On a cold, overcast spring day in march 1977, in a small rural town in ohio, mary gillespie opened her front door and started to trek to her. Webwe'll reintroduce the cast of characters discussed here, mary gillespie, her husband ron, his sister karen, and her husband paul freshour, and ask if the virus that. Webby the time mary gillespie was vacationing in florida, ron gillespie had also started getting letters. His letters also mentioned mary’s affair with gordon massie and. Webit was the afternoon of february 7, 1983, and gillispie, a school bus driver for the westfall school district in circleville, ohio, had just dropped off one group of children and was headed to. Webcentral to the narrative is mary gillispie, a school bus driver in the small town of circleville, ohio, who became one of the primary recipients of these menacing letters.