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This week is the 25th anniversary of one of the darker crimes committed in the Triad -- the Klenner-Lynch murders. Well-chronicled by Jerry Bledsoe, first as a serial in the News & Record and then developed into a book, "Bitter Blood," it is the story of a killing spree that stretched from Kentucky to Winston to Greensboro, including a gun battle on the streets, and ended with an explosion in rural Guilford County. (I originally and incorrectly wrote that the explosion was in Greensboro.)

I was working on the city desk on the afternoon paper at the time and sent a reporter to Winston when we heard about a double murder there that turned out to be part of that killing spree. Another editor here now, Betsi Robinson, covered the story for the Winston-Salem Journal at the time. I also distinctly remember listening on the police scanner to the chase through the streets of Greensboro that ended with reports that the vehicle Fritz Klenner, Susie Lynch and Lynch's boys were in blew up. 

Sad, tragic times. We decided not to revisit them in the paper.