This week we talk through the tragic murder of Shirley Goodnight Pierce. Shirley was a North American native who'd recently gotten engaged to the love of her life, Chuck Reeves. While working as an Executive Assistant as Tuscarora Yarns, Shirley met a man named Ervin Johnson, who was the Chief Financial Officer of the company. Ervin and Shirley developed a very healthy, platonic work relationship, but when Ervin's wife, Marlene, met Shirley, their lives changed forever.

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