About this episode

The episode discusses the dark reality of a seemingly perfect candidate for community outreach in Greenwood, SC, who turned out to be a predator.

In the 1990's the Hispanic population of Greenwood,SC was growing rapidly. Church Leaders needed to find an individual to connect them to the community and perform outreach missions. They thought they had the perfect candidate while in reality he was the perfect monster.

People in this episode

Hosts: Matt Hiers, Danielle Myers

Topics covered

• true crime
• Hispanic community
• outreach missions
• 1990s
• predators

Keywords

• Fernando Garcia
• Greenwood SC
• true crime
• Hispanic population
• 1990s
• community outreach

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Church Leaders

Places: Greenwood, SC

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