LYNCHBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA | I researched and wrote this episode, which begins in the summer of 1976, when the bodies of a young man and woman were found off the side of a secluded dirt road in Sumter County. The victims had both been shot several times. Police were unable to identify the victims and they became known as the Sumter County Does.
44 years after the couple was found, DNA testing finally confirmed that they were 29-year-old James Paul Freund and 24-year-old Pamela Mae Buckley. That mystery has been solved but the mystery of who killed them and why remains.
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