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Hey there folks. It is Thursday, December 18th, and as we're putting this episode out, a man in Florida is being escorted to a death chamber. He is going to be placed on on a gurney. He is going to be strapped in. Needles are going to be placed in his arms and the state of Florida is going to execute what is now the 19th inmate of the year, far, far surpassing its previous record. Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ in Romes. I mentioned that. And this is scheduled to be the last execution of the year. But strangely enough, we'll get into why it might not be. And just an execution night is always a solemn night.
Amy Robach
It is. And the details surrounding what this man was convicted of and what he's admitted to are especially horrific. Obviously, anyone on death row has committed the worst of the worst crimes, but this one actually blew my mind when I started reading the details, I didn't even know. Honestly, I haven't even ever heard of a teenager serial killer. But that's what this man was.
Narrator/Host
And strangely enough, there was so much distance between tonight, his execution night and the night of the first murder he ever committed. And we are talking about 40 years ago. This has been 40 years almost that he has been on death row to get to this point. Is this justice anymore? Everybody involved in the case is dead. Yeah, family members, a lot of stuff.
Amy Robach
As I, as we were researching this, it said so many of the victims, family members who were seeking justice, who were there at the trial, who were pushing for this to come to fruition, have all passed away. So one of the family members who we'll talk about who is speaking out was two at the time of the murders. That's how much time has passed for four decades has passed since he began his murder spree.
Narrator/Host
And it was her grandmother, the two year old you're talking about. So we'll get into that. But we'll tell you where we are tonight, folks. Again, as we're putting this episode out, 06:00 Eastern Time is when the lethal injection execution is to take place for Frank athan Walls, a 58 year old man who as you said, robes, was involved in what at the time were called the Tuesday murders. But he committed, help me with my calendar. Five, five murders, five essentially between the ages of 17 and 19, all before.
TJ Holmes
The age of 20.
Amy Robach
I've never heard of that before. And this all took place in the panhandle of Florida between, yes, 1985 and 1987. And the man who was the sheriff at the time said those two years in that county, in Okaloosa county, it was sheer terror. People were afraid because he was choosing people at random. These weren't people who had done anything to him, who he had any relationship to or with. And it's just mind blowing to think someone that young could be that vicious and that evil and that cruel. That is actually beyond shocking to me.
Narrator/Host
This is again, Frank Ethan Walls. He is being executed tonight for the conviction in a double murder in 1987. However, after he was caught and convicted of that, he ends up making a deal in which he is admitting to three other murders of women, those murders, all of them between the years of 85 and 87. Again, all before he was the age of 20. This was just a bizarre detail. And they called them the Tuesday murders at the time.
Amy Robach
Yeah, I had never heard of this. But again, it maybe makes a lot of sense because it's not been in the headlines recently because it's been so long. I actually was looking at some stories that were written 10 years ago and they were all kind of aghast that he had been on death row for 30 years and they were trying to get his execution date set. That was 10 years ago. So yes, Tuesday murders, all of the murders happened on a Tuesday or overnight Tuesday. So the victims might have been found on Wednesday, but it seemed as though he was killing people On Tuesday night.
Narrator/Host
Did you see anything or what was the it? Was this just a coincidence or there was some theory behind why it lined.
Amy Robach
Up that way, who knows? But obviously if you've been slightly obsessed with serial killers and they usually have patterns, they usually leave some sort of earmark. You'll, they'll either take some sort of a trophy or they'll do something to kind of almost leave their signature or their stamp on a murder to kind of almost take credit for it. So police know, hey, yeah guys, it's me again. And so it would read with what you hear about other serial killers doing, there is some planning, there's some method to their madness we might not be able to get in their brains, but it seems odd that it would just be random. It sounds like it was something he chose. It sounds like something he did deliberately. That was his mark. I'll do it On a Tuesday.
Narrator/Host
Well, 1987 on a Tuesday here, a double murder. This is when he broke into the home of a couple that was sleeping. This was a 22 year old and a 20 year old couple. The man, Edgar Alger, happened to be an airman, so a US Service member. These folks pretty vicious here. The woman, Anne Louise Peterson, was shot two times. The man, he had his throat slashed and was shot three times. Again, no rhyme or reason or why these folks, why this house, why this night?
Amy Robach
It might have been a crime of opportunity, but they, I was reading the details of this attack and look, Edward Alger, it just, it's heartbreaking when you hear about this. You, you put yourself in that place at that time and they said he fought like hell. He fought like hell. And so as even when his throat was slashed, he was fighting back and pushing and punching and that's when he went ahead and shot him. They said his mo, the Tuesday killer, Frank Ethan Wall, preferred to use a knife. And so he started out with a knife. But because things got heated and Edward Alger wasn't going down without a major fight, he ended up shooting him. But his method or his weapon of choice in these murders was a knife.
Narrator/Host
And to that point, the person he ends up admitting to killing prior to killing this couple. The scariest part, you just mentioned the sheriff talking about how they were terrorized. The woman he admitted to killing, that killing happened two months prior and a block away from where he had killed the couple.
Amy Robach
Yes, this was Audrey geeky. She was 47 years old and she was stabbed to death at her home. And she had children and actually grandchildren. And we'll read you her Granddaughter's statement because it's very powerful and speaks to where these family members who are still alive are in this journey that they have been on for four decades. But she. And just think about the hole that leaves in a family. And she was just 47 years old. So young. But again, random. He had no connection to her. There was no reason why he needed to break into her home and stab her to death.
Narrator/Host
And the killing he admitted to from the previous year, 1986, woman by the name of Cynthia Sue Condra, 24 years old. Another young lady stabbed her 20, 21 times.
Amy Robach
21 times.
Narrator/Host
It's a vicious, vicious. And I read somewhere he had no rhyme or reason. He. He explained kind of a way. He just has these fits of rage sometimes that overcome him. He. In trying to explain some of his behavior, which it seems like robes. He didn't have answers either. But this is some. This is some vicious stuff. In every single one of these. It's something horrific. And the first one he admitted to in 1985, this is another one that just.
Amy Robach
You're like, Jesus, she was lying out in the sun, sunbathing in her bikini. This was in March of 1985. She was just 19 years old. So he was 17 at the time. She was 19. Just. Can you. I think about this? Oh, my gosh. Goodness, my daughters love doing this. Laying out in the sun. You're closing your eyes. Maybe you have music playing. You are not thinking for one second you're in any danger in the middle of the day sunbathing. But he admitted to raping her and slashing her throat. And that was the first murder, although he was never convicted in that. He admitted to it as part of a plea deal to avoid a second death penalty conviction.
Narrator/Host
Yeah. So in avoiding a trial. But, yeah, this idea. It's possible. I was asking you. But it was possible he was facing a double death penalty in some of these. So that's why the deals were made. But I just. That's tough. Rose, when you talk about justice, a conviction, okay, is. Is one thing, but the punishment hasn't been carried out. It's almost. It sounds crazy, but if someone has been convicted of a crime and they get 20 years in prison, but they get to stay at home before they get to go to jail, that's what it's like. The sentence hasn't really been carried out until the death penalty is carried out. And to wait 40 years for essentially.
TJ Holmes
What he was is supposed to be his punishment.
Amy Robach
Correct. And so look, wherever you stand on the death penalty, this is wrong. This is wrong. Because if you are, if you're going to have a sentence of death, then that sentence should be carried out. Yes, somebody has to have the opportunity to appeal it and all of that. So, fine, I understand there has to be some period of time where there's a fair appeals process in place, but 40 years. And look, we've said this and it has been noted and studied. The death penalty is not a deterrent for criminals. First of all, no one thinks they're going to get caught. But also in the system we're in, a lot of them might think, yeah, but I'm still going to have 30 years before I'm actually going to be put to death. So I'll be able to appeal it. I'll be able to overturn. Doesn't feel as frightening because it's so delayed. We're not just talking a couple years or even a couple decades. 40. This is not the first time we have seen 40 years go by.
Narrator/Host
You, you were telling me there have been a couple more. I remember the 37, but this is just nobody. Again, like you said, no matter how you feel about it, 40 years is too long for any family to have to wait for justice to be carried out. We did mention a family member. Some are speaking again with so many. I think I saw that a husband and I think two kids of one of the victims has actually passed away since. So they weren't around to see this day. But the granddaughter, who was 2 years old at the time, probably no memory of grandma, but she was 2 years old at the time and she is still fighting for her family. I, I applaud that.
Amy Robach
I do, too. Can you imagine? She probably, I mean, obviously she grew up with this story. She grew up knowing this. This was, I'm sure, a huge hole in her family. And she felt that even though she doesn't remember her grandmother, I'm sure she sees pictures and has heard all the stories. So, yeah, she's. She's passionate about this. And so she told. She told a local reporter, I am going to have a drink and toast to my grandma and close that chapter. She's probably pouring her drink right now. As you listen to this.
Narrator/Host
I didn't get word of who was attending. I don't know if any family members of the victims would be in attendance, but it's always interesting to hear. Oftentimes they don't want to be there, and oftentimes they. We've seen plenty that don't want the executions to go forward. This is not that case.
Amy Robach
No, no. This, this, this is something that at least we're here. And honestly, like you said, so many of the people affected and impacted by his murder spree, by his violence, are no longer here. So we just have heard from this granddaughter and I understand. Look, we have been very outspoken about certain death penalty cases and concerns about guilt or innocence. This one is not that case. And this one is just so evil and so unexplained and so concerning it. If he wasn't caught, assuredly he would have continued.
Narrator/Host
Yeah. Wow. Yeah.
Amy Robach
There was nothing stopping him.
Narrator/Host
But what do they get? I mean, defendants, right. People arrested have a right to a speedy trial. Is there no right to a speedy justice? Is there? No. Why is anybody having to wait 40 years for this to be carried out?
Amy Robach
Yes. And he tried very, like diligently through his attorneys to not die. He is fighting his death sentence. He has said he's mentally disabled. But then again, I was reading, he apparently told some jail worker that he was faking it, that he was faking being mentally insufficient so that he could get off of the death penalty, like deliberately failing his IQ test, et cetera, et cetera. So anyway, no one was buying it. It wasn't that he tried. And his attorneys tried to get a stay of execution up until the last few days, citing all sorts of things, but among them, that he's mentally disabled and the fact that he was 19 years old when he was convicted or 17 when he committed his first murder. But he was convicted on the murder he committed, I believe, when he was after. Yes, 18 or 19. And that's where the rule is. Yes. And maybe that is why they chose that case to prosecute him with, because he was of age to be considered or to be eligible for the death penalty.
Narrator/Host
Well, folks, as you have been listening to us in this episode, it is quite possible that Frank Athan Walls has been declared dead. Usually lethal injection doesn't take that long. We have seen some cases where it's taking up to maybe 20 minutes before an official declaration of death, but these often do go fairly quickly. Now, this would be the 47th execution in the United States this year. That's the most we've seen since 2009. This is the 47th of the year. It's possible we could still see a 48th before the new year. We'll explain. Stay here.
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Narrator/Host
Foreign. Welcome back, folks, to this episode of Amy and TJ Robes no matter what. I mean, we talk about justice for a family, but it's just a. It's a solemn evening and experience and the thoughts of what takes place to have a. An execution. There are steps that have to take place, but we are as a country, we are as a community officially sanctioning this person's death. And it's just, you know, it's. Life is life and I get it. And this is the punishment. It's there and it's legal. It just always makes you stop and reflect.
Amy Robach
Yes.
Narrator/Host
What we do, it's just always heavy.
Amy Robach
I should say it's heavy. It's a solemn event. It's a solemn occasion. And it marks closure for a lot of families. It marks justice for a lot of folks. But it's controversial, obviously. It's something you can't take back. It's not something you can undo. And it is clearly an eye for an eye, which a lot of folks just simply disagree with on a moral level that that's not how we should operate. We should, yes. Make sure someone this evil, Frank Ethan Walls, clearly evil. I don't think that's even up for discussion, truly, at this point. To be a teenaged serial killer to have murdered five people before the age of 20 for no apparent reason other than your own personal rage within you and lack of complete sel. But he never needs to see the light of day. He never needs to ever be out in the public, obviously, but his life ends today. And for some of his surviving family members of the victims of his are. Are happy to see this day come finally, eventually.
Narrator/Host
If that gives them peace today, then God bless them. That's just. He wiped out and changed. He altered generations of families.
Amy Robach
He did.
Narrator/Host
That's something to think of how he, how he went about this. And these were young folks that he Killed.
Amy Robach
Some of the women were. So, yeah. And yes, every, really everyone other than Audrey Gigi, who was 47. Everyone else was in their 20s, were they not?
Narrator/Host
22, 24. And the first one was 19. So again, folks, we say the, the country is. There's been a lot of executions this year. 47. That's the most since 2009. Robes. There's still a possibility up until at least Christmas Eve that we could see a 48th. We've been talking about, folks, what we're seeing in Georgia where there was an execution scheduled for Tuesday, but the state parole board halted that while they try to get some issues worked out. And robes. I'm not sure if they're trying to get this worked out because the death warrant, the clock is ticking.
Amy Robach
It's unclear. So the death warrant goes, as you said, through Christmas Eve. The problem is every person on death row is given and I guess it's their legal right to have a clemency hearing right before their scheduled execution. And so he had a scheduled clemency hearing this week. The problem was two of the members on this Board of Pardons and Parole, that's a five member board, he would have to have three people vote in favor of clemency for him to get a stay of execution. Well, two of the five have conflicts of interest because they were involved in some way, form or fashion in his case at the time. So one recused herself. The other said, okay, fine, I'll step aside. And now his attorneys were arguing he deserves to be able. His case should be able to be heard by 5. The problem is they're not taking these people off the board. You can't add someone to the board. So they're kind of at an impasse right now. What did they do? What's happening legally correct, what's morally correct. Who knows how they're going to figure it out. But they don't have much time. It's not just that it's Christmas Eve, it's the holidays and everybody's out of.
Narrator/Host
Town, everybody wants to do something else. Certainly don't want to be dealing with this. And I can imagine if they do a Christmas Eve execution that's not happening.
Amy Robach
That doesn't seem possible.
Narrator/Host
So it would have to be much sooner. Now, if the death warrant expires, they can get another one next year, but it doesn't appear they can get this worked out in time. So maybe we'll stop at 47 for the year. Won't get to 48, but my goodness, Florida. 19 executions this year. Previous record was eight. DeSantis ain't messing around down there.
Amy Robach
No, he isn't in Florida. I guess Georgia might have to take a page out of his, his playbook if they're trying to at least get their ducks in a row. But DeSantis, he was, he was dotting all those I's and crossing all those T's and, and he has not backed down. I wouldn't. He's one that if, if you're on death row, so you're not getting a stay of execution in the state of Florida from DeSantis. He's made that very clear.
Narrator/Host
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Amy Robach
Don't even. The phone could be off the hook. It's not going to ring at the last second. I think we feel very confident in that. No need.
Narrator/Host
Oh my goodness, folks. Well, we always appreciate you and it's been a hell of a year with these executions, but we always appreciate you spending some time and having these discussions with us. We have actually learned a lot this year. I would say rogue. So folks, we will talk to you soon. On behalf of my dear Amy Roblox, I'm T.J. holmes.
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Podcast: Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes Present
Episode: The Teenaged Serial Killer Responsible For the “Tuesday Murders” Dies Tonight, 4 Decades After His Killing Spree
Date: December 18, 2025
This episode covers the execution of Frank Ethan Walls, infamously known as the "Tuesday Murders" serial killer, who was executed in Florida nearly 40 years after his shocking killing spree in the late 1980s. Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes provide context on his crimes, the extraordinary delay in executing the sentence, the impact on victims' families, and broader reflections on the death penalty and justice.
Opening Context: The episode opens with the hosts acknowledging the gravity of an execution, especially one that marks the 19th in Florida this year, setting a new record.
Execution Details: Scheduled for 6:00 PM ET, this is likely the last execution in Florida this year, but possibly not the last in the U.S. for 2025.
Unusual Infamy: Frank Walls was a teenaged serial killer, which shocked Amy Robach, who remarked on how rare such a case is.
Crimes & Pattern: All murders occurred between ages 17 and 19, across 1985–1987, largely at random and all committed on or around Tuesdays—hence the moniker “Tuesday Murders.”
M.O. and Victims:
Double Murder (1987):
Additional Victims:
Justice or Not?
Family Impact:
Death Penalty Reflections:
On the terror Walls caused:
On the lengthy delay:
On the death penalty and closure:
On the victim's granddaughter finding closure:
On the solemnity of executions:
| Segment | Timestamp | |-------------|---------------| | Execution context begins | 03:44 | | "Tuesday Murders" details, background on crimes | 05:53 – 11:56 | | Details of double murder | 09:04 – 09:36 | | Reflection on justice, 40-year delay | 12:38 – 14:24 | | Victims' families, statements from granddaughter | 14:24 – 15:35 | | Legal appeals and tactics | 16:49 – 17:46 | | Reflections on executions, statistics | 22:13 – 25:02 | | Florida's record, Georgia's struggles | 26:43 – 27:10 |
The tone is sober, reflective, and occasionally emotional, especially as the hosts empathize with victims and question the efficacy and morality of the death penalty after such a delayed execution.
For listeners seeking to understand the case, the emotional toll, and the broader issues around executions in America, this episode offers a thoughtful and unflinching look at one of the country’s most unsettling legal and moral quandaries.