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The Fall Line: True Crime

The Murder of Larry "LJ" Sanders, Jr: A Long Memory, Down Here

The Fall Line: True Crime

The Fall Line®

True Crime, News

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

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Throughout July, we are re-sharing cases that still need attention and tips. This week, we are re-sharing an episode that first aired in 2022.

On July 10th, 2010, Larry "LJ" Sanders, Jr., an Edgefield, SC-area father of two, was murdered during a home invasion; his mother, Carolyn Bates, wants to know why, and who, and when someone will be ready to come forward. After all, the North Augusta metro area isn't large; someone, somewhere, knows something.

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0:00.0

Every July, we spend our summer break re-releasing episodes that we believe are still in need of public attention and that would benefit from your leads, tips, and shares.

0:10.0

Please be sure to share these episodes and the social media campaigns that will be funding across our platforms.

0:17.0

This episode contains discussion of graphic violence and murder.

0:21.3

Listener discretion is advised.

0:40.3

This is the fall line. This is the fall line. Edgefield is a town, and a county, in South Carolina, in what's considered the Augusta metropolitan area.

0:55.7

You may know that Augusta is one of those cities that stretches over two states,

1:00.2

the southern part in Georgia and the northern portion in South Carolina.

1:05.0

Edgefield isn't far from Aiken, South Carolina, either, maybe 30 minutes or so.

1:10.3

Just in that area, Augusta, Aiken Edgefield,

1:13.7

and the tiny towns in between, there are so many cases we've covered or mentioned on the show.

1:19.7

The disappearance of the Milbrook twins, the unidentified Aiken County Jane Does, the murders

1:25.5

of Moses Williams Jr. and Tiffany Nelson. Edgefield is

1:29.8

split neatly by the fall line, with the Piedmont on one side and the sandhill and ridge on the other.

1:36.1

According to its official website, the town is home to nearly 5,000 and was primarily built on

1:42.0

agriculture and manufacturing, industries that are still important to the town today.

1:47.5

Edgefield's historic sectors are better preserved than most you'll find in the southeast.

1:52.4

Buildings dating back to the 18th century still stand there.

1:56.4

History is a big selling point, at least according to Edgefield's tourist literature.

2:01.6

Major events and figures are covered in detail, from the story of a famous murderer in the

2:07.6

18th century, Betty Cotton, to the 10 South Carolina governors who lived in the town, more than any

2:13.6

other can claim. But Edgefield is not a town that's stopped in time. It's the seat of the

2:19.6

county, and though the population in the city limits is small, there are more people scattered

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