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Murder, etc.

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Murder, etc.

Resolver Media

True Crime

5858 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Don't bother looking for a straight line between right and wrong in Greenville, SC.

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0:00.0

Previously on murder etc. I really think Frank Walker was in another circumstance

0:07.9

would have been a good law enforcement officer. He was smart. He had a pretty good

0:11.1

heart and it just this climate.

0:13.0

It was lawlessness and if you were cop, you didn't mind, you crossed the line if you wanted to, nothing going to happen to you.

0:20.0

Foster claimed that there was no such thing as the Dixie mafia.

0:24.0

He said that it was invented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a publicity stunt.

0:29.2

But what Foster called his friends were good old boys. The good old boys did this and the good

0:34.9

old boys did that and a sizable number of them either lived in or operated from or

0:40.6

came occasionally to Greenville, South Carolina.

0:44.0

Frank just, he said he was on to really something big and I think it was something due to the

0:49.8

inside of where he worked. Or it was somebody of a lot of importance he was going

0:57.2

get for you know it sounded like he was about to bust somebody and I don't know if it was a narcotics bust, or it was just to blow their cover for whatever bad things they were doing, but he was aware of something terribly wrong that was getting ready to be made public. Here's the thing. People in Greenville are like people anywhere and like people

1:30.8

anywhere they're going to find a place to go drinking.

1:34.0

The name is Larry Smith. I grew up around Brandon,

1:37.0

over at West Greenville, Brandon Mill Village.

1:38.8

Larry Smith has lived around here his entire life,

1:41.7

and his Uncle Hoppy served the needs of the thirsty for a few of those decades.

1:45.8

He ran to what we used to call beer joints and he's always fool with selling beer joints, honky-t, pool halls, and stuff like that.

1:54.3

And so you get all type of people coming in there.

1:57.2

Hoppy, loved TV shows.

1:59.5

Hop Along Cassidy gave him his nickname,

2:02.4

and the detective show gave him his name for his

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