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A ten-day-long local crime story in South Carolina achieved enough notoriety to attract a pair of network correspondents. Over the past ten days, five residents of Gaffney SC have been murdered, all apparently by the same man. ABC's Jeffrey Kofman took the Paradise Disturbed angle: "There was a time in smalltown America when doors were never locked and strangers were welcome." The flaw in Kofman's premise soon emerged as he contradicted it in his own report. Gaffney was not immune from murder--back in 1968 there had been a similar killing spree. Either CBS' Mark Strassmann filed later than Kofman or he had better sources. While Kofman was telling us about a town gripped by fear, Strassmann told us that the likely suspect had already been killed by police in North Carolina.
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