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It's Me, Edward Wayne Edwards: the Serial Killer You Never Heard Of Paperback – May 1 2018

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Meet Edward Wayne Edwards, the most evil serial killer you've never heard of. In this chilling case-by-case analysis and story of the killer's life, former detective John A. Cameron argues that Edwards was not only responsible for the five torture-murders he confessed to and was eventually convicted for, but for dozens more across the U.S., over decades. Tracing the murderer's life from his beginnings as a misguided boy who witnessed his mother's suicide, Cameron conducted hundreds of interviews, including exchanging phone calls and letters with the killer and interviewing his family. The result is a complex, terrifying, and fascinating analysis of Edwards' travels across the U.S. in the periods of his life: as a young itinerant handy man, an escaped fugitive on the run after a jailbreak, and of all things, an author on tour to promote a book about his life as a reformed criminal, followed years later by his arrest and confession. Each part of this haunting timeline is tied by Cameron to murder cases in the areas Edwards lived, based on his MO and his sick joy in taunting police, attending trials on the cases, and getting people wrongfully convicted for the murders he claims he did. These cases and ties include links to the famed Zodiac Killer, and more.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ ReelTime Media (May 1 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 441 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1732237425
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1732237421
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 699 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm

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Elaine Walsh

The Man behind the mask

Reviewed in Canada on March 30, 2016

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I have not quite finished, but so far it is good if you like to know the people behind the psychosis. If you do not get how people get fooled by very dangerous individuals, you will understand after reading about the good looking, smart looks, charming and funny side of Ed Edwards.

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Ed Edwards

Reviewed in Canada on February 21, 2020

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Very easy to read. Just wish the photocopy stuff was bigger. Very interesting. After watching the series on Ed Edwards on parmount network. I ordered the book. Very fast read. Leaves you wondering. I also watched Zodiac both the book and movie makes you wonder who is the Zodiac Killer.

Reviewed in Canada on July 12, 2021

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Great read

Reviewed in Canada on March 26, 2020

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This is great work. People need to listen to this guy. Once again truth is stranger than fiction. Hopefully some of the falsely accused will be freed because of this work.

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Fantastic account of a years long investigation to find answers of just WHO this monster was.

Reviewed in Canada on April 11, 2016

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Couldn't put the book down. Some of the theories were far fetched but logical. I wish that the scaned documents were of better quality or fully transcribed but enjoyed the book none the less. It is truely too bad we will never truley know the full extent of this monsters reach. Or, that we will have enough to know the full truth of the damage caused.

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Shawn Evans

What a great read, and finally

Reviewed in Canada on October 6, 2014

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WOW. What a great read, and finally... after all these years, the Zodiac has been named. BUT... that's just the tip of the iceberg. The Zodiac was only one identity and a small number of killings made by the same murderer, who murdered and eluded capture for decades. John A. Cameron deserves a medal for putting together many pieces to an almost unsolvable identity of a cold-blooded killer.

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If this is your bag, read this book...

Reviewed in Canada on June 21, 2020

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Could not stop reading this book.
Zodiac???

Reviewed in Canada on April 19, 2015

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There are times in this book where you may consider yourself paranoid, or consider that the authors are paranoid or delusional. But enough evidence is shown to make a damn convincing argument. Even if you believe in coincidences this book will test that limit. A fascinating read. Jump down the hole and decide for yourself.

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David Anderson

How one diabolical psychopath made a mockery of American Criminal Justice for 66 years

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2016

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This is an extraordinary and disquieting book that tells a devastating story of unmitigated evil. In places it is not an easy read, as it relies heavily on unravelling the murderer’s cryptic correspondence. But it should be essential reading for anyone who believes in justice and the rule of law, and is prepared to face the truth however terrible. It remains to be seen whether The United States and its institutions have the courage to address the issues raised, face the consequences, and learn the lessons revealed in this book. So far there is little sign that this will happen.

The book tells the story of how one man, ex-detective John A Cameron, uncovered the existance of a life-long serial killer no one knew of, (or looked for) who was active across the USA for two thirds of a century. Cameron was helped in this by the linguist, student of Greek and Egyptian myths and cryptographer Neal Best. The man in question, Edward Wayne Edwards, was responsible for literally hundreds of ritualistic sadistic murders of children, young couples, families and friends from the ages of 12 to 76 (1945 to 2009). He killed silently wherever he went, using knife, gun, rope and fire.

Cameron is a cold case detective who got into the investigation of this man almost by chance when, at the age of 77, Edwards was found guilty of five murders, and condemned to death in Ohio. A young couple, Timothy Hack and Kelly Drew had been murdered on a lovers lane in Maddison, Wisconsin on August 8th 1980; an NBC affiliate ran a programme on March 9th 2009, and received a phone call from a woman in Akron, Ohio. It was his daughter, April, who remembered her father packing up hastily, and as he left he said to his children ‘they will find bodies in that wood’. She said ‘I think you need to talk to my father’. DNA came back a perfect match. Finally, to be sure of the death penalty, Edwards confessed to another couple murdered in 1977, and to a murder of his adopted son in 1996. Those were the only ones he confessed to, but it turns out these are the tip of a murderous iceberg, as Cameron and Best linked Edwards to case after case.

The book traces the story of three years of patient detective work which was greatly helped by discovering that Edwards had written an autobiography in 1972, entitled ‘Metamorphosis of a Criminal’. In this book he claimed to have committed just about every crime short of murder, and now to be a reformed man who had decided to change his ways. Edwards was a highly intelligent psychopathic killer. The amazing thing is that many people seem to have swallowed this story, which fits well with Christian views of sin and its redemption. Edwards, was born Charles Murray on June 14th 1933 to one Lilian Myers; she died of a gunshot wound when Ed was aged five. He says she shot herself with a shotgun, but it is more likely he killed her. His grandfather insisted his name was changed; he was adopted by a couple named Edwards, but at age 7 was sent to Parmadale Catholic Orphanage where he stayed till he was 11. He dedicated himself to crime and satanic murders - all the time craving recognition.

Applying the current knowledge of psychopaths with its roots in a failure of function of the normal empathy system, it is reasonable to conclude that his later modus operandi as a criminal and serial killer followed from his abuse in the orphanage, and his public humiliation by the nuns in charge as a bedwetter. It is well recognised that psychopaths will play on the weaknesses of others and left unchecked create psychopathic systems in their own image. It is quite clear that Edwards had no conscience, but great superficial charm as well as high intelligence. His higher education was obtained from his frequent imprisonment for burglary, armed robbery, and arson. For a time he was on America’s Ten Most Wanted list. Married at least three times (not counting two wives he killed), he posed as the Christian family man, the reformed sinner. He used this cover to kill repeatedly innocent people in cold blood and then plant evidence that would lead the police often to a spouse or friend who would then be convicted.

Cameron shows that he was responsible for the Black Dahlia murder, the lipstick killings, the Zodiac killings, the Atlanta child killings, the Highway 101 murders, the murder of JonBenet Ramsay, the murder of Adam Walsh, The West Memphis Three killings, and even the post-9/11 anthrax letters. Master of disguise, he posed as a psychiatrist, a policeman, Father Christmas, a preacher, counsellor, and happily married man and father, and of course a reformed criminal. But all the time he used his superior intelligence to kill and terrorise across vast swathes of the United States. The most frightening thing is that he knew and exploited every weakness in the US justice system, as he murdered and then set up the innocent all over the US. There are at least 12 men still in prison for life for Edwards murders, and at least one was judicially killed for an Edwards murder (Burton Abbott, for the murder of Stephanie Bryan). He exploited the gullibility of normal people, and all the time inserted himself into the process to get the system to carry out a second crime against the innocent.

One might have hoped that being presented with evidence linking Edwards to particular crimes and injustices would lead to police and judicial ‘mea culpas’, and to release the innocent. So far nothing of the sort has happened. This book is a sad commentary on a justice system which attaches more importance to locking people up, - anyone will do - and often to executing them, than it does to catching real killers. It is to be hoped that everyone who cares about injustice will read this book, and that it generates such an outcry that the status quo is overturned. It is quite clear that Edwards killed all his life as with no conscience he created his own devil’s logic that gave him ‘slaves for the afterlife’. His last murder was the Coleman family murder on March 2009, for which he set up husband and father Christopher Coleman, imprisoned for life. With innocent victims (Darlie Routier is one) still on death row, even in death he remains free to kill.

It is surely time for a the President to set up a Commission to investigate and rectify the crimes of this horrific man and the polizio-judicial system he so effectively exploited.

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ArvadaDude

A truly fascinating look at a Serial Killer you never heard of

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2014

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Wow!!! If you are curious about the Zodiac Killer, the Black Dahlia, Jon Benet Ramsey, the Anthrax attack immediately after 9/11, or the lipstick killings.... you are going to be riveted by this book.

The author is a retired police detective with an impressive background who makes the claim that he has stumbled onto the trail of the killer who is alleged to have committed all the above crimes! Amazing claim, right? You have to read it to believe it but it is definitely very plausible after learning the facts and info Mr. Cameron has come up with.

I first heard the author on Coast to Coast, then on Darkness radio digging through their shows. Then I went to his website coldcasecameron.com and read up there. At first I was curious mainly as to the Zodiac.... I had read the book and have seen the recent movie so was definitely willing to take a look. The website leads you to a game show that the killer, Ed Edwards, strangely appears on in the 1970's which is surreal in itself. Also, his book and website lead you down the trail of websites, murders, arson's, biological attacks, etc that you are going to be amazed at.

The author claims he did not intend to ever write a book but that it needed to be written. This is made clearer by the style of writing in the book which is clearly that of a novice writer (just saying, I'm a novice too). This should not detract from the overall message and info, and gives the book some charm as you know he is doing his best.... the guy is a detective not Shakespeare.

I read this book in about 3 days. I wanted to buy Metamorphosis of a Criminal which is the book the alleged killer Ed Edwards actually wrote....but it is expensive. I did buy Jerry's Riot and read that in my research getting into the Zodiac hunter mode. It is a creepy subject, but it is honestly hard to put down the book. You will read, go to the website, go to YouTube, then read then, again search the internet... its very interactive and fun but sobering as you know this stuff really happened. The victims' families' are still out there so you can't help but feel bad. However, this book might be a very good chance at re-opening many of the criminal investigations and could lead to closure and healing for the families. I was really impressed overall, as you can tell by my rambling! If you are a true crime reader, and an amateur Zodiac/Black Dahlia sleuth this will be very fascinating reading.

Side note this book is only appropriate for mature adult readers. There are descriptions of crimes and other things that really should only be for adults not easily upset. Also, if you are Christian this book delves into some religious topics you will most likely find unsettling. If violence or occult matters bother you skip this book.

UPDATE: The author has updated the website to include new info, very interesting coldcasecameron.com I checked it out the other day and ended up spending hours catching up. Teresa Halbach from Making a Murder (Steven Avery) is included on the website.

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geokelley

It was a fun to read book because of the wild accusations

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2016

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I've got mixed feelings on this book. I bought it after reading the author's assertions that Edwards (who I had never heard of) was responsible for the Halbach murder from Making of a Murderer. It was a fun to read book because of the wild accusations, although like many others, I wondered why in the world would the author write third person? But it did offer some theories as to how evil Edwards was (spoiler alert, pretty damned evil), with some of the theories being more plausible than others.

Edwards was a lifetime criminal and actually wrote a book in 1972 claiming to be reformed, and actually appeared on the old game show "To Tell The Truth". The author deserves credit for comparing the story told by Edwards to real life crimes, and it seems fairly obvious that Edwards used this book to brag about murders he committed. It also appears obvious that Edwards was the type of narcissist that would taunt the world, daring it to expose him. Kudos for Cameron for this.

What is especially difficult to believe is Cameron's assertion that Edwards committed every high profile crime in the last forty years. The Martha Moxley murder, Jon Benet Ramsey? and Laci Peterson? (with as far as I could tell, the Peterson "evidence" he presented was from a post on a now defunct message board, by someone unknown, yet ID'd by Cameron as Edwards). Cameron also accused Edwards of Chanda Levy's murder, and stated with no proof given, that Edwards was a witness number 10 for the prosecution in the charges against Ingmar Guandique, who was ultimately convicted. And the most WTF inducing claim was that Edwards was the mysterious sender of Anthrax post 9/11.

Yet, some of the claims make me wonder. Was he the Zodiac Killer? Cameron's claims seem more plausible. Even the claim that Edwards was the Atlanta child killer, instead of Wayne Williams, makes me wonder, as Edwards was arrested in Atlanta around that time. I will agree with Cameron that the Paradise Lost/Memphis Three murders were similar to one forty years before, and the screen shot of the man at the grave during the HBO documentary MIGHT be him. And if those things are true, who is to say that the old guy in the background of Making of a Murderer wasn't him?

I'd say forty percent of the book is strong, fifty percent is preposterous, and ten percent, who the hell knows?

But it was worth the purchase, just for the entertainment value. Don't expect great writing, don't expect ironclad evidence and if you do that, you will probably not be disappointed.

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Whiskey Lover

Interesting, but often Impossible to Believe

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2014

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I really go back and forth on this book a lot. On one hand, it is not very well written at all (Cameron isn't really a writer, so he should probably be forgiven for that). On the other hand, I found it intensely interesting and couldn't really put it down. Some of the primary materials, including letters written by Edwards, are curiously odd and sometimes terrifying. There is a lot in this book that seems impossible to believe (such as the Ramsey and Hoffa claims), but there are also connections that you can't really deny (such as the fact that Edwards actually did know Jimmy Hoffa quite well).

Most people who will read this book will be those curious about the case that Edwards was the Zodiac. I don't know if he was or not, but Cameron shows several similarities Edward E shares with Zodiac that none of the other "suspects" do: 1) We know Edwards was a serial killer who often targeted couples, 2) We know that Edwards liked to write letters to newspapers and the police and that he bragged about his crimes through media outlets, and 3) We have documentation of Edwards claiming to know the identity of Zodiac.

Other stuff seems more dubious. It's hard to say for sure that Edwards was even in California at the time when Zodiac was active. Aside from that, Cameron connects him to *so many* high profile cases that you can get the sneaking suspicion that it's over sensationalized to hype the book. I don't really know what I think, but it's worth a read, in any case.

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MC in Iowa

A Book That Needed to be Written

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2016

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I am very grateful to the author for writing this book. The author, John Cameron, and his colleague Neal, are an awesome team who uncovered answers to some of the most grisly murders in history. I purchased the kindle version of this book after hearing an interview with the author. John had a suspect in the murder of Teresa Halbach, of which Steven Avery was convicted. During the interview John tied this suspect, who you have probably never heard of, to some notorious crimes, unsolved and also considered "solved". John's suspect, Mr. Edwards, got away with murder for his entire life up to the last two years. John's arguments are shocking and almost unbelievable at face value. The book explains some of how John arrived at his conclusions. I appreciated this book from John, who admits he is not an author. He had to write this book. I would like to see him expand on it more. Perhaps he could write a part 2. This information is not easily researched by the novice and John worked as a cold case detective in Montana. I found the letters were not legible in the kindle version, so I may need to get a hard copy in order to better understand the evidence presented. John also has quite a few documents posted on his website, coldcasecameron.com. John, thank you for your good work.

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