11 victims in two states: A timeline of Henry Wallace’s killings in Charlotte and SC

Henry Louis Wallace killed 11 women before his March 1994 arrest in Charlotte. Here is a timeline of his killings and prosecution.

March 8, 1990: Wallace murders Tashanda Bethea, an 18-year-old high school student in Barnwell, S.C., the killer’s hometown. Her body is found floating in a pond on April 1. Wallace is questioned but not charged.

November 1991: Wallace moves to Charlotte and find jobs in fast-food restaurants.

May 1992: Wallace uses a rock to kill Sharon Nance, 33, a convicted drug dealer and prostitute, after she demands to be paid for sex. Her body is found May 27. Nance had a long criminal record, but her family remembered her as a kind and generous sister and daughter who drew, wrote poetry and cared for her son.

A Killer's Long Shadow

30 years ago, Henry Louis Wallace cast a murderous shadow across Charlotte, raping and strangling 10 women before his arrest. Wallace's killings broke up families, stole daughters and sisters from their loved ones and left seven children without their mothers.

• As a serial killer moved like a shadow across Charlotte, one woman made a promise

• In 1994, Charlotte police searched for a murderer. They caught a serial killer instead

• 11 victims in two states: A timeline of Henry Wallace’s killings in Charlotte and SC

June 14, 1992: Wallace rapes and strangles 20-year-old Caroline Love in the apartment she shared with Wallace’s then-girlfriend. Wallace helps file the missing person report with police. Love’s body is recovered 21 months later after Wallace’s arrest. Love worked as a prized employee at Bojangles on Central Avenue.

Feb. 19, 1993: Wallace rapes and strangles Shawna Hawk, a 20-year-old Central Piedmont student found floating in the bathtub of her family home. Wallace was Hawk’s supervisor at Taco Bell and attended her funeral. Love was quiet, hard-working and so unpretentious that on the ride to her junior prom she took off her fake fingernails and threw them onto Independence Boulevard.

June 22, 1993: Wallace rapes and strangles Audrey Spain, 24. Spain, whose parents called her “Baby,” came to Charlotte from a small town in South Carolina hoping to work with computers. She wound up at a Taco Bell, where she worked alongside Wallace.

Aug. 10, 1993: Wallace rapes and strangles Valencia Jumper, a 21-year-old computer science major at Johnson C. Smith University from Columbia, S.C., who is friends with his sister. He sets fire to Jumper’s apartment to make it appear she died in an accidental blaze.

Sept. 14, 1993: Wallace rapes, strangles and stabs college student Michelle Stinson, 20, in front of one of her two young sons. She was a friend of his from Taco Bell and was studying at CPCC to become a graphic artist.

Feb. 20, 1994: Wallace rapes and strangles Vanessa Mack, 25, in her west Charlotte apartment. Wallace met Mack through her sister, who worked with him at Taco Bell. He told others he fell in love with Mack at first sight and was known to have doted on Mack’s 4-month-old daughter, Natalia, who was left on a nearby couch during her mother’s killing.

March 9, 1994: Wallace rapes and strangles Betty Baucom, 24, a co-worker of Wallace’s girlfriend at Bojangles. He also steals her car, on which police later find his palm print. Before her death, Baucom talked of transferring to a Bojangles in Sanford to be closer to her fiance.

March 9, 1994: Wallace goes back to the same east Charlotte apartment complex where Baucom lived to rape and strangle Brandi Henderson, the girlfriend of one of Wallace’s best friends. Henderson holds her 10-month-old son Tyrece during the assault. Wallace tells police he gave Tyrece a bottle and a pacifier but choked him with a towel when the toddler keeps crying. The boy recovers.

March 12, 1994: Wallace rapes and stabs Debra Ann Slaughter, 35, another co-worker of his former girlfriend. Slaughter, tall and strong, had fought her attacker. Friends remembered her for her laugh and sense of humor, and a beautiful singing voice she displayed in church choirs.

March 13, 1994: Wallace is arrested after police find him hiding in the bathroom of a friend’s apartment in east Charlotte. Wallace had talked of leaving town that day and returning to Barnwell.

March 14, 1994: After an all-night interrogation followed by an early morning prayer with police, Wallace began writing down the names of his victims. Police expected three or four. Wallace listed 10.

Sept. 30, 1996: Jury selection begins in Charlotte for Wallace’s trial on nine murder charges (the killings of Bethea and Nance were not included).

Jan. 7, 1997: A Mecklenburg County jury finds Wallace guilty of nine murders.

Jan 29, 1997: Wallace receives nine death sentences. He has remained on death row in Central Prison in Raleigh for more than 26 years.