Faryion Edward Wardrip (born March 6, 1959) is an American serial killer who sexually assaulted and murdered five women.

Four of the women were killed in Wichita Falls, Texas, and the surrounding counties, and one woman was murdered in Fort Worth.

This separation led to multiple news agencies reporting that the isolated investigations delayed Wardrip's capture.

He was required to wear an ankle monitor allowing authorities to constantly track his location; he was restricted to movements for work, home and church.

[6] In 1999, the Wichita County District Attorney's Office reopened the murder cases of the victims that occurred in their jurisdiction.

There are no news articles or television reports of Wardrip experiencing any type of mental or physical abuse during his childhood.

Tired of her husband's lack of responsibility and addictions in December 1985, Johnna separated from Wardrip taking the children with her.

[11] Terry Lee Sims worked as a part-time EKG specialist at Bethania Hospital in Wichita Falls, Texas while attending nearby Midwestern State University.

Sims and co-worker Leza Boone had finished working their evening shifts at the hospital at approximately 11:00 pm on December 20, 1984.

After repeatedly knocking on her locked front door, and receiving no answer, Boone went to the landlord and was given a key to her residence.

Boone immediately ran back to her landlord's residence asking for help to find her friend Terry.

The landlord entered the apartment, and found Sims lying deceased on the bathroom floor, in a pool of blood.

Police officers investigating preserved a semen sample, and a fingerprint, found on Sims' shoe for future analysis.

After the killing Wardrip then abandoned her vehicle, after legally parking it at the intersection of Van Buren and McGregor Streets in Wichita Falls, less than a mile from his residence.

Two months after he murdered Toni Gibbs, Wardrip traveled to Fort Worth, Texas, with the intention of looking for a job.

In Fort Worth, he met 25 year old Debra Sue Taylor (née Huie), in the early morning hours of March 24, 1985 while at a bar on East Lancaster Street.

This rejection infuriated Wardrip, and he killed Taylor, leaving her body at a construction site in east Fort Worth.

[14] Taylor was buried at Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park in Fort Worth; her date of death is listed as March 24, 1985.

[20] Leaving her body in the secluded area, Waldrip drove Blau's car back into Wichita Falls and abandoned it along with her purse.

[14] Blau was buried at Bnai Jacob Memorial Park in New Haven, Connecticut; her date of death is listed as September 20, 1985.

Prior to the discovery of her body, neighbors told police that they had seen a white man, 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) tall, with dark brown hair and wearing a baseball cap leave the complex.

He was paroled on December 11, 1997 and he moved to Olney, Texas, where he remarried and became an active supporter of the local church, gaining a good reputation.

In early 1999, Wichita Falls detective John Little began a cold case investigation of the unsolved murders of Terry Sims, Toni Gibbs, and Ellen Blau.

DNA recovered from the scenes where Sims and Gibbs were found, were later matched, indicating that both victims had been killed by the same person.

One of his fellow officers revealed that while Wardrip was on trial for Tina Kimbrew's murder he admitted to knowing Blau.

[23] In 2008, a federal magistrate recommended that the death penalty be overturned because Wardrip received ineffective defense in his trial.

[4] In September 2020, Wardrip's request for a new trial was denied by the Federal court of appeals and his death sentence was subsequently reinstated.