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.

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.

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.