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Posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 1:53 pm

“Buried Secrets,” the story about the 1982 murder of a Rutherford County man solved 25 years later, will debut on the “Main Street Mysteries” series at 7:30 p.m. Friday on Investigation Discovery.

Victim Lynn Orrand, 32, of Peachtree Street, was murdered Jan. 16, 1982 while hunting near his in-laws’ home on Richland-Richardson Road off Halls Hill Pike. After a lengthy investigation, Rutherford County Sheriff’s Detective Sgt. Mark Di Nardo and Detective Jim Tramel charged Orrand’s widow, Candance, her husband, Gary Bush, and her brother, Kevin Patterson, with first-degree murder in December 2007.

Patterson, who was in high school at the time, killed Orrand in exchange for $5,000 and a place for him, his wife and infant daughter to live. Ironically, Patterson never received the money. He pleaded guilty and is serving a 25-year prison sentence. The Bushes were convicted of first-degree murder and are serving life sentences.

The episode describes the case as a father of two boys who is “shot dead while hunting for deer.” Did this hunter become the hunted? Decades later a buried secret comes to light and blows the cold case wide open.

Topher Hopkins, a field producer and director, said the “twists and turns” of the case attracted him.

“What interested us was the fact a 25-year-old case was solved,” Hopkins said. “The reason we do this is because of the hard work by investigators. We remember the victims and pay them homage.”

Hopkins’ team interviewed Di Nardo, Tramel and Deputy Chief Virgil Gammon, one of the first investigators, Orrand’s twin brother, Glenn, and Orrand’s son, Gary.

“We remember our victims and show the impact of violent crime on family members,” Topher said.

The show will also air at 10:30 p.m. Friday and at 7:30 a.m. Saturday.

Tagged under Candance Orrand, Crime, Gary Bush, Kevin Patterson, Lynn Orrand, RCSO

Member Opinions:

By: distraught07 on 5/2/11
Don't think the show turned out very well... It was hard for me to follow and understand..