2020 Hindsight

Murder, etc.

Resolver Media

True Crime

5 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	From the very beginning this has been a story about two men who died and one man who was supposed to.
0:10.0	It was 1975 and I got a call from my sister.
0:15.0	45 years ago, she said that Frank and Rufus had been shot.
0:20.0	Two murders in broad daylight on a warm afternoon.
0:23.5	I mean I just started crying.
0:25.5	January 31st, 1975.
0:28.5	My brother died right away.
0:30.6	Frank lived just a short day of two and he passed on. I mean it was just
0:35.5	about more than we could take. Within days the city of Greenville South Carolina
0:40.0	began to cover up its wounds and heal as it covered the first two men in
0:44.9	frozen Carolina clay. When we went to the funeral most of the narcotics guys
0:49.6	rode with me. Narcotics lieutenant Frank Looper and his father Rufus.
0:54.0	They had a lot of police cars behind the curse and the famine car.
0:59.6	The newspaper covered the story, the murders and the funerals. A tidy 1975 era news cycle that
1:06.7	wrapped up the story and gave the city at large its closure.
1:21.0	But elsewhere, there was Barilupor. She was just a nervous ring. A wife and mother.
1:24.8	Trying to console Vera. She was just about crazy. It was terrible. And Rufus Franklin
1:31.7	Looper Sr.
1:32.6	I just remember how profoundly upset my grandfather was.
1:37.2	The father and grandfather, who lost two of his favorite men at the same time.
1:42.4	And it was devastating for my daddy. his favorite men at the same time.
1:42.6	And it was devastating for my daddy.
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