He takes a slug of coffee and fidgets with an unlit cigarette. I can't handle this.' "The first night I was in there, no one told me anything," he says. When I got a job, .when I got good grades in school, they weren't calling me. ", He pauses. When the discussion turned to a human anatomy class that McGrath was taking, McGrath said, Ed asked her what it was like to cut up bodies and if she ever took skin or body parts home to "mess around with it.". Due to the plea bargain terms, he was spared the death penalty, and on August 13, 1974, was given several terms of life imprisonment. Now he works six days a week, attends community college and wants to become an X-ray technician. But that's pretty much how I feel.". Deputy Pill had served with the Brevard County Sheriff's Office for 15 years and served in law enforcement for 30 years. His friends didn't understand: You really don't need that stuff they'd say. But Tuesday, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey took to Facebook to knock down various accounts about a prolific killer being on the loose or targeting random victims, News 6 partner Florida Today reported. These rumors began to circulate in various forms after several unrelated deaths occurred over a period of several days, Ivey wrote in a social media post that appeared on Facebook late Monday. As for his own behavior, Ed says: "I can't help it if my body (needs) lithium. He revealed that he decided not to kill at least another three young women he held at gunpoint because they talked to him, which "humanised" themselves to him. Her body was spotted in a ditch near the Interstate 95 overpass by a couple driving on the Beeline Expressway in February 1987. Does that make him a serial killer? He was rambling. [16][17], Since then, Giles has been moved around various penitentiaries around the state. Based on the evidence on the body, authorities were looking for a local suspect with military background and access to a boat. "I can't blame them for making Ed a suspect, but I can blame them for sticking with it. There are a few random cases of women with a genteel knack for poisoning, but serial murdering "black widows" are a small club indeed. Only time will tell if it was a case of serendipity or simply a weird coincidence. In it were detailed notes he hoped I would follow up on regarding unsolved murders in Brevard County and his belief that they may have been the work of a former Florida Highway Patrolman convicted of murder in 1990. "That was real bad, because I couldn't walk," Ed says. UPDATED 3:45 PM ET Jun. Creating unbelievably gruesome crime scenes that were designed to shock the people who had the misfortune of happening upon them, hestabbed his young victims to death, mutilatedtheir bodies, and posed their corpses in disturbing positions. Police believe the death was drug-related. There was some scuttlebutt online about our case, said Cmdr. He insisted on his innocence, and in early 1974, his lawyers filed a motion for a forensic medical examination, which was granted. Detectives are working to determine if foul play was a factor. "I don't want people to read about me. He was shot in the chest during a September 1981 robbery outside the liquor store where he worked. With the help of his cousin Fred Waterfield, David Alan Gore abducted and murdered at least six young women and teenage girls in Indian River County, Florida, in the early 1980s. Unfortunately, after the body was brought to the coroners office, an autopsy revealed itwas too decomposed to determine the cause of death. The children were identified as Joel Johnson, 12, Jazzlyn . Before that other bodies turned up in the river with the last three months, including a West Melbourne man and another in Titusville. As dawn broke on Oct. 28, 2020, investigators in Hernando County, Florida, began searching a cluttered six-acre property belonging to the Mansfield family. They wish it known that the Ed they know is a kind and decent young man. Name : ELEANOR SWIFT Location : 7801 Ridge Road, Seminole, Fl Date : 2/13/1987 Synopsis : This case is related to the murder of Opal Weil. And she nagged at Ed constantly. Bundy had at least 30 women and girls' deaths . Investigators did quickly notice a potential clue: black hairs in the duct tape that didnt belong to the victim, who hadauburn tresses. In the spring, two independent examinations were conducted, which determined that Giles did not suffer from any mental illnesses or abnormalities. He would not be here, sharing his birthday with the media, were it not for the publicist. Create your free profile and get access to exclusive content. He was executed in Florida in 1989. It would take two years for that tochange,thanks to a breakthrough case in California that used canine DNA. Dave Farley, a senior patrol leader, remembers hiking the Appalachian Trail with Ed, his assistant. Less than a month later, Bundy abducted 12-year-old Kimberly Leach from her junior high school in Lake City, Florida, and he sexually assaulted the young girl, beat her to death, and dumped her body in a remote area. Divers came out with a red and white nautical rope with burnt ends just like the cord used to bind Misty. She was bound by rope and duct tape, he told. A serial killer, cunning and profoundly evil, was on the loose. Dont forget to follow him on Twitter, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Why would someone embrace the names of their victims? My source made a compelling argument that this man may have been a serial killer responsible for other murders. "I'd come in and there would be books open and calculators out.". Discount stores, supermarkets, a slew of fast-food joints --a lot of places where he applied didn't bother to call, though Ed knew they were hiring. He surfed, played soccer and football, and joined the Boy Scout troop that his father founded, eventually becoming an Eagle Scout. According to records, he battered his wife and enjoyed humiliating her sexually. During his tenure as a highway patrolman, there were 16 unsolved murders of women in Brevard County. She is a savvy and persistent woman who tenaciously guards Humphrey's contact with the media. He apologized, cried and told his pursuers: "Please don't hurt me.". Sheriff's officials are withholding possible motives. According to FBI profiler, Robert K. Ressler, John Crutchley fit the profile of a serial killer, even though he was convicted of only a single non-fatal kidnapping and sexual assault. And it just dropped me into a depression. I really don't like reporters. On February 26, 1984, Wilder embarked on a seven-week-long cross-country trip, during which he murdered at least eight women, all aspiring models. "Oh, that's Ed," the kennel workers will say. In Florida, the serial killer Danny Rolling, and the female serial killer Aileen Wuornos. Among Humphrey's friends - a group of sixteen surfers, who called themselves the Clan - Humphrey was unofficially acknowledged as most likely to succeed," Bedesem says. It appeared that plastic bags from Publix Supermarket had been used to help submerge the body. There is still a court order not to discuss evidence m the case. View our online Press Pack. His first vile act was during a game of witch-hunt with a young girl neighbour of similar age, when he caught up with her in a back bedroom of her house and pinned her down. Alberto Luperon Feb 6th, 2022, 11:47 pm. Ed answered immediately, and the two have been exchanging letters at least once a month ever since. Even Ed's best friend at the time, Eric Bedesem (Scott's brother), had doubts. On July 23, 2000, in Merritt Island, Florida, a local judge thought he spotted a lifeless manatee floating in the waterway behind his home. Some women actually spared their lives by engaging me in conversations," he said. 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? For Ed's 21st birthday, he sent $221.21. Again, why are we obsessed with serial killers? Sheriff's officials said she was killed elsewhere and dragged feet-first to her resting place not long before she was discovered. "Here was a kid who was held up as a ass murderer," Mackenzie says. In late November, 1985, in Malabar, Brevard County, Florida, a nude teen woman, handcuffed at both feet and ankles, had been crawling along the side of the road. Ed, following his attorney's advice, won't talk about it--or anything else he may have said to police at the time. The next day Humphrey is reported to be running in circles and talking to himself on Patrick Air Force Base. "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. -- Twila Gay "Bobbie" Dowling, 28, of Melbourne. But just all of a sudden I got a real bad depression, a real deep depression. "And I was glad to do it.". Other times it appears to happen in an instant. Townson has confessed to two murders in Memphis, Tennessee, according to a charging affidavit in Little's. A closer look revealed that it wasn't a marine mammal near the mangroves, but something even more disturbing: a human body. Timothy Harris had several of the traits Tenga discussed. "The main thing is, I'm just like anybody else," he says. Police are withholding possible motives. A closer look revealed that it wasnt a marine mammal near the mangroves, but something even more disturbing:a human body. -- Julie Backstrom, 29, of Cocoa. I knew a guy once who actually displayed artwork painted by killer clown and serial killer John Wayne Gacy in his home. He was a manic-depressive off his medication. In 13 cases, police have little more than a body. Investigators then submitted the hairs stuck to white duct tape on Mistys body to a West Coast lab for analysis. Then, interestingly enough, she applied those traits to well-known fictional serial killers Hannibal Lecter, Norman Bates and everyone's favorite blood-splatteranalyst, Dexter Morgan. SOMETIMES WHEN YOU LOSE your emotional grip on life--when all the joy seeps out of living and every face becomes an enemy's- it happens so slowly you hardly notice. Ed's dad, family friends told investigators, had a ferocious temper. Her fully clothed body was found in a palmetto thicket, shot in the head, on December 10, 1973. He knew what was happening. He hates dredging this up. 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. You know, it affects my self-esteem. This is the first extensive interview Ed Humphrey has ever granted. He drove to Orlando on a blustery fall day in a black 1978 Cadillac that gets 10 miles to the gallon. The reports painted an eerie picture. As Ed talks about it now, his voice is small and his eyes diverted. Brevard's arrest capped an intense multistate manhunt with a $70,000 reward for his capture. It was shortly after midnight on Thursday when Misty stopped and asked her mother how she looked. At the same time, Cocoa Police were also working a missing person case involving a 31-year-old mother of four whose body was discovered in a remote wooded area in Osceola County. Copyright 2023 ClickOrlando.com is managed by Graham Digital and published by Graham Media Group, a division of Graham Holdings. On June 26, 2014, the 24-year-old male suspect was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. They wonder if his death could have been. After all, who wouldn't love to own Dracula's cape? Bonin, a Vietnam veteran, was convicted of four murders in Orange . This little fracas could have sent him back to prison. Her body was found beaten with a rock and dumped in a wooded area of Rockledge in March. A repeat offender accused of sucker punching an elderly Asian man in Chicago's Chinatown four years ago was found guilty of battery charges Wednesday. Case #87-15546 (Unsolved-447). His stabbed body was found on the beach there in November 1984. "Of course you do.". "I thought it was totally unfair," Ed says. Her disappearance led detectives on a hunt filled with shocking twists and turns. He may have more plastic surgery. Their bodies were found, in some cases raped, in orange groves or wooded areas in Brevard County. Published Oct. 20, 2017. State law allows for his or her identity to remain anonymous. He got out once a week--in leg chains and handcuffs--when his lawyer came, and twice a week to take a shower. HERNANDO COUNTY, Fla. - A family finally has some answers more than 40 years after a Tampa woman went missing. He confessed to the murder of Hamric, and during the trial, pled guilty to the murders of the three remaining girls, as well as a series of non-lethal attacks and attempted murders against others. His victims were all hitchhikers whom he picked up and drove at gunpoint to remote orange groves where he sexually abused and shot them. "There's this girl at work--Kelly--and she didn't know at all until today. She disagrees. Giles is currentlyBrevard County high security prison in Florida where he is serving life in prison for the murder of five women. Aileen Wuornos, then, was an exceedingly rare anomaly. On October 23, 2002, Huck, who Mistys father, Bob Morsecalled a gutless coward, was. FLORIDA TODAY's John A. Torres takes you to the scene of an actual John Preston "track" used in the 1983 case against Gerald Stano. Ed has what doctors call bipolar disorder--known more commonly as manic-depression, a devastating roller coaster of fantastical elation and utter despair. That would be Opa Locka with 66.7 murders per 100,000 people. Then last week, investigators across the county found themselves dealing with three unrelated deaths in public spaces within a six-hour time frame. In 2019, he received a second wave of fame after British journalist and TV host Piers Morgan visited Giles in prison to conduct an interview for one of his new segments. They went to police, where they provided a description of their attacker's appearance, his car, and even his name, which they had glimpsed in a book while riding in his car. Instead, more than a year later, the grand jury indicted Danny Rolling, a Louisiana drifter also charged in the attempted murder of his father. On bad days, witnesses claim, he would act out his military fantasies on the Indialantic boardwalk. "I didn't think I would ever be able to walk again. Giles is currently Brevard County high security prison in Florida where he is serving life in prison for the murder of five. Instead, he got 62 hours of community service at the local Humane Society--which liked him so much it hired him afterward. Neither will police talk. -- Kim Howe, 31, of Cocoa. [5][6], Sharon Mary Wilmer, 14, disappeared on November 5, 1973. He caught a glimpse of a tall young man climbing the stairs. Acquaintances claimed he went on late-night "missions" through the Alachua County woods. When I --what else?--oh, how about when I got off probation?". -- Nancy K. Brown, 25, of Rantoul, Ill. TED BUNDY: He is considered one of Florida's most notorious serial killers. He landed on a grassy shoulder and wasn't hurt badly, but he spent the next three months in a psychiatric ward. Five of those women were known prostitutes whose bodies were unceremoniously dumped on the side of the road, including one found just the month before Hendricks went missing. Ed was still serving 14 months probation at the time, and drinking was a violation of his terms. She had white duct tape around her mouth and eyes, all signs of a homicide. In 2020, according to an analysis of census data by Florida Today, 74% of Brevard County identified as white, an 11% drop from a decade earlier. He's only given his home phone number to one--Ed Humphrey. Police say money and drugs are among possible motives. Who is serial killer Bernard Giles and what crimes did he commit? Huck maintains his innocence and insists it was Misty's other ex-boyfriend who actually murdered her. Now, sitting on the beach, a breeze mussing his blond hair, having just let Eric borrow his surfboard, Ed says Eric was just trying to grab the spotlight, to make himself look good. It made his mouth dry. When the police arrested Ed, they put him in a solitary cell in the infirmary for 76 days. The investigation has cost more than $5 million, taken over 130,000 man-hours, amassed 1,500 pieces of evidence and involved more than 6,600 investigative leads. "I should have just stayed in jail. It was kind of funny really that it hadn't clicked before. He left her body in a wooded area in Indian River County, where it went undiscovered for weeks. "He was rambling things that could be totally misinterpreted. And if you recognize that, then no matter what this jail-house) interview says when it comes out, it's not going to mean sh--.". Crime News is your destination for true crime stories from around the world, breaking crime news, and information about Oxygen's original true crime shows and documentaries. As they spoke, Misty got a phone call that was so brief investigators theorized it was a call to say Im here from the person who picked Misty up. I hate having my picture taken.". Two studies that Tenga spoke about said we are likely to cross paths or interact with roughly a half dozen serial killers over the course of our lives. He looks around nervously. BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. For weeks a slew of seemingly mysterious deaths - from a suspected suicide found on the banks of a scenic riverside neighborhood to a body found lying in the middle of a roadway in a residential area of Port St. John - have turned up across Brevard. She was last seen at the Colonial Motel in Melbourne a few days before her body was found. Sheriff's officials can find no motives. Aileen Wuornos was eventually picked up on a . We need a backstory, an explanation because we don't like to believe the possibility that evil just exists. Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! He stabbed a young man 30 times and cut another woman's torso from her pelvis to her chest. The most famous victims connected to suspected serial killer Antonio Angles died in 1992: That, reported La Vanguardia, is when Antonia Gomez, Miriam Garcia, and Desiree Hernandez were attacked, raped, and killed while on their way to a high school party in the Alcasser region of Spain. Shortly after the killings, Rolling was arrested in the nearby city of Ocala for robbing a grocery store, and police learned he was wanted for a triple murder in his home state of Louisiana, leading them to suspect he might have killed the students in Gainesville. Tracy Paules and Manuel Taboada, both victims of Gainesville, FL murderer Danny Rolling in 1990. It's dangerousnot to fear them or be repulsed. Confessions Of A Serial Killer With Piers Morgan, Thursday, ITV, 9pm. His body was nearly nude, and he had been shot four times in the back of the head. "It sucked man.". (This is the day after the first murders are believed to have taken place, but before the victims, are discovered. Bundy was tried in Miami in 1979. The set was found in woods between Dairy Road and Hollywood Boulevard in south Brevard in December 1985. 13 Aug 1974", "5 Bodies Found in Grove; Giles Confesses He's Killer", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bernard_Giles&oldid=1140530346, This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 14:03. The two talked in June at the Krispy Kreme doughnut store where McGrath worked. [13], The Brevard County State Attorney's Office said that if convicted, they would seek the death penalty against Giles. In Palm Bay, police initially did not release information about the badly decomposed body of a man in his 50s found Jan. 15 in a wooded area off Biddle Street in the northeast section of the city. 0:00. A Brevard County convicted killer has become the third woman on Florida's death row. Brevard County is indeed home to a diversifying population. "Get his good side," offers Marti Mackenzie, the publicist. Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Bernard Giles talks openly about his crimes to Piers Morgan, The police mugshot of Giles shows his cold eyes. Contact Gallop at 321-917-4641 or jgallop@floridatoday.com . This earned him the ominous moniker of "The Beauty Queen Killer." Wilder's first victim was 20-year-old Rosario Gonzales, who was working at the Miami Grand Prix in which Wilder was a contestant. And, then, as far as newspapers go, half the things that lthey) deal with are just negative things about people. Wilder, 39, a wealthy Boynton Beach man, committed suicide during a shootout with New Hampshire state troopers in April 1984. Walker was last seen in June 1984 getting into a light-colored small car at a Micco convenience store. "It showed a picture of him, and he seemed trustworthy but kind of crestfallen. I am still his friend, and I think what happened to him is wrong. According to his testimony, he began to make his first attempts to attack girls in 1969, after dropping out of school, but was unsuccessful. The case is a homicide, however, Cocoa police were focusing on it being an isolated incident. "Should I smile? Walls received a sentence of life in prison for the murder of Alger and for the killings of three others he would later confess to. (The seven Brevard arrestees are overwhelmingly white, all men and have a median age over 40 a profile consistent with the majority of . Domenico Gigante, 36, faces four counts of first-degree murder for fatally shooting 15-year-old Kiarra Terwilliger and her mother Constance Terwilliger, a woman he was in a previous relationship with, according to Ivey. I just couldn't even sleep. She was sentenced to death Thursday morning. "It's hard to say what was inside my head. Ed remembers their reaction: "Oh, it's a celebrity.". Her mother, Linda Morse, told authorities she had last seen Misty three days earlieras shewas getting ready to go out. Detectives believed that shed been dumped in the water, possibly from a boat. The sheriff's office says it kept him there for his own safety--not as punishment--because he'd threatened suicide. Of course not, but what if he was? After a SWAT team rammed its armed vehicle into a Florida home early Tuesday, officers let loose a police dog to drag an alleged serial killer out of his hiding spot in the garage.The . "Ed, you see, not only has been locked up in a cell for 76 days, he's been sent to a psychiatric hospital, kept in prison for a year, had charges for everything under the sun, had all this stuff hanging over his head. It has been the biggest manhunt in Florida history. -- Ramona Lee Moore, 22, of Melbourne. Her nude body was found strangled, hands bound, eight days later. The victims were the parents of Heather Wendorf, a friend of Ferrell's.. Blood spattered an easy chair, the carpet, the coffee table. 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. The deputy put Humphrey in the back of his patrol car. Humphrey says 10 men chased him and that he pulled a pocketknife--not a razor--in self-defense. The way I- see it, he got the shaft when they sentenced him. Asource I was interviewing for the next season of my podcast series "Murder on the Space Coast," handed me a folder. In August 1990, Danny Rolling murdered five college students in Gainesville, Florida, home of the University of Florida. Then, he left the house, entered a nearby apartment, and assaulted Cheryl Thomas, leaving the college student with permanent physical and emotional damage. Investigators then submitted the hairs stuck to white duct tape on Mistys body to a West Coast lab for analysis. However, prosecutors told investigators that they still didnt have enough evidence that directly tied Huck to Misty. 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. He also decapitated her and posed the head on a bookshelf. While not all of the. -- A set of woman's bones, unidentified. We also have a serial killers collection - for the truly edgy crowd. "First of all, a lot of people watch TV a lot--five hours a day, on the average. "No offense." Brevard is a 30-year-old . Her death sentence was vacated on 12/6/90. CBS . A jogger running along James Road in west Cocoa in September 1987 saw Bradbury's nude body in a water-filled ditch. She was found nude, bludgeoned and tied to a burning bed in her home in April. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. He had been shot six times in the torso. Her hands and feet had been bound by red and white nautical rope tied in a distinctive cow hitch knot taught and usedby the Coast Guard. Due to chronic absenteeism and poor academic performance, he was forced to leave school at age 16, after which he mastered the trade of an electrician and began working. The family of 53-year-old John Marcano is distraught after his death following a crash into a Phantom Fireworks store which then erupted into flames. After his arrest, Bonin confessed, telling one TV reporter: "I couldn't stop killing. The neighborhood boy reported the shooting to the police, enabling the authorities to rescue Martin, nude and bound, from the attic of Gore's parents' home. He glances again at the photographer. It worked--but it also made him dull, sluggish, overweight. He only escaped the death penalty by confessing to the murders. Maybe it's because their behavior is so far from ours that it somehow makes them less real and more like monsters. ", He refused to carry the phone, but then he rarely left the house without George. I mean, I was amped. "It's been a while, you know?" After all, you definitely don't want to run into any serial killers from Florida. I thought, 'Here's a guy who's sort of down and I think I'll cheer him up.". Both women were found murdered in their bedrooms. [3], Nancy Gerry, 18, disappeared on September 26, 1973. INDIAN RIVER COUNTY A child found the body of what law enforcement officials said appeared to be a middle-aged man on the shore of the Indian River Lagoon Wednesday along a popular . A real estate agent in Florida hunted down homeless men, according to authorities out of Miami. And before I knew it, I went upstairs and I told Mom, 'Mom, I probably won't see you for a long time,' because I could see what was happening.". He has lost 50 pounds and had plastic surgery since being a central figure on the evening news. Carlton, a neighbor . TAMPA Three people have been shot and killed in the last two weeks in Seminole Heights, and police say the cases are related. 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. Everyone needs true crime merch - so stay sexy and don't get murdered! Her right eye was swollen shut. "It's just a negative," he says. Danny Rolling is talking about the murders now. ", A police officer told state investigators that 10 days before the killings Ed claimed he was going to Gainesville to "cut up some women.". August 5, 1990, 0128 hours: Elna Hlavaty, Humphrey's grandmother, phones deputies to report that her grandson is "high" on drugs. And rarely does anyone say anything to his face, except to tell him they're on his side. [2], As victims, Giles would choose young girls, most of whom hitchhiked. He was the one to call investigators. The murders of three women in Florida two decades ago were committed by a Brazilian serial killer who later died in a plane crash, police said Tuesday. The neighbors will shake their heads and shrug their shoulders and echo cliches like He must have snapped. While Florida is known as a popular destination for spring breakers, retirees, and tourists from all around the world, its warm weather and beautiful beaches also seem to attract or produce some of the worst serial killers in America. Their horrifying crimes were finally uncovered when a witness saw Gore shoot and kill Lynn Elliott, a 17-year-old girl the cousins had kidnapped along with her friend, 14-year-old Regan Martin. Sentenced to death on Nov. 10, 1998. ED HUMPHREY HAS NO REASON to trust a photographer or a reporter - or the criminal justice system or, especially, the people who recognize him on the street and point and whisper. Human remains were found in the yard . He let her go when he saw that she was very pregnant. "VVhen he was not taking his lithium, he was a clearly diagnosed manic-depressive," Marti Mackenzie says. Details of the deaths, locations, were shared repeatedly. 10 Serial Killers Who Committed Their Crimes In Florida, making it one of the top five states where you're most likely to meet a serial killer, police learned he was wanted for a triple murder, Ted Bundy had already left a trail of victims, the fugitive serial murderer broke into a Florida State University sorority house, Bundy abducted 12-year-old Kimberly Leach, he was executed in Florida's electric chair, We Asked, You Answered: Which Serial Killer Would You Most Like To See A New Biographical Movie Made, Horrific Crimes People Almost Got Away With Because Of White Privilege, a witness saw Gore shoot and kill Lynn Elliott. 32934, FL Housing Market Overview. Yet the Sunshine State is. He paced off the measurements--about 10 feet wide and 10 feet long. You're better off without it. -- Judy Ann White, 29, of Cocoa. The 7 Worst Florida Serial Killers Aileen Wuornos Daniel LukacsJul 19, 2017 Since 1900, there have been 778 documented victims of serial killers in Florida. The incident involving Brevard County sheriff's deputies happened Aug. 30 in West Melbourne, Fla. Investigators say more than 61 bullets were fired in less than a minute. "It definitely all started when I was 16," he says now.