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hey weirdos I'm Ash and I'm Elena and this is [Music] morbid this m what's up [ __ ] what's
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up [ __ ] what the [ __ ] is up Kyle oh man we got crumble cookie today and it didn't slap it um didn't they couldn't
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do it same day usually they do it same day which I know sounds like an insane problem to have yes it absolutely is it
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upset us a little bit it very upset what's going on also it just wasn't as good today it was like a little crumble
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is usually where it where it's at yeah like love it and I can't speak to that cuz I haven't had a piece yet you'll
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probably love it so it didn't slap for ash maybe it'll slap for me it just didn't wow sorry sorry not sorry you
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know what did slap I got Panera today oh my God and the chicken and wild rice soup will just it will just erase any
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problem in your life it's so good all of them it'll clear your skin it'll pay your bills
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it'll fix your broken relationships all right all of that maybe no Ash claimed that maybe so mod it be I mean so mod
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it um so where you know we're we're doing a lot of recordings today oh my God I know this but you know what the
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energy is here because we're excited to talk to you guys cuz we're always excited what are you looking at that
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plane it sounded like it was going to fall into a house I I did not feel that but I recognized that you did I felt
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that way is crazy you crazy you're crazy um yeah so I don't think we have a lot of
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business no we did the business in the last one yeah we don't have a lot of business today except for the crumble
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cookie of it all and that's business but uh today I'm going to be telling you a story that is um a wee bit upsetting I
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bet which is pretty pretty nor the kids say bet bet there you go they should just say I bet they should just say
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words like full sentences yeah like I bet that's a full sentence I bet you are correct or just I bet so we're going to
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be talking about the Gaffney Strangler is Leroy Martin I don't know if I've heard of this I actually had not heard
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of this before whoa two backtack cases you haven't heard about everybody watch out Hell hath frozen over I know until I
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I I happen to come across it somehow and threw it over to Dave and once I was reading it with him he it's insane like
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insane uh it's just a very like I said it's just a very upsetting case and it's one that I'm like why the [ __ ] didn't I
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know about this like it's crazy so this takes place in the 60s so not like super
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old time old timey but not super old timey you know like not me old timey no you know what's crazy that's like pretty
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close to 100 years ago though what the [ __ ] if you really think about it like 2060 is not that far away that took me a
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second I think we're closer to 2060 than we are to 1960 yeah probably I don't know Ma when
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you said I thought you were saying at first that that's like a hundred years ago and I was like no it's like close in
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my head I was that lady with all the math equations going around no but it's like not that far ago do the math real
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quick on your your tip tappy calculator doing I'm doing it I'm doing it there's so many people listening 64 years ago so
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we're closer to that being 100 years then not there you go like where when you round when you do the
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rounding listen yeah I feel you we're closer years 100 years ago but not so 100 years
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ago on May 20th 1967 it's late 60s oh honey so we're actually less even more less even closer
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to 100 years I think is what you're trying to say no it's further from 100 Years cuz it's later in the 60s oh yeah
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no exactly [ __ ] it's been a long day people listening are like you guys got to7
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years ago people born in the 60s are like can you just shut up and us the [ __ ] case honestly I'm not 100 I'd
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like to say that I questioned it from the like the case before I turn 100 so on May 20th
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1967 Roger and Anie deadmond a young couple from Forest City North Carolina you know they were hanging out they
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spent the night out drinking in Gaffney South Carolina good for them but later that night after Roger had become more
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than a little bit drunk I would say Annie convinced her husband it was time to go head home they had a newborn son
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Roger Jr let's get home Tak an Uber yeah they didn't 57 years ago as Annie drove
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down the back road so she was driving um she drove down the back roads of Gaffney
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they did see a Red Top Cab come into view by behind them on the road it's unlikely that they really even
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registered this cab um who knows if they even did but Witnesses would later tell
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investigators that Roger and Annie had been fighting at the bar and that an argument that started at the bar
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extended into the car as they drove home so the car was seen swerving from one lane to the other at times because the
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intensity of their argument was happening who knows what was going yeah so finally fed up with the argument
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probably with her husband at that point Annie pulled the car off to the side of the road and got out and was like you
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know what you go to sleep in the car see you later like oh she just didn't want anything to do with it so she started
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walking in the direction of home and Roger passed out in the car oh God now Annie didn't make it very far before
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that Red Top Cab pulled up beside her and the driver asked if she needed a ride home which she happily accepted oh
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the following morning the nude body of Annie deadmond was discovered by a driver on a royal road just outside
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Jonesville South Carolina oh that's so sad you said they had a newborn baby at home a newborn baby and she had been
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sexually assaulted she was struck on the head with a heavy object and her cause of death ended up being strangulation
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later that afternoon police found her clothing scattered around the nearby wooded area um Annie's body had been
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discovered lying against a chainlink fence that protected an electrical Transformer but other than the clothing
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that they found scattered all around the woods they really didn't find any more evidence and they didn't have any leads
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really jeez now a short time later Roger deadmond was awoken by a knocking on the
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door of his home and opened it to find police officers who came to tell him your wife has been found dead now Roger
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told the officers what he could remember of the night before he said they had gone out drinking on the way home they
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got into an argument that had started at the bar oh no Annie pulled over got out
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of the car leaving him to pass out in the passenger seat he said a few hours later he woke up and he ended up making
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his way home cuz he figured in he was there yeah when he got there she wasn't there he said he was surprised but this
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wasn't the first time they'd fought like that or the first time that she had walked off during a fight and left him
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somewhere to sober up oh cuz this was a pattern uhhuh so he expected she was just going to show up later that morning
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they'd make up move on right Roger was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife I had a feeling it might go
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that way yeah he repeatedly insisted he had nothing to do with the murder in fact he actually passed a polygraph test
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and they really didn't have any evidence well I was going to say what do he even
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arrested based off of it was entirely circumstantial the fact that he was with her when she was last seen that they had
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been in an argument that he had left the scene and just like went to sleep at home like none of that looked good for
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him for sure um but there were some who said after his arrest that Roger had confessed to the murder oh okay
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according to Annie's Father William Hayes Roger had at one point confessed to Annie's Uncle he said um he told me
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he told my brother he did it he said he got down on his knees in front of a window crying he said he just blacked
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out I asked him if he killed her and he said I don't know but I'm afraid I did well that makes sense I mean he was so
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it sounds like he was blackout drunk and that he was like oh my god did what if I
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did yeah what if I have no idea I mean they're arresting him I'm sure you know what happens when people get arrested
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and held in those rooms forever so exactly so the dead mens had only been married for a couple of years at this
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point and Annie had come into the marriage with three children from a previous marriage which is even more sad
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like she's a mother of four kids yeah um and I guess Roger had always been kind of like ambivalent to those children oh
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um the family suspected at least in recent months that the marriage hadn't been a very happy one doesn't sound like
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it and according to Annie's mother Lucille Roger had substance issues and his drug use was starting to affect
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their marriage okay um according to Lucille she told a reporter quote he doped he took yellow jackets all the
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time but according to the family right before she was murdered Annie told them as soon as the kids were done with
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school for the year she was going to leave Roger and move to Georgia oh wow now between the confessions the drug use
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and Annie's plan to leave her husband the Hayes family felt certain that Roger was the Killer and I don't blame them
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Ian yeah it has all the makings of that I honestly it kind of fits perfectly it's like yeah if I was her family
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member I would probably think the same thing based on everything she'd been going through and it turned out that the
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jury shared that opinion as well a few months later Roger Deadman was convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to
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18 years in the Union County Prison Farm where he was going to spend his days working on a chain gang oh um and Roger
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lawyer Jonathan McKinnon told the press one way or another I'll see good new trial I want more evidence on this thing
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but I will seek a new trial for deadmond I mean it's good that he wanted more evidence you know one way or another and
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something's telling me he didn't do this something's up so Roger Deadman's story
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probably would have just ended there it just would have ended in imprisonment but then something happened that kind of
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changed the tide a little bit okay A Strange phone call came into the desk of Gaffney Ledger reporter Bill Gibbons on
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the afternoon of February 8th 1968 so the following year sure um but like obviously not that far away so the
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man had asked to speak to quote that little fellow who drives the Falcon okay so Gibbons assume the caller
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was talking about um the Spartanburg heral writer Jim Holland because he once owned a falcon so he was like that's the
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only person I know that was a falcon and he told the caller Holland was an end but he said can I take a message and the
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man insist it wasn't something he could leave a message about but then he gave Gibbons instructions he said take out
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three sheets of paper I've got three stories for you what so he was like okay he's not going to pass up a potential
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scoop here so he's like give it to me sounds like a scene in that in the Zodiac movie oh it literally does not
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sound real how this happened so Gibbons listens and he's like okay tell me what what you got to say and the guy on the
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other line gives him three names followed by a set of directions to locations in and around GNE oh no the
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first was Nancy Christine East Smith Street then Nancy Carol Paris chadam Avenue and finally Annie deadmond March
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1967 Jerusalem Road oh no the names were unfamiliar to Gibbons except he said that last name Annie deadmond he was
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like I recognize that one cuz the case just happened it was pretty recent so before hanging up the caller said
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something very ominous he just said wait a second and he said what and he said you take the sheriff with you don't go
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by yourself oh I just got a chill down my whole spine yep oh what the [ __ ] and
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he's like what the [ __ ] he was now Gibbons was the managing editor of The gaffan Ledger and he got tips all the
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time but he rarely went out to investigate stories himself he was the managing editor yeah he said I had just
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returned from lunch and our reporter and photographer were out or I probably would have sent them in fact Gibbons had
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assumed the call was probably a prank for phone call but he figured it was worth checking into they're not going to
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let it just float out there yeah you never know so he went himself over to the Sheriff's Office to let Sheriff
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Julian Wright know about what happened I'm glad he actually did go to the sheriff he did he was smart about it not
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wanting to waste too much time on it if it did turn out to be a prank the two of
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them just were like let's just head to the closest location see if anything's there if it's not then we'll let it go
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so they went to chatam road because it was nearby and according to the caller whatever they were supposed to find
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there could easily be seen from the the bridge on Ford Road oh no so they pulled
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up to the bridge and both men got out of the car and they start looking around and Gibbon said we thought we'd look
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right in the water and see a dog or a goat we thought it might be some trick or even a liquor deal but when they took
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a closer look at the brush below them they saw the nude body of 21 20-year-old Nancy Carol Paris laying on the sandbank
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below her head was partially submerged in the water oh man he said we knew then my God this is real uh-huh imagine being
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sent there and that's what you find and you look over which also I'm like the L like humans are wild because like I
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understand what he's saying when he's like Oh I thought we were just going to find a dog or a goat like in the water
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and I'm like the fact that your brain is like well humans suck so much that some
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guy probably pulled a prank and threw a dog in the water below is wild like our species needs to do a lot of work but to
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look over that thinking is a prank and seeing a actual nude dead body laying there the amount of things that must
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have been going through their heads I can't imagine so Gibbons and the sheriff made their way down the embankment to
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confirm that they weren't seeing like a mannequin or something it's never a mannequin and the body showed almost no
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signs of decomposition which led them to believe she hadn't been there more than
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a day right and was most likely murdered a short time before being left there there was a deep purple Mark around her
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neck and her back was covered with what what appeared to be recent cigarette Burns oh God all over her back oh that's
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horrible yeah Paris had been reported missing by her husband a day earlier after she had left the house to walk
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their dog and never came back oh yeah 20 years old 20 years old left the house said bye to her husband with her dog and
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never came back also they find this this Nancy and now they have another location
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to go to they have two other locations too but at that point they had already found Annie Annie deadmond yeah now no
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longer thinking that this was a prank Sheriff Wright left two deputies at the scene on Ford Road to take care of that
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and he and Gibbons traveled to the first location on East Smith Street that the caller had described um so what he had
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said was go out to the it's so like specific which also is like how do you know these directions so well to get
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there cuz he told Gibbons go out to the junior high school to the Chain Gang Road go towards the Chang Chang gang to
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the second bridge take a dirt road to the right go to the top of the hill turn left come to the edge of the woods and
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stop like that is so many so specific and Gibbons and Wright were now accompanied by several others who had
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formed a search party and followed these instructions and after walking about 3/4
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of a mile into the woods they began combing through the brush and that's when they heard one of the deputies
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shout oh God here she is oh which is so chilling it is oh God here she is they had discovered the nude body of
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14-year-old Nancy Christine Tina Reinhardt 14 yep oh my God 14 years old what the
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[ __ ] dude Tina had been reported missing by her parents 10 year 10 days earlier
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when she left her grandmother's house one afternoon and just didn't come home and no one had seen any sign of her
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since then although she had been missing for 10 days and this is even more upsetting she appeared to have only been
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dead for about five or six days which means she was held alive for a few days yep and like Nancy Paris Tina had Deep
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Purple bruising around her neck and had been burned with cigarettes as well she also had bruises on her hands legs and
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ankles and she had been sexually assaulted oh no now and she's 14 so strangely she was found nude but she
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was wearing a wedding ring and what appeared to be a diamond ring what but she was in seventh grade yeah
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and was not engaged or married a wedding ring and a diamond ring like two like a
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like a wedding engagement ring and a and a wedding ring what the [ __ ] yeah the
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area looked pretty undisturbed which led the sheriff to think that the body had been placed here after Tina had been
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murdered which the same was true for the Ford Bridge the Ford Road scene sure now
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while the sheriff and the rest of the search party kept combing through the woods they got another call and into the
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Sheriff's Office and that was answered by Deputy Vernon Wright this caller said did Gibbons get the sheriff to go look
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for the bodies and when he so when Deputy Wright was like yep he did the caller hung up
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before he could ask anything else yeah now this is so crazy it's so spooky it is spooky and tragic and awful
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so after leaving the scene in the woods behind the junior high school the search
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team went to to the Third location on Jerusalem Road now they expected to find a third body just because of what they
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had just come across on the first two but when they got to the scene there was no no body nothing to be found there
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wasn't any evidence of any dead men like none of it and upon further investigation the sheriff learned that
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just as the caller had indicated Annie Deadman had been Mur murdered several months earlier um and in March of the
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previous year like we know her husband Roger deadmond had been arrested and eventually convicted of the crime and
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was currently serving an 18-year prison sentence right so they were like what the [ __ ] is this about like she's
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already why send us here yeah like why would you send us here I'm like is somebody else there and way later in
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2009 Gibbons told a reporter I don't think he would have called me except he said that another man was serving time
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this caller and he said he was concerned about that what so the caller said to him something about like there's another
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person serving time for this crime and you wonder if that's like a compassion thing or if that's a I don't want them
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getting quote CR I don't want them getting credit that's what I think is he tried to play it off a little bit like
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it was sure like it was I don't want someone taking having to serve time from my crown he it was 100% a credit thing I
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bet he as we'll see he really wants people to ask him and know that he did it oh I hate that so the caller was the
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only one who was concerned about Roger deadmond serving time for a crime he possibly didn't commit Roger's mother
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syil deadmond believe the new cases all proved that her son didn't kill his wife
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I would say so she said when news of the murders and the bodies broke she said I
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know my son and he never killed her but whilst Deadman's family was convinced the new details were clear evidence of
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Roger's innocence the Sheriff's Office was less convinced okay it was the Sheriff's Department's refusal to accept
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the caller's word that prompted him to call Gibbons back a few days later really by then the FBI and State Police
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had been called in to help the Gaffney police because this was a lot for them and they'd put a trace on all incoming
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calls into gibbons's death I was waiting to hear if they if I didn't know if they
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were able to do that at that point I kind of thought so they were but it was back when a trace would be like hold
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them on the line for a long period of time so we can get the proper Trace like you see the guy at the
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like it takes forever now when the man did call again Gibbons had been instructed like I said to keep him on
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the phone as long as possible so when he finally called Gibbons did his best to keep him talking and I guess he told the
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man this thing has to stop and then he suggested that they get together in person for a real conversation what of
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course the caller was like [ __ ] no he said no and he said they're going to have to kill me like the dog I am creepy
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it's like dogs don't do this so they definitely don't it's kind of giving um Like Son of Sam Vibes it is a little bit
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like it's weird now he may not have wanted to meet with Gibbons in person but this guy was nonetheless insistent
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that Roger deadmond had been wrongfully convicted okay made sure to say that he said we're going to have to do something
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about that man down there serving my sentence I killed Mrs deadmond I did I did so like I did miss miss Paris and
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Reinhardt I killed them all with them begging me not to do it oh now as if to offer proof of this the
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caller described the scenario under which he had picked up Annie deadmond um that included very very specific aspects
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of her outfit he said she had been wearing um she had a blue pocket book with a snap with a top snap in it was
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lipstick an aluminum comb a picture of a girl sitting on the back of a white Falcon car keys a watch which had no
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band and she said she had the band brok when she and her husband had a scuffle so he knew all of this to a te
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he was like that guy like well how would I know this right yeah so while Gibbons
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and members of the FBI tried to lure the caller out of hiding Sheriff Wright and
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Dick McKinnon from the South Carolina law enforcement division sled uh they launched an investigation into the
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murders hoping that they might find someone who had seen something that could lead them to this guy cuz they
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were I don't think they were able to get a proper off of that he couldn't keep them on the on the line um so the
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sheriff's department was flooded with calls from locals at this point but they weren't getting any solid leads uh then
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a few days after the bodies were discovered a local man approached McKinnon with a tip the man said he had
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been parked out by the bridge on Ford Road on the night of February 7th and he says while he was there he saw a tall
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skinny white man dumping something large over the side of the bridge oh no said and then he got in his car and he sped
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away and he said when it happened I thought and again I'm like is this like something that happens in the Carolinas
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a lot he said when it happened I thought he was tossing a dog over the side I didn't know it was a body until I heard
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the news why does everybody think this guys are people just tossing dogs in the water over there like what is going I
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would never think that that wouldn't be my first thought the only thing I can think of is like like Farm dogs like
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sometimes people like like shoot their dogs when they're like like older or dying or something I don't know they're
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just like tosing them over Bridges I don't know don't don't tell me don't tell us anything about but it makes me
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wonder like what the [ __ ] yeah but of course your first question with this guy
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is like that's very interesting thank you why didn't you come forward with this sooner right that was you saw a guy
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throw something large at night into a bridge then speed away and you didn't think to say anything and the man said
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yeah about that I'm married and I was on that bridge with another woman [ __ ] I didn't want that fact to
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go back to my wife but I eventually did decide that this was more important and that I needed to come forward wow your
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moral compass like so amazing oh boy yikes now other than the witness who'd potentially seen the suspect dump this
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body over the side of the bridge investigators had very little evidence and almost no leads to work with but the
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did Place one final call to Bill Gibbons this time to his home [ __ ] which I'd be
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freaking the [ __ ] out I'd be like no thanks Gibbons tried again to convince this man to give himself up he was like
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you need help like let's get you help yeah and the man refused he said I'm psycho the only reason I'm telling you
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this is to get the other boy out he's serving my time it's like okay then go turn yourself in like clearly that's
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what you're looking for but then before hanging up for the last time the caller added one thing you can tell people I'm
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not going to pick up any woman that's fat and ugly I'll be in but if they don't catch me there will be more
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deaths oh so he's a real Prince definitely you know this is a prince of a guy yeah like literally that is Verbatim
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what he said that's gross and it's like okay that's a gross way to be I mean it's a gross way to be when you're like
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a murder yeah it's pretty gross now the discovery of Tina and ny's bodies had set the town on Edge on edge oh my God I
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can't even imagine yeah and this was at a time like this was at a a scary time in the South especially with like
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integration was already straining black and white relations across the South so this was like this was strain like
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people were just tension was already at an all-time high yeah and um GA a Gaffney Pastor Clyde Thomas told a
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reporter in 2009 there's an indelible memory in my mind of going to the bus stop and parents being there with
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shotguns in their hands Jesus yeah he said people were afraid to go to school afraid to go shopping they kept their
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children locked in the house and Bill Gibbons also remembered the fear that seemed to just I mean permeate Gaffney
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at the time he recalled how law enforcement officials became concerned that terrified residents would start
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shooting at Shadows probably everybody just on edge right now exacerbating the tensions and all the frustrations that
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everyone was feeling was the absolute complete lack of evidence and any answers into the deaths of Tina and
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Nancy both had been raped and murdered that much was clear MH and asphixiation looked like it was the cause of death
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for both but beyond that the coroner could offer really no insights except they look like they had been like
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tortured yeah and given the marks around their neck he speculated both might have
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died by hanging hanging mhm but he couldn't say for sure okay he said I hanging death would explain why the cord
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marks were around their necks okay now on February 13th just one week after the other bodies had been discovered the
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killer struck again no and this one's so sad I mean they're all sad but this one's
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15-year-old yeah this time he kidnapped 15-year-old Opel Diane buckon Opel had been on her way to school with her
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sister Gracie and run a short distance ahead of her when Gracie saw a white man in a sedan pull off the side of the road
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jump out of the car and grab opal and throw her in the trunk of the car in broad daylight like literally her sister
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ran up ahead of her and got plucked off the side of the road and thrown in a trunk what the [ __ ] to be that Brazen
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that's the thing in that poor Gracie poor it's the PTSD she must have been living with after that Gracie told
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police she noticed the car pull out ahead of opal and found it strange when it backed up with the trunk open and she
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said he looked at me and I ran back towards the house when she looked back they were all gone along with and they
00:28:40
weren't even far from their house it sounds like she ran back to her house holy [ __ ] now to law enforcemen it's
00:28:47
basically what you were just saying the Abduction of opal wasn't just an escalation in the Killer's Behavior cuz
00:28:52
it it occurred in broad daylight in front of somebody else like it also represented a change in victim profile
00:29:00
yeah well sort ofal was black oh okay the other victims were all white this is a very different kind of crime because
00:29:09
usually we've seen this in other things yeah usually Killers have a very specific victim profile or it's a lot of
00:29:16
times um Killers won't kill outside of their own race yeah that is interesting that's a like like serial killers is who
00:29:23
I'm talking about but so this is interesting that we''ve that he's gone from I mean he stays with younger women
00:29:31
but he's gone from like 20 to 14 yeah and white and black women right like that's that makes it a lot harder to
00:29:39
understand and a lot harder to follow who he is or what he could be doing and Sheriff Wright told reporters
00:29:46
at a pref brief briefing that same day I'm afraid for her life talking about opal we're using every available man in
00:29:53
this he and he was trying to assure everybody but he said but we have nothing definite yet and while Gracie
00:30:01
had gotten a look at the man who she described as a slender white man with brown hair which by the way that other
00:30:07
guy on a tall skinny white guy but unfortunately that description matched a lot of young men in the area and it was
00:30:16
really vague like Gracie did the best she could under one of the worst circumstances I could possibly ever
00:30:22
fathom in my brain and she's turning to run around or turning around to run excuse me back home panicking and
00:30:28
running and she's probably looking at her sister more than anything yeah and she's a child like she did the best she
00:30:35
could and she even was able to describe the car he was driving as an old blue Ford but that's also really common at
00:30:42
the time and it just and to make matters worse later that day Gracie changed her
00:30:47
statement and said she couldn't be certain about the make of the car cuz then she's probably sitting there likeu
00:30:51
was it a blue Ford like I don't know you could if you ask me as a child what car
00:30:56
is that I'd be like a car like I don't know you ask me now I don't even know what some cars are it's true I just feel
00:31:01
like I don't know a blue car I guess maybe could have been maybe black like I wouldn't be good at this now a search
00:31:08
team started combing Gaffney immediately for opal uh but there were few Clues and
00:31:13
no signs of opal or that blue Ford anywhere and near the bus stop where opal and Gracie had been waiting opal's
00:31:20
Father which like breaks my heart found his daughter's school books and a shoe and her scarf was discovered along a
00:31:27
nearby Road oh that's they used that scarf to indicate maybe the direction the car went cuz it was further up but
00:31:35
otherwise they really didn't have anything and at the same time local law enforcement's fears about Widespread
00:31:41
Panic started coming to fruition on the morning of the abduction a local gun shop owner sold three pistols just a
00:31:49
short time after opening for the day two of them to young women and when the clerk asked one of the women what kind
00:31:54
of pistol she was looking for she said I don't know I don't know anything about guns just give me something that will
00:32:00
shoot wow and when he was asked about the local Rush of residents going to buy guns and take other protective measures
00:32:06
Sheriff Wright said if they're good people let them have something to protect themselves and their families
00:32:11
with I'm not against any man doing that I'm afraid though of guns getting into the hands of the wrong people yeah now
00:32:17
the very real public fears were furthered by what appeared to have been a large number of prank phone calls
00:32:24
received by women around the time and these prank phone calls would warn random women you better watch out
00:32:30
tonight I'm coming to get you oh God those poor women can you imagine these young men get it to [ __ ] together
00:32:38
what is wrong with get a hobby get a grip godamn local women weren't the only ones getting the prank phone calls
00:32:45
either because following opal a 15-year-old's kidnapping the sheriff's department and the Gaffney Ledger were
00:32:52
plagued by a series of calls from various young men confessing to be the Killer ker what the [ __ ] is going on
00:33:00
that's like you should be able to trace every one of those and you should be able to charge them with a crime and put
00:33:05
them in jail for yeah you should can't you get charged with like um disrupting disrupting investigation like do you
00:33:13
something you should get a big consequence for that should people like you need to you need to be taught a
00:33:19
lesson there needs to be a real lesson learn there because what the [ __ ] is wrong with you Someone's Child got
00:33:25
ripped off the side of the road on the way to school front of her young sister thrown in a trunk and you're like this
00:33:32
will be so funny to say it's me like like you might well Mur you're disgusting yep like what the [ __ ] is
00:33:39
wrong with you and in Charlotte North Carolina police arrested 17year old you are far too [ __ ] young or old Sir
00:33:47
Robert Wood after he placed a series of calls to Gaffney authorities claiming there's going to be another killing
00:33:54
tonight 17 years old seriously come bye put them away honestly you're a [ __ ] Menace like what is wrong with you
00:34:02
that's ex that's a menace and in response to the chaos and fear that was happening everywhere authorities
00:34:08
increased the number of officers working on the case to more than 100 from local
00:34:12
agencies holy [ __ ] and it was like the State Office of the FBI you know the was
00:34:17
was it the um it's called sled the oh yep um but like all the different agencies just increased all the officers
00:34:26
the next day there was still no sign of opal and as the search teams grew larger
00:34:31
and larger they came to include a significant number of residents and this was both both black and white people
00:34:37
which was they were coming Le people coming together to be like we're all in trouble here like we're all we're all
00:34:44
going to be prey here how s that's what it took it took a a 15-year-old black child being [ __ ] ripped off the
00:34:51
street but among the Searchers was professional golfer Henry tranzo and his friend Forest r Lester Skinner the two
00:34:59
men had volunteered to drive around the back roads in trans zo's car looking for
00:35:04
any signs of opal or her kidnapper because they thought the killer had left bodies in remote areas so maybe he'll do
00:35:11
the same this time so like it's worth a shot yeah so they were driving around a roll Road out by the Cowpens
00:35:18
Battleground Memorial and they spotted something interesting they spotted what looked to be a man in a blue
00:35:25
sedan parked in the field with his trunk open what so the man in the field watched trans Zoo's car as it drove past
00:35:35
slowly which is something out of a horror movie uhhuh then he got in the driver's seat and pulled out of the
00:35:40
field so not wanting to lose who they believed to be the suspect they followed the car keeping enough of a distance to
00:35:48
not like scare them any further but transo followed the other car for a few miles and then the car pulled into the
00:35:54
driveway of a local house and got out and immediately started talking to another man standing in the front yard
00:36:01
okay so they were like okay so they they were like we need to get this guy but like who knows if he's armed and
00:36:07
dangerous we don't know yeah so Skinner pulled out a pencil and paper and jotted
00:36:12
down the license plate number nice nice and then they sped off in the direction of town to let the sheriff know okay so
00:36:18
tranzo and Skinner along with the sheriff and a deputy went back to that house right away where they'd seen the
00:36:23
car they knocked on the door cuz the car wasn't there they're thinking like this
00:36:28
could be the killer this could be him and then an elderly man opens the door and they're like hello sir like do
00:36:35
what's going on and he was like so they asked him about it like what was that about and he was like yeah a guy in a
00:36:40
blue sedan came into my driveway a little earlier he doesn't live here though he just stopped briefly and asked
00:36:46
me if I sold beagle dogs I had a feeling he just pulled into the nearest driveway
00:36:51
and was like oh I'm talking to this guy I just know I had a feeling and when the
00:36:54
homeowner said no the guy just got back in car had left that's okay they have the license plate they're disappointed
00:37:01
but they returned to the field too where they first started spotted the car hoping there was anything that they
00:37:07
could find they didn't find anything they didn't find opal either but in case you know just in case FBI agents did
00:37:14
stake out the house all night but the car never returned I'm not really sure why they staked out the house to be
00:37:19
quite honest I don't really know why he'd go back there I don't know why he would go back there but you know what it
00:37:24
sounds like they were trying everything they were trying they were they it wasn't like they were like taking two
00:37:28
people away from like there was plenty of people in every exactly so I'm not sure what the motive was that but again
00:37:35
I'm not in the FBI so I'm sure there was a a smart motive behind this but it didn't pan out nobody came back maybe in
00:37:42
case he came back to threaten that guy or yeah to be like did you talk to somebody no that's a good point actually
00:37:47
so back at the Sheriff's Office deputies ran that plate number on the car followed by trans zoo and Skinner and
00:37:53
learned it belonged to 31-year-old Leroy Martin mhm he was a mill worker and father of three are you [ __ ] kidding
00:38:02
me yep who'd been born and raised in Gaffney lived there his whole life most everyone in town knew Martin what the
00:38:09
[ __ ] and thought he was fine which I have questions about this because it was like everybody thought he was fine like
00:38:17
nobody had a problem with him but then you hear about a little rap sheet that he has and I'm like were you okay with
00:38:22
it I mean everybody also thinks that people are just tossing dogs over the side of bridges so I don't know about
00:38:26
Gaffney back I don't know but about a decade earlier Martin was arrested and served a jail sentence for assault and
00:38:33
battery with intent to kill after he raped a teenage girl behind his mother's house oh yep and everyone thought he was
00:38:44
fine cuz he was released from prison and he appeared according to everyone else to have gotten his life together he got
00:38:51
married he had three children he' worked as sometime for um as a driver for the Red Top Cab Company I don't know if that
00:39:01
sounds oh you said Red Top Cab Top Cab company and then he found work at the local working mhm he was literally
00:39:10
working girl while some members of law enforcement felt confident he was definitely the right suspect I do just
00:39:16
as many were skeptical because they said this is someone they've known their whole lives he can't be a psychopath he
00:39:24
raped teenager kind of already proven you guys okay again he raped a teenager and tried
00:39:35
to kill her and you guys think he's all right well they're like no he couldn't be a psychopath what I think if you're
00:39:43
capable of that you are a psychopath what was that in fact one sheriff's deputy said a it's not him I know Leroy
00:39:50
Martin and his whole family he's got a wife and three kids and works regular Leroy Martin ain't ain't the Strangler
00:39:56
you're wasting your time baby BTK had a whole family too baby he's a rap johney he's a rapist and he attempted to kill a
00:40:04
teenage girl he's a rap that's the other thing he's a pedophile cuz he's a rapist
00:40:08
of a teenage girl he's a predator he's a rapist and an attempted murderer of a young girl and now there's young girls F
00:40:16
coming up raped and murdered y'all don't are we not seeing the connection hello hello literally talked in the room with
00:40:25
us so still believing opal buckson could be alive because at this point they're hoping Beyond hope officers didn't want
00:40:32
to tip off Martin and risk the girl's life which is a good move smart so surveillance teams monitored him
00:40:39
constantly hoping they might lead him to them to opal yes Gaffney Ledger reporter
00:40:45
Tommy Martin was a member of one of the unofficial surveillance teams and he remembered the first time he saw Martin
00:40:51
and he said he emerged from his house in the middle of the night to wash the car
00:40:56
oh that's not good which Tommy said he believed was to get rid of any evidence do you ever like do something and you're
00:41:01
like wow I probably look suspicious as [ __ ] right now like I don't know like I'm trying to think of an example and I
00:41:06
can't but like you think of somebody going out to [ __ ] wash their car in the middle of the night you don't you
00:41:11
don't think that's like like anybody's going to be looking at you yeah I took my trash out and I'm like is anybody
00:41:18
looking at me like there's nobody in here well that's when our dog our family dog died like a billion years ago and we
00:41:25
had to it was pouring rain and we were able to like you know bury him in our Woods yeah to give him like a little
00:41:32
Memorial and it was pouring rain when it happened and me and my dad had to go out
00:41:37
in the woods and dig a hole and dig a hole with a wheelbarrow with a giant load in it covered by a blanket yep and
00:41:46
my neighbors were right there and my dad trying to make me laugh because it was so horrible and we had all been sobbing
00:41:53
yeah he said do you think this is my dad's humor it's gall's humor we were we were we needed it at that
00:42:00
moment cuz we were so sad but he said do you think we should just keep your mom indoors for a few days and really make
00:42:05
the neighbors question what we did out here and I was like hilarious that's hilarious but he was literally like do
00:42:11
you think they're going to be like worried about what we're do I remember being like yes I think they are like
00:42:16
what but even like something innocuous too like you like I I can't think of an example but I'll do something and I'm
00:42:22
like oh man like did anybody see that like like that was weird for me to do and not even a weird thing yeah like
00:42:29
like you said taking your trash out sometimes at a weird everyone's looking at you I'm like everybody's wondering
00:42:34
what I'm doing they're not no nobody is I don't give a [ __ ] when people take their trash out no but going out in the
00:42:41
middle of the night and washing my car I would be looking around being like my neighbors definitely think I like that
00:42:47
would be and let me tell you something if you're my neighbor and you're washing your car in the middle of the night I
00:42:51
think you did too I'm watching yeah I'm always watching watching I'm always watching I'm always watching I love
00:42:58
watching too I do too just my street who doesn't love watching you know and I hope my neighbors love watching so
00:43:04
everybody just loves watching each we're all the neighborhood watch yeah that's the best together so while surveillance
00:43:11
teams watched Leroy Martin Around the Clock sheriff's deputies went to the mill to speak with the management where
00:43:17
he worked although no one at the Mill had anything like truly negative to say about Martin they were just like he's
00:43:22
fine other than the fact that he had raped and murdered oh no excuse me raped and attempted to murder a teenage girl
00:43:29
yeah just going to keep reminding everybody about that they were like when we work with him there's nothing like
00:43:34
weird about him you know like we can't point to anything that's like oh yeah he gets mad angry like easily or anything
00:43:39
they're like yeah he's fine to work with like we don't have anything bad that's crazy but when deputies looked over his
00:43:44
time cards they discovered that Martin had wildly been punched out during the times when the girls were believed to
00:43:53
have been murdered imagine that I was like my goodness however while this was definitely suspicious it was just more
00:44:00
circumstantial evidence we're not getting any Smoking Gun here y if they wanted to make a strong case against him
00:44:06
and learn the location of Opel where she was they need something more compelling
00:44:10
here uhhuh from the moment Opel was abducted on her way to the bus stop law enforcement officials had been
00:44:16
cautiously optimistic that they were going to find her alive unfortunately those hopes were dashed on the morning
00:44:23
of a of February 16th when a group searching the the woods and Gaffney so they were Searchers found opal's nude
00:44:30
body covered over by some brush like the other victims opal had been choked and she had been raped oh God but the cause
00:44:37
of death in this case was attributed to the stab wound to her chest she had also
00:44:43
been stabbed once in the leg oh God years later bill Gibbons our our our guy Bill Gibbons would speculate that the
00:44:50
killer had stabbed opal because she fought back yeah I was wondering that and otherwise he said she would have
00:44:56
been strangled like the others but she was a fighter they all were but like she clearly fought so much that he had to
00:45:02
resort to that yeah so with opal confirmed dead now unfortunately law enforcement had no reason to proceed
00:45:09
with caution any longer so Sheriff Wright returned to the mill found Leroy Martin in the bathroom where he was
00:45:15
arrested and taken into custody cuz they were like [ __ ] that get in now and while
00:45:19
they were leading him away to the depuy's car a young woman who worked an administrative job grabbed one of the
00:45:25
deputies she worked did an administrative job at the Mill so she grabbed him and said the day before he
00:45:31
had tried to convince her to go for a ride with him and she almost accepted but something seemed off and she turned
00:45:38
him down what the [ __ ] and she was like [ __ ] cuz she was like I felt something
00:45:43
weird like I didn't go because I felt something about him must been losing her mind as he was taken away in cuffs she
00:45:49
must I can't even I would never not trust my gut I would be like sorry my gut says you're you suck so I Elite guts
00:45:57
like that is El Elite guts and honestly trust your gut every time I don't trust my gut I regret it telling you yep and
00:46:06
I'm like an overthinker so I constantly second guess my gut don't do it don't do
00:46:11
it sometimes my guts are hella Elite do you remember that one situation I really
00:46:17
disliked this person that we both knew and I could not explain why I had no reason no like visible you know tangible
00:46:24
reason and I was just like no we need to stay away from this person and honey was
00:46:29
I correct you were correct your guts can be very elite no it was crazy like you're very you um you have like you're
00:46:36
an intuition so you have this intuition that's like like this and we're witchy I
00:46:40
bet this scal had a good intuition and she's witchy mhm so years later when a reporter asked Bill Gibbons why he
00:46:47
thought there had been a gap between Martin's first murder and the other three Gibbons explained he attended the
00:46:53
Deadman trial and that had a lot to do with him doing the other MERS he was upset he said with the miscarriage of
00:47:00
justice and that was the crowning blow he turned from his good side to his bad side I think he just you know I think he
00:47:08
was mad that he didn't get credit I think so too well you know it do it's it feels like he couldn't tolerate someone
00:47:14
else in this case Roger deadmond getting credit for his work that's what it feels
00:47:18
like to me definitely why else would he have contacted he wasn't contacting the local news to be like I wasn't like the
00:47:27
weepy voice killer like stop I can't be I can't I need help he went and killed more people exactly like I mean the
00:47:32
weepy voice killer did too but you know what I'm saying it's like it was a different vibe it definely is so as they
00:47:37
pulled out of the mill parking lot with their suspect in the back seat it occurred and this is actually really
00:47:43
smart it occurred to sheriff Wright that they had a growing body of circumstantial evidence against Martin
00:47:49
for sure but they didn't have a shred of physical evidence connecting him to the
00:47:52
murderers so they were like this is [ __ ] tenuous and so the the first thing Martin said to them as he got as
00:47:59
they left the parking lot was you've got the wrong man I didn't kill anybody so immediately he's like I Didn't Do It y
00:48:04
so they're like [ __ ] we don't have a lot to go on anyways so like this is not good so right new if we're going to keep
00:48:11
him with us we need a confession yes so based on the phone calls the killer made
00:48:18
to Bill Gibbons right in the deputies knew this is a killer who wants attention for the murders and is mad
00:48:24
that somebody else got the attention and he just couldn't abide by his crimes being ignored that was clear to them yep
00:48:30
so instead of driving back to the courthouse Right started driving in the opposite direction and so Martin notices
00:48:38
that they're heading in the wrong direction and he's like where the [ __ ] are we going and the sheriff and the
00:48:42
deputy just didn't say a [ __ ] word wouldn't look at him wouldn't say nothing wouldn't speak to him so he's
00:48:51
just like where are we going like why are we do where are you taking me and they're just like
00:48:58
and it's just getting more and more tense more and more awkward and Martin couldn't bear it because they weren't
00:49:05
asking him questions he wanted questions yeah he wanted to be able to say things
00:49:11
right he wanted them to challenge him saying I didn't do it and he wasn't getting anything and he had no idea
00:49:18
where they were taking him and they wouldn't say anything so he started babbling and just filling the space with
00:49:23
things cuz he just couldn't handle that they weren't like putting attention on him that they were totally ignoring him
00:49:30
and the further they drove the harder it became for him to tolerate that neither
00:49:34
of them were speaking to him and that they weren't asking him questions about the murders so like many people Martin
00:49:41
probably assumed that his arrest would immediately be followed by a barrage of interrogation questions or people
00:49:49
challenging you saying you didn't have anything to do it he's thinking like he's going to be on on having a show in
00:49:55
here he's going to get to a onean keep talking about it keep playing with them but they seemed entirely uninterested in
00:50:03
him and entirely un interested in whether he had killed someone or not they didn't give a [ __ ] they they didn't
00:50:09
say anything to him making it seem that way and eventually he just couldn't take
00:50:12
it anymore and Leroy Martin started talking about the murders he' committed what they wore this [ __ ] down by
00:50:21
just driving in complete silence just all over like they gambled on this they just
00:50:30
gambled to see if it would work wow and they literally gambled on his narcissism
00:50:35
yeah and it paid off if you gamble on someone's narcissism n out of 10 times I bet it off you probably win cuz from the
00:50:42
backseat of the police car he fully confessed to killing all four women fully confessed strangling the
00:50:51
first three with his belt he said and stabbing opal bucken what the [ __ ] confess to the the entire thing damn
00:50:58
while they that was like the wildest gamble that paid off like absolutely for them and I imagine just like it must
00:51:07
have been so satisfying to hear this little narcissistic prick in the back seat losing his godamn mind that they
00:51:14
weren't paying attention to him and weren't like fawning over him or getting upset or anything and that they're just
00:51:21
like not even paying attention so that afternoon Martin was charged with the murder of opal buckon and placed in a
00:51:29
jail cell at the courthouse and a couple days later on February 18th he was charged with the murders of Nancy Paris
00:51:35
and Tina Reinhardt in his statement to the Press Sheriff Wright praised the large number of law enforcement
00:51:40
officials from various agencies and he praised all the local residents who'd worked cooperatively to quickly bring
00:51:48
the killer to Justice he said I'd just like to say we've had just marvelous help in this thing from all law
00:51:53
enforcement agencies and the public has just wonderful I love that you don't hear about that often you don't you
00:52:00
really don't so the town's people were able to relax a little in the wake of the arrest but the Sheriff's Office had
00:52:06
their work cut out for them now Gathering as much evidence as they could against Martin so going over Bill
00:52:12
gibbons's original reports of his phone calls with the killer now believed to be
00:52:16
Leroy Martin they came across several statements the caller made about where the reporter and law enforcement
00:52:22
officials could find various objects belonging to the victims he'd intended this as proof that he was
00:52:30
responsible for the murders but remember as these calls were coming in he was getting them like often and he's like
00:52:37
writing this stuff down and then sometimes they're not chasing all these leads down because they didn't even know
00:52:42
if this was a prank yeah sometime CU they were getting so many pranks afterwards right that there was hard to
00:52:48
tell and yeah you can't distinguish so yeah so the caller had spec now that they knew this was the real guy the
00:52:55
caller had spe specifically mentioned an area on mil Jin Road just off Highway 11
00:53:00
near where transo and Skinner had seen Martin's car okay and the caller had said they would find several items there
00:53:07
and when they searched the area deputies found two Ford automobile keys a small hairbrush and three books of Harris
00:53:15
Teeter stamps which all belong to Annie deadmond wow so with this new evidence Martin was also charged with the murder
00:53:23
of Annie deadmond now they could connect and her husband was let out so we'll get to that so by the end of
00:53:29
the month investigators had also located several pieces of clothing and personal
00:53:34
items belonging to opal bucken including a coat with her initials written on the
00:53:38
label um and they found that hidden in an abandoned well about a half mile from where her body was discovered according
00:53:46
to press reports quote many items of clothing were torn or cut wow um around this time other evidence had been
00:53:52
collected around the other crime scenes including the body of Nancy Paris is poodle who she had left the house to
00:53:59
walk that night so he killed a poodle yeah he's an absolute piece of [ __ ] he killed her dog and her that's so sad so
00:54:08
I wonder if that guy did wait no cuz it never mind it ended up being yeah but so
00:54:13
now you can see why so just a few days after his arrest the evidence started piling up on Leroy Martin and he made
00:54:21
what a prison official described as a quote half-hearted suicide attempt apparently he pulled one of the slats
00:54:27
out from under his prison bunk and just scratched at his wrists with it an officer discovered it immediately and
00:54:33
they had a doctor look atam and the official said but Martin required literally no
00:54:38
treatment okay so the half-hearted suicide attempt quote unquote and the circumstances of the crimes led to
00:54:45
Martin being put on a 30-day hold at the state hospital in Columbia South Carolina probably what he was looking
00:54:50
for I'm sure it's better than a holding cell but there he was extensively evaluated by psychiatrists so during the
00:54:57
evaluations additional details of the crimes came to light additionally and this is rough everybody in addition into
00:55:05
sexually assaulting his victims he had Revisited the bodies of Tina Reinhardt and Nancy Paris following the murders
00:55:12
and he further violated their bodies so he is a necrophiliac as well oh also he seemed to Revel in the ways that his
00:55:21
crimes affected the people of Gaffney specifically the victim's families yeah I bet Tommy Martin recalled Tina's
00:55:28
sister told me told me Leroy Martin had come by and stayed for a lengthy period of time at her funeral so he stayed at
00:55:36
these funerals and watched the families grieve them that's a whole other level of just
00:55:45
Disturbed and it's like so he is a necrophiliac he's going back to these bodies and he's raping
00:55:52
these dead bodies he is raping these dead bodies and then after he's doing this going and showing up to funerals
00:56:03
knowing what he has done your mind can't even like truly comprehend how [ __ ] up
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that like it's so [ __ ] up but it's on a level that you can't even it's Indescribable comprehend you can't even
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like label the kind there's adjective disgusting that is no like you really can't I can't come up with a good
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adjective for it and you're a writer so that's saying a lot there you go and the
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source.com will not even help us with this no now despite the bizarre and very disturbing nature of his crimes and his
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complete and total lack of remorse he had no remorse psychiatrists at the state hospital determined that Leroy
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Martin was not insane and was completely competent to stand TR isn't that such a
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wild thought that somebody that murders people defiles their dead bodies and then go sits with their family
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afterwards is legally sane yeah like I believe it it's just a [ __ ] wild sentiment yeah cuz he was able to he
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knew it was wrong now in may 1968 a grand jury indicted Martin for the murders of Annie deadmond Tina Reinhardt
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Nancy Paris and Opel buckon despite the indictment the judge granted a continuance in the case until
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September due in large part to the fact that the constitutionality of South Carolina's capital punishment laws had
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been challenged it was currently under review so it's a it makes sense for a continuance cuz they want to make sure
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that irons everything goes out correctly yeah yeah in September on September 16th
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1968 Martin went to trial for the murder of Opel buckson he waved his right to a
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tri a jury trial because as he told the judge I don't believe I could get a fair
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trial anywhere in South Carolina and when he was indicted for the murder he pleaded not guilty but as the trial was
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about to begin Martin's lawyers HR swink and CD P padget HR and CD H comp dis they asked the judge for a
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conference and during that conference they explained that their client wished to change his plea to guilty oh judge
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Morrison asked Martin a series of questions to determine whether he was making this change in his like with his
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Free Will and once he was satisfied that it was his choice he accepted the plea and when asked why he had murdered Opel
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bucken Martin explained it was like he was standing on the side of a hill and watching himself in a valley he knew
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what he was doing but he just couldn't make him himself stop I don't think it went like that so
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even the prosecution acknowledged that although Martin knew does know right from wrong the prosecutor's office was
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of the opinion that Martin acted under irresistible impulses okay cuz he's a murderer he's a
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a horrible horrible vicious murderer later that day Leroy Martin was sentenced to two consecutive life terms
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for the murders of Opel bucken and Annie deadmond uh additional life sentences for the murders of Tina Reinhardt and
00:58:56
Nancy Paris followed in the next few months now Leroy Martin's explanation for his crimes has always been that he
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had what Bill gibons described as of split personality and this thing comes over him and he can't control it it was
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he explained his violent side who had raped and murdered the four young women in Gaffney while his good side felt such
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a great deal of remorse for his crimes I don't buy that and he used to say that his good side was the one that didn't
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want that guy to sit in prison for him no cuz also if he did have a slip personality isn't that some form of
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insanity I would think so right like when the psychologists have said something about that or the PS whether
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you can understand right from wrong basically and it's and he clearly can and he clearly can he's almost trying to
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make it sound like he's like he has like multiple personality disorder absolutely
00:59:47
he is trying to say that for sure but they have found no yeah no evidence I think he's this as a cop when he was
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calling he was saying no I can't meet you person cuz they're going to have to shoot me like the dog I am so he knew
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what he did was wrong he didn't want to meet anybody he just wanted to go get the attention for it goes beyond
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irresistible impulses when he's like he's murdering people he's raping them and then he's going to sit with their
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families like that's not that's not an irresistible impulse that's just you just doing what you do and again whether
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this was true or not the claim did get some sympathy enough to place him in the mental illness wing of the Central
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Correctional Institute following his sentence in May 1968 I feel like that was the goal for him uh he prefer like
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maybe he expected this to be preferable than being among the general population but he regretted this because among
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other things security was tighter on that Ward so movement was heavily restricted and he complained quote there
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was no sunlight in the cell yeah you know where there's also no sunlight when you're dead when you're dead yeah and
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you did that to three different four different women excuse me and in December 1969 Martin was moved into
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general population where he remained for 3 years I almost wish that he didn't I he should never have gotten sunlight
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again well and he remained there for 3 years because a little after 5:00 p.m. on May 31st 1972 Leroy Martin got into a
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fight with a fellow inmate Kenneth Rumsey Rumsey stabbed Martin in the chest with a shiv just below his heart
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and killed him instantly damn that earned uh that earned that inmate an additional 20 years on his already
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lengthy sentence um but 5 years later that inmate was also found dead in his prison cell after having hanged himself
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with his own pants so prison man quite a cycle now on February 28th 1968 because
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you're like what what could possibly be happening here everybody's gone and dead
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Roger Deadman was released from the Union County Prison Farm after Leroy Martin confessed to the murder of Annie
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deadmond and how many years he served um he was convicted and served 10 months in
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prison for crime he didn't commit that's a long time and this crime he didn't commit was based on false testimony
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provided by Union County Sheriff Harold lamb and two of his deputies which was corroborated in court by several members
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of other law enforcement agencies in South Carolina oh no I thought you guys were doing good yeah upon his release
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deadmond reclaimed custody of his son and found work as an electrician in North Carolina when asked about the
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wrongful conviction deadmond told a reporter he wasn't bitter about what had happened he said the justice system
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makes mistakes just like everybody else thank goodness they don't make too many wow which is like a
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very mature way of looking at that like I was like what the [ __ ] I wonder I mean 10 months people say there's more
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drugs inside a prison than there are in the streets but you wonder if he was like able somehow to clean up his act I
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mean maybe it shook him up I don't know but the memory of the Gaffney Strangler and the four murdered women have
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absolutely Ely haunted the small town of GNE since they occurred more than 50 years ago and according to author Mark
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Jones quote the ultimate Legacy are the stories that permeate through South Carolina today the bridge is a spot that
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people go to there's always these stories that there's screams of girls that can be heard those types of things
01:03:13
in small towns take a long time to disappear yeah it's like the end of a horror novel and I did look it up in one
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place that is that locals and other people refer to sometimes as Leroy Bridge off Highway 329 don't call it
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Leroy Bridge it's said to um be a place where people will claim to hear the screams moans and cries of young women
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that's really sad in Chang gang road is also more of the same reports oh that makes me sad cuz that means like there's
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like I want them to like I mean it's like a residual haunting hopefully so the energy has to be dark just rancid
01:03:51
there so wow I hate that they call it l Rose Bridge stop doing that guys I don't
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think like I don't want to like indict all of the people locals there like I that's what I've read on certain things
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so like whoever's doing that you probably shouldn't but like yeah that's what I mean yeah I don't I just don't
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want anybody to be like you said that everybody yeah no no no I promise I didn't say that don't take that away
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guys wow what a case I can't believe we had never heard of that one before yeah it's so sad it is so sad and it's such
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young women that is a that's a chilling spooky case yeah the story of Opel just like breaks my heart just walking with
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her to school runs up ahead of her and is snatched right off the [ __ ] road in the broad daylight front of her sister
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and thrown into a trunk you think that like that had to have been like 7 8 a.m. like when to school start you know what
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I mean the [ __ ] yeah oh it's so scary chilling yeah having kids must be the most terrifying thing on the planet it
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is it absolutely responsibility my God that's why we all age like a presidency like very quickly like I am I'm in a
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constant state of anxiety yeah me too and I don't even have children yeah [ __ ]
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