The Gaffney Ledger

The Gaffney Ledger is a tri-weekly newspaper in Gaffney, South Carolina.^[1] It was founded in 1896 under the name The Ledger, and assumed its current name in 1907.^[2] The paper has been owned and published by the Sossamon family for five generations.^[1][3]

Lee Roy Martin - the "Gaffney Strangler" - first claimed credit for his victims in a phone call to the paper's then managing editor Bill Gibbons in February 1968.^[4] In 1999 the former chief of police of Blacksburg, South Carolina successfully sued the Gaffney Ledger for libel after it ran an anonymous op-ed from a reader which implied he had been bribed by drug dealers.^[5]