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On 30 June 2018, the Empire News website posted an article positing that authorities in Florida had discovered over 700 bodies buried in the backyard of a millionaire named Jerry Richards: As is often the case, information from that article was extracted and circulated on social media with no reference to its original context or source, leading many viewers to question whether it reflected a genuine news report: There was no truth to this report. The story about a supposed serial killer in Florida named Jerry Richards originated solely with Empire News, a junk news site that does not publish factual information. The purported picture of Jerry Richards that appeared in the Empire News article had previously been used by another junk news site, World News Daily Report, to illustrate a fake story about a Florida man named Albert Fiddler who purportedly shot his wife for refusing him sex:
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