Carroll Edward "Eddie" Cole was an American serial killer who was executed in Nevada in 1985 for killing two women by strangulation.
24 Facts About Carroll Cole
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Carroll Cole was convicted of murdering three other women in Texas and is believed to have murdered up to thirty other people between 1947 and 1980.
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Carroll Edward Cole was born in Sioux City, Iowa, the second son of LaVerne Cole and Vesta Cole.
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Carroll Cole's younger sister was born in 1939 and soon afterward, his family moved to California, where LaVerne found work in a shipyard.
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Vesta was emotionally abusive to Carroll Cole and dressed him as a girl.
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The death was regarded an accident by authorities until Carroll Cole confessed to it many years later in an autobiography he wrote in prison.
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In 1960, Carroll Cole attacked two couples parked in cars on a lover's lane.
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Carroll Cole spent time in various mental hospitals over the next three years.
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Carroll Cole was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison.
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Carroll Cole strangled her to death in his car and drove around with her body in the trunk before eventually dumping it.
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Carroll Cole later claimed that they had proven themselves unfaithful to their husbands, and so reminded him of his adulterous mother.
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In July 1973, Carroll Cole married barmaid Diana Faye Younglove Pashal, who was an alcoholic.
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Carroll Cole would commit murders while he was away, including one woman he allegedly cannibalized to a degree.
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In 1979, Carroll Cole met Marie Cushman at a bar in Las Vegas.
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Carroll Cole was a suspect in the second of these killings and was found on the scene of the third murder.
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The police then came to the conclusion that the victim had probably died of natural causes, and Carroll Cole was about to be ruled out as a suspect before he confessed to, along with this murder, all of the other killings.
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Carroll Cole was sentenced to life at the Huntsville Prison.
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In 1984, Carroll Cole's mother died and his attitude was reported to have changed.
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Carroll Cole agreed to face further murder charges filed in Nevada, even though it could possibly mean the death penalty.
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In February 1984, Carroll Cole was extradited to Nevada, where he was tried and convicted for the strangulation deaths of two women in 1977 and 1979.
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In October 1984, Carroll Cole was sentenced to death in Nevada.
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The victims in which Carroll Cole was convicted of killing were Kathlyn Blum, Marie Cushman, Sally Thompson, Dorothy King and Wanda Roberts, the latter three of whom were killed in Texas.
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Carroll Cole was executed by lethal injection at Nevada State Prison on December 6,1985, at 2:10 am.
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Carroll Cole's brain was removed hours after his execution and studied for abnormalities at the University of Nevada-Reno medical school.