All six parts of the series '40 years later: Bitter Blood'

Forty years ago, a murder-suicide spree killed nine people, largely from two prominent Triad families. The bizarre case, which unspooled in Greensboro and Winston-Salem, gripped the region’s attention and has never fully let go.

'The case that won't go away': Triad communities remember 'Bitter Blood' murders 40 years later

At some point during the police chase from Greensboro to Summerfield, Susie and Fritz poisoned her two sons with cyanide and shot them, then detonated their Chevy Blazer, investigators said.

'Bitter Blood' saga 40 years later: The 21 people you should know

Susie Newsom Lynch: The 38-year-old Winston-Salem native and socialite believed to have been…

Column: Long before 'Bitter Blood,' Chief Justice Susie Sharp was a celebrity in my hometown of Madison

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