My father was a serial killer — right here’s how I uncovered his chilling secret and turned him in to police

One night time in 1980, April Balascio’s father, Edward Wayne Edwards, awakened the family and informed everybody to begin packing. They have been leaving their residence in Watertown, Wisconsin, after residing there for a yr.

It wasn’t new for Balascio, who was 11 years previous. She was accustomed to shifting each six months to a yr with out warning. It wouldn’t be till many years later when she found why.

“Every time we moved, it was laborious,” Balascio informed Fox Information Digital. “You develop new mates every time, after which it’s important to depart them. However one factor that got here out of it’s you learn to pack rapidly and tightly as a result of if you happen to didn’t, your stuff would get left behind.

“But it surely was laborious having to upend every thing,” she shared. “It was laborious beginning a brand new college yearly and even generally twice a yr. … He made us imagine we have been leaving as a result of individuals have been coming after us. So, there was additionally that worry that we have been being hunted, that worry that we might be killed.”

Balascio has written a brand new e book, “Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Reality About My Father.” In it, Balascio particulars how she found her father’s true identification and the horrific crimes he dedicated.

The patriarch died in 2011 at age 77 from pure causes.

On the time, he was behind bars after being sentenced to demise by deadly injection.

“I wished this story to be informed, but it surely took a very long time to put in writing it,” Balascio admitted. “It was a really tough factor to do. I used to be defending my reminiscences.”

Balascio described Edwards as charismatic, a “massive child” who loved events and entertaining. However he additionally had “a really darkish aspect.”

“It was scary,” she stated. “He was abusive. And particularly as I acquired older, I turned extra terrified of listening to his tires on the gravel within the driveway. I might marvel how he was going to stroll by the home. Was he going to be in a very good temper or a foul temper? For some time, I hated him.