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48 Hours

The Circleville Letters

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.97K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

An anonymous letter writer threatens to expose a town’s rumored secrets. Is anyone safe? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.

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0:00.0

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0:03.6

All my years as a profiler I studied killers, but I never studied what a pandemic would do to them.

0:09.0

We started communicating to become better predators.

0:12.6

The deeper you dig.

0:14.2

These aren't just connected cases.

0:16.5

This is a serial killing network.

0:18.4

The darker it gets.

0:19.9

There isn't enough time.

0:21.1

It's not over.

0:22.4

We're just getting started.

0:24.0

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0:41.0

Something pretty disturbing happened in Circleville.

0:44.6

Starting small and flourishing over decades.

0:48.6

Residents began to receive letters.

0:53.0

They accused the citizens of being involved in some pretty terrible things.

0:58.9

Embezzlement, domestic violence, affairs, and even murder.

1:04.0

The Circleville letter writer knew everything about everyone and knew everyone's secrets.

1:10.6

They were vicious.

1:14.4

And ugly, somebody with some severe psychological problems I would hazard to guess.

1:21.4

The threatening anonymous letters kept coming.

1:25.4

Hundreds of them.

1:26.4

Most were postmarked from Columbus, Ohio about 30 miles north, which is where I grew up,

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