October 30 belongs, in these records, to a single figure: Larry Gene Bell, the South Carolina predator whose crimes in the mid-1980s brought terror to the Carolinas. Bell's methods were calculated — he used phone calls to taunt the families of his victims, prolonging their anguish long after the abductions. Convicted of two murders and suspected in a third, he was executed in 1996. His case became notable not only for its cruelty but for the investigative and psychological profiling work it helped advance in the region's law enforcement community.