Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Louisville Con Man Enters Surprising Plea
KENTUCKY....
In a surprising but long awaited move, 76 year old Edward W. Edwards of Louisville pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering 19-year-old Wisconsin sweethearts Tim Hack and Kelly Drew in 1980. He will be sentenced at a later date to mandatory life prison terms for each of those murders. He also agreed to plead guilty to murdering a young Ohio couple a few years earlier. As part of his deal, Edwards will be transported to Summit County, Ohio, where he is expected to plead guilty Friday to the aggravated murders of Bill Lavaco, 21, of Doylestown, Ohio, and Judith Straub, 18, of Sterling, Ohio, in 1977. He confessed last month to shooting both victims in the neck at close range in a park in Norton, Ohio, but he wasn't charged for those killings until Wednesday. Ohio prosecutors plan to seek two consecutive life sentences for Edwards. He will be sent back to Wisconsin to be sentenced for those murders before returning to serve his time in Ohio. Edwards appeared on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1961 and spent time inprison after being captured in Atlanta in 1962.
In a surprising but long awaited move, 76 year old Edward W. Edwards of Louisville pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering 19-year-old Wisconsin sweethearts Tim Hack and Kelly Drew in 1980. He will be sentenced at a later date to mandatory life prison terms for each of those murders. He also agreed to plead guilty to murdering a young Ohio couple a few years earlier. As part of his deal, Edwards will be transported to Summit County, Ohio, where he is expected to plead guilty Friday to the aggravated murders of Bill Lavaco, 21, of Doylestown, Ohio, and Judith Straub, 18, of Sterling, Ohio, in 1977. He confessed last month to shooting both victims in the neck at close range in a park in Norton, Ohio, but he wasn't charged for those killings until Wednesday. Ohio prosecutors plan to seek two consecutive life sentences for Edwards. He will be sent back to Wisconsin to be sentenced for those murders before returning to serve his time in Ohio. Edwards appeared on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1961 and spent time inprison after being captured in Atlanta in 1962.
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