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Murder, etc.

Bonus Episode: Homeplace

Murder, etc.

Resolver Media

True Crime

5858 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Before the Looper Homeplace was a landmark for a tragedy, it was the home of thousands of happy memories.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, we're just now wrapping up our short production break as we get ready to take a deep dive into the 1970s criminal underworld in Greenville, South Carolina.

0:12.0

We're coming back next week with a brand new full episode.

0:16.1

Last week we spent some time with Andy Etheridge and let him explain just how he came to be involved

0:20.5

in this investigation. This week we're taking you back to the Looper home place.

0:25.6

That spot in the 1100 block of Pendleton Street that for decades was home to thousands of

0:30.6

happy memories and in 1975 turned into a landmark for one of

0:34.9

Greenville's worst days. To take you back a hundred years I spoke to 91 year old

0:39.9

Julia Macaulay and her daughter Adele.

0:43.4

Back then Julia was Julia Looper.

0:45.4

I grew up in the house.

0:47.0

All of us were born and raised in that house.

0:49.6

You go in the front door and there was a hallway and on the right was a living room. On the left was a bedroom.

0:56.9

And then there was a big room in the middle, a kitchen over here and we had a big dining room

1:02.2

table in there and that's, we had a big dining room table in there and that's we had a heater.

1:05.1

Back then you didn't have heating and air and then another bedroom to the

1:09.7

right and that we just had two bedrooms and there was three of us. We had two beds in one bedroom and my mother and daddy slept in one and my sister and I slept in the other one.

1:21.0

Rufus Jr. That's my brother.

1:23.0

He had the front bedroom.

1:25.0

And we just had one bath.

1:27.0

Back then you didn't have much.

1:29.0

And we had chairs and radio and that was our sitting room.

1:34.0

Real tall ceilings.

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