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Going West: True Crime

Larry Gene Bell // 122

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.610.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In the early summer of 1986, two young blonde girls went missing in the state of South Carolina without a trace. Until a series of cryptic phone calls led investigators to their bodies. A serial killer was on the loose and a letter written by one of the victims to her own family held the key to his capture. This is the story of Shari Faye Smith and Debra May Helmick, and the crimes of Larry Gene Bell. *BONUS EPISODES* patreon.com/goingwestpodcast *CASE SOURCES* https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b1/bell-larry-gene.htm https://apnews.com/article/04ff253e076acd1275b48da94d6bb418 https://www.heraldonline.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andrew-dys/article12194075.html https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-4th-circuit/1307072.html Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host Heath.

0:17.2

And I'm your other host, Daphne.

0:19.1

And you're listening to Going West.

0:21.4

Howdy folks, hope everyone's doing well today. We have a serial killer case for you today,

0:26.0

which we try to do every once in a while. I personally prefer the unsolved cases just because,

0:31.3

you know, want to get the word out, but sometimes we've got to cover a serial killer.

0:35.1

Yeah, this one was just too interesting to not cover. I'm sure a lot of you guys have heard

0:39.6

of it, and a lot of you guys have not heard of it.

0:41.9

I didn't until you told me last week. So this is a new story for me. Hopefully a new story

0:47.9

for a lot of you. But before we get into today's episode, we have to let you guys know about

0:53.0

Patreon. We just released another bonus episode, our second one of May, and it's on Susie

0:58.9

Lamplow, who disappeared in London, England. So over there on our Patreon, we cover a lot

1:04.1

of international cases. So I know a lot of you guys will message us and say, Oh, I have

1:09.2

a Canadian case or a French case or whatever, but we only do US based cases, essentially,

1:15.6

on Going West. So if you want international cases, head over to Patreon.

1:19.5

Yeah, we try to kind of mix it up for you guys on Patreon. And the way you spell that

1:22.8

is P-A-T-R-E-O-N dot com slash Going West podcast. So make sure you subscribe if you want

1:30.6

some bonus episodes.

1:31.6

All right. I think it's a time to go to South Carolina. What you think?

1:35.4

Yeah, let's do it. All right, guys, this is episode 122 of Going West. So let's get into

1:42.5

it.

1:53.2

I've entered the Rick and Morty multiverse so many times at all for that I don't know

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