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The Daily Crime

"We're gonna delve into it and see what we find"

The Daily Crime

VAULT Studios

True Crime

4.3627 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Russell and Shirley Dermond were murdered eight years ago near Lake Oconee in rural Georgia. Now new evidence is coming to light. WXIA Reporter Dawn White tells us about the latest developments in the investigation. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up.

0:02.6

We'll take this data.

0:04.1

We'll identify who's in the area, see who they are, and eventually start tracking them down, interviewing them personally.

0:11.8

For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson.

0:13.6

You're listening to The Daily Crime.

0:26.6

It was in May of 2014 that Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills heard this 911 call.

0:27.7

Patentany 911.

0:30.3

Yes, I have an emergency.

0:32.3

I think I have somebody dead.

0:36.8

Sheriff Sills rushed to the lakeside home of Russell and Shirley Dermon in Edenton, Georgia.

0:41.8

It was in the garage of that home that Sills found the body of 88-year-old Russell Dermond.

0:44.3

His wife was found over a week later.

0:46.1

They'd both been brutally murdered.

0:48.3

They were a very unassuming couple.

0:52.8

They did not bring a lot of attention to themselves.

0:57.0

She loved to play cards. Was very active in the community. He was fairly self-spoken.

0:59.0

When all this happened, most of us couldn't understand why somebody would do that to them.

1:04.0

So it's just been hard for the family to try to move on with the brutality of how their parents' lives ended.

1:11.2

The case has gone unsolved since then.

1:13.7

But at last, there could be new evidence and new leads.

1:16.9

I got the data.

1:18.3

I've taken it over to the FBI,

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