Investigative true crime podcast set in the Dixie Mafia's South. An honest cop is about to break the biggest case of his career. What happens next is a four-decade murder mystery haunting one of the South's most celebrated cities.
Leonard Brown Jr. joins host Brad Willis to talk about three haunting mysteries. You'll hear things you've never heard before and learn about an active case with a $20,000 reward.
As the COVID-19 quarantine continues, host Brad Willis has an in-depth conversation with Frank Eppes, Jr., the son of the trial judge who sent Charles Wakefield, Jr. to prison. Willis and Eppes talk about the podcast, how Eppes felt it reflected on his father, and some stories about the judge you haven't heard.
Producers Brad Willis and Andy Ethridge adhere to the pandemic social distancing requirements and tell the story of Greenville, South Carolina's first murder of 1975 and the man still known today as Mr. X.
The season finale of Murder, etc. chronicles Charles Wakefield, Jr.'s 35-year effort to get out of prison and the time afterward as he tries to prove his innocence.
When attorneys gave their closing arguments in Charles Wakefield, Jr.'s 1976 trial, they lacked the context offered by 40 years of history and re-investigation. This is a closing argument for 2020.
Updates on the missing file, the FBI, the gun, and a new team of attorneys
Buddy Parnell represented Charles Wakefield, Jr. and while he was preparing the case, his son Sefton was awaiting the first of five kidney transplants. In this short bonus episode, Sefton's mother, Mary Jane Parnell, explains how Sefton affected their lives.
How did prosecutors convict Charles Wakefield Jr.? They played by the rules...just not the rules you know.
Murder, etc. producer Brad Willis speaks in front of a live audience at Greenville's Endeavor
State police, FBI to investigate Greenville Police Department and the Looper murder evidence that police now admit has disappeared.
After the discovery of potential new evidence in the Looper murders case, a startling report of what's happening inside the Greenville Police Department.
Bombshell admission of new evidence accusing a law man of the Looper murders
Producer Brad Willis speaks at a live event in Greenville, SC hosted by the Emrys Foundation and discusses the challenges of putting together Murder, etc.
Retired cops finally talk about who they suspect killed the Loopers.
Retired narcotics officer Danny Jones appeared in Episode 19. In this extended edit of the interview, Jones explains more about how he came to know Frank Looper and the impact it had on his life.
The price of being a True Believer in America's War on Drugs...could be...your life.
In Episode 18: The Road to Six Mile, you heard about how Fast Eddie Williamson hooked up with Foster Sellers in Greenville in the early 1970s. In this extended bonus interview, hear how Sellers ended up in Greenville in the first place. To read his book, click here. https://amzn.to/2ZpuWfV
Meet Fast Eddie Williamson, one of the south's most notorious gangsters
Bonus episode featuring Leonard Brown...and Leonard Brown's tapes
In 2019, it's #yeahThatgreenville. In 1975, it was the murder capital of South Carolina.
Charles Wakefield, Jr. survived Death Row...and ended up in hell
Sometimes innocent...doesn't mean 100% innocent...
The investigation team grows and begins answering important questions
Police counted on the word on the street...they just didn't tell you about all the words they heard.
You don't have to re-write history...when somebody recorded it.
Fast Eddie was one of the most notorious southern gangsters of all time, and now, he's ready to tell what he knows.
Master bank robber Foster Sellers knew his destiny, but he didn't now how it would change Greenville, SC.
Greenville, S.C. gets a wake-up call from an unlikely source.
Before the Looper Homeplace was a landmark for a tragedy, it was the home of thousands of happy memories.
How did a railroad conductor become obsessed with a murder that happened before he was born?
Where was Charles Wakefield, Jr. on the day of January 31, 1975.
Inside the Greenville County Sheriff's Office...and Frank Looper's Garage with the last people to ever speak to Frank Looper.
Don't bother looking for a straight line between right and wrong in Greenville, SC.
South Carolina never expected Charles Wakefield to tell his story...because South Carolina expected him to be dead.
Contract killings, missing witnesses, and the other ghosts of Greenville, South Carolina
The warning shots weren't enough to scare the county's top drug cop. The next shots scared a community for another four decades. Frank Looper's family looks back at a compassionate hunter and the warnings he ignored in a fight against organized crime.
Lt. Frank Looper might have changed Greenville, South Carolina forever. An honest cop surrounded by corruption and crime, he was on the verge of something big that might have shocked the southern mill city he called home. One day in January 1975 made sure Looper never had that chance.
After four decades of secrets, a celebrated Southern city is reckoning with its dark past.
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