He was aided in six of the murders by two accomplices: Marvin Francois (January 18, 1946 – May 29, 1985)[2] and Beauford James White[3] (October 29, 1945 – August 28, 1987).

[2] On July 27, 1977, Ferguson, Francois, and White entered a drug house in Carol City where they tied up a total of eight people and shot all of them in the head execution-style.

[4] Ferguson, Francois, and White were all eventually captured, sentenced to death, and executed by the state of Florida.

Although a psychiatrist warned that he was "unpredictable and a danger to himself and others", a judge ruled Ferguson competent and later accepted a guilty plea.

[8] White had a lengthy criminal record dating back to July 1963, and was on parole for assault with intent to commit rape at the time of the murders.

On November 1, the body of another man named Joseph Walters was found near railroad tracks in Miami by a freight train employee.

Oliver stated that he, Ferguson, Walters, and Ward had all been part of a gang that had robbed a Miami clothing store and a warehouse on Florida's west coast.

[10][12] Ferguson was already in jail at the time of the revelation for an unrelated crime and was serving an eighteen-month sentence for resisting arrest.

[13] On July 27, 1977, Ferguson, accompanied by Marvin Francois, Beauford White, and Adolphus Archie, drove to the home of 33-year-old Livingston Stocker, a Vietnam veteran and small-time marijuana dealer.

He then opened the front door to let Francois and White inside, while Archie waited outside in the car as a getaway driver.

A short time later, another one of Stocker's friends, 24-year-old Michael Miller, entered the property and was also ambushed, bound, and searched.

He fatally shot Stocker, 35-year-old Henry Clayton, 26-year-old John Holmes, 37-year-old Gilbert Williams, and 35-year-old Charles Stinson.

[13][3][14] While the shootings occurred, White remained by the front door with a gun to prevent anyone from entering or escaping the property.

Wooden eventually managed to get to her feet, escape the property, and run to a neighbor's house, where she called the police.

[13][3][14] According to Archie, the killers drove to a motel room after the massacre and split the stolen money, which totaled around $800.

In Archie's testimony, he claimed Francois bragged about the killings and compared them to the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, while White was upset and looked like he had seen a ghost.

In the early hours of September 2, Francois was arrested at the Dade County Jail, where he was being held on unrelated shoplifting charges.

[15] On January 8, 1978, 17-year-old Brian Glenfeldt and 17-year-old Belinda Worley, a couple, left a Youth-for-Christ meeting in Hialeah.

He fatally shot Glenfeldt behind the wheel of his mother's car, before taking Worley into the nearby woods where he raped and murdered her.

Afterward, the agents kicked it down and cornered Ferguson in the living room, where he was wielding a handgun and pointing it at the ceiling.

On April 27, 1978, the judge overrode the recommendation and sentenced White to death, partly citing his criminal record.

On April 25, 1985, the Supreme Court of Florida reversed the decision and reinstated White's death sentence.

[24] In 1982, the Supreme Court of Florida threw out the death sentence, saying that the judge failed to consider evidence of Ferguson's mental illness.

[13] Archie pleaded guilty to six counts of second degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role as the getaway driver in the Carol City massacre.

He was executed shortly after 7:00 a.m. and spent his final hours with his mother, girlfriend, and twin teenage children.

[25] His last meal consisted of shrimp, lobster tail, barbecued spare ribs, chicken breast, watermelon, strawberries, sliced tomatoes, and french fries.

Reading from a written last statement, Francois said The Miami institutionalized white racist judiciary and law enforcement systems have made me, the once heroin addict, the scapegoat, with fabricated assertions, dishonest policemen, unethical judges, unethical state attorneys, drug pushers, and drug users for their political and personal ambitions and their inability and unwillingness to control the drug sphere of Miami's communities as America made Grenada the scapegoat for their inability or unwillingness to control the blowing up of the American Embassy in Lebanon where many soldiers were killed.

After finishing his written statement, Francois said "If there is such a thing as an Antichrist, it ain't one man but the whole white race.

[32][33] On August 5, 2013, Ferguson was executed by lethal injection after spending thirty-five years on death row.

His execution was repeatedly delayed following years of appeals over his sanity, with his attorneys arguing that he was severely mentally ill and had succumbed to delusions and hallucinations, including a belief that he would rise up after his execution to fight alongside Jesus and save America from a communist plot.