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Book Signing & Reading with Rita Shuler

  • Colleton Museum & Farmers Market 506 East Washington Street Walterboro, SC, 29488 United States (map)

Join us for a book signing, reading, and short presentation of Rita Shuler's new book - The Lowcountry Murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle: A Case solved.

For decades, evidence of the 1978 murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle lay in the evidence room at the Walterboro Police Department. Investigators periodically revisited the case over the years, but it remained the department's top cold case for thirty-seven years. Special Agent Lieutenant Rita Shuler worked on the case shortly after she joined the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), and she couldn't let it go, not even after her retirement in 2001. In May 2015, Lieutenant Shuler teamed up with new investigator Corporal Gean Johnson, and together they uncovered key evidence that had been overlooked. With new advancements in DNA and fingerprint technology, they brought the case to its end in just four months.