JEFFERSON, Wis. – A former drifter has pleaded not guilty in Wisconsin to killing two teenage sweethearts nearly 30 years ago.
Seventy-six-year-old Edward W. Edwards of Louisville, Ky., faces two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Kelly Drew and Tim Hack. The 19-year-olds vanished from a rural Jefferson County, Wis., wedding reception in August 1980. Their bodies turned up in the woods about two months later.
State analysts said in July that they matched Edwards' DNA to samples taken from Drew's body.
Investigators say Edwards told them he witnessed a group of men beat Drew and Hack to death.
Edwards wrote an autobiography detailing how he traveled the country in the 1950s stealing cars, running scams and seducing women.