Murder or Justifiable Homicide? Life Sentence or Death Sentence? Lethal Gas or Injection? From the beginning, Brunswick County has seen evil epitomized through horrendous murders. U. S. Marshal Samuel Lilly and Detective Leon George were gunned down trying to shut down a still in 1924...just one of several murdered law enforcement officers. A plane crash in Bolivia killed all on board and was deemed deliberate... Nearly every community has seen the love triangle that ended in death... The violence in Southeastern North Carolina has never been told in such a forthright manner...case by case....