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    Henry Louis Wallace - North Carolina Death Row


    Caroline Love


    Shawna Hawk


    Valencia Jumper


    Michelle Stinson


    Vanessa Mack


    Betty Baucom


    Debra Slaughter


    Henry Louis Wallace


    Facts of the Crime:

    On 4 April 1994, defendant Henry Louis Wallace was indicted for the murders of (1) Caroline Love, (2) Shawna Hawk, (3) Audrey Ann Spain, (4) Valencia M. Jumper, (5) Michelle Stinson, (6) Vanessa Little Mack, (7) Betty Jean Baucom, ( Brandi June Henderson, and (9) Deborah Slaughter. In addition, defendant was indicted for the following crimes: (1) first-degree rape of Love, (2) second-degree rape of Hawk, (3) two counts of second- degree sexual offense against Hawk (fellatio and cunnilingus), (4) first-degree rape of Spain, (5) robbery with a dangerousweapon of Spain, (6) first-degree rape of Jumper, (7) first- degree sexual offense against Jumper, ( first-degree rape of Stinson, (9) first-degree sexual offense against Stinson, (10) first-degree rape of Mack, (11) robbery with a dangerous weapon of Mack, (12) first-degree rape of Baucom, (13) robbery with a dangerous weapon of Baucom, (14) first-degree rape of Henderson, (15) robbery with a dangerous weapon of Henderson, (16) assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury against T.W., Henderson's ten-month-old son, (17) assault on a child under twelve years of age against T.W., (18) first-degree rape of Slaughter, and (19) robbery with a dangerous weapon of Slaughter.

    Between September 1996 and January 1997, defendant was tried capitally before a jury. On 7 January 1997, the jury found defendant guilty of nine counts of first-degree murder, each on the basis of malice, premeditation, and deliberation, and under the felony murder rule. In addition, the jury found defendant guilty of eight counts of first-degree rape, one count of second- degree rape, two counts of first-degree sexual offense, two counts of second-degree sexual offense, one count of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of assault on a child under the age of twelve, and five counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon.

    After a capital sentencing proceeding, the jury recommended a sentence of death for each of the nine counts of first-degree murder. On 29 January 1997, the trial court entered judgment in accordance with the recommendations and sentenced defendant to nine death sentences. In addition, the trial court sentenced defendant to eight consecutive life sentences for the first- degree rape convictions, a consecutive forty-year sentence forthe second-degree rape conviction, two consecutive life sentences for the first-degree sexual offense convictions, two consecutive forty-year sentences for the second-degree sexual offense convictions, five consecutive forty-year sentences for the robbery with a dangerous weapon convictions, and a consecutive two-year sentence for the assault on a child under the age of twelve conviction.

    The trial court arrested judgment on the assault with a deadly weapon conviction. Defendant appeals to this Court as of right from the sentences of death. Defendant's motion to bypass the Court of Appeals on the other convictions was allowed by this Court on 9 March 1999.

    The State presented evidence tending to show that defendant murdered nine women in the Charlotte area over a two-year period. Defendant was identified as a suspect in three of the later murders by a palm print found on the car of one of the victims. As will be detailed below, defendant was arrested on an outstanding larceny charge and interrogated by police. He confessed to the murders of Caroline Love, Shawna Hawk, Audrey Spain, Valencia Jumper, Michelle Stinson, Vanessa Mack, Betty Baucom, Brandi Henderson, and Deborah Slaughter.

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    Henry Louis Wallace (1965- ), the Charlotte Strangler, was one of the most dangerous serial killers in America. For almost two whole years, from 1992 to 1994, he was on the loose killing women in the east part of Charlotte, North Carolina. He killed eleven young women in all, three of them in the last three days before they caught him.

    His secret? He killed only black working-class women. He was able to kill seven of them before the police started to get serious about finding him!

    Wallace seemed like such a nice man. Even his girlfriend was surprised when she found out he was the killer. His neighbours and those who knew him growing up were shocked.

    Wallace had a crack habit. When he needed money, he would get himself alone with a young woman at her place and rob her.

    But when he got there it would go beyond that: once she turned her back on him he would put his hands on her neck and force her to have sex with him. After that he would cut off her breathing completely, strangling her to death. Then he would rob the place and leave.

    The women he killed (pictures, where I could find them, go above the name):

    March 1990: Tashanda Bethea - a girl he once dated. Threw her body in a lake.

    May 1992: Sharon Lavette Nance – a prostitute. Instead of paying her he beat her to death.

    June 1992: Caroline Love – after throwing her body in the woods, he helped her sisters file a missing person’s report. She went missing for two years.

    February 1993: Shawna D. Hawk – found naked in her bathtub, her eyes looking up lifelessly through the water.

    June 1993: Audrey Ann Spain

    August 1993: Valencia M. Jumper – a friend of his sister’s. He strangled her and set her on fire. Later he went to the funeral.

    September 1993: Michelle Stinson – found by her three-year-old son “sleeping on the floor” in her own blood with a knife in her back.

    February 1994: Vanessa Little Mack – a sister of an old girlfriend of his.

    March 1994: Betty Jean Baucum

    March 1994: Brandi June Henderson

    March 1994: Deborah Slaughter

    * Love, Baucum and Slaughter worked at Bojangles on Central Avenue with his girlfriend.
    * Spain and Hawk worked for him at Taco Bell. Stinson met him there.
    * Henderson worked with him at the Golden Corral.

    The morning after Slaughter turned up dead the police compared notes. The same name kept coming up: Henry Louis Wallace. Not as the killer but as someone the last three women all knew. They found out he knew the other women too – and that it was his fingerprints that were on the back of Baucum’s Pulsar, the car they knew the killer had driven.

    They arrested Wallace and questioned him for hours. At last he broke and deep into the night he told them about each of the eleven murders.

    He is now in prison sentenced to die, but no date has been set. He still has some more appeals he can make in the courts.

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    No. 09-9365 *** CAPITAL CASE ***
    Title:
    Henry Louis Wallace, Petitioner
    v.
    Gerald J. Branker, Warden
    Docketed: March 3, 2010
    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
    Case Nos.: (08-10)
    Decision Date: December 2, 2009

    ~~~Date~~~ ~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Mar 2 2010 Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 2, 2010)
    Apr 1 2010 Brief of respondent Gerald J. Branker, Warden in opposition filed.
    Apr 15 2010 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of April 30, 2010.
    Jun 24 2010 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 28, 2010.
    Jun 29 2010 Petition DENIED.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es/09-9365.htm

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    Relative of victim recalls Charlotte serial killer's reign of terror

    At first glance Henry Wallace may not look like the type of man who could terrorize an entire city.

    But that was his charm, that’s why he was the perfect human predator.

    “It’s been 19 years this past March, and I still think about her everyday. Sometimes I tear up,” said George Burrell, the cousin of Brandi Henderson.

    She was one of Wallace’s victims. Between 1992 and 1994 the serial killer murdered nine east Charlotte women. Burrell knew him and can’t forget how he tried to console him.

    "The next day I'm watching TV with him, watching her death on the 5 o'clock news…he’s coldly touching me and saying it's going to be alright. I'm sorry that happened, and he's the one who did it."

    Burrell shared his memories with NBC Charlotte after watching our retrospective on 1993-- the deadliest year in Charlotte history with 129 murders.

    He believes that had the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Homicide Unit been properly staffed Wallace’s reign of terror might have ended much sooner.

    "I really believe the police have changed a lot of things, I believe they have more staff they are better equipped and that’s just a time I don’t want to forget, and I don’t want people to forget it."

    Wallace worked with all of the women at various fast food restaurants. Police were not able to explore those connections at the time because they only had 6 homicide investigators working 129 cases.

    By comparison last year we had 52 murders and there are 31 investigators in that department.

    Wallace has been on death row for so long some of the parents of his victims have passed away waiting for justice.

    Henderson’s mother died more than a year ago from natural causes. The parents of Debra Ann Slaughter are also no longer with us; she was the last victim.

    "Why is it taking so long I don't understand that part, were at the point where we know he did it, let’s get it over with, so we can move on, as long as he is alive there is still something that is holding us, that were holding on to with him".

    Burrell says he has learned to let go, but if Wallace is ever executed he want to be there.

    "You can't get angry, you can't and you have to forgive, you don't have to forget, but you have to forgive because if you don't it will eat at you," said Burrell.

    http://www.wcnc.com/news/editors-pic...205680921.html
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    Taco Bell Strangler detective speaks out about infamous case in new documentary: 'There are still wounds'

    By Stephanie Nolasco
    Fox News

    Retired homicide detective Garry McFadden is coming forward in an upcoming TV special to share how investigators finally caught the Taco Bell Strangler.

    Investigation Discovery is premiering a new documentary titled “Bad Henry" on Tuesday. It chronicles how McFadden and his nine-person homicide unit found themselves on a hunt for serial killer Henry Louis Wallace, who murdered nine women in North Carolina, as well as one in South Carolina, from 1992 until 1994.

    The show features interrogation tapes and stories from both investigators and families of the murdered women.

    McFadden told Fox News he was ready to address misconceptions that have long plagued the community about how Wallace was finally captured.

    “It’s been 25 years,” said McFadden. “I talked to some of the family members. And I’m still getting phone calls from family members as we speak. We thought it was important for this story to be told.

    "There are still wounds and I thought it was time to do it. I talked to several people who were with us back then… If they were willing to participate, then we would do it… We thought 25 years was enough time, sufficient time, to talk about this.”

    Back in 1994, the New York Times reported Wallace, who police described as a crack addict and a drifter, was charged with sexually assaulting and murdering 10 women who were neighbors of co-workers. He also choked one victim’s 10-month-old baby, who survived.

    Wallace had previous arrests in South Carolina and Washington on charges of sex offense, burglary and larceny. Wallace had no permanent address.

    North Carolina’s News & Observer also revealed Wallace was a U.S. Navy veteran who committed robberies for drug money.

    Wallace was nicknamed the "Taco Bell Strangler" by the media because he previously worked as a manager at the fast-food chain in Charlotte where he met several of his victims, who were employees. It is unclear how long Wallace worked there.

    The case especially hit home for Wallace, who knew one of the victims. Sharon Nance’s death was originally reported in 1992 when she was 33 years old.

    “Sharon was one of the first people I met when I came to Charlotte,” he explained. “She was a person who was in the streets. She had a beautiful smile. Sometimes we overlook people’s hearts because of their profession… I just remember her for always having a great time. There was always laughter, like, ‘That’s the little detective, that’s the little police officer who came from South Carolina and now he’s in the big city.’"

    According to the documentary, Nance was a prostitute.

    “It was heartbreaking… Her lifestyle complicated things, but I think we need to look at it from a different perspective. She was a person. She was loved. She was a human being. So no matter what your lifestyle is like, you’re still someone’s daughter… I think we need to look at that more closely, especially as law enforcement when you are investigating these cases. Not because of their profession or lifestyle.”

    McFadden, who still suspects Wallace may have killed more women, said the murderer lured his victims with friendship. Charlotte Magazine also shared Wallace had even attended some of his victim’s funerals.

    “He was their friend,” explained McFadden. “Most females have a person in their lives who is like a good friend or a big brother. And whenever we have arguments with our loved ones or spouses and girlfriends, there’s that guy she confides in.

    "He gained their trust. So it was very easily done… The trust factor happens a lot… He knew all these women’s behaviors, boyfriends, lifestyles — everything. He knew them, so they felt comfortable around him. So it was very easy to manipulate them at that point.”

    At the time of Wallace’s capture, the Charlotte Police Department faced severe backlash by the community for reportedly being slow to realize the victims, lower-income black women, were being targeted.

    McFadden pointed out police were overwhelmed and understaffed during the grips of the crack epidemic where there was a new murder reported every other day.

    “We were faced with the crack epidemic,” he explained. “A lot of people were getting robbed. A lot of homes were getting broken into. Purse snatching, carjacking, shootings, stabbings, missing persons because they were on drugs — there was a lot of crime, a lot of chaos.

    "You have to remember, there were a lot of deaths and people wanted answers. And everybody was scared to talk because it was drug-related or if you said anything somebody would shoot you. We also had two officers who died during that time, And so with all this stuff that was going on, it was very chaotic. We were just trying to hold on… We didn’t have relationships with the community. So it was a very difficult time. Very difficult.”

    Police were also perplexed by Wallace’s personal, horrifying method of killing women. McFadden and the CMPD Homicide Squad became increasingly worried when the body of 18-year-old Brandi Henderson was found strangled in her Charlotte home in 1994.

    While the unit normally had one strangling per year, it was their second in three weeks at that time.

    “Now when we look at the statistics, a lot of women who are in domestic violence situations are strangled,” said McFadden. “So sometimes it’s a precursor to their death. But then, in the ‘90s, we did not look at it as that. We didn’t have the chance to capitalize on some of the mistakes we made or things that we needed to… look at more closely.”

    McFadden also admitted police, despite their dogged work, didn’t know they were faced with a serial killer. Consequently, investigators wouldn’t establish a pattern until years later.

    The murders were initially addressed as individual homicide cases until police later realized Wallace was somehow connected to the women.

    “Here’s the problem — nobody knew,” said McFadden. “It’s never that we knew this man was killing women. It wasn’t that it went on for weeks and we were hunting for a killer… It’s not like we thought we knew there’s somebody killing these girls and we need to find them. No — There were individual homicides worked individually, not as [the workings] of a serial killer. And that’s a misconception people have. It’s not like we were out there looking for a serial killer and we found him. No. We did not know we had a serial killer.

    “We did not know a serial killer was operating right under our noses during this crime spree. I think that’s a misconception that a lot of people have that we were trying to correct. We did not know we had a serial killer, to be honest. We just did not know… We only realized it a couple days before we caught him.”

    McFadden is aware of the criticism investigators continue to face about Wallace’s long-awaited capture.

    “Everybody, as they say, threw us under the bus,” he explained. “They were very angry, which they should have been because they lost their loved ones. You can’t take that away. The city wanted answers and everybody had an opinion… That was their feeling that we should have known.

    Wallace, who ultimately confessed to the murders, has reportedly refused every interview request that has come his way to shed light on what drove him to kill. He’s awaiting execution in Raleigh.

    "... Even now we have not sat down and said, ‘Let us talk to you about that,'" said McFadden. "'Let us tell you what happened. Let us tell you how easy it could have happened like this.’ Which would be a great thing… We hope to do that one day.”

    WBTV reported McFadden retired in 2011 after 30 years in the police department and working 800 homicides.

    He now hopes the documentary will inspire law enforcement to better develop closer relationships with communities to not only get answers for grieving loved ones but also prevent another heinous killing spree from occurring again.

    “People need to understand what officers go through,” said McFadden. “And officers need to understand what families go through. We now have a better working relationship between law enforcement and the community.

    "We need to listen to the cries of the community. Listen to the cries of law enforcement. [Law enforcement must] adequately staff their department and their unit. Give them training. Make sure they have the right tools, research, and the capabilities to solve these crimes.”

    “I still think about Sharon,” added McFadden. “I still think about all the girls.”

    http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...ll-wounds.html

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