''The Gaffney Ledger'' is a tri-weekly
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as p ...
in
Gaffney, South Carolina
Gaffney is a city in and the seat of Cherokee County, South Carolina, United States, in the Upstate region of South Carolina. Gaffney is known as the "Peach Capital of South Carolina". The population was 12,539 at the 2010 census, with an esti ...
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It was founded in 1896 under the name ''The Ledger'', and assumed its current name in 1907. The paper has been owned and published by the Sossamon family for five generations.
Lee Roy Martin
Lee Roy Martin (April 25, 1937 — May 31, 1972), known as The Gaffney Strangler, was an American serial killer from Gaffney, South Carolina. He murdered 4 people, 2 women and 2 girls between 1967 and 1968.
Background
When the killings began i ...
- the "Gaffney Strangler" - first claimed credit for his victims in a phone call to the paper's then managing editor Bill Gibbons in February 1968. In 1999 the former chief of police of
Blacksburg, South Carolina successfully sued the ''Gaffney Ledger'' for
libel after it ran an anonymous
op-ed from a reader which implied he had been bribed by drug dealers.
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1896 establishments in South Carolina
Newspapers published in South Carolina
Gaffney, South Carolina