The annual peach festival in Gaffney, South Carolina is a time to celebrate the town’s heritage, but this year’s festival has a new meaning after the town was terrorized by a serial killer. Members of the Gaston County Police Department were honored during this weekend’s festival.

Authorities say a North Carolina parole officer should not be blamed for failing to tell jail officers to keep the suspected South Carolina serial killer behind bars.

Officials have decided a Dallas, N.C., couple will get a $30,000 award for calling in the tip that led to a man who authorities say was a serial killer who shot to death five people in South Carolina.

The man police have identified as the serial killer spent days “partying” in Gaston County while investigators searched for him. That’s according to the Charlotte Observer and NewsChannel 36, in Charlotte.

A curious neighbor who called police, helped solve the case of a violent serial killer that rocked the Upstate. Thirty miles away from a community gripped by fear, a Gaston County man’s phone call to 911 helped catch Patrick Tracy Burris.

The nine-day nightmare for Cherokee County is over. Investigators confirmed Monday evening that the man Gaston County, NC officers shot to death in an early Monday morning gunfight was the killer they were looking for, a man identified as Patrick Tracy Burris.

South Carolina law enforcement officials say a burglary suspect slain in North Carolina is the serial killer who shot five people to death in South Carolina in recent days.

Investigators including those working on the Cherokee County serial killer are waiting to remove a champagne color Ford Explorer in Gastonia, NC that matches the description of the one the serial killer is thought to be driving. An officer says that SLED is trying to get a warrant to enter the house. They say the SUV will not be removed until then.

Police are searching for a serial killer in a shooting spree in Gaffney, South Carolina, a small town less than 200 miles from Augusta, outside Spartanburg. Police say the suspect shot to death two men and three women in less than a week…leaving the small, quiet community on edge. ABC News’ Jeffrey Kofman is in Gaffney with the latest.

The youngest victim of the suspected serial killer in Cherokee County is fighting to stay alive Friday night. Authorities aren’t releasing her name, but several family friends tell us Stephen Tyler’s teenage daughter is named Abby. She was also found shot at Tyler Home Center Thursday night. UPDATE: Abby Tyler died Saturday morning in a Spartanburg hospital.