[1] When the killings began in 1967, Martin was employed at a textile mill in Cherokee County.
[2] On February 8, 1968, Lee Roy Martin anonymously called Bill Gibbons, then-editor of The Gaffney Ledger.
[3] On February 13, 1968, 15-year-old Opal Dianne Buckson was abducted and thrown in the trunk of a car while walking to a school bus stop with her sister.
After learning of Opal Buckson's abduction on the morning of February 13, local residents Henry Transou and Lester Skinner were patrolling the area, looking for a car that matched the description given over the radio by local police.
Within hours of the abduction, they saw a car backing down a dirt path in a heavily wooded area and a man standing beside it.
[2] Martin was convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of Dedmond, Parris, Rhinehart, and Buckson.
[2] On May 31, 1972, while incarcerated at Central Correctional Institution in Columbia, Martin was stabbed to death by fellow inmate Kenneth Marshall Rumsey.
[3][6] The case was the subject of the Season 3 premiere of Investigation Discovery's series A Crime to Remember in 2015 ("Lock Up Your Daughters").