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.

Investigators say DNA and fingerprints link suspected serial killer Patrick Burris to two of three shooting scenes in South Carolina.

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.

A South Carolina sheriff says deputies are searching to find the man they believe has killed five people in a week. Cherokee County Sheriff Bill Blanton told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday that the three separate shootings are linked through evidence. WJBF News Channel 6 has learned that the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division is investigating a police-involved shooting in Gastonia, NC where a suspect was killed to see if there are any links to the Cherokee County serial killings. We will provide updated information as it becomes available.

Authorities in South Carolina say they’re looking for a serial killer they believe has shot four people to death within 10 miles of each other over the past six days. Officials have now released an updated sketch of the suspect.

Investigators say three homicides in Cherokee County are related. They say the suspect is dangerous, unpredictable and targets women. The Cherokee County Sheriff says he is not sure what the legal classification for a serial killer is, but three innocent people killed. They says legal have a tremendous amount of physical evidence that positively proved the homicides were committed by the same man. UPDATE: There has now been a 4th illing in Cherokee County.