As they investigated the case, police grew convinced that Ed Humphrey might be their most likely suspect. He didn't want to go to school because he didn't want to see anybody. 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. Still, Rolling has pleaded innocent--and Don Lykkebak expects Ed will be a target in the trial. And so Grandma was bleeding and everything, and I got, like, a cloth and stuff and tried to help her out. "We made a mistake.". 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. Ed remembers their reaction: "Oh, it's a celebrity.". "I've got feelings, too, and that stuff really hurt me. Before moving to Edward's current city of Palm Bay, FL, Edward lived in Melbourne FL and Indialantic FL. More than a week later, The Sun reported another leak of damaging information about Humphrey. He was under surveillance for reports of odd behaviors, like wearing camouflage, and he had an obsession with knives. To do so, he claims, would jeopardize the prosecution. "That's all I need.". And I said, 'Holy sh--.' In plaid shorts, Humphrey hunched down to make sure he could catch the cat before it ran out onto the street. The red sun marched its way toward the horizon, whipping at my windshield as I drove back to Gainesville. He returned gasping for breath, and asked me to come back later in the day. That man, Danny Rolling, had told her that one day he was going to leave Shreveport, where they lived. And now, he doesn't volunteer his history unless people bring it up. "The first night I was in there, no one told me anything," he says. She had been raped and stabbed multiple times and had been mutilated. The muster roll references 44 names. When asked if she ever felt that her husband was treating her son inappropriately, she said, "Sure, I guess.". After his arrest, Humphrey lived in a 10-foot-by-10-foot concrete cell at the Brevard County Jail. 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. His grandmother, now passed away, forgave him. Law enforcement officials, as well as the prosecutors office, regretted the way Humphrey had been treated. Some had already begun to move their children out of the city, which is busiest during the school year. One grocery store clerk called him at kome later. I don't want people to know who I am. Following the sentencing, Manny Taboada's brother, Mario Taboada, stood up and shouted, "You're going down in five. Along with the similarities in which the victims were killed, there were other patterns investigators noted. Ed's dad, family friends told investigators, had a ferocious temper. Edward Lewis Humphrey, 19, was found guilty Wednesday of battery on a person over 65. He drove to Orlando on a blustery fall day in a black 1978 Cadillac that gets 10 miles to the gallon. I had to have my husband stop at the side of the road, and I looked outside and the stars were shining. 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. Maines said they found out that the suspect had broken in by wedging a screwdriver into the door jamb. It was a nasty, turbulent, protracted parting that left Ed's mother--a devout Catholic--devastated. I felt bad for him. And I'll never be able to forget it. Their leads took them to Humphreys doorstep. Meanwhile, Lykkebak hopes eventually to get Ed's record wiped clean of a felony --a move that would require a governor's pardon. 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. "And he said, 'Yeah, I'm the one.'". "It was important because he was participating in the confession," Hewitt said. A classic film noir, it features a great cast and a great storyline. "Should I smile? Mrs. Hlavaty died about 56 hours before the grand jury decided her grandson Ed should not be charged in the Gainesville murders. "He always told us ' One day, I'm going to leave this town and I'm going to go where the girls are beautiful and I can just lay in the sun and watch beautiful women all day,'" Juracich said. "Ed--everywhere he went he caused a scene," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Sgt. When he was arrested for hitting his grandmother and questioned by state agents, sources say, Ed spoke of someone named "John" and claimed to have knowledge of the Gainesville killings. Most of my friends got 1200 or something. 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. Maines said Rolling fled the home after police issued a warrant for his arrest. For several years, the whole family lived with Ed's maternal grandparents. "He has been persecuted. She briefs him before interviews; she and his attorney decide which questions he'll answer. "Danny committed these crimes for one reason only -- he loved it.". His grandmother would later try to drop the charges, insisting Ed never hit her, that she accidentally fell into the fireplace. 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. When she saw Rolling, she ran back to her bedroom, where she tried to lock her door. Sonja Larson and Christina "Christi" Powell were new students at the University of Florida in 1990. Would he demand I leave? How could this possibly happen? "VVhen he was not taking his lithium, he was a clearly diagnosed manic-depressive," Marti Mackenzie says. in 11th grade, and I got an 850 on that, which is, like, really low. "My mouth dropped open when he told me," she says. His bail, originally set at $10,250, spiked to $1 million. 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, 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. "I think Ed could have done something like this," he told them. He had a violent history, an unstable personality. "I wanted to be there in the front row if I could. I had learned he had married and had a daughter. "The main thing that triggered it was Dad putting all this pressure on me to get into a really good college and to make really good grades and do really good on the S.A T. Well, I took the P.S.A.T. When Ed first got out of prison, he tried living in Orlando with his older brother, George, who gave him a cellular phone to carry around as protection. There was a large window from the ceiling to about waist high, so they could see his every move. And lately, it turned out, he'd been totally out of control-threatening people, talking about Satan, carrying knives and wearing camouflage. He would, for many years, remain connected to the Gainesville murders, though he played no role. I just looked at God, and I said, 'God, why? Later, after Ed has gone, one approaches the young woman behind the counter. Ed Humphrey, on that August morning, had not been taking his medication for some time. Rolling confessed to the murder of Larson and four others and was executed in 2006. WebEdward Humphrey 's birthday is 10/05/1971 and is 50 years old. But that's pretty much how I feel.". He was rambling. Humphrey's bail was set at $1-millionand he remained behind bars until well after investigators set their sights on a new suspect: Danny Rolling. On it, he admitted to killing 55-year-old William Grissom, 24-year-old Julie Grissom and 8-year-old Sean Grissom in Shreveport. "One day, I picked up the phone, I called Crime Stoppers, and I said, 'I think there's one guy y'all need to investigate -- Danny Rolling.'". All of Gainesville shuddered. He demanded officials exonerate his brother. He was in a wheelchair for weeks. This time, deputies couldn't just tell Ed to cool off, then file the fight away on an incident report. Sonja Larson and Powell's families became unable to reach them just days after they moved in. "No offense." Ten years ago, 18-year-old Ed Humphrey seemed to be Florida's Public Enemy No. One piece of this wall has remained unchanged for more than 30 years: The section where the names of all five victims are painted in remembrance: Sonja Larson, Christina Powell, Christa Hoyt, Manuel Taboada, Tracy Paules. He caught a glimpse of a tall young man climbing the stairs. But months passed and Humphrey was never charged with the crimes, the Alachua County grand jury deciding that there was no case against him. "I should have just stayed in jail. Rolling also made it clear to investigators that he acted alone and that Ed Humphrey had no involvement in the student murders. Some of the other inmates had made threats. Karl Kennedy, a soft-spoken 70-year-old retired real-estate agent in California, was one of several hundred people who wrote Ed in jail, certain that he was a victim of injustice. But just as the fall semester was beginning, five students were killed in macabre fashion. "I can't blame them for making Ed a suspect, but I can blame them for sticking with it. 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. 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. And it goes to this officer that's in-the control booth and I'm like 'Yeah, how much longer do I have to sit in this cell, man? The families whose loved ones were murdered in Gainesville say they are grateful for the simple memorial that remains today. Family members had asked that the media not disrupt their privacy during the grand jury proceedings, but a reporter persisted in interviewing Mrs. Hlavaty. His friends didn't understand: You really don't need that stuff they'd say. The world was watching to see how and when they would catch the killer. 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