40: The Bitter Blood Murders: Susie Newsom Lynch & Fritz Klenner

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Known as the “Bitter Blood Murders,” in 1985, first cousins and lovers, Susie Newsom Lynch and Fritz Klenner led police and SBI on a chase that ended in an explosion that killed them and Susie’s two young sons. It was the culmination of a bloody feud that had already left five dead, decimating two prominent families in a Southern Gothic tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.

Sources: https://www.southernfriedtruecrime.com/40-the-bitter-blood-murders

This case was first reported in a series of articles by journalist Jerry Bledsoe, who then researched the families for three years before releasing his #1 New York Times best-selling opus, Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder

This incredible true crime classic is still in print to this day, as well as available on kindle.

Case suggested by Bridgett Jochum

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, my name's Alicia.
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0:59.5	The dramatic chase and horrifying exchange of gunfire
1:21.5	came to an abrupt end when the blazer suddenly exploded.
1:25.8	Susie was killed instantly, and Fritz was thrown into a ditch
1:29.1	only to live minutes before drowning in his own blood.
1:33.0	Her sons, aged 10 and 9, were found in the wreckage of the blazer
1:36.8	with gunshot wounds to their heads.
1:39.1	They were dead before the explosion.
1:41.9	But their terror and pain is written in the cyanide
1:44.6	that was found in their blood and the gunshot residue
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