Edward W. Edwards was convicted in 2010 of killing two Wisconsin teenage sweethearts in August 1980, a double-murder that had lengthy been a thriller. On the identical time, he additionally pleaded responsible to a double homicide in Ohio in 1977. In Wisconsin, Edwards killed Tim Hack and Kelly Drew, each 19, after they disappeared from a marriage reception in Sullivan, about 40 miles east of Madison. Searchers discovered their our bodies within the woods two months later. Police imagine Hack was stabbed and Drew was strangled by Edwards, who was working within the space at the moment. Edwards ultimately admitted to killing his foster son in June 1996. He was additionally linked to different murders in Ohio and Portland, Oregon, however he solely admitted to 5. He ended up serving his jail time in his native Ohio and died of pure causes there on April 7, 2011. Edwards, 77, was to have been executed by deadly injection 4 months later.
Proven above: Edwards, age 76 and sick on the time, makes his preliminary look within the Jefferson County Courthouse on Aug. 13, 2009.
