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Chandra Levy's murderer identified, tried and convicted[edit]
The final paragraph of this article seems to be an advertisement for Cameron's book, and contains factual errors, in particular the fact Chandra Levy's murderer, Ingmar Guandique, is in prison for the killing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.242.138.173 (talk) 20:57, 30 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Not an error. Cameron thinks that Edwards framed Guandique for the murder. In fact, and I'm not kidding here, Cameron thinks Edwards purposefully framed every single person ever convicted for the crimes he attributes to Edwards. Which wouldn't be so laughable, if it weren't for the fact that he attributes hundreds of crimes to him. Pretty much every big murder case in the last half century was the work of this one man...
Serious thought should be given to whether Cameron merits any mention here at all, little less a link to his site. What little factual information on his site is already here, and the non-factual info is so over the top crazy it's mind boggling that anyone could be dense enough to believe it. In short, every unsolved murder that got any press coverage between 1955 and 2009 was all the work of Edwards. If the paragraph on Cameron's theories is to remain, it should be expanded to include all 121 murders he attributes to Edwards, so that readers can get an accurate pictures of how ridiculous these claims are: the Black Dahlia, Adam Walsh, the Atlanta Child Murders, Chandra Levy, Laci Peterson, that he wrote the post 9-11 anthrax letters, the Zodiac killings (not just the five actual ones, all the fantasy ones too...), the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders, oh god, he killed Jimmy Hoffa too... Seriously, look at this nonsense. Between the ages of 67 and 73 Edwards flew all around the country murdering at least a dozen people? Talk about an active retirement. And despite being a fat old sack wearing an oxygen mask in all of his pictures at this age, Edwards apparently stayed healthy, since he was able to beat a man half his age to death, and kidnapped and murdered a 26 year old man who looks like he could take Edwards out with all four of his limbs tied behind his back. The guy Edwards beat to death must have been a real mess, because he had to frame two men for it. And that's another thing, he didn't just kill all these people, for which some others were unfortunately wrongly convicted. No, in every case where someone took the fall, Edwards, showing his true super-villainy, deliberately framed them... He used his hacking skills to fake the John Mark Karr emails, he dressed up as a priest in 1980 to murder a nun in a planned frame up that took 24 years to reach fruition...
Oh, this is madness. I'm deleting the link to coldcasecameron.com, as it is so far beyond giving undue weight to fringe conspiracy nuttery that I consider it vandalism. Please don't put it back on the page unless you can find some way to justify it here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.186.231.74 (talk) 08:19, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. Wikipedia is not the place for speculations. 73.178.40.139 (talk) 21:32, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The article dances around the subject of Edwards' arrest that led to his final conviction and incarceration. Where and when did this happen? — QuicksilverT@ 23:30, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The Cameron book gives his arrest date as July 30, 2009. I'll see if I can corroborate that, although there is no real reason to doubt the basic factual information in that source -- as opposed to the largely groundless speculation that makes up the bulk of it. DoctorJoeEreview transgressions/talk to me! 00:03, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
After his confessions in 2011 police didn’t know that Edwards had started killing in 1945 when he was 12 years old, and never stopped until his capture, July 30th, 2009. He had been in every State. His M.O. was to kill, set someone else up, and watch the system execute innocent men.
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— John Cameron
I've removed all references to John Cameron of coldcasecameron.com. If anyone accepts him as a valid source, please discuss it here. While it's quite possible that Edwards killed more than he was convicted of, the sheer number that Cameron claims makes him an extremely unreliable source for any information. Matthew Bauer (talk) 02:04, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
It might be worth having a section explaining generally that it is a popular pastime for amateur sleuths to theorize about other crimes committed by Edwards, but not all of these theories are sound. - Kzirkel (talk) 14:44, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Supposedly "Two men were arrested and imprisoned for these murders, but released from prison early". Does that mean that they were charged, tried and convicted, or released pre-trial?Royalcourtier (talk) 22:32, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I have just finished reading Cameron's book. This guy actually served as a cop?
I live in northern California. Here are the bogus murder claims Cameron has made for Edwards in this vicinity.
The Cutshall/Allen murders, to which there has been a confession and conviction.
The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker murders: Six of the eight victims were found in such an obscure location a local would have had to dropped them there; a seventh is missing; there is a viable suspect for the eighth.
Stephanie Bryan was taken to an even more obscure spot, which Edwards somehow supposedly knew belonged to the guy he purportedly framed. Yeah, right.
If I can find this much falsity just in my locale, then what is there to be believed in this collection of taurine byproduct? In my ten years in Wikipedia, this is the most unreliable source I have ever come across.
