Who was Edward Edwards?

Edward Wayne Edwards (born Charles Murray, June 14, 1933 – April 7, 2011) was a convicted American serial killer. Edwards escaped from jail in Akron, Ohio in 1955 when he pushed past a guard and fled across the country, holding up gas stations for money. By 1961, he had landed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Edwards was eventually captured and arrested in Atlanta, Georgia on January 20, 1962. After he was granted parole in 1967, Edwards subsequently murdered at least five people between 1977 and 1996, and is suspected of several additional killings. Several theories have connected Edwards to a variety of crimes, including the Atlanta murders of 1979–81.

Edward Edwards was a suspect in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey as well as the Zodiac killings in northern California in the late 1960s. DNA evidence convicted him of the "Sweetheart Murders", the double murders of Tim Hack and Kelly Drew in Wisconsin, in 1980.

Edwards confessed to the 1996 murder of Dannie Boy Edwards in Burton, Ohio. The victim was referred to as an adopted child who had lived with Edwards and his wife for several years. The adoption was never allowed per a judge in Ohio, but did allow Dannie Boy to change his last name to Edwards. Dannie's original name was Dannie Law Gloeckner. Edwards murdered Dannie Boy in a scheme to collect insurance money. Edwards was sentenced to death for this crime in March 2011, but died in prison of natural causes a month later.