original story posted July 7, 2009
The town of Gaffney, South Carolina may be able to sleep more peacefully as investigators have indicated that the serial killer may have died.
This belief stems from a shootout that took place in North Carolina on Monday with police, according to a South Carolina state police official. Officers had been investigating a burglary complaint at a home in Gastonia which is 30 miles from where the murders initially began.
Mike and Terri Valentine were the couple that phoned in police when they were suspicious of a SUV that was in their neighborhood where people were already on edge from the events in Gaffney. Three people stepped out of the vehicle to enter a home and
