Suspect in 1990 Missouri City Killing Charged With Murder In '94 Death

A man charged in May in the 1990 Missouri City murder of Kim Louise Wildman was arrested by Houston police on Friday on a charge of capital murder stemming from a 1994 case.

Edward McGregor, 33, was arrested at about 7:28 a.m. on Friday and charged with capital murder in the death of Edwina Barnum, 23, who was found shot and strangled in her Houston apartment in 1994, police said.

Missouri City police assisted Houston police in the arrest, in the 2500 block of Village Square Drive, where McGregor was apparently living with his family. Missouri City Police Capt. John Bailey said McGregor was arrested without incident.

Bailey was unsure where McGregor is being held. He had been free on $250,000 bond since May, after his May 1 arrest in the Kim Wildman murder.

Houston detectives could not immediately be reached for comment on the case, nor could McGregor or his attorney. According to news reports, DNA evidence linked McGregor to the Barnum murder.

The Barnum case is the fourth murder in which police say they suspect McGregor.

Now 33, he grew up in Missouri City in a house two doors down from Kim Wildman’s. On April 17, 1990, Wildman was found by police naked and near death, with numerous knife wounds on her body.

Her murder went unsolved, and no suspect was developed for 16 years. Missouri City Police said they had little to go on except some forensic evidence that included semen samples taken from the victim.

Then on May 1, Houston and Missouri City police arrested McGregor in Wildman’s slaying, saying DNA evidence he had volunteered in connection with two Houston murder investigations matched with DNA obtained from the Wildman semen samples.

Houston detectives say they consider McGregor a prime suspect in the Aug. 5, 2005, beating death of Danielle Subjects, and the fatal attack on Mandy Rubin, of 10750 Westbraes Parkway, who was found beaten, stabbed, choked and drowned in a bathtub on Feb. 4.

Houston homicide detectives said they believe McGregor was the last person to see Subjects alive, and was one of the last people to see Rubin alive.

Originally, McGregor was being held on $1 million bond in the Wilder case. However, 400th District Judge Clifford Vacek reduced the bond to $250,000. McGregor raised the required money and was released.

Judge Vacek ordered that McGregor must wear an “active satellite monitoring” device attached to his leg, to allow law enforcement personnel to track his whereabouts. Under the judge’s orders, McGregor was only allowed to be at his home or work place.

Less than a week after his release on bond, members of three murder victims’ families, led by Houston community activist Quanell X, converged on McGregor’s mother’s Whispering Pines Drive home in Missouri City, angry over his release from jail.

McGregor’s family apparently since has moved to Village Square Drive, police reports indicate.