Joe Metheny was a huge man who had a serious drug habit. The only difference between Metheny, who owned a roadside barbecue stand in the 1990s, and others we have written about in the past was the fact that he had alleged that some of his victims ended up on the menu, because he claimed…
The National Forest Serial Killer
Gary Michael Hilton was born on November 22, 1946, in Atlanta, Georgia. Hilton was a drifter who was characterized by his unsavory looks of pure evil. He was known to terrorize mountain trails along the eastern United States in Georgia and North Carolina. On October 21, 2007, an elderly couple in Horse Shoe, North Carolina,…
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 Pine State Creamery Ghost
Serial killer John Williams Jr. terrorized downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, in the mid-1990s. Williams was a homeless drifter who was responsible for at least four deaths, and possibly more. I will cover Mr. Williams in a future True Crime article at a later date, but it’s noteworthy to add that one building in the same…
“The Babyface Killer” Torments the Carolinas
Lesley Eugene Warren was born on October 15, 1967, in Candler, North Carolina. Warren began exhibiting signs of antisocial behavior at a young age, struggling with establishing emotional connections, which further worsened around 1970, after the birth of his baby brother. Around the mid-1970s, Warren’s condition worsened while attending elementary school in Candler, in western…
The Interstate Killer
Sean Patrick Goble was born on November 1, 1966, in Asheboro, North Carolina. The Goble family eventually moved to Illinois; however, Sean would end up living with his mother and sister after his father was arrested on multiple charges of assault. Sean Patrick would attend Auburn High School in Rockford, but he later dropped out…
The Folly Beach Serial Killer
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…