Fred Page
Appearances
Serial Killers
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
What struck me from the beginning was the idea that he had killed girls in pairs. He claimed to have killed girls in pairs. That is not all that common among serial killers. You know, he looked for two girls together. That was something he liked. He liked having someone watching. That was something really creepy about Ed. I mean, that was in his criminal history.
Serial Killers
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
He liked people to watch when he did sexual things or when he did violent things.
Serial Killers
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
So when we were looking at these other cases, we started looking at Ed Bell's known trail of crimes, his own trail of addresses, and whether the remote areas where all of these girls' bodies were dumped were anywhere near where he lived.
Serial Killers
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
So people would remember it years later because it was kind of a custom trailer. And that's the trailer he parked on the land that was near where those two girls' bodies were found.
Serial Killers
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
The thing about that specific site was it was down a private road that only local landowners had a key to a gate to get into. He was a local landowner. He would have known other locals who had the key if he didn't. So it looked like this killer, if That claim was true and that was the case we had the most evidence to tie him to.
Serial Killers
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
It appeared that he liked to dump bodies somewhere near where he lived where he could maybe go back.
Serial Killers
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
And when I'm saying these names of towns, I'm not talking about big places. I'm not talking about places where a lot of people live when I'm talking about Santa Fe or Dickinson, especially in 1971. Today, yes, maybe there are more, but not then.
Serial Killers
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
That trailer he had bought and had serviced at a RV place that was within two or three blocks from where these two girls from Dickinson were abducted.
Serial Killers
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
that the two girls from Galveston, the first two crimes I investigated, Debbie Ackerman and Maria Johnson, got into his van.
Serial Killers
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
When I later went back to interview him, he had backed away from saying he was a serial killer. He had realized by then, he was a smart guy, that he was an old man and that if he tried to lower his profile a little bit, maybe he would get out. The one thing I have to say is that the prison officials that I talked to off camera said they had no doubt that Ed Bell was a serial killer.
Serial Killers
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
They didn't think he was a bullshit artist. They believed that this was the truth. You know, who specifically he killed, I am not certain of that he killed more people than Larry Dickens. I feel almost absolutely certain that that's the case.
Serial Killers
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
Like I said, it's a really troubling story. Ed Bell unfortunately died before really coming clean. I always hoped that he would really, because like I said, in some ways he was proud of what he had done, and he also felt that Showing what he had done would prove the existence of the program he talked about.
Serial Killers
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
I have to tell you that a lot of things Ed Bell said worked. I did corroborate, and I can't tell you that I don't know for sure whether he was experimented on. There were experiments that have been subsequently documented where hospital patients, people from prisons, and people at military bases were given drugs.
Serial Killers
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
As for Bell's father... Doesn't prove that he was in the CIA. He did some sort of government work. We don't know exactly what. No one confirms anything like that. Like I said, I don't think we can say Ed was completely making that up. But how many people he killed, unknown. The fact he was a killer, the fact that he was a serial sex offender, absolutely confirmed.
Serial Killers
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
Whether he killed 11, whether he killed more, you decide.
Serial Killers
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
In the interview I did with him and also in the letters to me, he talked about a program in which he claimed he had been brainwashed and specifically abused by his father into becoming a rapist and a murderer. That was his story. And That was his reason for why he says he was a violent person.
Serial Killers
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
Bell's murder of Larry Dickens had been an infamous murder at the time. He had run all the way to Panama to get away.