Many may not remember the name of Richard Valenti or his crimes, but Valenti is in the same league of killers as the “Gaffney Strangler.” In 1973, Valenti killed 14-year-old Sherr Clark and 13-year-old Alexis Latimer in Folly Beach, South Carolina. Valenti was quoted as saying, “The Lord told him to kill them.” Valenti was…
Patrick Tracy Burris’s Crime Spree in the Summer of 2009
It has been 16 years since Patrick Tracy Burris went on a crime spree in Gaffney, South Carolina. For more than a week in the summer of 2009, serial killer Patrick Tracy Burris terrorized Cherokee County. His crime spree took many back to the late 1960s, when the Gaffney Strangler wreaked havoc on the same…