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Episode: Larry Gene Bell: The Sadistic Killer Who Tortured Families by Phone
Description: Larry Gene Bell: The Sadistic Killer Who Tortured Families by PhoneIn May 1985, seventeen-year-old Shari Faye Smith was abducted from her family's driveway in broad daylight near Lexington, South Carolina, sparking one of the most intensive FBI investigations in the region's history. The perpetrator, Larry Gene Bell, tortured Shari's family with phone calls for days before killing nine-year-old Debra May Helmick two weeks later, turning the Midlands into a landscape of fear during what became known as the "Summer of Terror."This case has everything that makes true crime both fascinating and deeply unsettling. Bell didn't...