Some of the wrongful convictions linked to Edwards.
Deceased
- William Heirens, three 1945 Chicago, Illinois, murders, convicted 1946, died in prison 2012.
- Sam Sheppard, 1954 murder of his wife, acquitted after a retrial in 1966, died 1970.
- Burton Abbott,1955 San Francisco, California, murder of Stephanie Bryan, executed 1957.
- Kenneth Hansen,1955 Chicago, Illinois murder, convicted in 1995, died in prison 2007.
- Gerald Robinson,1980 Ohio murder,convicted 2006, died in prison 2014.
- Juan Corona, convicted of the murders of 25 migrant farm workers found buried in shallow graves in peach orchards along the Feather River in Sutter County, California, in 1971. ( Two trials ) Died in prison, March 2019.
- John Bernard Feit April 16, 1960 murder of schoolteacher Irene Garza in McAllen, Texas. Died in prison, February 12, 2020.
Released from prison
- Edward Jorgenson and Robert Brom, 1960 Portland, Oregon double murder of Larry Peyton and Beverley Allan, convicted in 1968. Paroled after 3 and 7 years respectively.
- Louis DiNicola Exonerated in 1994 of arson and murder charges after three died in a fire on August 30, 1979. Edwards was named as a witness against DiNicola in this 1998 filing : “(d) that false testimony from Defendant Edwards was used against Plaintiff in an effort to convict him in his second criminal trial”.
- West Memphis Three, 1993 triple child murder, convicted 1994, released in August 2011 after Alford pleas.
- Ryan Ferguson, 2001 Kent Heitholt murder, charges dropped November 2013.
- Charles Erikson 2001 Kent Heitholt murder, released January 2023.
- Ingmar Guandique 2002 Chandra Levy murder, new trial granted June 2015, released July 2016.
Still alive and in prison or facing retrial
- Wayne Williams 1979 – 1981 Atlanta child murders.
- Scott Peterson 2002 Laci Peterson (pregnant wife) murder.
- Steven Avery 2006 murder of Teresa Halbach.
- Brendan Dassey 2006 murder of Teresa Halbach.
- Edgar Patino 2008 Megan Touma murder ( pregnant woman, North Carolina ).
- Stobert Holt Convicted of manslaughter in 2010 after Edwards murdered Robert Wiles in 2008.
- Christopher Coleman Convicted in May 2011 for the May 2009 murder of his wife and two children.
- Darlie Routier 6/6/96 double child murder Rowlett, Texas. See discussion here and here. Moved to this section from “Possible” in November 2019. Although Edwards did not carry out this murder, I believe he ordered it. See https://darlierouterisinnocent.wordpress.com/
Possible
- Anthony Joseph Palmer, 1997 murder of eight-year-old Kirsten Hatfield in Midwest City, Oklahoma. Edwards planted DNA evidence.
- Gary Leiterman July 8,1969 murder of law student Jane Mixer Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- Larry Swearingen December 1998 abduction, murder of Melissa Trotter. Executed August 2019.
- Matthew Riley December 9, 2008 double murder Sacramento, California.
- Michael Skakel 1975 Martha Moxley murder, convicted June 2002, new trial granted October 2013, released on bond. November 2013, conviction re-instated December 2016. The Connecticut Supreme Court vacated the conviction on May 4, 2018. Note: this is listed in “It’s Me”, and was previously in the section above, but although there is some circumstantial evidence suggesting Edwards, on review in January 2017, it seems to me there are two more likely alternative suspects.
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You have Steven Avery on here, however, if you believe Steven Avery should be on this list, you may want to add Brendan Dassey to this list as well.
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True! Will add his name.
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I could almost go along with this until I saw Scott Peterson. Get real man. You should do more digging instead of blaming every murder on this guy.
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Scott Peterson is interesting because I already (not without some difficulty!) figured out he was innocent before I ever heard of Edwards or decoded the “I killed Laci Peterson” short code signature last March ( see https://geebee2.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/scott-peterson-edward-w-edwards-ilkp-code-cracked/ ).
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Does anyone know where he was in 1999?
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John Cameron’s timeline has
“October 2, 1999. Roosevelt National Forest. 99 miles north of Boulder Colorado. Edwards kidnaps three year old Jaryd Attadero as he hiked along a trail with 11 members of a “Christian Singles Group” from Denver Colorado.”
Otherwise I suggest joining https://www.facebook.com/groups/EdwardEdwards/ and asking there.
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How is he linked to the Wm3? Im curious as to where that information came from?
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It’s Chapter 31 in John Cameron’s book, pages 275 to 280.
It’s hard to summarise the chapter here, but Edwards appeared in a HBO documentary about the case, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sVsqo9Alf8
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How the hell do you link Edwards to Gerald Robinson? Didn’t they find the weapon (letter opener) in Robinsons office? The same with Skakel (Kennedy relative) there were eye witnesses that reported him as being the last person she was seen with amongst other proof. The reason he got out of prison early was because he was a Kennedy.
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Michael Skakel I don’t believe it was Edwards ( John Cameron stated that in his book, but without evidence ).
Gerald Robinson is per John Cameron, I have not looked at it myself.
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Edwards would have been 13 at the time of the Dahlia and lipstick murders. Not sure how you reconcile the idea of a 13 year old cross country serial killer. I’m sure 13 year olds are capable of it, but the butchering and cover up that was involved is out of the realm of possibilities. You might as well say Edwards was D.B. Cooper being the composite resembles Zodiac slightly.
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Turns out he forged his birthday, he was actually born May 30, 1928 not June 14, 1933, which was pretty clever. See e.g. wikipedia which has note or the timeline for this site.
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