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Spree Killer Terrorizes Cherokee County, South Carolina

By David Lohr

Investigators in Spartanburg, S.C., are desperately hunting for a spree killer who has murdered at least five people in the last ten days. A common thread linking the killings could be the key to finding the murderer; however, to date, authorities have yet to uncover what that thread is. The killings began on June 27 with the murder of 63-year-old peach farmer Kline Cash. According to Kline's wife, he was alive at about 3 p.m. when she left their house to run some errands, but when she returned at 6:45 p.m., she found his lifeless body on the floor. A coroner's autopsy revealed Kline Cash had been shot and killed. "Regardless of this tragedy that we have experienced, we still firmly believe that God placed the finest and most loving people on earth here in Upstate South Carolina," reads a statement from the Cash family issued by the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Report Daily on July 06, 2009 (boomark / email).