The murdering crook strikes again

Now he's old and sick and wants the prison system to pick up the tab. Edward Edwards has confessed to . . . "In 1977 in Ohio, 18-year-old Judith Straub of Sterling and 21-year-old Bill Lavaco were shot at point-blank range and killed.

In 1980, 19-year-old high school sweethearts Kelly Drew and Tim Hack vanished after a wedding reception in Wisconsin. Weeks later, their bodies were found in the woods. According to investigators, Drew was strangled and Hack was stabbed.

In 2007, Wisconsin investigators extracted DNA taken from semen on Drew's pants to state analysts. In June 2009, the DNA results confirmed a match to Edwards. Police arrested Edwards last July for the murders of Drew and Hack. In April, Edwards confessed to the Ohio murders."

Edward Edwards Guilty of Four Murders from 70's and 80s - Crimesider - CBS News

In the early 1970s we used to visit men in the Old Ohio Penitentiary through a church program (we were incredibly naive). We met aging career criminals like the Ohio Purple Gang and Thomas Licavoli who were being paroled due to old age, and I suspect, because the Governor didn't want to continue paying their medical bills. They probably all still had their money. Edwards, on the other hand, is apparently a pauper. I think it would be appropriate to have the families of the victims in charge of his health care.

Update: June 17 Also killed his foster son, he now confesses.

"I'm responsible for it," Edwards said. "It didn't work on my conscience. I spent the money. I was having a good time. You do it, forget it was done and go about your business until next time."