Edward Walton

Edward "Eddie" Walton (died July 17, 1908) was an American serial killer who confessed to murdering five people across five states between 1896 and 1908, eventually being hanged for the murder of Beulah Martin in 1908. Biography According to his confession, Walton was born in Wilkes County near a town called Pistol (alternative name for Delhi), and his first crime ever was killing a horse in 1890. Six years later, he murdered and then robbed a man in Blossburg, Alabama. Later police investigations couldn't confirm that there was ever such a crime, and Walton was never even sought after. While in Joliet, Illinois in 1902, he married his future victim, Edith Hanna, but they were quickly separated for about two years. In August 1904, Walton had asked her to come back to him, but when she refused, he traveled to her Chicago address of No. 81 South Peoria Street and then shot her. Hanna died 3 days later, without regaining consciousness. By then, Walton had fled and yet again avoided arrest. He then attacked an unnamed man in Joliet, who apparently had connections to Hanna, but the unnamed victim had survived. Since everybody who knew him and Hanna in Chicago was clearly aware that he had killed her, Walton fled, but not before considering informing the police department of Chicago. The police did investigate Hanna's murder, even questioning the current family that lived at the address, but neither they, nor the authorities were certain that Walton was the husband who had murdered the woman.