Former state attorney Rod Smith said that when investigators then searched his home, they found magazines about knives, guns and girls.Įdward Lewis Humphrey was an early suspect in the case of five grisly murders of college students in Gainesville, Fla. Humphrey was arrested just days after the murders and held in jail on a $1 million bond. He was known to carry knives, had been off his medication for a mental health disorder and had visible scars on his face from a car accident. Ed Humphrey had been arrested and charged with assaulting his grandmother, but investigators were taking a hard look at him for the student murders as well.ĭon Maines, an investigator on the case with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, said they received several tips pointing to Humphrey, then 18. ET on ABC.īy the time she reported Rolling, police had already arrested another man who they believed to be a suspect in the Gainesville murders.
“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.’” But news of the Gainesville murders haunted Juracich and, in November 1990, she decided to contact police on a hunch that Rolling was connected to the murders in both cities. Juracich said she dismissed these comments when she heard about them because she didn’t want to believe that Rolling could be responsible for the triple murders in Shreveport. “I said, ‘What kind of problem,’” Juracich said, “, ‘He likes to stick knives into people.’”
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