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Podcast: True Crime Couple
Episode: Episode 121: Lee Roy Martin | The Gaffney Strangler
Description: Since the founding of the United States there has actually been many times that have tried the fortitude and resilience of it's men’s souls, but rarely has the convergence of several of these events occurred at one time. But it did in Gaffney, South Carolina in 1968. Domestically the civil rights movement was strong in South Carolina. It had to be. The lawmakers of the time were doing everything they could to resist desegregation. Abroad, American men and boys fought a war that they would never win. In fact, 1968 would be the deadliest year of Vietnam, when just under 17,000 American li...