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Fall of a Titan

SI Weekly Presents: Murder at Pinetree Country Club

Fall of a Titan

SI True Crime

Sports, True Crime

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Hi Fall of a Titan listener! We at SI are excited to share some of the best Sports + True Crime audio stories we have been working on for our podcast, Sports Illustrated Weekly. If you liked Fall of a Titan, we think these stories will be right up your alley. So give it a listen, and if you like what you hear head on over to the SI Weekly feed for more stories like this each and every week. Be sure to follow/subscribe to the show to get new episodes as they come out. Enjoy! Listen to Sports Illustrated Weekly On July 3rd of last year, Gene Siller went to work at the Pinetree Country Club to help staff set up for Independence Day celebrations. Unfortunately, he never made it back home, leaving his wife without a husband and his kids without a father. The story made headlines at the time, but none have gone as deep as a new piece from Sports Illustrated contributing writer Brian Burnsed. Article, He Followed His Golf Dream. In the End, It Was a Nightmare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey, Fall of a Titan fans, if you're looking for more sports meets true crime stories,

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we've got something we think you might like.

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My name is John Gonzales, host of Sports Illustrated Weekly.

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On our podcast, we go deep into the most fascinating stories in sports like this one we're

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about to play.

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We'll be dropping some of our favorite true crime stories in this feed coming up, so

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if you like what you hear, please subscribe to Sports Illustrated Weekly, available wherever

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you listen to your favorite podcasts.

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We'll also put a link in the description of this episode.

0:34.1

Thank you, and we hope you enjoy this story.

0:38.6

The reality of it sets in when I'm at home, I need to give the boys back.

0:52.8

And then oh, by the way, my best friend's out here, and their daddy's not here.

0:59.5

It was like daddy went to work, and there was a bad man at daddy's work, and that

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bad man had a gun.

1:13.0

Last summer, a 46 year old golf pro was murdered under mysterious circumstances.

1:19.6

Jean Siller was shot on the 10th hole of the Pine Tree Country Club in Georgia.

1:27.5

We had to turn Jean over to start CPR on him.

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It was a horrible, horrible thing to come up to.

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The depth of your love determines the depth of your grief.

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The depth of my love for him was so deep that I don't think I'll ever recover.

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The story made headlines at the time, but no story has gone as deep as a new piece

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written by Brian Burns said, a contributing writer for Sports Illustrated.

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