June 3 marks the 30th anniversary of the explosion in Summerfield that killed Susie Newsom Lynch and Fritz Klenner.
Scene Where Klenner Shot Officer Dennis
Frederick "Fritz" Klenner sprayed his Uzi on North College Road near West Friendly Avenue, hitting Greensboro Police Sergeant Tommy Dennis, on June 3, 1985.
Scene Where Klenner Shot Officer Dennis
Frederick "Fritz" Klenner sprayed his Uzi on North College Road near West Friendly Avenue, hitting Greensboro Police Sergeant Tommy Dennis, on June 3, 1985.
Former Police Sergeant Tommy Dennis
Frederick "Fritz" Klenner sprayed his Uzi on North College Road near West Friendly Avenue, hitting Greensboro Police Sergeant Tommy Dennis, on June 3, 1985.
Scene Where Klenner Shot Officer Dennis
Frederick "Fritz" Klenner sprayed his Uzi on North College Road near West Friendly Avenue, hitting Greensboro Police Sergeant Tommy Dennis, on June 3, 1985.
Scene Where Klenner Shot Officer Dennis
Frederick "Fritz" Klenner sprayed his Uzi on North College Road near West Friendly Avenue, hitting Greensboro Police Sergeant Tommy Dennis, on June 3, 1985.
Scene Where Klenner Shot Officer Dennis
Frederick "Fritz" Klenner sprayed his Uzi on North College Road near West Friendly Avenue, hitting Greensboro Police Sergeant Tommy Dennis, on June 3, 1985.
Scene Where Klenner Shot Officer Dennis
Frederick "Fritz" Klenner sprayed his Uzi on North College Road near West Friendly Avenue, hitting Greensboro Police Sergeant Tommy Dennis, on June 3, 1985.
Frederick "Fritz" Klenner
(File) Fredrick "Fritz" Klenner is seen in this 1982 photo taken at his father's Reidsville, N.C. office.
Frederick "Fritz" Klenner's house
(File) Frederick "Fritz" Klenner's house in Reidsville, N.C. Photo taken June 3, 1985.
Frederick "Fritz" Klenner's gravesite
(File) Frederick "Fritz" Klenner's gravesite in Greenview Cemetery in Reidsville, N.C. Photo taken Aug. 21, 1985.
Frederick "Fritz" Klenner's house
(File) Frederick "Fritz" Klenner's house in Reidsville, N.C. Photo taken June 3, 1985.
Investigators search for clues at scene of Blazer exposion
(File) Investigators with the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation, Guilford County Sheriff's Office and Greensboro police check for evidence at the scene of where Fritz Klenner's Blazer blew up during a police chase. The explosion killed Kenner, Susie Newsom Lynch and her two children. Photo taken June 3, 1985.
Investigators at scene of Blazer exposion
(File) Investigators with the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation, Guilford County Sheriff's Office and Greensboro police check for evidence at the scene of where Fritz Klenner's Blazer blew up during a police chase. The explosion killed Kenner, Susie Newsom Lynch and her two children. Photo taken June 3, 1985.
Dr. Frederick Klenner
Dr. Frederick Klenner
Susie Lynch with her children
(File) Susie Lynch with her children.
Susie Sharp 1979
(File) Susie Sharp in 1979.
Susie Sharp
(File) Susie Sharp
Susie Sharp 1979
(File)Â Susie Sharp in 1979.
Florence Newsom
(File) Florence Newsom
Florence Newsom 2
(File) Florence Newsom
Newsoms bodies taken from residence
(File) The bodies of the Newsoms are brought out of the residence at 10:45 a.m. on Valley View Road in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Monday, May 20, 1985.
Fritz Klenner and his first-cousin and lover Susie Lynch took their lives in an explosion. Lynch's young sons were poisoned and shot; five other family members were killed.Â
Thirty years ago Wednesday afternoon, Fritz Klenner’s Blazer exploded on a highway in Summerfield.
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