The book It’s Me, Ed Edwards

John A. Cameron presents

It’s me. Edward Wayne Edwards.

The serial killer you never heard of.

A former detective’s chilling, case-by-case analysis of a convicted killer’s life, movements, and alleged trail across America.

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A story assembled from interviews, correspondence, records, and a detective’s investigation.

Begin the case

Convicted of five murders

A known killer.
An unsettled history.

Meet Edward Wayne Edwards, the most evil serial killer you’ve never heard of. In this chilling case-by-case analysis and story of the killer’s life, former detective John A. Cameron argues that Edwards was not only responsible for the five torture-murders he confessed to and was eventually convicted for, but for dozens more across the U.S., over decades.

Tracing the murderer’s life from his beginnings as a misguided boy who witnessed his mother’s suicide, Cameron conducted hundreds of interviews, including exchanging phone calls and letters with the killer and interviewing his family.

A life in motion

The timeline
behind the theory.

  1. 01

    The itinerant handyman

    Edwards’ early years moving from place to place across the United States.

  2. 02

    The escaped fugitive

    A jailbreak put Edwards on the run and began another period of travel.

  3. 03

    The “reformed” author

    He later toured to promote a book about his life as a reformed criminal.

  4. 04

    The arrest and confession

    Years later came his arrest, confessions, convictions, and the questions that remained.

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It Was Him:
The Many Murders of Ed Edwards

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The investigation

Following the trail, case by case.

Each part of this haunting timeline is tied by Cameron to murder cases in the areas Edwards lived, based on his MO and his sick joy in taunting police, attending trials on the cases, and getting people wrongfully convicted for the murders he claims he did.

These cases and ties include links to the famed Zodiac Killer, and more.

The broader case connections described here are Cameron’s arguments as presented in the book.

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