Not that I am aware of. His family lived on Manning Drive in Bethesda. Also his interest was girls especially those with ponytails. His sexually related crimes before he killed Mrs Kalberer involved girls from 10 - 14 who had ponytails.
The later interview with his wife revealed that the only way that he could get aroused was by playing with her hair, lifting her hair, and moving an ice pick around on the back of her neck.
Thomas Francis Edwards was about 25 years old and a resident of Bethesda, Maryland, where he became a suspect in two January 1970 murders.
The victims of those two murders were Sherry Kennedy, age 14, and Catherine Kalberer, age 39.
In 1981, he was living in California when he shot and killed 12 year-old Vanessa Iberri in Orange Countys Cleveland National Forest. Iberris 12 year old friend, Kelly Cartier, was also shot in the attack but survived to stand witness against Edwards. No motive was ever established. The girls were on a camping trip with Iberris mother when Edwards' truck pulled up and he called, Girls. They turned and Edwards shot them with one bullet each from his pistol.
Nine days later, following a nationwide manhunt, Thomas Francis Edwards was captured at a Holiday Inn in College Park, Maryland. He was extradited to California to stand trial.
Edwards was tried and convicted of murder and attempted murder of the California girls, and he was sentenced to death. After 22 years on death row, he died of natural causes in February 2009. (What's wrong with that picture?)
Coincidentally, that same month, DNA tests run on a field jacket obtained in a 1970 search of Edwards' home confirmed that he had murdered Sherry Kennedy and (by connection) Catherine Kalberer.
Montgomery County Cold Case detectives quietly closed the two previously unsolved cases and kept that information secret from the public. Evidently they did not think it important enough to mention. Or perhaps, as others have suggested, they did not want to infringe on the rights or smudge the good name of a cold blooded child killer.
It wasn't until THREE YEARS later, on 25 January 2012, when the story was broken by a news reporter that MCP reluctantly confirmed they had closed the cases.
Why in 22 years was Edwards never executed?
What was the real reason for so much secrecy? Not just during the investigation, but even to the point of keeping it secret for years after his death? As Jeb suggested in an earlier post, perhaps politics was involved.
One has to wonder how many other women and children were killed by this dirtbag between 1970 and 1981. And when did he actually start to murder people? Maybe even before 1970? Knowing a good time line for THOMAS FRANCIS EDWARDS might help to close other cold cases still on the books.
But it seems that this case is, in fact, solved/closed and moderators should now move it to a different topic area.