Body Hunter

About this book

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.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.Smart police work snared a sample of Wardrips 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 death row and made him the prime suspect in 10 ot