Henry Louis Wallace preyed on women known to him, and the next life he took was a friend of his sister’s, Valencia M. Jumper, in August 1993. ThoughtCo tells of how he tried to burn her corpse afterward. Several days after the murder, Wallace and his sister attended Jumper’s funeral. 

In September, Wallace raped and murdered another Taco Bell co-worker, Michelle Stinson, who was stabbed and raped in front of her oldest son. Several months later, yet another Taco Bell employee was the target of Wallace’s cruelty — Vanessa Little Mack, a single mother of two, was raped and murdered in her apartment by Wallace in February 1994. In March, Wallace set his sights on another friend of his girlfriend, Betty Jean Baucom, and robbed her apartment afterward. That night, Wallace broke into the apartment of Brandi June Henderson and subjected her to the same treatment as Baucom. Wallace also strangled Henderson’s son, but he was able to survive the attack. 

Four days later, Wallace committed his last known murder — Deborah Ann Slaughter, who worked with Wallace’s girlfriend, was stabbed 38 times and left to die. Wallace was arrested on March 13, 1994, and made admissions to police. Now it was up to authorities to determine the number of lives that Wallace took on his murderous rampage.