This day in history: Henry Louis Wallace, also known as "The Taco Bell Strangler" was born on this day in 1965. Wallace is an American serial killer who killed ten women in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the early 1990's and is awaiting execution at Central Prison in Raleigh.
Wallace earned the name "The Taco Bell Strangler" because he worked as a Taco Bell manager, and even killed some of his co-workers there.
North Carolina has produced a number of killers over the years, such as Jeffrey Robert MacDonald, aka The Green Beret Killer, a United States Army captain (Fort Bragg) who was convicted in August 1979 of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters in February 1970 while serving as an Army Special Forces physician. Joe McGinniss wrote the book "Fatal Vision" about this case. MacDonald remains incarcerated in the Cumberland Federal Correctional Institution.
Gary Michael Hilton known as The National Forest Serial Killer, is an American serial killer responsible for four known homicides between 2007 and 2008 committed in North Carolina, Georgia and Florida. On February 22, 2011, he was officially sentenced to death for the crime and sent off to Florida's death row.
Frederick Robert Klenner Jr. was a mass murderer who killed several victims between 1984 and 1985. Police spotted him in Greensboro in June 1985, but they never got a chance to arrest and charge him for his crimes. He detonated an explosive inside his vehicle, killing himself as well has his girlfriend, Susie Lynch, and her two sons. His other victims were identified as Lynch's family members.
Scott Wilson Williams is a convicted serial killer who lived in Monroe, North Carolina. He has been convicted for the murders of three women that took place over a period of nine years. He has also been convicted of crimes against two additional women who were not killed. Williams is imprisoned at Alexander Correctional Institution.
As of 2018, there were 141 people on death row in North Carolina (North Carolina has the sixth largest death row in the USA)...a few end up dying of natural causes while awaiting execution. There have been nine people in North Carolina sentenced to death who turned out to be innocent.
North Carolina is far from being the worse place for serial murder. "Within the US, there is one state in particular which seems to be the serial killer capital of the world: California. With over 120 serial killers to its name, equaling a total of around 1600 serial killing-related deaths, the Golden State has been the hunting grounds of some of the most brutal and terrifying criminals in US history." Source
Florida and Texas take second and third place. Alaska has the most serial killers per capita.
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