featuring cases covered in "Murders In The Swampland"
a book containing 17 Westcentral Florida
true crime cases
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During his three hours of testimony in the Hernando County courtroom in 1982 Gary Mansfield chewed his kauckles and smoked one cigarette after another. Gary said that he once found Billy outside with a nude woman and a dog. Billy was trying to force the woman at knife point to perform a sex act.......
..... In the spring of 1981, while detectives were putting together a case for the murder of Renee Saling in California, detectives in Florida were doing some real digging. Actual digging. Information had come out during trial proceedings in an unrelated Hernando County case that bodies were buried at the mansfield homeplace.
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As the investigation unfolded, witnesses in the case provided information so bizarre it seemed fictionl. How could the burying of human bodies in the Mansfield yard have been done so indifferently? It appeared the back yard being the gravesite for young women was a shared bit of knowledge by quite a few folks in the area swampland. What did people think when they would hear of a girl's body being buried at the Mansfield place? What was going through their minds? After all, it wasn't like a team of detectives went out and uncovered bodies of murdered girls in somebody's back yard everyday....
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