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The Bitter Blood Murders

On June 3, 1985, a Chevrolet Blazer was involved in a police chase in Summerfield, north of Greensboro, North Carolina. Law enforcement tried to stop the vehicle, driven by Fritz Klenner, who was a suspect in the murders of three people in Winston-Salem and two in Kentucky. Also inside the Blazer on that day were…

The 1970 Fort Bragg Murders

Jeffrey MacDonald was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, on October 12, 1943. He was raised in a poor household on Long Island with a disciplinarian father. During high school, MacDonald’s grades were good enough to earn him a three-year scholarship at Princeton University. Sometime, around August 1963, MacDonald’s girlfriend, Colette, became pregnant, and they…

The Rock Hill Murders in 2021

Phillip Adams was born on July 20, 1988, in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Adams would go on to attend Rock Hill High School, where he played football and basketball. Adams would later enroll after graduating from high school at South Carolina State in Orangeburg, where he played cornerback on the team from 2006 until 2009….

The 1972 Durham family Triple Homicide

On February 3, 1972, on a cold, snowy night in Boone, North Carolina, the Durham family, who owned a nearby automotive dealership named Modern Buick, was murdered. The cause surrounding their mysterious slayings would haunt Western North Carolina for nearly fifty years. Weather conditions on that night were treacherous, with four inches of snow caked…

The 1980 Murder of Ronda Blaylock

Ronda Mechelle Blaylock was only 14 years old when she was found murdered on Friday, August 29, 1980, on a rural road in the Pilot Mountain area of Surry County in North Carolina. Blaylock was a ninth-grade student at Atkins High School in Winston-Salem when she disappeared on Tuesday, August 26, 1980, from Rural Hall….

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