On February 18, 1994, a brother-sister pair were attacked by two men at a camping site in Ocala National Forest, Florida, United States. The 21-year-old sister, Pam Edwards, was raped twice by the attackers, but the 18-year-old brother, John Timothy Edwards (John T. Edwards), was murdered by the same two perpetrators of the attack.

Oct 6, 2005 · Investigators said that Loran K. Cole and William Christopher Paul beat to death 18-year-old John Timothy Edwards and that Cole slashed Edwards' throat with a knife. In addition, they said,...

Aug 30, 2024 · A man convicted of murdering an 18-year-old college student who was camping with his sister at the Ocala National Forest in 1994 was executed on Thursday evening, exactly one month after Governor Ron DeSantis signed his death warrant.

Aug 30, 2024 · Cole has been on death row for almost 30 years after being convicted in the 1994 murder of 18-year-old John Edwards and rape of his 21-year-old sister at a campground in the Ocala National...

Aug 29, 2024 · Cole was convicted in the murder of John Timothy Edwards, 18, during a camping trip to Ocala National Forest. Spires said he recently reached out to Edwards' mother, who lives in Florida.

On February 18, 1994, Pam Edwards, a senior at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, drove to the Ocala National Forest, where she met her brother, John Edwards, a freshman at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.

Jul 30, 2024 · Paul took the sister up a trail, and John Edwards died from a slashed throat and blows to the head that fractured his skull, according to the court records. Edwards’ sister was sexually...

Aug 30, 2024 · Florida executed a man Thursday who was convicted of killing a Florida State University student and raping the victim’s sister in 1994. Loran Cole was pronounced dead just after 6 p.m. He and...

Jul 30, 2024 · Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a death warrant for the man convicted of the 1994 murder of a Florida State University student in the Ocala National Forest ... then 27, and William Paul, then 20, befriended siblings Pam and John Edwards, who planned to spend the weekend camping in the Ocala National Forest. John was an 18-year-old student at ...

May 10, 2017 · John Edwards died that night from a slashed throat and three blows to the head, which caused his skull to fracture. Cole, Paul and Pam Edwards returned to the sibling's campsite, where Cole...