Gary (top) and Thaddeus (bottom) Lewingdon killed Jenkin Jones in his house (right) on Lancaster Rd in Granville.
T
he late 1970s saw many notorious serial killers. Ted Bundy terrorized women in Oregon and Utah, the Son of Sam struck fear into the people of New York, the Zodiac Killer preyed on young couples in California, and John Wayne Gacy gruesomely killed young men in Chicago. From 1975 to 1979 everyone in America was in fear, and few people know that there was a serial killer team threatening our town. Few people in our small midwestern town know that 43 years ago a sibling serial killer team terrorized Granville and the surrounding areas committing ten grisly murder robberies from Dec. 1977 to Dec 1978. They were named the .22 Caliber Killers, this nickname was given because the only evidence the police had were the ballistics of the guns they used: .22 caliber pistols with silencers. The two brothers, Gary and Thaddeus Lewingdon, were born and raised in Kirkersville, Ohio. In 1977, They killed two women outside a
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Two brothers' reign of terror over central Ohio
SIBLING SERIAL KILLERS BY CADEN MCDERMOTT
Gary and Thaddeus Lewingdon were a 1970s American sibling serial killer team who murdered and robbed people all over Ohio including Granville and Newark.
