Episode Summary
In May of 2014, a married couple went to check in on their elderly neighbors, Russell and Shirley Dermond, who lived alongside the scenic Lake Oconee. Inside the older couple’s house, they would find one of the most gruesome crime scenes of all-time, which kicked off a terrifying mystery that remains unanswered today.
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Episode Info
Shirley & Russell Dermond
Shirley & Russell
Sheriff Howard Sills
Photograph by Audra Melton
The Dermond’s Home
Photograph by Caroline C. Kilgore
Location of Dermond’s home
Episode Source Material
- Man, 88, Beheaded, His Wife Missing From Home in Gated Georgia Community
- Body confirmed to be Shirley Dermond; officials searching lake for husband’s head
- Phone records released in Dermond slayings on Lake Oconee
- Son of slain couple in grisly Putnam case: Mystery ‘just eats at you’
- New details as mystery reigns in year-old Dermond lake murders
- Relentless: Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills chases a killer
- Son of slain Dermond couple says Lake Oconee mystery ‘haunts us’
- ‘Vicious enemy’ may have killed Dermonds; Lake Oconee murders now 3 years cold
- ‘Psychopath’: 5 years after grisly Lake Oconee murders, who killed the Dermonds — and why?
- Who Killed Russell And Shirley Dermond? New Details On The Unsolved Murder Of The Georgia Couple
- ‘Somebody knows. And there’s more than one person involved in this’
- Lake Oconee double murder probe turns to NY for clues
- Person of interest identified in murder, beheading of elderly couple
- Mystery man emerges in year-old Ga. beheading case
- 5 years later, sheriff still agonizes over brutal cold case murders
- Timeline of 2 Murders: How the Killings of Russell and Shirley Dermond Unfolded
- The Murders of Elderly Georgia Couple Russell and Shirley Dermond: A Beheading and No Leads