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In the early hours of a Wednesday morning in March 2016, the life of 35-year-old Carl Francis Burden of Blacksburg, South Carolina, was tragically cut short. He was seated in the passenger side of a car, with his wife in the driver's seat, when he was fatally shot. The incident was not a random act of violence; all individuals involved were known to one another.

The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office launched an investigation into the homicide. Their efforts quickly led to the identificatio ...Read More
Victim Details

Carl Francis Burden

Male

Blacksburg

SC

2016-03-30

35

Carl

Francis Burden

01/13/2026