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'Second chance': Student rebuilds life after being duped by Fritz Klenner and going to prison
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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.
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40 YEARS LATER: THE ‘BITTER BLOOD’ CASE
'Second chance': Student rebuilds life after being duped by Fritz Klenner and going to prison
- Susan Spear
- Nov 18, 2025
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- Allison Lee Isley
Allen Gentry, the lead detective on the Fritz Klenner-Susie Newsom Lynch murder/suicide case 40 years ago, explains how Fritz Klenner gained Ian Perkins' trust.
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Ian Mark Perkins cries while testifying in court as an accessory after the fact to the murders of Robert, Florence and Hattie Newsom in 1985.
Journal file photo by Charlie Buchanan
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Read all 6 parts of our new series about the Bitter Blood case, 40 years later. Here are the links.
Want to read the whole story without waiting for each installment to come out in the print newspaper? Well, here it is. Just click on these links.
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Ian Perkins talks about his relationship 20 years ago with murderer Fritz Klenner at the office of his attorney, Donald R. Vaughan, in Greensboro on May 12, 2005.
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A map showing the Newsom home, where Robert, Florence and Hattie Newsom were murdered, and Loehman’s Plaza, where Ian Perkins waited with a car for Fritz Klenner.
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Journal file photo by David Rolfe
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Fredrick “Fritz” Klenner is seen in this 1982 photo taken at his father’s Reidsville office.
Richard T. Davis
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Ian Perkins talks about his relationship 20 years ago with murderer Fritz Klenner, with his 4-year-old son Luke and his attorney Donald R. Vaughan, in Greensboro on May 12, 2005.
News & Record file
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Allen Gentry, the lead detective on the Fritz Klenner-Susie Newsom Lynch murder/suicide case 40 years ago, explains Ian Perkins' role in the 1985 case.
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A 15-page statement from Ian Perkins is part of Allen Gentry’s case file from the 1985 Klenner/Newsom Lynch investigation.
Allison Lee Isley, Journal
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Klenner/Newsom Lynch murder/suicides 40 years later; Ian Perkins duped by Fritz Klenner
Ian Mark Perkins cries while testifying in court as an accessory after the fact to the murders of Robert, Florence and Hattie Newsom in 1985.
Journal file photo by Charlie Buchanan
The arrest warrant for Ian Perkins is part of Allen Gentry’s case file from the 1985 Klenner/Newsom Lynch investigation. Photographed on Thursday, July 3, 2025, at Gentry’s home in Advance, N.C.
Allison Lee Isley,Journal
Fredrick "Fritz" Klenner is seen in this 1982 photo taken at his father's Reidsville, NC office. Klenner, Susie, and her sons John and Jim died June 3, 1985.
Richard T.Davis
A map showing the Newsom home where Robert, Florence and Hattie Newsom were murdered and Loehman’s Plaza where Ian Perkins waited with a car for Fritz Klenner.
Ian Mark Perkins is indicted as an accessory after driving Fritz Klenner to the Newsom home prior to the murders of Robert, Florence and Hattie Newsom 1985. Photographed on June 24, 1985.
Journal file photo by Allen Aycock
Dr. Thomas “Tom” Lynch, ex-husband of Susie Newsom Lynch and father of James “Jim” and John Lynch.
Journal file photo by David Rolfe
A 15-page statement from Ian Perkins is part of Allen Gentry’s case file from the 1985 Klenner/Newsom Lynch investigation. Photographed on Thursday, July 3, 2025, at Gentry’s home in Advance, N.C.
Allison Lee Isley,Journal
Robert Newsom III, son of murder victims Robert and Florence Newsom, testifies at the trial of Ian Mark Perkins in August of 1985.
Journal file photo by Charlie Buchanan
Allen Gentry’s Heckler & Kock P7 9mm handgun sits on top of his prosecution report for Ian Perkins on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Advance, N.C. Gentry, who is now retired from the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, was the lead detective on the Klenner-Newsom Lynch murder/suicides case 40 years ago.
Allison Lee Isley,Journal
Ian Mark Perkins testifies in court as an accessory after the fact to the murders of Robert, Florence and Hattie Newsom in 1985.
Journal file photo by Charlie Buchanan
Allen Gentry flips through the prosecution report for Ian Perkins from 1985 on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Advance, N.C.
Allison Lee Isley,Journal
Ian Mark Perkins testifies in court as an accessory after the fact to the murders of Robert, Florence and Hattie Newsom in 1985.
Journal file photo by Charlie Buchanan
Ian Perkins talks about his relationship 20 years ago with murderer Fritz Klenner, with his 4 year old son Luke at the office of his attorney Donald R. Vaughan in Greensboro N.C., Thursday May 12, 2005.
News & Record file photo by Joseph Rodriguez
Ian Perkins talks about his relationship 20 years ago with murderer Fritz Klenner, at the office of his attorney Donald R. Vaughan in Greensboro NC, Thursday May 12, 2005.
News & Record file photo by Joseph Rodriguez
Ian Perkins talks about his relationship 20 years ago with murderer Fritz Klenner, with his 4-year-old son Luke and his attorney Donald R. Vaughan, in Greensboro on May 12, 2005.
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Ian Mark Perkins is indicted as an accessory after driving Fritz Klenner to the Newsom home prior to the murders of Robert, Florence and Hattie Newsom 1985. Photographed on June 24, 1985.
Journal file photo by Allen Aycock
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Ian Mark Perkins cries while testifying in court as an accessory after the fact to the murders of Robert, Florence and Hattie Newsom in 1985.
- Journal file photo by Charlie Buchanan
A map showing the Newsom home, where Robert, Florence and Hattie Newsom were murdered, and Loehman’s Plaza, where Ian Perkins waited with a car for Fritz Klenner.
Fredrick “Fritz” Klenner is seen in this 1982 photo taken at his father’s Reidsville office.
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A 15-page statement from Ian Perkins is part of Allen Gentry’s case file from the 1985 Klenner/Newsom Lynch investigation.
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Ian Perkins talks about his relationship 20 years ago with murderer Fritz Klenner at the office of his attorney, Donald R. Vaughan, in Greensboro on May 12, 2005.
- News & Record file
Ian Perkins talks about his relationship 20 years ago with murderer Fritz Klenner, with his 4-year-old son Luke and his attorney Donald R. Vaughan, in Greensboro on May 12, 2005.
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