After 6 years of service, Wardrip was released from the National Guard under a less-than-honorable discharge. In 1978, at the age of 19, Wardrip joined the United States National Guard. He dropped out of high school in the twelfth grade. There are no news articles or television reports of Wardrip experiencing any type of mental or physical abuse during his childhood. He was his parents' first born child and has one brother. In 1999, at 40 years old, Wardrip was sentenced to death by lethal injection for the first murder, and three life terms for the other three killings.įaryion Edward Wardrip was born on Main Salem, Indiana to George and Diana Wardrip. He later confessed to the murders of the third and fourth victims. As Wardrip was out on parole and there was no national database of DNA profiles for violent offenders at that time, authorities immediately launched surveillance of Wardrip and managed to secure a sample of his DNA, which was linked to two victims. Because Wardrip's murder of Kimbrew occurred in 1986, the lead detective became suspicious that he may have been behind the unsolved murder cases. DNA evidence found at the scene of two murders were linked to the same killer. In 1999, the Wichita County District Attorney's Office reopened the murder cases of the victims that occurred in their jurisdiction. He was required to wear an ankle monitor allowing authorities to constantly track his location he was restricted to movements for work, home and church. After serving less than one-third of his sentence, Wardrip was released on parole in December 1997. He was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison. Within 72 hours of the murder of Tina Kimbrew, Wardrip called authorities and confessed to her murder. This separation led to multiple news agencies reporting that the isolated investigations delayed Wardrip's capture. These investigations were for three of the murders that occurred within a 5-mile radius of each other. With the killings occurring across multiple jurisdictions, officials from three law enforcement agencies - the Wichita Falls Police Department, the Wichita County Sheriff's Department and the Archer County Sheriff's Department - initially led isolated murder investigations. All of his female victims were white, were between the ages of 20 and 25, weighed less than 120 lb, and were under 5 and 1/2 feet tall. Wardrip's killing spree began at the end of 1984 and lasted until the middle of 1986. One woman was murdered in Fort Worth, approximately a two-hour drive southeast of Wichita Falls.
Four of the women were killed in Wichita Falls, Texas and the surrounding counties.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Polunsky Unit, Livingston, Texas įaryion Edward Wardrip (born March 6, 1959) is an American rapist and serial killer who assaulted and murdered a total of five women. 14, 1999 (murders of T. Simms, T. Gibbs, E. Blau and D. Taylor)
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