The Tattletale Serial Killer - Faryion Wardrip

Suzanne: Warning. This episode may contain graphic and disturbing content. Listener discretion is advised.

June: Hi, y'all and welcome to Crime With My Coffee. I'm your fabulous hostess with the mostess, June.

S: And I'm Suzanne. We're gonna tell you some stories you've heard. 

J: Some you haven't.

S: And some you'll wish you hadn't. 

J: All with a Texas twang. 

S: Alright. So, welcome back again. Thanks for joining us. Glad to have you here. 

J: I’m glad you came back. 

S: Yes, keep coming back. Tell your friends to join us. We are not a cult.

J: No. No. Unless you count coffee as a cult.

S: Or true crime. But we are not a cult. 

J: Not a cult. Not a cult. 

S: Not a cult. So, but speaking of coffee, today I am back to the regular old Folgers. So regular Folgers, but I got a little, little different with the creamer this time. I used the, it's by CoffeeMate. It comes in a little powder canister. It's the Chocolate Creme creamer. 

J: Mmm.  Yum. 

S: It makes it very creamy, very sweet. Like, don't use your regular amount of sugar in this one because it is sweet enough. And it smells amazing, once you get it all mixed in your coffee. I was sitting drinking some with my husband earlier, and I had the coffee - the chocolate creamer in there and he was like, "Man, I keep smelling chocolate. Do we have any chocolate?" And I was like, "No, we don't have any chocolate." And he was like, "Well why do I smell chocolate?" And I was like, "It's my creamer," and he was like, "Can I have some?" 

J: Hmm. I like that.

S: It was good. I had to share it but it was good.

J: Okay. Oh, like I kind of like me when it when it tends to get a little chillier at night while I'm at work. Of course I'm inside anyway, so it doesn't matter but I like to put a packet of hot chocolate in my coffee. You know, give it a little coffee mocha taste. I do that a lot at work.

S: It reminded me a lot of that except more creamier than hot chocolate is. 

J: Hmm, I bet it's delicious. 

S: It’s almost kind of like they took a packet of hot chocolate and a packet of the regular non dairy creamer and like mixed them together.

J: Mm hmm. I bet it is delicious. So.

S: It is pretty- It's pretty good. What are you drinking? 

J: Well, I didn't venture very far. I just plopped a Keurig pod in with the breakfast blend and French Vanilla, so I'm just plain ol' plain ol' today. So. 

S: Hey, but if it's good, it's good. I'm just saying.

J: It is good. It is good. French Vanilla creamer, that's my all time favorite. But you know it is starting to get a little cooler so I'm thinking, I'm gonna tell you I like QT's French Vanilla cappuccino and I might have to start going there, I don't know, occasionally, and picking me up some French Vanilla cappuccino 'cause I like it. It's really good. QT has got really good coffee, and McDonald's has really good coffee.

S: In case you don't know, QT is this big, huge truckstop gas station by the way. 

J: Kind of like a Buc-ee's but smaller. 

S: They don't have a Buc-ee's everywhere either, Mother.

J: That is true. Okay. Yeah. 

S: I mean, it sucks for them because Buc-ee's is fabulous. But but not everywhere has a Buc-ee's. So not everybody knows what a Buc-ee's is. 

J: Right. Yeah. So QT is technically Quik Trip. It's a gas station, a fairly bigger gas station has more pumps than normal your regular gas station. And they have little coffee machine setup in there and.

S: They’ve got all kinds of stuff at QT. Not as much stuff as in a Buc-ee's. But they got a decent amount. 

J: True, true. And their coffee is good. So. 

S: Today, I wanted to talk about Faryion Wardrip. I think Faryion is how you say his name. It may be Faryion, but we're gonna say Faryion. 

J: Hey, I think you nailed it. 

S: I think so, too. So, Faryion Wardrip was a guy, born on March 6 of 1959, in Salem, Indiana. His parents were George and Diana Wardrip and he was the oldest of two kids. He had a little brother. Um, there hasn't been any documented cases of abuse towards Faryion. So, you know, I think he's just a bad dude. I think some people are just born bad. And I think he's one of those people. Um, anyway, oh, yeah, he's our bad guy. Not not the victim here, by the way.

J: Oh. Okay. 

S: So, he didn't exactly finish high school, but he should have. He dropped out in the 12th grade. Like he got partway through his senior year of high school and then just quit.

J: That’s crazy. You go all those years, and then you're almost at the end and you just stop.

S: Yeah, he just quit, because he just wasn't interested in anything. So he just quit. So in 1978, when he was 19, he joined the National Guard. 

J: Least he tried to do something right. 

S: Yes. In 1983, he married a woman named Johnna Jackson. They ended up having two kids. But- and, and while he was married to her, um, he worked as a hospital janitor, which is going to be important later, because he was promoted from janitor to orderly at this hospital within a year. He did have some issues with abusing drugs and alcohol and that caused a lot of strain on his marriage. So he is married to this woman and they're living in Wichita Falls, Texas, which is a smaller size town about two to two and a half hours north of Fort Worth. He was working as a hospital janitor, and he was promoted from janitor to orderly within a year. 

J: Eh, hard work, hard work, maybe. 

S: Yeah, hard work, hard work. In January of 1985, he quit his job. Just abruptly quit his job.

J: Oh my goodness. Why?

S: We’ll get to that.

J: Oh, okay.

S: I’ll tell you in a little bit why he did that. 

J: Okay. 

S: But, he quit his job. And then he started kind of job hopping from from different places, couldn't really hold down a job because he's abusing drugs and alcohol. In 1984, so a year before he quit his job at the hospital - in 1984, he received a Less Than Honorable Discharge from the National Guard. Yeah, yeah, he got kicked out for smoking marijuana, disorderly conduct, and for being AWOL multiple times. 

J: Oh, my goodness. Can't commit to anything. 

S: No, can't commit to anything. And then he quits his job at the hospital. And then he just like starts bouncing around from job to job. He can't hold a job. He's, you know, just- his in-laws are having to help him and his wife pay their rent, feed their kids, because he can't do it on his own. And she's trying but she can't do it all, especially when he's blowing all their money on drugs and alcohol. So in December of 1985, she said, "Okay, peace. See you. Bye bye." She packed up the kids and left him. 

J: Good for her. Good for her. It's probably best. 

S: Oh, it's definitely for the- definitely for the better. So in October of 1986, their divorce was finalized. But, so they got separated in December of 1985. Six months later, no, five months because I can't math. Five months later, on May 6, 1986, there was a 21 year old waitress who he had recently befriended. Her name was Tina Kimbrew. He went to her apartment because they were friends. So he went to her apartment. You know, he was kind of pissed off having, a bad night I guess or whatever, and got into her house and killed her.

J: Oh, God.

S: And his reasoning for killing her is because she reminded him of his soon to be ex-wife.

J: What a piece of shit.

S: Def-i-nite-ly. So neighbors told the cops they- neighbors had called the cops before her body had ever been found, because they had seen this guy running from the apartment complex late at night and they're like, "This isn't normal, you know, and we don't know this person so we're gonna call the cops." Um, he was described as a white male, six foot two inches tall, with dark brown hair, and wearing a baseball cap. Wardrip was actually six foot six. I mean, that's, that he's pretty tall guy. Yeah, like he's pretty tall. That's, that's tall, 

J: That’s big.

S: Yeah. But he wasn't even on the police radar. This this guy named Danny Laughlin was actually who they originally thought it was going to be once they found Tina's body. 

J: That the boyfriend? 

S: It- that is not the boyfriend. But Danny Laughlin comes back into play here in just a little bit. 

J: Oh. Okay. Okay. 

S: So, just wanted to mention that Danny Laughlin was originally thought to be a suspect. But once they started comparing his profile, you know, how he looked, his description, to the description of what they were assuming was the killer. He didn't fit that description. So he was ruled out as a suspect. Well, Wardrip here, being the doucheass coward that he is, on May 9, he called the Wichita Falls Police and he said, "Um, I think I'm gonna kill myself." And they're like, "Dude, why would you do that?" He was like, "Well, I'm in Galveston. If you'll come get me, I'll tell you."

J: Nah. Go ahead and kill yourself.

S: Yeah, would have saved a lot of money. So, this guy, this guy, he gets picked up by the cops, they go to pick him up. And they're like, "Dude, why are you trying to kill yourself?" And he was like, "Well, you see, what had happened was, three days ago, I killed my friend." 

J: *gasps*

S: He just straight up confesses. 

J: Wow. 

S: Yeah. Just-

J: Case Closed. Glad y'all joined us. See you next week. Right? Isn't that how it goes?

S: No, no, no, not this time. Not this week. This week, it's a little bit different. 

J: Okay. Okay. 

S: So, well, he did go to prison. For- He was sentenced to 35 years in prison. He was paroled 11 years after being sentenced. 

J: Hmm. 

S: So, I mean, he did some time, not near enough. Not near enough. But he did. 

J: Definitely not enough. 

S: Um, once he got out of prison, he was paroled. So after he was paroled, he moved to a little town outside of Wichita Falls called Olney. I think I'm saying that right. It's O-L-N-E-Y. So you know, nailed it. 

J: Nailed it!

S: Nailed it, to Olney, Texas. He did remarry. And he became very active in his church and gained a good reputation around town as a good guy. 

J: Maybe he's changed his life around. 

S: Maybe. I mean, some people do that in prison. 

J: That’s what I hear. 

S: Well, in 1999, two years after he was released from prison on parole, Wichita Falls Detective John Little became in charge of this cold case investigation into three murders that had happened in Wichita Falls and the surrounding areas back in the early to mid 80s. So, let's go over those a little bit. 

J: Let’s do that. 

S: In December of 1984- In fact, it was December 21 of 1984, there was a 21- er, 20 sorry, she was 20, a 20 year old woman named Terry Sims. She was a part time EKG specialist at Bethonia Hospital in Wichita Falls.

J: Mm-hmm. 

S: She was also a student at MSU, uh Midwestern State University, there in Wichita Falls. Her and a coworker had finished their shift at about 11 o'clock on December 20. And they were going to go to a mutual friend's house for a little Christmas celebration, exchange gifts and all of that, and then they were going to go back to the coworker's apartment because the coworker was going to help Car- Terry, study for her final exams that she had coming up at MSU. On the way to the friend's house, her the mutual friend's house, the coworker got a phone call from the hospital saying, "Hey, turns out somebody didn't show up tonight. Can, can you come work the midnight shift?"

J: Oh, no.

S: And she's like, "Well, I really didn't want to, but, yes, I will." So she takes Terry to her house gives her the key to the apartment and says, you know, "Hey, go on in, you know, I'm going to go do this shift. And when I come in, we'll, we'll go over your notes and stuff, you know, before you have to go to class or work or whatever it was the next day, and before I go to bed." Terry's like, "Alright, cool. See you later. Buh bye." So the friend goes to work, and she works a shift. And she gets home about 7:30 in the morning after pulling this what is now a double. And she's knocking on the door because her door is locked and she gave Terry her key. So she's knocking on the door, and she can't get Terry to open the door. So she's like, "Ugh. She's probably asleep, like way back in the back bedroom and can't hear me and she's sleeping really hard because she probably stayed up late studying. Ugh. Fine." So she goes and finds her landlord, and she's like, you know, "Hey, I'm locked out of my apartment." And he's like, "Sure, you know, here's the extra key, you know, just bring it back to me later." And she's like, "Alright, cool." So she goes up to her apartment. And she opens the door and her living room was ransacked. It just looked like somebody had thrown everything around everywhere in here. 

J: Oh my god. So she had a party without her. 

S: Yeah. So. So she runs back to her landlord. She's like, "Hey, it looks like somebody broke into my apartment. Can you come back to my apartment with me and help me find my friend Terry? She was supposed to be staying there last night." And he's like, "Okay, yeah, come on. Let's go." So, he goes to the apartment. And he finds Terry on the bathroom floor, in a pool of blood. 

J: Oh, no. 

S: She had been sexually assaulted and stabbed to death.

J: Oh my gosh.

S: That’s cold case number one that this detective is investigating. 

J: Okay. 

S: Cold case number two. 

J: Okay. 

S: Is the murder of Toni Gibbs. Toni Gibbs was a 23 year old woman. She disappeared on January 19 of 1985. She had been employed at Wichita General Hospital. 

J: I’m seeing a pattern here. Hospitals. But go ahead. 

S: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So she was an RN at the hospital. And this also happens to be the hospital that Mr. Wardrip was an orderly at. 

J: Hmm. 

S: Yeah. So January 19, 1985. She wasn't seen after that. She disappeared. 

J: Wow. 

S: After her shift at work, she disappeared. She was- She was last seen walking to her car. 

J: Wow. Was her car still there? 

S: Well, her car was found two days later abandoned. It was found within just a few miles of the hospital.

J: Okay.

S: Unfortunately, on February 15 of 1985, some utility workers found her naked body in a field the day after, what would have been her 24th birthday. 

J: Oh, no. 

S: She had been sexually assaulted. And stabbed. She had eight wounds, three on her back, three on her chest. And there were two defensive wounds on her left forearm and thumb. The police did find an abandoned school bus really close by to where her body was found. And they did find her clothes inside this bus. So they're assuming that that she had survived this attack that happened in this bus that she was attacked in the bus and left for dead. But she survived and started crawling trying to get to a road to get help when she did finally die about 100 yards away from the bus. 

J: Oh my goodness. 

S: Er. Sorry. Um 100 foot away from the bus.

J: Wow. 

S: Yeah. So Danny Laughlin. Remember that name? 

J: I do remember that name. 

S: Okay. Well, he was 24 at the time. Um, he was initially suspected in the death of Toni Gibbs because he was known to ride his motorcycle through this field that she had been found in. And he had met her at a nightclub just a couple of days before she was killed. 

J: Ah. 

S: Sorry, just a couple of days before she disappeared. 

J: That’s suspicious. 

S: That’s a little suspicious. Well- 

J: *singing* Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious.

S: So, anyway, the cops were talking to him. He said some things kind of suspicious like to some friends of his and you know, so the cops are like really taking a hard look at this guy. They're like, "Hey, why don't you take a polygraph test?" Laughlin's like, "Okay, let's go." 

J: Oh. Wow. 

S: Yeah. So he takes this polygraph test. And he fails it. 

J: Oh. 

S: He went to court for the murder of Toni Gibbs. Even though his DNA and the DNA that they found on Toni Gibbs didn't match. 

J: How, how can he be charged then if it doesn't match? Just because you know, someone?

S: Well, be- because a lot of this I'm assuming I wasn't in the jury room there when they deliberated. You know, I was like, what, two years old?

J: Yeah, you weren't very old. 

S: Yeah. Wasn't, wasn't very old. His DNA didn't match, obviously, I already said that. But the evidence, the rest of the evidence was only circumstantial. So after two days of deliberation, in his case, the jury came back and said, "Hey, we're deadlocked. We can not come to an agreement."

J: I’m afraid if I was on that jury, it would have to pretty much be deadlocked, too. If you don't have some concrete evidence.

S: Yeah, yeah. So of course, you know, so the judge is like, you know, "Okay. You're deadlocked. Mistrial. Bam. Moving on." And the prosecutors talked to the jury afterwards to find out, you know, how many were voting for and how many were voting against his guilt. 

J: Right. 

S: There was only one juror that was convinced that he was guilty. 

J: Oh, wow. Well, there you go.

S: One singular juror.

J: That’s all it takes.

S: So prosecutors decided, "We're not gonna retry it. We could only convince one person that he was guilty. Our evidence kind of sucks. We'll-" 

J: Yes. 

S: ”We'll work on this and we'll get some more and we'll come back and get him another time." 

J: There you go. 

S: Yeah, exactly. So, well, Wichita Falls Detective John Little, the third case, third cold case that he was investigating, was the death of Ellen Blau. In late September, September 20 of 1985, she was abducted in Wichita Falls. She was a 21 year old waitress. She was a student at MSU. And she was abducted after walking alone after her shift to her vehicle.

J: Oh, no. Not another one.

S: Well, the cops found her car. And it had- there was blood, her blood inside her car. 

J: Uh huh. 

S: They found her purse. And a county road crew found her body in a field in Wichita County on October 10, 1985. So almost a month later. 

J: Wow. 

S: She was found in a very, very advanced state of decomposition and could only be identified by her dental records. 

J: Ugh, ugh. 

S: The cops were assuming that she was sexually assaulted. Her body was so far decomposed that they couldn't get concrete analysis saying whether she was or not, but they did find her- when they did find her, her underwear had been pulled down. So they're assuming she was sexually assaulted. But they couldn't guarantee that. 

J: Right. 

S: So there wasn't a semen sample available for her. Well, Detective John Little, this guy. He's pretty smart. He's looking and looking and digging and digging. And he's got a feeling that a couple of these are related. He's pretty sure that Terry Sims and Toni Gibbs were killed by the same guy. The the two nurses. 

J: Yes. 

S: The two people that worked at the hospitals. He's pretty sure they were killed by the same guy. Well, Wardrip became kind of a suspect, but not necessarily- a person that they wanted to talk to. 

J: A person of interest. 

S: Person of interest. Thank you. Because he did work with Toni Gibbs at the hospital, where she went disappeared from.

J: Hmm. 

S: And he did abruptly quit his job at the hospital four days after her body was found. 

J: Just up and quit. "Hey, see ya. Buh bye."

S: Yeah, just up and quit. "Okay, gotta go. Okay, bye." So they wanted to talk to Wardrip. Well, he also had a connection to Ellen Blau. 

J: Uh-oh.

S: When he was on trial for murder for Tina Kimbrew, the guy that he called police and said, "Hey, I'm gonna kill myself. Come get me." And when they got to get him, he's like, "Hey, I killed this lady." 

J: Yeah. 

S: While he was on trial for her murder, he had made a statement then to where he admitted to knowing Ellen Blau.

J: Oh, wow.

S: So this cop is like, "Dude, I really want to talk to this guy." 

J: Yeah. 

S: So he goes and he starts talking to Wardrip and you know, they're just, you know, whatever. Gilly. Talking and stuff and sneaky little John Little, gets a sample of Wardrips' DNA. He's like, "You know what? Let's run it. Why not? Let's see. Let's see what it comes up with. Why not?"

J: Why not?

S: It matched.

J: *gasps* Both of them? 

S: Yes, ma'am. 

J: *gasps* Mr. Little, you got your man. 

S: Yes. So he goes, he gets Wardrip, this upstanding citizen in his little town of Olney, and he's like, "Hey, why don't ya come on down to the station. We need to talk." He's like, "Okay, yeah, you know, I'll come talk to you." He. he didn't know that they pulled his DNA. He didn't know. He had no idea. 

J: He thought he was free and clear. This is all in the past, I'm good. 

S: Absolutely. 

J: Now. 

S: Yeah. So let's go talk to the cops. Well, while he's there, cops are talking to him. They're like, "Hey, do you kill these people?" He's like, "Why would I have killed those people?" And they're like, "Well, we found your DNA on these two people." And he's like, "Alright, yeah, I killed 'em. I killed Ellen Blau, too." 

J: He just gives up so easy. 

S: Oh, oh it gets better, because while he's telling the cops this and he said, "You know, y'all probably would have caught me had y'all paid a little bit more attention." Because it turns out that Ellen Blau lived one block away from Terry Sims, and he was employed at the same place and the same time, and he worked a shift the same day that Terry- er, that Toni Gibbs disappeared.

J: Oh, wow.

S: Yeah. Well, while he's talking to 'em, you know, after he's already told, "Yeah, I killed Toni Gibbs. I killed Terry Sims. I killed Ellen Blau. I even killed a lady named Deborah Taylor.

J: Wow. Just?

S: Yeah. And so he's like, "What? What do you- Deborah Taylor? Who is that?" And he's like, "Well, see. What had happened was..." Two months after he had killed Toni Gibbs, he went to Fort Worth to look for a job. While he was in Fort Worth, he met Deborah Taylor at a bar in the early morning hours of March 24, 1985. She had been out at the bar with her husband, but her husband was tired. So he went home early. And Wardrip was like, "Hey, you want to dance?" And she was like, "Sure, why not? Let's go," you know. So they spent, you know, a couple hours hanging out, dancing, drinking, you know, whatever. Well, when they were leaving, he was like, "You know, hey, it's kind of late. Your husband left you here. Why don't you let me give you a ride home?" Well, she- 

J: Sounds like he's trying to be a nice guy.

S: Yeah, she'd spent the last few hours with him. You know, he seems like an okay guy. So she said, "Okay, yeah, you can give me a ride home. Sure." Well, he made some sexual advances towards her and she was like, "Whoa, dude, I'm married." 

J: You know I'm married, you know I'm married. 

S: Yeah, that's not gonna happen. Well, he got pissed off and killed her.

J: Wow. Wow.

S: He dumped her body at a construction site in Fort Worth. She was reported by reported missing by her husband the next morning. And her body was found by two construction workers on March 29. So just five days after she went missing.

J: Wow.

S: Yeah, the husband, this poor guy, he was suspected. 

J: Normally, the spouse is the first suspect. 

S: Yes. So well he was he was constantly suspected by the police. He passed three different polygraph tests.

J: Well good for him, even though it doesn't matter because polygraph is not admissible in court, but good for him.

S: Right. So he was never tried or anything you know, which is good because he didn't kill her. This friggin' weirdo Wardrip did, you know, but he said that it destroyed his life because members of his family and members of her family turned against him convinced that he had killed his wife. 

J: That is so sad. So sad. 

S: And they believed that- a lot of them believed that, from what I could gather, until the day he died.

J: Wow. 

S: Yeah. So he's- so the cops are like, "Okay, so you killed these four people? Well, five, because you killed Tina Kimbrew. You called us and told us about that one. You know what, what is going on with you, dude?" So he tells him why killed everybody. Terry-

J: Why? 

S: Well, Terry Sims, he killed her, because he had been out walking that night. And was screaming at the stars because he was just, I don't know, on a bad trip or having a bad night or who knows. And she went outside to see what all the commotion was about. And he saw her and was like, "Ahhhgggh," and got all crazy mad and went to go after her. Well, she ran back inside and locked the door. Well, he broke in through the door. 

J: Mm. 

S: Yeah, he's six foot six inches tall. 220 pounds. Terry Sims was five foot three inches tall and weighed 94 pounds.

J: Wow, definitely had an advantage over her. 

S: Yeah, so she's fighting back. She's fighting for her life. She's like, "I'm not going down without a fight," you know. So he got all mad and tied up her hands with an electrical cord and stabbed her to death. It was estimated that she lived for several minutes after her attack. 

J: Oh, oh. 

S: Fortunately, the cops did find DNA which did link to him.

J: Good.

S: Toni Gibbs, the nurse from Wichita Falls General Hospital. Um, she crossed paths with him about six o'clock that morning. And he was like, you know, "Hey, can you give me a ride home?" And she's like, "Yeah, sure." You know, she works with him. She knows this guy. He's worked there for a year. So he gets in her car and he for- he attacks her forces her to drive to an isolated dirt road out in the middle of nowhere out in this field. And she was actually found not in Wichita County, but one mile south of the Wichita County line in a county called Archer County. 

J: Which that probably made it a little bit harder to connect. Because I'm thinking back then the counties and stuff didn't really communicate as well as they do now.

S: Well, they did communicate on this case because before her body was found, her car was found. This guy, this guy, he parked her car less than one mile from his own house. 

J: *chuckles* Some people's kids are not that bright. 

S: So her car was found in Wichita County. She did disappear from Wichita County and she was found just barely outside of Wichita County. So they did. They did cooperate very well on this case. That's That's why the Wichita Falls detective was investigating her cold case.

J: Good.

S: He killed Ellen Blau, the waitress. He kidnapped her while she was walking to her car after work, shoved her into her car, made her drive to a secluded area, strangled her. Drove her-

J: Mmm.

S: He drove her car back to Wichita Falls and abandoned it with her purse and her blood inside. And that's when they found the car with her blood inside of it. Again, she was the one that they couldn't definitively say had been sexually assaulted. There was no DNA. But you know, he just straight up said, "Yeah, killed 'em. Killed 'em all." 

J: Well there you go. 

S: So there-

J: You don't really need DNA if the guy confesses. 

S: Well, he never would have confessed if they didn't get his DNA though.

J: Well, that's true. Well, I don't know, because he admitted to the first one for no reason whatsoever other than I don't maybe he had a moment that his conscience bothered him. Maybe? 

S: Well, but he called them a couple of days later. He killed these other four women before he ever killed Tina Kimbrew.

J: Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. Oh, yeah, this guy is a piece of shit. 

S: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, in February of 1999, he was arrested. 

J: Good. 

S: For the murders of Terry Sims, Toni Gibbs, Deborah Taylor, and Ellen Blau. He did save the taxpayers the money this time around because he did plead guilty. 

J: Yay. Least he did something good. 

S: He pled guilty to all four murders. He was sentenced to death for the murder of Terry Sims. And he was given three life terms for the other three women.

J: Good. I don't think he's ever gonna get out. 

S: So- well, funny you should mention that, madam. 

J: Nuh uh. Do tell.

S: Well, of course he was sentenced to death, even though it was a plea agreement, even though he did plead guilty. I don't know, know, know, necessarily that it was an agreement. But he did plead guilty. There are certain automatic appeals in the state of Texas when you get a death sentence.

J: Yes. 

S: Yes. Some of these appeals were granted. 

J: What? 

S: Yes. 

J: No. 

S: In April of 2010, a federal court conditionally granted him relief, and stopped his death sentence. They ordered the state to release Wardrip if they did not start proceedings for a new trial or agree to give him a life sentence for the murder of Terry Sims, within 180 days of their ruling. 

J: What? What does this mean? 

S: Well, this means that they fought and fought and fought and it went up the ladder and further up the ladder with the Supreme Courts, because the prosecution is like, "No, like, he doesn't need a new trial. He didn't get a trial. He confessed to all of these. You know, he pled guilty to this, like, What are you talking about? You know, and we're not going to set him free. He killed five women, you know, in like a year and a half."

J: Yeah.

S: So it eventually got up to the, uh let's see, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. They rejected his the request for a new trial and reinstated his death sentence. 

J: Yay. 

S: That happened September 22 of this year.

J: What!?

S: Yeah. Yeah. So just a couple of weeks ago, it was finalized. He is from my understanding out of appeals. And he is being sent back to death row to await his date of execution. 

J: Which I feel should come really soon. 

S: Yes, I agree. Completely. So yeah- 

J: And I guess-

S: So that's, that's the case of serial killer Faryion Wardrip. 

J: Wow. 

S: Not only was he a serial killer, he tattled on himself. A lot. 

J: Wow. Yeah. That's Wow. Wow. Absolutely crazy. 

S: So that's the case of the self confessed serial killer, Faryion Wardrip. 

J: That’s pretty funny. 

S: Ah, side note. I don't know if this is his, uh, prison nickname or self given nickname or what but his nickname on my little note, paper. It's actually a, from the Department of Psychology in Radford, Virginia. It's the summary of, you know, his life events or whatever that caused him to be a serial killer. 

J: Yeah. 

S: Um, his nickname is Gonzo.

J: Sesame Street, Gonzo. Oh my God. 

S: And he tattled on himself.

J: The Tattletale Serial Killer. "Look at me. I'm a tattletale. I killed these people."

S: Yeah, yeah. 

J: What?

S: Yeah, totally tattled on himself. 

J: Oh, craziness. 

S: Yeah. 

J: Absolutely craziness. 

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