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Carroll Edward "Eddie" Cole [ 1 ] May 9, — December 6, was an American serial killer who was executed in Nevada in for killing two women by strangulation. He was also convicted of murdering three other women in Texas and is believed to have murdered up to thirty other people between and His younger sister was born in and soon afterward, his family moved to California , where LaVerne found work in a shipyard.

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Vesta was emotionally abusive to Cole and dressed him as a girl. At school, he was teased about his "girly name" by his peers. At age 8, he retaliated against one of his classmates, a boy of the same age named Duane, by drowning him in a lake in Richmond, California. The death was regarded an accident by authorities until Cole confessed to it many years later in an autobiography he wrote in prison.

During a press interview, Cole said of this event, "I was primed, I had made the mental commitment I was going to get even with my mother, and things just built up and built up and became an obsession. As a teen, Cole committed several petty crimes and was frequently arrested for drunkenness and minor thefts. After high school, he joined the U.

Army , but was given a bad-conduct discharge in for stealing pistols. Soon afterward, he called the police in Richmond, California, where he was living, and told them that he was plagued by violent fantasies involving strangling women. Cole spent time in various mental hospitals over the next three years. At the last of them, Stockton State Hospital , a Dr.

Weiss wrote: "He seems to be afraid of the female figure and cannot have intercourse with her first but must kill her before he can do it. Upon his release, Cole moved to Dallas , Texas , where his brother Richard was living.