Edward
Edwards was no ordinary serial killer. He
might have been the legendary Man with the Hook
– the semi-mythical psycho-killer rumored for decades to
haunt lover’s lanes across this country.
Except, as we all know, that was just a scary teenage horror
story – an urban myth, as we might say today. And Edward
Edwards – who died in April 2011 in an Ohio prison cells at
77 years of age – was very real.
Of all known serial killers, Edwards was among the most
cunning. And now, for the first time, you can read about his savage
career in The Peyton-Allan Files, a new true-crime mystery
by author and investigator Phil Stanford.
Once, while on the run from the law in Minnesota,
Edwards posed as a psychiatrist. In Oregon, he managed to convince those
around him he was a CIA agent, fighting Communists for the
U.S. government.
In the 1970s, after his release from Leavenworth, where he
was doing time for
bank
robbery, Edwards appeared on a network quiz show, What’s My
Line? posing as – what else? – a reformed criminal.
He even wrote and published a book, Metamorphosis of
a Criminal, touting his supposed conversion from
armed robber to family man – all the while, |
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dropping clever hints
about his exploits as a serial killer.
Finally arrested in 2009 as the result of a cold
case investigation in Wisconsin, Edwards
confessed to the murders of young couples in
Wisconsin and Ohio.
Those familiar with his
history are convinced he also committed his
signature double-murders in Oregon, Montana and
California. Montana investigator John Cameron,
a former
 police
officer currently working as parole board analyst,
believes Edwards may even be the Zodiac Killer who
terrified the San Francisco Bay area in 1968-69.
In The Peyton-Allan Files,
Stanford ties Edwards directly to the savage murders
of two teenagers in Portland, Oregon. It’s a
real-life murder mystery, guaranteed to keep you
turning pages deep into the night.
Don’t miss this chance to look into
one of the most monstrous criminal minds of our
time. Edward Edwards IS the Man With The Hook. |
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by Jim Redden of the Portland Tribune
The killings
of Larry Peyton and Beverly Allan were huge news in
1960.
The
teenage sweethearts were attacked while necking on a
lovers’ lane in Forest Park. Peyton’s body was
discovered the day after he was stabbed and beaten
to death. Forty-three days later, Allan’s body was
found miles away.
Two local men were convicted of the killings
eight years later. Eddie Jorgenson and Robert Brom
were sentenced to lengthy prison terms, and the case
was officially closed.
But doubts have always lingered about the
validity of the convictions. The Oregon Parole Board
released both Jorgenson and Brom within a few years
– a remarkable move for such a heinous crime, even
by the looser sentencing standards in those days.
Now Stanford, a private investigator and former
columnist for the Portland Tribune and
Oregonian, has written a book that strongly argues
the convictions were an injustice – and points to a
more likely suspect in the case. He is Edward
Edwards, a [recently deceased] career criminal who confessed to two similar murders since 1977 and
is suspected of even more.
As Stanford shows in his book The Peyton-Allan Files,
Edwards was in Portland when the killings occurred.
He was even arrested and brought in for questioning
in the case but escaped before he could be
interviewed by investigators.
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