Body Hunter
About this ebook
To the people of Olney, Texas, 39-year-old Faryion Wardrip was an upright citizen--a happily married man, a valued employee, and a respected Sunday school teacher. But everyone in Olney would soon learn the chilling truth about the man they thought they knew.
His Brutal Rape-Murder Spree
In January, 1999, investigators reviewing the files of three unsolved murders dating back 15 years came across information linking Wardrip to the attractive young female victims--Terry Sims, 20, who had been bound, raped and stabbed to death; Toni Gibbs, 23, who was found slashed and sexually assaulted in a deserted bus shell; and Ellen Blau, 21, who disappeared after working a night shift, her badly decomposed body found a month later.
The Mounting Body Count
Smart police work snared a sample of Wardrip's DNA, matching it with semen found in the Sims case. Wardrip confessed to the three murders, and one more--the strangulation death of Debra Taylor, 25--though it was Sims' murder that put him on Texas's death row and made him the prime suspect in 10 other similar unsolved murders in Fort Worth.
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About the author
Patricia Springer's latest true crime book, Mail Order Murder, the story of Jack Reeves who promised his mail order brides a better life — then killed them, was released March 1, 1999. Flesh and Blood, the story of convicted child killer Darlie Routier and Springer's second offering, was released in October 1997. Springer attended the Routier trial, spent countless research hours with police, Routier friends, jury members, and experts in the field of forensics. Blood Rush, Springer's first book, was releasd in May 1994 by Pinnacle Books. The true crime, psychological profile, is of Texas serial killer Ricky Lee Green. The work was chosen as one of the featured selections of the True Crime Book Club in August 1994. Green's execution in October 1997 was witnessed by Springer. Springer is a former North-Texas-area newspaper reporter and radio news director. She has appeared on Current Affair, the Geraldo Rivera Show, and will appear soon on the Learning Channel's Medical Detectives. Springer resides in Dallas, Texas.
