[11] In 2010, Moore and the 11 other death row inmates from Forsyth County filed a motion to convert their sentences to life imprisonment based on the state's Racial Justice Act. Three different men either married to or intimately involved with (Blanche Taylor Moore) died, or barely escaped death, from arsenic poisoning, an unusual cause of death. Blanche Kiser Taylor Moore (born February 17, 1933) is an American convicted murderer and possible serial killer from Alamance County, North Carolina.Moore is awaiting execution in North Carolina for her boyfriend's 1986 arsenic poisoning. They called him the "Chameleon" because he went by so many names and aliases. In 2003, he roamed the streets of Connecticut in his van that he dubbed his "murder mobile." [5] Within days of their return, Moore became severely ill and collapsed after eating a fast-food chicken sandwich that Blanche had given him. Their lives were cut short by James Bradley, who in 2013 was released from prison in Wilmington after serving time for the murder of his own 8-year-old step daughter. He scared everyone because he was killing with reckless abandon at random. In fact, Gaskins claimed he killed 200 hitchhikers. If you mix it together no one can tell the difference," he told The Sun in 2015. This is a list of notable female murderers who committed their murders in North Carolina, USA. Police believed the murders were the act of a serial killer, but could never find the culprit. Price is currently in jail after confessing to the brutal murders. DeAngelo is charged with killing 50 women and raping 13. John Joubert once said that when he was young he fantasized about killing his babysitter and eating her. Simpson, but nothing ever came of it. After Taylor's death on October 2, 1973, Moore and Reid began dating publicly. Although Harvey Robinson is known for being a young serial killer, Craig Price from Rhode Island was even younger. 1 is Henry Louis Wallace, who was charged with strangling 10 women in Charlotte in the mid-1990s. Between 1948 and 1980, Cole strangled and killed 13 women across multiple states because he said it felt like he was killing his mother, according to the Sioux City Journal. A fellow Kroger employee, Gloria Head, recalled visiting Reid in the hospital and seeing a container of red Jell-O in Blanche's purse. Blanche Moore's family was also devastated. He died of cancer in 1984. Since he was a minor at the time, he has not been sentenced for those crimes. It was making me ache. The story goes that Bartlett ran an inn with her family where she is said to have poisoned the guests with arsenic and would then ditch the bodies in a local corral. Several weeks later, he was at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. Albert DeSalvo confessed to all 13 murders, but his story didn't fully add up. Todd Kohlhepp, convicted of killing seven people, is considered one of the South's most notorious serial killers. On her behalf, church followers killed upwards of 40 people. Dwight Moore, the divorced pastor of the Carolina United Church of Christ in rural Alamance County. When 10 women were murdered in the mid-'90s in Charlotte, North Carolina, they all had one thing in common: They all knew Henry Louis Wallace. "I know everyone wants to know why I committed these crimes. He is currently on death row, waiting to fulfill his death sentence. They ended the lives of the five young women within the span of about six months. As the bodies began to pile up, investigators struggled to find the culprit. "He's crying because his murderer isn't coming to see him! He has been through too much. In 1962, she began an affair with Raymond Reid, the store manager. She wrote music in the past and spends her time writing poetry. He died in prison. At just 17 years old, Robinson attacked and raped five women, killing three of them, The Morning Call reports. He was found guilty on all 33 counts of murder and was put to death in 1994. Imprisoned at. Lavinia Fisher. Broad River Correctional Institution. William Devin Howell can best be described as a drifter. In the letter, Thomas allegedly confessed to killing Reid and trying to fatally poison Reid. One of Moore's attorneys, David Tamer, misappropriated client funds, including hers, and was convicted of embezzlement. They called him The Taco Bell Strangler and even made a movie about him. He was 50 years old. Moore is awaiting execution in North Carolina for her boyfriend's 1986 arsenic poisoning. Will Harris on Nov. 1, 1906, in Asheville killed five women and injured 12 before being killed by an angry mob. "Black Widow's" ex-husband reacts to death row challenge, Last edited on 24 February 2023, at 12:28, North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story, List of death row inmates in the United States, List of women on death row in the United States, "Blanche Taylor Moore remains on death row after 25 years", "Oxygen spotlights unassuming, Southern female killers, and Blanche Taylor Moore is one of them", "My First Supervisor Was a Serial Killer", "Deadly Dose Of Arsenic: Trial To Start In N.c. Blanche Moore, 57, Is Accused Of Killing Her Boyfriend. During the trial, the prosecution recounted Reid's agonizing death in meticulous and horrific detail. GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) The family of one of John Richardsons victims says he is a serial killer. During his sentencing, Pennel bizarrely asked to be put to death; however, he never admitted to the crimes. Kroger made Reid move around quite a bit, transferring him several times in 1979 and 1980 until he became a store manager at a Winston-Salem location. The American "Jack the Ripper" later became known simply as the Atlanta Ripper. If true, Williams could be guilty of killing close to 30 people. As he struggled to make his way into the country music scene, he took a job as a dishwasher at a local fast-food restaurant. She'll likely die from cancer (which she's fought in the past) or natural causes rather than for her crimes. If you want to look closer to home, South Carolina has had 162 victims and 3.03 per 100,000. Kimball was the last to see all of them alive. She flatly denied slipping arsenic to either of her husbands or Reid. Despite killing 11 of her own family members, Nannie Doss never broke a smile and was nicknamed "The Giggly Granny." Get the Android Weather app from Google Play, Have a tax filing extension this year? He was sentenced to death and met the electric chair in 1989. That's probably because, statistically as far as we know, women are responsible for around 11% of all murders. There are hundreds of them, categorized by those named killers think Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy and those whose identities have not been discovered, such as the Boston Strangler and the Zodiac Killer. That confession letter is one of the many bizarre facets of this grim saga. Here's what Insider had to say: The 20-month old toddler was the son of famous transatlantic aviator, Charles Lindbergh and his wife. In 1999, the Discovery Channel's The New Detectives series, Season 4, Episode 6, "Women Who Kill", featured Blanche Taylor Moore's crimes. ", NC mom finally gets refund from Southwest Airlines holiday meltdown, Tom Sizemore dead at 61 after suffering brain aneurysm, Car crash survivor delivers emotional performance on 'Idol'. The discovery of the corpses led to another newsflash: The area had a serial killer. In each case defendant was frequently alone with the victim in the hospital, and medical testimony suggests that certain of defendant's visits in which she fed the victim corresponded with an onset of symptoms characteristic of arsenic poisoning. . The shocking discovery led to an investigation. [6] Schutze found evidence that seemed to indicate that Moore set up Hutton in the sexual harassment suit, and she may have intentionally set the two fires. That murderer turned out to be David Meirhofer, who confessed to four other murders during a four-hour interrogation. They nicknamed him "The Green River Killer.". [7], In 1993, author Jim Schutze wrote a book about the murders, entitled Preacher's Girl. Paul Bernardo Paul Bernardo operated primarily out of east Toronto city of Scarborough with his wife, Karla Homolka. So although it's hard to choose just one killer that terrorized the state, Robert Hansen seems to leave a really bone-chilling scare. On May 31, 2003, Rudolph was arrested by police officer J.S. She was born Blanche Kiser in Concord, North Carolina, but spent much of her adult life in Alamance County. DNA tests found Gary Ridgway was the murderer, and he confirmed that fact by confessing to over 75 murders. In an interview with the Daily News in 2010, Rifkin said, "I was surprised I didn't get caught sooner.". Five other relatives, including his mother, were convicted of murder. [10] Because of the automatic appeals in progress, Moore has been able to avoid execution for over 31 years. He would rob, rape, and kill his victims. Since then, he raped and killed at least seven other women during his time in Kansas City, Missouri, the Daily Mail reports. Some believe his stabbings were racially motivated because the majority of his victims were African American. Susie Lynchs aunt, Susie Sharp, was the first elected female chief justice of a state supreme court. By 1932, he killed and robbed five people, according to the New York Daily News. He stuffed their bodies in barrels in the woods. The Southside Strangler, Richmond unmondoaccanto (blog) Timothy Spencer, better remembered as the Southside Strangler, began his killing spree as early as 1984. Some never were found. Robert Kenneth Wayne Stewart on March 29, 2009, in Carthage killed eight women and injured two and was sentenced to life in prison. In October 1990, Blanche Moore went on trial in Forsyth County for the death of Raymond Reid. Charles Edmund Cullen was the "Angel of Death" killer, and he killed upwards of 40 people over his 16-year career as a nurse in New Jersey. She was sentenced to life in prison and is still there to this day. She rose to head cashier, the highest position a woman could hold at the time and was said to be a good employee. He and the other accomplice are now serving their life sentence in prison. Gacy would sexually assault the boys, strangle them with rope, and then bury their bodies under his house. Charlene got out of jail in 2013 after serving a 16-year sentence. Eventually, an undercover cop was picked up by Pennell and she noticed his van was covered in blue carpet. Rogers may be the murderer of Nicole Simpson not O.J. In fact, she denied ever seeing him "have any food at all during that time" or having ever taken food to him in the hospital. Although Carroll Edward Cole's crimes weren't committed in Iowa, he grew up in the state that seemingly shaped his life into a serial killer. I don't have an answer. Let it come. "She's guilty I think, you know, I think she did it," one man said during the hoopla surrounding the trial 29 years ago. In California, he was "Gordon Jensen" where he killed two other women who were mothers of his babies. Instead, he was known as the I-5 killer after he murdered over 40 people along the interstate in Oregon state in the early '80s. He told authorities he started his killing spree because his parents did not approve of his girlfriend, according to Wyoming History's website. She left Kroger on Oct. 17, 1985. Kimball killed his uncle, his cellmate's girlfriend, and a 19-year-old girl. The nurse testified that Blanche often brought Reid food from home such as iced tea, frozen yogurt, milkshakes, and soups. Dwight Moore testified that during the summer of 1985, Blanche showed him a bottle of Anti-Ant and asked him to buy some for her from Byrd's Food Center in Glen Raven. series following some of the most gruesome crimes. But he was fired one night in 1994, apparently setting him down a murderous path. In the early 1900s, Lady Southard murdered her four former husbands, her brother-in-law, and ever her own daughter by poisoning. Many knew 57-year-old Blanche Kiser Taylor Moore as a middle-aged churchgoer with a grandmotherly appearance and a cool demeanor - the last person you'd suspect of being a serial killer. Since he worked as a clown performer for children's parties, he would often kill his victims while wearing the clown costume that he called Pogo the Clown. After California,Texas, with 893, Florida, 845, Illinois, 629, and New York, 628, sit atop that list. She was also charged with assault with a deadly weapon for the poisoning of Moore. But investigators believe this serial killer murdered at least 11 people around the country. The mere sight of a woman enraged these feelings made them pulsate and grate in the pit of my stomach.". Dennis Lynn Rader is better known by his other name: the "BTK Killer." Doctors Lucas Wong, Jonathan Serody, Mark Murphy, and George Sanders, after discussions with the hospital toxicologist, ordered a toxicology screen to check for herbicide poisoning. In the book, he calls his need to kill his "bothersomeness." North Carolina hasn't executed an inmate since Aug. 18, 2006. Blanche Kiser Taylor Moore (born February 17, 1933) is an American convicted murderer and possible serial killer from Alamance County, North Carolina. After pushing her car off the road, he grabbed her and pulled her into a ditch. Corll almost got away with the murders of almost 30 young boys because no one suspected him; he was a straight-laced man who worked at his mother's candy factory. In each of the murders, he broke into their homes, raped and sodomized them, and then strangled them with a belt or rope. Holes, in his book, Unmasked: My Life Solving Americas Cold Cases, writes that he has seen statistics suggesting there are some two thousand serial killers prowling the United States today, operating in a way that allows them to stay hidden, as DeAngelo had. Starkweather was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to death. Reid, not known as someone who got sick much, missed more than four weeks of work during the next few months. ", According to court records, Dr. Guinn noted that on June 24, 1986, the arsenic in Reid's hair sample was "roughly 70 times the normal level.". Robert Sylvester Alston, who turns 53 in two weeks, is serving four life sentences at the Columbus Correctional Institution in Whiteville on four counts of second-degree murder and kidnapping and rape in the second degree. [6] Blanche had to hide her budding relationship with Moore because her lawsuit against Kroger maintained that she was "completely alienated and antagonistic towards men and has not been able to maintain any meaningful social contacts with the opposite sex. He is charged in the death of Michael Hemphill, who died Feb. 1 after being shot on Yanceyville Street in Greensboro in late January; the killing of Mark Anthony Gilbert Jr., whose body was found on West Terrell Street in Greensboro on March 10; and in the disappearance on March 25 of James Goolsby, whose body was found buried in Virginia in mid-April. Rank the Most Wicked 19th Century American Criminals. Despite hospitalization, his condition deteriorated further, threatening multiple organ failures and death. Between the years of 1992 and 1994, the City of Charlotte was home to a man who would become the city's most prolific serial killer. He was found guilty on three murder charges and was facing the death penalty, but in 2000 it was overturned to a life sentence. She maintains her innocence to this day. The letters stand for "bind, torture, kill" and that is exactly what he did. "In each case, defendant was heard to say that she hated the victim or that the victim was cruel or evil. They were between the ages of 15 and 18, a 911 call just outside of Columbus, Ohio, more of a cartoon character than a serial killer, four of her husbands, one of her mother-in-laws, her two sisters, her grandson, her nephew, two of her own children, and even her own mother, drafted into the NFL to play for the Green Bay Packers, 40 people along the interstate in Oregon state in the early '80s, he broke into a 5-year-old girl's home, raped, and strangled her, 1987, when he was just 13 years old, he stabbed Rebecca Spencer to death. State handwriting experts, however, said Blanche Moore wrote the letter herself. I do not know myself," he said at the time. Moore was charged as a serial killerbecause she is believed to have killed a series of people since 1966, including her father, a mother-in-law, a husband and almost a second husband. The story of Polly Bartlett dates all the way back to 1868 and is surrounded by local lore. Later, Rogers would be connected to two other murders of women with red hair and found slain in their bathtubs. Thirteen women were killed in their own homes. Brenda Green, a Kroger co-worker, testified that she heard Blanche recommend Anti-Ant to a customer as a good ant killer. MARCH 28: James Devon Goolsby was reported missing after last being seen in the 1000 block of Summit Avenue in Greensboro three days earlier. Hawaii is the lowest, at 0.71, with only 10 victims (tying New Hampshire for the second-lowest count). He was sentenced to death. Simpson, but nothing ever came of it. According to several witnesses, Blanche told doctors in the moments after Reid's death that "We cannot have an autopsy. When finally caught, Hansen confessed to murdering 17 people but was only convicted for four. She has been at the N.C. Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh since Nov. 16, 1990. All over my body. He was sentenced to 224 years in prison, but he died in prison of a heart attack in 2002. The relationship deepened, and marriage was discussed. In 1954, she began working as a cashier at Kroger. Although she confessed, she was not put to death because she was so young instead, she was sentenced to life in prison. Her killer cut up her body. Cullen only confessed to the 40 murders, but investigators and experts believe his body count might reach the hundreds. [5], After several days of extreme nausea and vomiting, Moore was admitted to Alamance County Hospital on April 28. By 1973, Corll had killed 28 boys in Texas just outside of Houston. He dismembered their bodies and disposed of the pieces all over New York. Iheart.com in 2021 compiled a list of worst murders to take place in North Carolina, and it included Gary Michael Hilton, who was charged with kidnapping, murdering and beheading hikers in Florida and Georgia, as well as a North Carolina couple in a national forest in 2007. Two of his kills took place in Nebraska when he worked with the Air Force and the third happened in Maine when he abducted an 11-year-old boy who went out for a jog. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. They were between the ages of 15 and 18. After Lopez's arrest in 1980, police found the graves of more than 50 of his preteen victims. He died Feb. 1, and the investigation was upgraded to homicide. After a brutal car chase, Kimball was arrested and plead guilty to four charges of second-degree murder. Eventually, movie theaters canceled shows, people stayed inside behind locked doors, and very few ventured outside. Notes from the ICU unit read in court showed repeated instances where Reid complained later in the day of being nauseated after having been fed by Blanche. APRIL 14: The Henry County Sheriffs Office in Virginia notifies detectives that Goolsbys remains had been dropped into the Mayo River from a bridge on George Taylor Road in Spencer, Virginia. He'd let them loose in the woods of Anchorage and then he'd hunt them down for mere pleasure. Ed Kemper is a particularly brutal serial killer who killed 10 young people, earning him the title "The Co-ed Killer." [2] He was sentenced to death for his crimes in South Carolina, and is currently awaiting execution. He was the fourth person to die in the electric chair after reinstatement of the death penalty in South Carolina. Blanche preferred to stay closer to home, working in Burlington her entire career, except for a brief stint at a store in Durham. Blanche Moore took the stand in her defense and denied ever feeding Reid in the ICU at the hospital. They called Donald Henry Gaskins "Pee Wee." He is currently serving his sentence in prison. ", Amy Anderson was the only woman to escape the clutches of Robert Leroy Anderson, authorities call him a serial killer that would have killed again if he had not been stopped, Corll had killed 28 boys in Texas just outside of Houston, He and the other accomplice are now serving their life sentence in prison, sentenced to death and met the electric chair in 1989, link him to a couple's murder in Burlington, Vermont, who killed four women in Southern Virginia, found guilty of raping and killing four women. August 14, 2002. He brought them to an abandoned house and shot Bill to death. Klenner also died in that explosion. Richardson could join him on that list. He was attending law school at the University of Utah at the time and tricked women with his clean, preppy looks. They were given the name "Sex Slave Killers.". His arsenic levels were 60 times higher than normal. On trial, Howell said he could not explain his motive behind the killings, referencing a "monster" inside him.