BARRY MACHA:
District Attorney Barry Macha continues to represent the people of Wichita County in his elected office. He is diligently working on forming an interjurdisdic-tional violent crimes task force that will work together in solving crimes against people outside each member’s bounds of authority. The task force would bring the various departments together to avoid the “turf guarding” that has occurred in the Wichita Falls area in the past. Macha believes that the organization of the special unit will avoid the future persecution of any innocent suspect, as well as help to expedite the apprehension of the guilty.
JOHN LITTLE:
Investigator John Little remains with the Wichita County prosecutor’s office as their chief investigator.
Catie Reid, the youngest sister of Terry Sims, visited Little a few weeks after Wardrip’s trial. She carried with her a token of appreciation. A red brick. The simple reminder of his past was inscribed with the words OUR HERO, JOHN LITTLE.
Each of those victimized by Faryion Wardrip has expressed a desire for closure. To experience true closure, one must find satisfying explanations and in the end view the situation in clear and stable terms. It has helped some to confront the killer, but in order for there to be complete finalization, they must let go of the emotional burden each of them has carried for fourteen years. The anger, shame, and even, in some cases, guilt they have felt must now be released to Wardrip. Only then can the hail storm be withstood, if not forgotten.
Victim Terry Sims, 21.
Victim Toni Gibbs, 23.
Victim Debra Taylor, 25.
Victim Ellen Blau, 21.
Victim Tina Kimbrews. 21.
Kimbrew’s body was found in her apartment by relatives.
Sims’s hands had been bound with an electric cord before she was raped and murdered.
Three of Sims’s ten stab wounds were to her back.
Gibbs was raped and left for dead in this rusted school bus.
Gibbs crawled from the bus to die in the grass.
Gibbs’s mutilated body was found a month after she disappeared.
Found in a remote area of Fort Worth, Texas, Taylor’s decomposing body had to be identified through dental records.
Blau had been missing for three weeks, before her body was found ravaged by animals.
Police found all of the hair and flesh gone from Blau’s skull.
Faryion Wardrip was arrested in 1986 for the murder of Tina Kimbrew.
A bloody thumbprint was found on the left heel of Terry Sims’s shoe.
Comparison of Wardrip’s fingerprint with the one found on Sims’s shoe.
Wardrip’s DNA was retrieved by police from his discarded spit cup.
Wardrip was arrested in 1999 for the murder of Terry Sims.
Autopsy diagrams for Sims, Gibbs, and Kimbrew showed a similar pattern of stab wounds.
Glenda Wardrip sits behind her husband Faryion in court.
Wardrip’s brother Bruce after hearing verdict.
Wardrip escorted from courtroom by deputies after hearing death sentence.
Terry Sims’s mother, Marsha Bridgens (left), and her sister, Vickie Grimes.
Debra Taylor’s husband, Ken.
Tina Kimbrew’s mother, Elaine Thornhill.
Toni Gibbs’s father, W.L. Gibbs (left), and her brother, Jeff Gibbs.
District Attorney Barry Macha.
Public DefenderJohn Curry.
Assistant Public Defender Dorie Glickman and Investigator Dana Rice.
Faryion Wardrip on Death Row in Huntsville, Texas in 2000.
Some names have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals connected to this story.
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