S18 Ep97: Bad Henry: The Murderous Rampage of the Taco Bell Strangler w/Ron Chepesiuk
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🗓️ 15 August 2023
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Summary
Henry Louis Wallace terrorized Charlotte, North Carolina, from May 1992 to March 1994.
Wallace preyed on lower economic-class Black women between 17 and 35 years old. He knew most of his victims, some through his job at Taco Bell, and gained their trust with his friendly demeanor and gentle nature—concealing a monster fueled by drug abuse and rage against women.
A rarity in that he was an African American serial killer, his murderous rampage spurred controversy throughout the city. Community members accused local police of ignoring the murders because of the victims' race. Wallace attended the funerals of many of his victims and offered condolences to families. The ensuing investigation became the largest in North Carolina’s history.
Wallace was eventually found guilty and convicted of nine counts of murder, but he admitted to more killings while incarcerated; he is potentially responsible for anywhere from 20 to 90 deaths of Black women. Wallace continues to appeal and awaits his execution at Central Prison in Raleigh. Ron Chepesiuk joins TCT to talk about the case of henry Louis Wallace, his murders, his downfall, and his incarceration on today's program!
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of True Crime Tuesday is brought to you by Mint Mobile. |
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| 0:30.4 | Welcome in to the best in True Crime podcasting. This is True Crime Tuesday. I'm your host Tim Dennis. Got |
| 0:43.4 | an exciting show for today. I had teased you a couple weeks ago that our guest Ron Shepzuk would be |
| 0:48.8 | with us. We're going to talk about an interesting case about a serial killer you may or may not |
| 0:54.2 | heard of. Henry Lewis Wallace. Ron has a book out there right now that I had the pleasure of |
| 1:00.4 | reading a couple weeks ago and we're going to bring it to you today and in this book folks is thrilling |
| 1:07.2 | from beginning to end and I want to tell you a little bit about it in just a second and we'll |
| 1:11.6 | get into it in just a second. The name of the book is Bad Henry the murderous rampage of the |
| 1:16.3 | Taco Bell Strangler. It's available by Wild Blue Press and we're going to get into that moment. |
| 1:21.8 | I want to tell you a little bit about Ron our guest Ron Shepzuk. He's an option screenwriter in |
| 1:26.8 | the award-winning author of numerous books. Three of them option for movies. He's also a two-time |
| 1:31.5 | full-bright scholar to Indonesia and Bangladesh and a former instructor in UCLA's extension |
| 1:37.2 | journalism department. His articles which number in the thousands have appeared in such publications as |
| 1:42.5 | FHM USA Today Black Enterprise Women's World Modern Maturity New York Times Syndicate Toronto Star |
| 1:50.2 | Los Angeles Times Syndicate Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and others is an expert in crime |
| 1:56.8 | history. He's also a consultant to the Gangland TV series and has been interviewed on numerous TV |
| 2:02.5 | programs including Discovery, NBC Dateline, Biography, ID, Black Entertainment Television stars in |
| 2:09.5 | TV One. As a journalist Ron has reported from more than 35 countries including Cuba, Northern |
| 2:16.8 | Ireland, Colombia, Kenya, Hong Kong, and Nepal and his 16,000-plus interviews include such |
| 2:24.4 | luminaries as Jerry Adams, Yasser Arafat, John Kerry, Jimmy Carter, Addy Hoffman, a former president |
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