This Man Who Discovered His Grandfather Was Prolific Serial Killer Ed Edwards | Megyn Kelly TODAY

Megyn Kelly TODAY welcomes Wayne Wolfe, who had no idea until recently that his grandfather, Ed Edwards, may have been one of the most prolific serial killers of our time, along with veteran detective John Cameron, who believes Edwards may have been the notorious Zodiac Killer.
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This Man Who Discovered His Grandfather Was Prolific Serial Killer Ed Edwards | Megyn Kelly TODAY

[@pablitomispicyburrito]

Once he started with Scott Peterson and the Black Dahlia, he lost every ounce of credibility. "My grandfather committed every unsolved murder! AND solved ones as well!" The Black Dahlia was committed with the precision of a surgeon and he's trying to say his grandfather did this when he was 12... *rolls eyes*

[@pantoponrosegoatoe4129]

Agree!! 😑

[@eddiemus78]

Well it’s the ex cop who climas that. Not the grandson. And yes, Cameron portrays that Edwards was the Forrest Gump of murders in mid 20th century in the USA 😂😂😂 no credibility.

[@maremacd]

This is the most confusing story.

[@ItwBokay33062]

maremacd read the book "It's Me Edward Wayne Edward" The serial killer you never heard of.

[@dom404gamer8]

S where is this docu series

[@ItwBokay33062]

Sara Kinder the series is on the paramount Channel. 2 episodes have already been televised. The book is available on amazon.

[@dom404gamer8]

S do you know the name of it

[@ItwBokay33062]

Sara Kinder yes, The book is called. "It's Me" Edward Wayne Edwards The serial killer you never heard of. Written by : John A. Cameron

[@tangerinefizz11]

I believe Ed Edwards was a serial killer, but compared to other killers, he was small potatoes. He wasn't responsible for all those famous homicides.

[@_Nat_A_]

My heart is with your family. The best advice I was ever given as a mom, is during times of difficulty, clear our calendar to bare bones. There is no need for guilt, this is a time of self care and preservation.❤️

[@HappyMomma412]

Natasha Ann Well stated, timely, compassionate, and astonishingly wise.

[@WindDancer435]

How do you clear your calendar? I don't even know what that means.

[@judyberends4586]

Natasha Ann DON'T BROADCAST IT TO THE WORLD.

[@Krystal-O]

Love that!

[@eclay432]

This is the worst most convoluted interview I have ever seen.

[@GodInTheMachine]

This guy has tunnel vision. I guess he killed Lincoln and framed Boothe too.

[@amayziehiggins7622]

😂😂😂😂

[@eddiemus78]

😂😂😂😂

[@terriesmith8219]

As humans, we all have good and evil in us, it's just a matter of what you decide to focus on. You are what you focus on.

[@Justynbrodsky123]

Sure, let’s just blame a dead serial killer on a whole bunch of high profile murders. Absolutely hilarious.

[@sandraweisbarth4148]

I worked as a dispatcher when Detective Cameron worked cold cases, he was really good at what he did, it sounds crazy but I believe in Cameron.

[@helenajesstarzak1408]

He killed Black Dahlia when he was 13?!?! Oh, come on! I certainly don't believe that.

[@ThisTall]

They actually need to spend a bit more time talking about the connections he had to the victims. The theory seems to deep to be true, but just there with the Black Dahlia thing Megan says the family claim he couldn’t have even been there, but the detective forgot to mention the photo booth pictures that were discovered of Ed WITH THE DEAD GIRL just days after the murder. He was with her in a fukn photo booth right before she died but Megan here is making it look like a crazy theory.

[@AkSonya1010]

thank you for pointing that out.

[@leosuniverse]

bet the pic is not her...or its not him. something off. it is a crazy theory even the guy knows it.

[@grant575mixmaster]

edwards would have been 14 years old at that time, the guy in that photo was not 14 years old.

[@MyMySharona]

They said he was 13 at the time

[@jdjdjcjdjx3107]

@@grant575mixmaster that's false and Ed was born in 1928 so he would have been 18

[@kezkezooie8595]

I have someone close to me who grew up within a very abusive family and who found out as an adult that his father was the prime suspect in two separate murders separated by several years. He was never charged because of the lack of courtworthy evidence, although the police and public prosecutors were confident he was responsible. It was a trauma on top of the trauma of abuse and undid a lot of healing he'd managed to achieve. It made him question himself and what he was perhaps capable of, it brought back many of the instances of abuse and made sense of threats his father often made to his family. Whether his father was guilty of these murders or not, he used them to terrorise this person's mother, other family members and people he knew and that, in itself, is indicative of what sort of a person he was. I feel for anyone who finds out this sort of information about a family member.

[@ryanleone5805]

People seem to lack a rudimentary understanding of the English language. Multiple people think that it’s inappropriate to use the word prolific to describe this monster… prolific means high productivity… meaning he killed a lot of people… it’s not used in a celebratory or positive way. Just like nuclear proliferation isn’t celebrating nuclear expansion… the vast illiteracy of this country is disconcerting.

[@bevwood8210]

I really miss Megan Kelly on TV, please bring her back!

[@ellenadams7354]

She has her on podcast now

[@MrEvaschutter]

who does her clothes? she looks like a clown.

[@VintageRose75]

@@ellenadams7354 And, she has KZbin channel, where she interviews guests...pretty much what she is doing here.

[@cate2728]

I don’t believe he had anything to do with these famous murders. It’s just tunnel vision.

[@Largeagegaplove]

Ed Edwards spoke at a school event when I was a kid...still remember wanting to get his book "Metamorphosis of a Criminal" Relax dude evil is a choice, not genetic

[@eddiemus78]

You call it evil based on the religious influence on that term but some traits of psychopathy are genetic and people are born with them. Some traumatic eve by a might trigger or amplify this behavior of what you would call “evil”

[@ThisTall]

Bit curious with so much made of the Zodiac killers hand writing why they don’t seem to ask how Ed’s writing matches the Zodiac letters

[@johnscanlon7757]

Can’t rely on that he was a master manipulator he coulda had any number of people write them if this story is true he was obviously no dummy

[@EdEdwardsCiphers]

@@johnscanlon7757 Here here!! This is correct. I would also add, that I found the reasoning behind Cameron's argument was intriguing. One of the main arguments people make that Ed could not have been a murderer or the Zodiac, was that he kept getting busted. And had a rap sheet. But Cameron's logic is what I found fascinating. Because he described something that I processed logically as a beautiful engineering loop. This is how I started to understand how Edwards would think. He was crafty. The crimes that are on his rap sheet, before he was busted for murder, at the end of his life. They all show up as small, petty, and non violent crimes. This is because Ed was so manipulative, that he was manipulating law enforcement. Pitting them against each other. He would testify in the cases that he committed that were violent offenses, but he would be framing other people and testifying against them, giving himself immunity and having his files sealed federally. So those murders wouldn't show up, and still won't, because the government has them sealed. I found this fascinating as I mentioned. Because this is an amazing logical loop. Only someone with an engineering mind could have foreseen to create such a system that he did. Which is why he knew that when caught he needs to checkout with the death penalty, because the whole box that he kept hidden would be under threat of being exposed fully. Not to mention other parties that he may have been involved in, that he would have given up, that would not have taken kindly to his surviving family. They would be under constant immediate threat to their lives. And Ed would know that. He would know that those people would not stop at anything to make him and his family pay, unless they knew for sure he was silenced. I firmly believe in the end, he was running from them, and towards the death penalty, because the price he would have to pay, would not be a burden upon him, but to his family that he would no longer be able to defend. I actually suspect both Charles Manson, and Berkowitz are actually in the same both . (Were for charlie) Ed invented a ponzi scheme. But one for murder. So he murders, but sets people up for the murders. Get's busted for petty crimes, then haggles with information on a bigger crime -- which is how the criminal justice system works. So he was playing the system but with murder. He invented a Madoff scheme for murder. This was a first glimpse into Ed's thinking. Like every Ponzi scheme however, you have to take in more Rubes and dupes, than you have to pay out to. Otherwise, the system gets out of whack, and you can't get off a hamster wheel. Time was up for Ed, as Father Time is undefeated. Ed bargained for the Death Penalty to protect the family that he left behind. This is what I believe. It's also why the family of survivors is actually in a precarious position.

[@actualtessmohr]

Just because he was a serial killer doesn’t make him the Zodiac Killer and it doesn’t mean he killed Jon Benet Ramsey.

[@lindaclark5911]

TESS CROWSON steve dieckhoff supertopo.com murdered jon benet ramsey

[@mickeyguide3112]

@@lindaclark5911 got any proof of your claim?

[@marniekilbourne608]

No way did this guy commit ALL of these famous murders! Please!

[@harrietthespy2119]

This isn’t evil, it’s unhealed complex trauma. We need to be clear on what happens neurologically to persons with early childhood abandonment trauma and subsequent abuse. Not all of them end up killing, but many push every sign of love away as self protection.😢😢

[@eli3568]

Mmm, I don't know, that's a bit of a stretch. He killed countless people. That is evil. Even if it stemmed from trauma, many go through trauma, and as you said yourself, they don't all end up killing. He still did what he did.

[@someguyonyoutube1317]

OH MY GOD HER OUTFIT! That's all I can say.

[@yogosapphire]

Some Guy On You Tube , she’s going for the lead role in the all female reboot of Beetlejuice!

[@designsonyouinparis]

Some Guy On You Tube I thought I was the only one that noticed it!

[@violetmay1135]

Some Guy On You Tube clown wear

[@anafindlay1696]

WTH was she thinking!!! LOL 😁😁

[@TheTalksoup]

ikr she is standing uncomfortably like she has to pee. i suspect that skirt... can you imagine her shoes... ok i said too much

[@easfgman4687]

guy is so delusional.

[@86thislove]

I'm not really believing this. Some deaths were too close to when he was a young teen plus all the murders happened all across the country.

[@angiskaggs73]

This is....a....JOKE.

[@jdjdjcjdjx3107]

No it's not

[@lauriesorenson3172]

Wow. God be with him and break any evil ties that may be attached. At least, his grandfather is locked up. Hopefully, escape proof.

[@breef.7374]

Laurie Sorenson oh yeah he won’t escape. He’s in a maximum security prison, and if you’ve ever been in one before - nearly impossible to escape. I used to visit a family member in prison, and notorious murderers like this are always on watch.

[@supafun33]

Ed Edwards is dead

[@GenghisJan]

Laurie Sorenson yeah, dead men are really unlikely to escape so rest easy :'D

[@lauriesorenson3172]

GenghisJan wonder who was waiting for him on other side?

[@tangerinefizz11]

Why am I skeptical about the link to the Zodiac murders?

[@panda5122]

No, and that investigator sounds like a quack.

[@anniegillespie7935]

her stylist needs to be fired

[@peekeyeseek]

What kind of world do we live in? The comment section is full of outrageous skirt remarks which outweigh the sensationalism of a serial killer. I think I'll just lay down and play dead.

[@leonfdawson]

go for it

[@GabrielTheMagolorMain]

peekeyeseek It’s 45 supporters who come on here just to insult her. And based on the topic of this video it is disturbing.

[@carljcreighton]

I like her skirt now that you mention it

[@patricialucious5091]

peekeyeseek We live in a world were the earth was given into the hands of The wicked for a time.

[@ellenadams7354]

I know, they are so shallow!🤦 Right!! 🤦

[@bigdaddyromeo9631]

Are we forgetting there’s two survivors of the zodiac killer and they didn’t describe this man at all he doesn’t even wear glasses and how old was he if he was responsible for killing Germany Ramsey he was an old man come on people really

[@rosastephens8966]

He was the same age that he was when he killed his adopted son when he killed Jon Bonet ...and for the same reason: To get money

[@JohnSmith-eo5sp]

0:50 Next your going to tell us he was the man on the grassy knoll

[@eddie1808n]

Right wtf 😂

[@1trumantucker1]

Ummm, sure. He also killed JFK...😂

[@dom404gamer8]

Truman Tucker 🤦‍♀️ I’m cringing the blk dalia might as well say Lincoln too

[@tedmccarron]

... and RFK and MLK...

[@sarahhalbfoster85]

Sara Kinder ppo

[@dreamsofturtles1828]

Someone decided her outfit should get more attention than the person being interviewed. Mission accomplished !

[@tettertotter3667]

What a joke no wonder that cop lost his job.. I just want to ask the cop one thing "are you high Clarie" lmao I can't believe they would believe that old man he is a habitual lier...

[@mattnewhouse1781]

Why would you cry about that? He persued his dreams. Not many men can say that.

[@muserussell2377]

Why would they bring on somebody who has a hypothesis that this guy is the zodiac killer without strong evidence and law support with the guy who is his direct descendant

[@MegaLabarr]

He and the Golden State Killer look very much alike in their old age. just an observation.

[@neshmahenkel2428]

Lab444 exact same thoughts

[@maximilianraley2457]

Interesting enough observation. Was there any other thoughts at all. Like maybe they were in together.

[@designsonyouinparis]

I just could watch much of this interview....my heart goes out to all the innocent victims, their families and loved ones.

[@ASAMB12]

Many convicted murderers have claimed to have committed other crimes, that they didn't have anything to do with. I don't buy it, he's probably just trying to get attention and fame. it seems too far fetched. But I feel really sorry for Wayne. It's incredible how evil people can be, imagine facing the fact, that your own grandfather is a brutal killer. That's insanely scary.

[@ellenadams7354]

No, you won't wake up one day killing ppl or you already would have. You okay and give it to Jesus. Jesus brings us thru it all. God Bless you 🛐❣️✝️

[@gfleming5136]

Most ridiculous interview ever. Please quit!

[@izaskungarcia9825]

G Fleming it has only been downhill for Kelly since the Presidential Debate. She is obviously colorblind and destroyed this family’s story with her outfit

[@starsigngirl9789]

Dude your reaching if you think he killed Lacey Peterson

[@fjorinasimoni9832]

Is so difficult for his nephew to have these heinous memoreies for his grandfather and the opinions of society that he has the blood of evil😥😥😥😥

[@sarahfentress6202]

In Jon Bennett, I don’t understand how KOTAS wouldn’t answer that.

[@gulliver7419]

Hmmm, I am not convinced he was the Zodiac killer. Ed Edwards seemed very proud to be a killer and enjoyed notoriety.

[@teddyrattlesnake2991]

He framed Lizzie Borden too!

[@mayasevelen]

This is an awkward interview

[@shannonmccarthy3461]

Isnt Ed Edward's 14 letters he said the zodiac killers puzzle was 13 letters... I mean come on the writing's on the wall

[@asburycollins9182]

this was a pile of hogwash

[@giuseppesarto3657]

I feel bad for the guy who is scared he will wake up with evil intentions. Most of us are like "nah, don't worry, you won't", but the truth is that committing a crime of passion is different than having a sick enjoyment out of taking lives. One of those is a disease of the mind, I think, and why wouldn't it be inherited? Psychopaths are born (sociopaths are made thru trauma, I think), but if you're born evil like that then how do you know genes aren't a factor? I'm not saying that it is, but idk if we can rule it out either.

[@johnnyscarecrow3363]

He is the only killer in history.

[@maggiebakerr]

I don’t think he killed jonbenet Ramsey

[@peterandersen4040]

Zodiac were glasses. Ed didn't.

[@Acadian.FrenchFry]

I'm not buying the Zodiac Killer link. I live in the Bay Area and grew up in a couple areas that he killed. And someone would have had to have been a local to pick some of those spots. I'm convinced it was someone that grew up here.

[@rosastephens8966]

Edward did live there in the 1950s and had relatives living there in the 1960s and 1970s

[@Acadian.FrenchFry]

@@rosastephens8966 Did he? Well, that makes a difference. Because only locals would really know about places like Lake Herman and Oak Shores. They are remote areas that are not all that easy to just stumble across.

[@the3spirit]

The investigator's investigation doesn't add up...

[@KRLEEQ]

Her tone and voice makes these gentlemen sound crazy, hate how she painted them this way, could have been a more clear and convincing interview.

[@harpergrace5846]

I don’t know if I can buy all of this

[@jasonrogers143]

He’s not zodiac an texas Vietnam vet was the zodiac

[@josselinec4711]

Okay the grandson needs to chill

[@user-cy4vw1qj9m]

May all the victims Rest in Peace 🌹🌹🌹his grandson seems a nice person also he should realise there is also goodness in his family his own adult children turned him in 🌹🌹🌹

[@AnthonyB405]

Her outfit isn’t even bad.... chill.

[@BwB_1]

She ruined this.

[@grinstylez]

she sure did

[@mattkaustickomments]

I’d say the lunatic cop who thinks this one guy probably even shot Abe Lincoln ruins it.

[@AilhendarBarbie]

Omg I hate that skirt. Just throw it all away.

[@fjorinasimoni9832]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@WeThePeeps13]

Maybe, Ed killed his mother and made it look like she killed herself. Sure, he was only 2 but....

[@merricat3025]

Cameron must not have thought of that

[@douglasfrench6998]

Do not let Cameron's resume fool you - he is a poor investigator. He states as fact some of the weakest speculation imaginable. He then uses that speculation to "prove" other speculations. Ed Edwards was definitely a serial killer with likely many other unlinked killings to his name, but Cameron just embarrasses himself by claiming that Ed was The Black Dahlia Killer, The Zodiac Killer, Jimmy Hoffa's killer and Jon Benet Ramsey's killer based on his own flimsy speculations.

[@melonmalone6307]

i have a copy of that book

[@ketboard012]

i call bs.

[@kuuipopakalolo8723]

So wait A 13 yr old boy killed a grown woman?? No not Elizabeth Short.. Its not believable.. But her nasty outfit & cold attitude thats not necessary.. R.I.P to all families that were affected.

[@roro1980]

So many people claim to have killed jimmy hoffer- they can’t all have

[@johngta7172]

THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF EVIL IN ALL OF US.....

[@fiercest_calm]

Honestly, I can't hear this story because Meg's skirt is so loud!! LOL! (really, so awful)

[@reemak8500]

I can't hear because she's so hot!!!

[@VintageRose75]

Lisa Noelle It's really bothering me that it doesn't match...lol!

[@fiercest_calm]

kentuckycountrygirl Same here, cause we are country gals!! 😃

[@fiercest_calm]

Sinned lol well, there's that ...

[@VintageRose75]

Lisa Noelle That's right! 😉

[@Dilligaf1]

I knew OJ was framed!

[@djkallyson1739]

lol where did this guy come from next he going to say edwards killed at age 6

[@leosuniverse]

he started young whats not believable ? lol

[@Serena-777]

Did he say where jimmy Hoffa body is

[@anthonywesterman4166]

Yeah buried in the endzone at the old Giants stadium

[@leosuniverse]

what tf am i listening to? he need to quit.this fool is not connected to every unsolved murders. beginner sleuth getting air time.

[@narasimha7187]

That outfit she's wearing is a crime.

[@rachelpeters1835]

This sounds to far fetched

[@darkside7802]

“Prolific Serial Killer!” No one can actually prove he killed hardly anyone.

[@johnscanlon7757]

5 is plenty enough for a prolific serial killer especially with the time span the murders took place

[@panda5122]

The FBI defines serial killer as "two or more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not always, by one offender acting alone". This sicko satisfies the definition of serial killer.

[@HappyMomma412]

Very well done interview. Scary, but, well done.

[@HappySingh-ri9qh]

Lost me at Scott

[@debbieescobar6267]

This guy is a conspiracy theorist.

[@backinthesaddleagain3802]

I'm convinced Ed Edwards killed Cesar

[@mitzinicoleritter211]

Whoever put that outfit together- fire them!

[@joshweickum]

Them are some clown pants

[@GabrielTheMagolorMain]

Joshua Weickum Them? Jesus...

[@plutoplatters]

annnnnd............ we LOVE stuff like this more than anything !!!! humans !!

[@benban8055]

Serial Killers being described as prolific.

[@staceystrukel1917]

This guy is nuts!

[@nathanhodges6743]

its really wierd that the guys 1st name is the grandfathers middle name

[@ILive2Rescue]

Reporting 101 is that you don’t ask more than one question at a time. This chic wouldn’t stfu! 😡

[@CraftyCuriosity]

Wait... the Lacey Peterson murder... this is where I stopped watching

[@ChescoYT]

"We all have evil in us." Some truth in that, look at all the wars in human history. The people didn't die by themselves.

[@MissJessyeNorman]

This detective is a KOOK...

[@calicodnikonian2774]

I honestly feel sorry for this man, really. People, particularly those that mock or denigrate this man, fail to understand how this man feels, how he's suffered for what he discovered.ll because he was a good, honest man with good feelings. The Zodiac Killer may very likely have been SEVERAL killers (just like Jack the Ripper in England). This monster is about as cunning and evil as "The Iceman." The question remains, and most often argued over by professional psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists and professional criminologists, born killers or does some event or series of events bring out the murderous streak... is it nature or nurture? Serial killers are elusive and pass off for "normal," humble, law-abiding people and they are the least person everyone suspects, and even today people find it difficult to believe ADMITTED serial killers actually were killers. I don't believe this creep killed The Black Dahlia, since the son of a doctor wrote a book on his PROOF and evidence that his certified prolific genius-level father committed the Black Dahlia murder and many others the police suspected him of committing (police also listened in on the man's telephone conversations for many months). Insofar as OJ Simpson's guilt, see and hear the video on KZbin, entitled, "My Brother, the Serial Killer." This is why Simpson's children want nothing to do with him, even today. And OJ cannot be tried again due to the Double Jeopardy standard., and HE KNOWS IT.

[@rickyparker4436]

That grandson gives me the creeps.

[@angiskaggs73]

Laci Peterson’s....come.on.

[@maryjensen5310]

He didn’t have a murder spree. It was a life long career.

[@daviddowns7552]

murdered after they left amusement park it said cold case files.

[@sunshine-oh3hm]

he couldn't make their bodies wash up on good Friday....sorry I listened until then smh...the guy is to much!!!

[@susiepoo51]

I can't help but think that Meghan is going to a party or elegant dinner after each show. She dresses accordingly...

[@jdjdjcjdjx3107]

For anyone who doesn't know their is photo proof of Ed and short together in a photo which ed was said to be 13 in the picture but now we know he wasn't born in 1933 but 1928 which means he was 18

[@diabeticdiaries7954]

If he goes out and murders someone that's nobodies fault but his own! He can't blame it on the fact his grandfather was a serial killer.