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Jun 2021
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“The Cross-Country Killer” Tommy Lynn Se...

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By 1999, Sells had murdered men, women and children in multiple states, and showed no signs of slowing down. He might never have been stopped, had he not attacked a little girl who survived to identify him, and finally put an end to his decades-long murder spree.

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