears to be in the hundreds. A number of killers in the USA are 50-ish or more, dozens of proven convictions and others that were suspected but they were executed before being tried.

There's a number of them that killed as adolescents. One on youtube has a lengthy interview, about killing his brother by pushing him off a roof and onto a farm implement, rakes. The first chance Dahmer gets with his parents gone, he's killing his first victim.

You just can't dismiss him as a complete crank out of hand but most likely exaggerating his case. He's selling a book so getting the more sensational unsolved murders in there is obviously to his marketing benefit. Plenty of child killers, younger than 12 in the news. The claim in isolation is not bizarre. It would take a point-by-point refutation, no small task. He can be right about three and wrong about ten or whatever, who knows.
 
HenryLee said:
I remember reading a book(title escapes me) that maintained that the Cleveland Torso Murders, The Black Dahlia, The Texarkana Moonlight Murders(The Phantom) and The Zodiac(CA not NYC) were ALL committed by THE SAME MAN!!! It stretches credulity to say the least. That's a good 30+ year span.
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Not that I give any credibility to the stories in question, but why would a 30+ year span be a problem per se?
 
Skeptical Greg said:
Not that I give any credibility to the stories in question, but why would a 30+ year span be a problem per se?
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It is not just the 30 years but 30 years of the most high profile murder cases, most of whom experts think were NOT done by a single individual. They differ in apparent style, motivation, tools, etc.
 
I listened to the interview with Cameron and took a look at a few of the articles on Edwards on the web and found the whole theory far-fetched. A question for those who've followed this more closely than I: In the crimes to which Edwards confessed and for which he was convicted, did he show any special expertise at crime scene/evidence manipulation or demonstrate a tendency to frame others for his crimes?
 
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