Secrets of the Well
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Criminal investigator Clay Bryant helped solve two separate cases with strange similarities: the murder case of Gwendolyn Moore, a 30-year-old mother whose body was pulled from a well, and the disappearance of fire chief Fred Wilkerson. He became known as ‘cold case Clay’ because of his obsession with uncovering long-buried secrets. "48 Hours" correspondent Susan Spencer reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 7/30/2005. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays and stream on demand on Paramount+.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Clay Bryant, and I'm a criminal investigator for the District Attorney's Office in La Grange, Georgia. |
| 0:18.0 | The Gwendolyn Moore case, Miss Moore was killed |
| 0:22.6 | on the night of August 3rd, 1970. |
| 0:26.6 | It was just phenomenal the way that that case came back into my life. |
| 0:29.6 | 33 years later, I was a 15-year-old boy, |
| 0:33.6 | wide-eyed at the horror of what I was looking at. |
| 0:36.6 | She was found in a well just outside the |
| 0:39.1 | city limits of Hogan'sville, George. One of the sheriff's deputies went down on the |
| 0:45.0 | hook of the wrecker and wrapped a rope around the lady's torso and pulled her up out of the well. |
| 0:51.6 | She was suspended over that well and spinning around on that cable. |
| 0:55.0 | The face was swollen and blue. I'll never forget as long as I live. |
| 1:00.0 | Even at 15, I was able to understand that there were going to be some lives that were going to be profoundly affected by this. |
| 1:07.0 | Finally dawned on me then that Mama was dead and I would never see her again. |
| 1:11.6 | This was a case that should have found resolution in a matter of days. |
| 1:16.6 | Nobody ever talked about it. Everything was all covered up. |
| 1:20.6 | Her case was just totally discarded. |
| 1:24.6 | The lady was dead when she went in the well. |
| 1:29.3 | Murder. |
| 1:30.3 | Murder. |
| 1:31.3 | Was there ever a second of doubt as to who had done this? |
| 1:37.3 | No, ma'am. |
| 1:39.3 | The truth will bear itself to be. |
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