November 19, 1979, should have been a time of celebration and blessing for Mary Gaskins as she blew out 33 birthday candles atop a cake surrounded by family.Instead it was the last time she saw her brother alive. Three days later his beaten body would be found by a hunter walking in International Paper timber land off Dawson Cabin Road in Verona on Thanksgiving Day.Paul Garrison Rouse, 32, was reported missing on Nov. 20, by his brother Claude, according to Onslow [...]
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