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SC 'Serial Killer' May Be Dead: NC Cops

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 6, 2009 3:31 PM CDT

(Newser) – North Carolina police have shot and killed a man who may have been the shooter responsible for five deaths in a nearby South Carolina town, the Gaffney Ledger reports. Members of the 100-member task force combing through Cherokee County, SC, visited the crime scene in... Read full story »

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