The Many Lives of Edward Wayne Edwards
A companion to Crime Clueless’s three-part series.
In October 1972, the host of the game show To Tell the Truth read a testimonial to a national audience. The man it described had been on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. He had committed armed robberies, impersonated a federal officer, and been sought for questioning about a double murder. Now, the testimonial said, he was a respected citizen in his community.
Then three men walked onto the stage, all claiming to be Ed Edwards, and a panel of celebrities tried to guess which one was telling the truth.
That question would follow Edward Wayne Edwards for the rest of his life. He wrote an autobiography. He gave speeches about his rehabilitation. He told his own story to anyone who would listen, for decades. And almost none of it was the whole truth.
This is the story of the con man, the young couples he killed, the foster son who called him Dad, and the daughter who finally turned him in.
Part One: Sister, I’m Gonna Be a Crook
Edward Wayne Edwards was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 14, 1933, to an unwed mother. By his own account, he was raised believing she was his aunt. She was jailed for stealing shortly after he was born, and she died by suicide in December 1935, when he was two. At seven, he was sent to Parmadale, a Catholic orphanage outside Cleveland.
Ed’s favorite story about his childhood, the one he told for the rest of his life, was about a stolen birthday cake. When a nun caught him and asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, he said he looked her in the eye and told her he was going to be a crook, and a good one.
He kept his word. Reform school at fifteen. Let out of juvenile detention to join the Marines, then AWOL from Camp Lejeune. Arrested for car theft in Daytona Beach while technically still a Marine. Kicked out of the Corps, then sentenced to a federal reformatory for, among other things, impersonating a Marine.
With a sixth-grade education and no money, Ed crossed the country again and again. He stole cars, drove them until they felt risky, and stole new ones. He wrote bad checks. In his own book, he describes stealing auto parts from gas stations while the attendants were busy filling his tank. And he used women for rides, money and places to stay.
In 1955, he shoved past a jailer in Akron and ran. On the road, he married a young woman named Jeannette in Idaho Falls, who drove the getaway car while he robbed gas stations across the West. Ed never wore a mask. He wanted people to know it was him. In March 1956 he was caught in Billings, Montana, and sentenced to ten years in the Montana State Prison. There, he made a hand-tooled leather photo album for his infant son. When Jeannette divorced him, according to their son, Ed handed her the album and told her to fill it with pictures of the boy, because when he got out, he was going to kill him to get even with her.
Paroled to Portland, Oregon, in 1959, Ed married again, a teenager named Marlene. In November 1960, two nineteen-year-old college students, Larry Peyton and Beverly Allan, were murdered after parking in Portland’s Forest Park. Ed showed up at the scene the next day with a fresh bullet wound in his arm. Two weeks later, arrested on unrelated charges, he used his one phone call, the FBI believed, to call the very jail he was sitting in, pretend to be his own probation officer, and talk his way out.
In November 1961, Ed made the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. He spent the following weeks posing as “Dr. Jerry Love,” a psychiatrist in Minneapolis. In January 1962, he walked into a bank in his hometown of Akron and took $7,707 at gunpoint, because, he said, the local paper had asked where “slippery Ed” was. Four days later, FBI agents found him in Atlanta, answering the door in his underwear. In jail, he masterminded an escape plot with fourteen knotted bed sheets. According to the sheriff, they were eight sheets short.
At Leavenworth, Ed said, a guard changed his life. He earned his high school diploma and two years of college credit. He claimed Jimmy Hoffa helped him get parole. In 1967 he walked out a reformed man. He married Kay, a college student he met on the bus. He wrote Metamorphosis of a Criminal. He toured schools and youth prisons, telling kids not to follow in his footsteps, and swore he had never committed a violent crime.
On Christmas Day 1975, the Cleveland Plain Dealer profiled him in the little village of Doylestown, Ohio: a remodeling contractor and father of four, with a fifth on the way, photographed helping his son hang an ornament on the family tree. The town, he said, had accepted him.
Part Two: The Lay of the Land
In the early hours of August 6, 1977, Billy Lavaco, 21, of Doylestown, and his girlfriend, Judy Straub, 18, a new dental assistant from nearby Sterling, were last seen at a Doylestown bar. Two days later, a police helicopter spotted their bodies under a tree in Silver Creek Metro Park in Norton, about 300 yards from the parking lot, through weeds as high as a person’s chest. Both had been shot in the neck at point-blank range. Judy’s purse, with more than $400 inside, was still on the front seat of Billy’s car. So were her shoes.
Police had almost nothing to go on. In 1979, they charged a Doylestown man, Dennis “Duff” Busson, based largely on a seventeen-year-old who claimed he had watched the killings by moonlight from a barn about 150 yards away. On the stand, the teen admitted to heavy drug use at the time and said he had only come forward after being picked up for a burglary. A grand jury visited the scene, decided he couldn’t have seen what he described, and voted 9–0 not to indict. Busson said he never did it and never knew who did.
What nobody seemed to notice was that the reformed ex-con from the Christmas newspaper feature lived in the same small village as Billy. Ed’s daughter April, then eight, would later remember her father taking the family on a walk through Silver Creek Park to the place where the bodies were found.
In 1978, the Edwards family left Doylestown, moving often and often at night. By July 1980, they had arrived at a campground in Concord, Wisconsin, where Ed took a job as handyman for the campground and the Concord House, a reception hall next door.
On August 9, 1980, Tim Hack and Kelly Drew, both 19 and high school sweethearts from the Fort Atkinson area, attended a wedding reception at the Concord House. Around 11 p.m. they walked out to meet friends at the town’s summer festival. They never reached Tim’s car, which was found the next day, locked, with his wallet still inside. Days later, Kelly’s purse and clothing were found in a cattle tunnel two miles away. The town organized searches, donation boxes, prayer services and freezers full of casseroles. When the Hacks’ milking equipment broke down, neighbors hand-milked all 150 cows.
Police questioned the new handyman. He said he’d been gathering tools at the campground that day and never went inside the hall. They didn’t know about his past, and he didn’t mention it. Not long afterward, the family left Wisconsin with no forwarding address.
In October, a squirrel hunter found Kelly at the edge of a wooded area near Ixonia. Tim was found the next morning in a nearby cornfield. Too much time had passed for the autopsies to say how they died. The district attorney told reporters the killer was somebody who knew the lay of the land. Years later, investigators started to wonder about a well-traveled drifter instead. Ed Edwards was both.
The Edwardses resurfaced in Pennsylvania, where Ed rented a house, sold the furniture, and burned the place down. While serving his arson sentence in 1983, he told authorities that another inmate had bragged about murdering Cheryl Ann Lees, a 24-year-old mother of two shot during a $54 robbery of a Butler County convenience store in 1979. Ed became the prosecution’s key witness. According to the defense, his reward was that Butler County let his own arson conviction go after it was reversed on appeal, and he walked out on probation by 1986. The man he testified against was acquitted in 1991. Cheryl’s shooter has never been convicted.
In May 1988, a farmhand named John Simon walked into the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department in Wisconsin to pick up an accident report, and told a detective about the strange, violent man he had known in 1980 as “Wayne Edwards.” Simon remembered the van with a pistol under the seat, Wayne’s stories about running couples off the property at gunpoint, and the day Wayne showed up with his face smashed in, around the weekend Tim and Kelly vanished. Deputies found a hospital record for a Wayne Edwards with a broken nose. But the birth date on it led to a different man, in Georgia, and the trail went cold for another twenty-one years.
Part Three: They Treat Me Like a Son
Dannie Law Gloeckner was born in Cleveland in 1972 and spent his whole childhood in foster care. In rural Troy Township, in Geauga County, Ohio, he found a place: vocational agriculture classes, wrestling, 4-H, the county horse and pony association, and a love of art. Everyone called him a free spirit. Every so often he would simply take off, join a traveling carnival or go see somewhere new, and then come home like nothing had happened.
In 1994, Dannie moved in with a burly, charming older man the neighbors knew as Wayne, and his wife, Kay, in a rented house on Claridon-Troy Road. Wayne became his father figure. In December 1995, Dannie petitioned the probate court to change his name, explaining that the couple supported him and treated him like a son. “I call them Mom and Dad,” he wrote. In January 1996, he became Dannie Boy Edwards.
Dannie went into the Army; accounts differ on how that ended. There was a $250,000 life insurance policy on him, and Ed would collect. In May 1996, Dannie disappeared. Friends put up a flier at a gas station. Police figured the free spirit would turn up eventually. Nobody, including the man he called Dad, ever filed a missing-person report.
That December, a hunter saw a bone sticking out of the snow behind Troy Cemetery and decided it belonged to an animal. In April 1997, he came back and found human remains in a shallow grave, less than a mile from the Edwards rental. Investigators identified Dannie by matching an ankle bone to an X-ray from when he was a teenager. He had been killed by a shotgun blast. Ed was questioned and remained a person of interest, but he was never charged. He and Kay moved to Arizona. Dannie’s obituary listed his foster family, and didn’t mention the Edwardses.
Around 2000, Ed and Kay settled into a trailer park outside Louisville, Kentucky. And their oldest daughter, April, kept searching.
April had grown up moving constantly, often in the middle of the night, under orders never to tell anyone where they were going. She remembered her father’s obsession with murder, his eagerness to befriend police, and his violence, including stabbing her mother over a bag of potato chips. In court filings, prosecutors later alleged he had broken Kay’s jaw and choked his children until they passed out. As an adult, April spent night after night searching online for unsolved murders in the towns her family had lived in.
In 2009, she found Tim Hack and Kelly Drew. She called the Jefferson County cold-case tip line and told Detective Chad Garcia about her father and his book. In 2007, the Wisconsin crime lab had developed a DNA profile from Kelly’s clothing, but it had never matched anyone. Garcia collected Ed’s DNA in Louisville. It was a match. On July 30, 2009, Ed Edwards, 76, was arrested in a wheelchair, on oxygen.
At first, Ed claimed three other men had killed Tim and Kelly while he watched. But Wisconsin has no death penalty, and Ed did not want to die slowly in prison. In 2010, he wrote to prosecutors in Akron offering information about a double murder in a Norton park, which he dated to 1976. Then he confessed to killing Billy Lavaco and Judy Straub. The plan backfired: in 1977, Ohio’s death penalty law had been struck down, so the most he could get was life. He pleaded guilty to all four murders and received four life sentences across the two states.
Then Ed told an Associated Press reporter about Dannie. He said he had lured his foster son to the cemetery, shot him twice with a shotgun, and gone home as if nothing had happened. He said he spent the insurance money and had a good time. The details didn’t all match what investigators had found, but the Geauga County prosecutor had a clear read on why Ed was finally talking: he wanted to choose his own ending, which the prosecutor called an attempt at “court-assisted suicide.”
On March 8, 2011, Ed pleaded guilty to Dannie’s murder. He offered no evidence, no apology and no explanation. Dannie’s half-sister asked the judges to spare his life, saying not to give him what he wanted. They sentenced him to death anyway. Less than a month later, on April 7, 2011, Ed Edwards was found dead in his cell at the prison medical center in Columbus, of natural causes. He never got the ending he planned.
How Many More?
Ed insisted he killed only five people. The detective who caught him, Chad Garcia, has said he believes Ed likely killed five to seven more, and he compiled a list of fifteen confirmed and suspected victims.
The strongest possible connection is the 1960 Peyton-Allan murders in Portland, where Ed turned up at the scene with a gunshot wound. Two other men were convicted, but questions about that case have never gone away. Ed has also been linked to a 1956 lovers’ lane double murder in Great Falls, Montana, though DNA from that case did not match him.
Then there are the theories of retired detective John Cameron, who has claimed Ed was the Zodiac Killer and was responsible for the deaths of JonBenét Ramsey, the Black Dahlia (in 1947, when Ed was thirteen), Jimmy Hoffa, Teresa Halbach and as many as 500 others. Law enforcement has almost universally rejected these claims. April herself pushed back on the “he did everything” story in her 2019 podcast, The Clearing, and later told her story in the memoir Raised by a Serial Killer.
The People Left Behind
Ed Edwards spent his life making sure everyone knew his name. The people who paid for it deserve to be remembered too: Billy Lavaco and Judy Straub. Tim Hack and Kelly Drew, who share one headstone in Hebron, Wisconsin. Dannie Boy Edwards. Duff Busson, who lived for decades under suspicion for murders he didn’t commit. Cheryl Ann Lees, whose killing Ed turned into a deal. And April, who picked up the phone.
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Resources:
Books
- Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father by April Balascio (Gallery Books, 2024).Ed’s oldest daughter tells her own story: the midnight moves, the violence at home, the years of nightly cold-case searches, and the phone call that finally led to his arrest. If you read one thing, read this.
- Metamorphosis of a Criminal: The True Life Story of Ed Edwards by Ed Edwards (Hart Publishing, 1972).Ed’s own “redemption” memoir, written with Akron Beacon Journal reporter Richard McBane. Long out of print and hard to find, but fascinating to read knowing what came after. Remember: it’s Ed’s version.
- The Peyton-Allan Files by Phil Stanford. A deep dive into the 1960 Portland murders of Larry Peyton and Beverly Allan by a former Oregonian columnist who argues the wrong men were convicted, and who points to Ed.
- It’s Me: Edward Wayne Edwards, the Serial Killer You Never Heard Of by John A. Cameron (Golden Door Press, 2014). The source of the theories tying Ed to the Zodiac, JonBenét Ramsey and the Black Dahlia. Read it with a very skeptical eye: law enforcement has broadly rejected its claims, and April has pushed back on them too.
Podcasts
- The Clearing (Pineapple Street Media / Gimlet, 2019). April Balascio and journalist Josh Dean revisit her childhood, retrace her father’s life, sit down with Tim Hack’s family, and confront a theorist convinced Ed committed every famous unsolved murder. A thoughtful, personal companion to this case.
TV & Documentaries
- Cold Case Files, “Sweethearts, Silenced” (A&E, 2017). The investigation into the murders of Tim Hack and Kelly Drew, and how a decades-old DNA profile finally got a name.
- People Magazine Investigates, “My Father, the Serial Killer” (Investigation Discovery, 2018). April tells the story of recognizing the Concord case and turning her father in.
- Living With a Serial Killer, Season 2, Episode 7 (Oxygen). Ed’s son and investigators look back on the case, including the Norton murders and Ed’s push for the death penalty.
- It Was Him: The Many Murders of Ed Edwards (Paramount Network, 2018). Ed’s grandson teams up with John Cameron to chase the big-name theories. Interesting as a look at how the “he did everything” story spread, but treat its conclusions as speculation.
Articles
- “Unsolved,” Chapter 8, by Gina Barton (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 18, 2017). Part of a series on unsolved Jefferson County cases. It includes John Simon’s 1988 tip, the hospital record, and the birth date that led investigators to the wrong man.
- “Photo album created by a serial killer up for sale in Beaverton” by Samantha Swindler (The Oregonian, March 30, 2025). Ed’s first son, Wayne Wolfe, on growing up never knowing his father, and the leather baby album Ed made him in prison.
- “Inside One Man’s Serial-Killer Unification Theory” by Amelia McDonell-Parry (Rolling Stone, April 24, 2018). A clear-eyed look at John Cameron’s theories and why investigators reject them.
- April Balascio interview (Elle, July 2019). April on why she suspected her father, and on the cases she believes deserve more attention than the famous ones.
- “The Wedding Venue Employee Who Turned Out to Be a Serial Killer” by Sarah Kuta (A&E, 2026). A quick, readable overview of the whole case.
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