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Aug 2024
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Lee Roy Martin: The Gaffney Strangler

Morbid Network | Wondery
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In the winter of 1968, reporter Bill Gibbons got an anonymous call from a man who wanted to confess to three murders in the small town of Gaffney, South Carolina. Gibbons thought the call was a prank, but he took it to the sheriff and the two men travel out to the first of three locations where the caller claimed to have left the bodies. After searching casu ... Show More
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