What is Edward Edwards (serial killer)?
{{Infobox serial killer | name= Edward Edwards | image= FBI-160-EdwardWayneEdwards.jpg | caption= FBI Ten Most Wanted mugshot | birth_name= | alias= | birth_date= June 14, 1933 | birth_place= [[Dayton, Ohio]], U.S. | death_date= {{death date and age |2011|04|7|1933|06|14}} | death_place= [[Columbus, Ohio]], U.S. | victims= 5 confirmed, 9-15+ suspected | country= [[United States]] | states= [[Wisconsin]],<br> [[Ohio]] | beginyear= 1977 | endyear= 1996 | apprehended= 2009 | penalty= [[Capital punishment|Death]] }} '''Edward Wayne Edwards''' (June 14, 1933 – April 7, 2011)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://coldcasecameron.com/killers-timeline/1933-1949/|title=1933-1949|website=Cold Case Cameron|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-22}}</ref> was a convicted [[Americans|American]] [[serial killer]]. Edwards escaped from jail in [[Akron, Ohio|Akron]], [[Ohio]] in 1955 and fled across the country. By 1961, he was on the [[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1960s|FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list]]. Edwards was captured and arrested in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] on January 20, 1962. After he was granted [[parole]] in 1967, Edwards murdered at least five people between 1977 and 1996. Edwards died of natural causes at the Corrections Medical Center in [[Columbus, Ohio]] on April 7, 2011. He was expected to be [[executed]] by lethal injection set for four months later on August 31.<ref>{{cite news | last = Gazaway | first = Charles | title = Confessed serial killer dies in prison | publisher = [[WAVE (TV)|WAVE]] | date = 8 April 2011 | url = http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=14414048 | access-date = 22 January 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160129221733/http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=14414048 | archive-date = January 29, 2016 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Brueck | first = Dana | title = UPDATE: Edward Edwards Dead | work = nbc15.com | publisher = [[WMTV]] | date = 8 April 2011 | url = http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/UPDATE_Edward_Edwards_Dead.html