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Wichita Falls, Texas, January 20, 1999 - Faryion Wardrip, a seemingly ordinary Texan, confessed to a series of gruesome murders that shocked the nation. Wardrip's confession revealed a dark and twisted side that had remained hidden for years.

Born in 1959, Faryion Wardrip led a relatively unremarkable life until the late 1980s and early 1990s when he embarked on a killing spree that terrorized Wichita Falls, Texas. His victims were primarily young women, and his crimes went unsolved for years, leaving a community in fear.

Wardrip's deadly rampage came to an end in 1999 when he was arrested and subsequently confessed to the murders of four women. His confessions were detailed and chilling, shedding light on the brutality of his crimes. He described how he lured his victims, strangled them, and then disposed of their bodies in remote areas.

The investigation into Wardrip's crimes uncovered evidence linking him to the murders, including DNA evidence that definitively linked him to the killings. His confessions and the physical evidence left no doubt about his guilt.

In 1999, Faryion Wardrip pleaded guilty to the murders and was sentenced to death.

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Victim #1 Terry Lee Sims.

A student at Mid-Western State University in Wichita Falls, Texas while working at Bethania Regional as a EKG Technician, on December 21, 1984, she was at home alone when she heared a man outside "Screaming at the Sky" (as the killer would later confess to his actions). When Faryion Edward Wardrip saw her, he charged her. Sims locked the door, but he broke it down, entering the house and stabbed her to death for no apparent reason.

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Victim #2 Toni Jean Gibbs.

Toni Gibbs was a young nurse who worked the night shift at a local hospital in Wichita Falls, Texas. After she did not report for work and was not at her apartment, the community was afraid that something horrible had happened to her. Police orginized search parties in a parking lot at Midwestern University. Two days later Toni's abandoned car was discovered but Toni was still missing. In mid-February an electrician was checking a transformer and discovered Toni Gibbs' body lying in a field less than two miles from her home. A bartender assistant named Danny Laughlin was indicted and tried in Archer County, Texas for Toni's murder. A jury eventually voted 11-1 for acquittal. In 1996 forensic technology allowed testing of a small sample of DNA that was taken from Toni's body and it proved that Laughlin had not been the person who sexually assaulted the nurse and killed her. The murder investigation was re-opened but sat gathering dust for a long time.

John Little, who joined the District Attorney's investigative team in 1993 was going over a file on Ellen Blau, another murder victim, when a name came up that sparked his memory, Faryion Edward Wardrip. Ellen Blau's roommate remembered Wardrip and felt uncomfortable around him. Little remembered that Wardrip had been a janitor, then an orderly, at the hospital where Gibbs had worked. Toni had felt comfortable with Faryion enough to give him a ride home. That was the last ride of her life.

A forensic lab in Dallas compaired the DNA found from Toni Gibbs' body and DNA from Wardrip. Faryion Wardrip could not be excluded as the contributor of the DNA left on Toni Gibbs. This was enough evidence for Little to get an arrest warrant for Faryion Wardrip. After learning that DNA evidence linked him to the murder of Gibbs, Wardrip confessed to her murder along with Terry Sims, Debroah Taylor, and Ellen Blau's murders. In 1999 at the age of 40, Farylon Wardrip was convicted of killing Terry Sims, Toni Gibbs, Deborah Taylor, and Ellen Blau. He was sentenced to death.

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Victim #3 Debra Sue Taylor.

Debra Taylor, a 26-year-old mother of two, whose body was found on March 29, 1985 was a victim of serial killer Faryion Wardrip. Debra and her husband had an argument on March 24, 1985.

Debra called a cousin and set up a meeting at a neighbourhood bar for a drink. Her cousin left after a quick visit but Debra was enjoying the music and laughter at the bar, so she stayed. After leaving the bar she vanished. Debra's husband reported her missing to the police the following Monday.

Everyone who knew Debra knew she would not leave her children or husband by her choice. Police focused the investigation on her husband. Even though her husband took three polygraph tests that showed no deception, the police still focused on him as the perpetrator. The following Friday a worker at a construction site found Debra's body.

Debra's husband was eventually cleared of her murder. For years after Taylor's death, the investigation was handled by several different detectives but was met with no success. It eventually became a cold case but was re-opened with the confession of Fayrion Wardrip. Eventually DNA would solve four murder cases related to Fayrion Wardrip, 21-year-old Terry Sims, 23-year-old Toni Gibbs, 21-year-old Ellen Blau and 25-year-old Debra Taylor.

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Victim #4 Ellen Blau.

Ellen was a waitress and part time student of Midwestern University in Wichita Falls, Texas who disappeared on September 19, 1985. Wichita Falls had an 18-month span where three women had been stabbed, strangled, and in two cases raped and murdered. A female co-worker and room mate of Ellen's remembered a man who lived in an apartment downstairs from Ellen. His name was Faryion Wardrip. The co-worker told a sheriffs deputy that Wardrip had "given me the creeps."

The co-worker and her husband both warned Ellen that if she ever saw Wardrip in the yard or hallway she should simply ignore him. Wardrip had been employed at a fast-food restaurant just a few doors from where Blau worked. In October of 1985, Ellen's green Volkswagon was found in a parking lot with the keys in the ignition and her purse on the front seat. On the edge of the driver's seat there was blood. On October 10th, the nude and decomposed body of 21-year-old Ellen Blau was discovered by a county employee mowing a rural road less than four miles from where her car was found. Ellen's case had turned to a cold case before Faryion Wardrip confessed to her murder along with several other murders in 1999. Wardrip was then convicted of killing Terry Sims, Toni Gibbs, Deborah Taylor, and Ellen Blau. He was sentenced to death.

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Victim #5 Tina Elizabeth Kimbrew.

A bartender-waitress at a local hotel in Wichita Falls, Texas, Tina Kimbrew was murdered on May, 6, 1986 by Faryion Edward Wardrip. Her body was found on the floor of her apartment. The apartment was ransacked. Tina had bruises on her face, neck, and legs. Cause of death was ruled as smothered to death. The 27 year old Wardrip pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison. He was released on parole in 1997. Waldrip moved to Olney, Young County, Texas and got a job and was active in a local Church. In 1985, 3 women,a college student and part-time hospital worker, a nurse, and a waitress, had been stabbed, strangled, and in two cases raped.

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Enjoy Serial Killer fans

[joak]

i wonder what it is that makes a particular serial killer a household name.

[Zambini]

It's amazing to me that serial killers keep it together mentally long enough to kill again and again, it seems to me they blur the line between fantasy and reality so much that they would give themselves away because they couldn't tell what was real anymore.

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Originally Posted by joak ↗

i wonder what it is that makes a particular serial killer a household name.

I have often wondered the same, he's no less a savage than many others who are way more known, I have known who this guy was for 10 years plus but he is probably generally only known in TX.