Camp Swamp Road Ep. 2: A Game of Telephone

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🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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After Scott Spivey was killed in a shootout on Camp Swamp Road, his sister Jennifer Foley wanted to know what happened. But the police didn’t provide the family with answers. So, Jennifer began her own investigation. WSJ reporter Valerie Bauerlein goes to South Carolina to see what Jennifer uncovered. Read the Reporting: ‘You’re Taken Care of’: Did Police Promise to Shield a Killer? Further Listening: Camp Swamp Road Ep. 1: Mess Around, Find Out Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A word of warning.
0:02.7	This series contains descriptions of violence and strong language, including unbleeped curse words.
0:08.4	Please be advised.
0:12.5	Previously, on Camp Swamp Road.
0:15.4	I've got pictures of him aiming the gun at us, everything.
0:19.0	He's about to put the gun out again. Sir, this guy hangs that gun at me. We're going to have to shoot him. There is a guy that is waving a gun in front of me trying to shoot at my car, and the other ones beside us. He's all over the road. And I look at my cousin, I'm saying, either Scott's been murdered or he's murdered somebody.
0:38.4	What's going on?
0:40.3	And no one will tell us.
0:42.0	You're shot at us.
0:43.0	You're good.
0:44.8	You're good.
0:45.6	Don't worry about it.
0:47.6	Things happen.
0:49.1	I don't understand this one.
1:01.2	It's the day after the shooting.
1:06.1	The lead investigator assigned to the Scott Spivey case is Detective Alan Jones.
1:21.7	This is for the audio recording for the phone call with Mr. Byron and Deborah Spivey, the parents were the seat with Scott Spivey. Detective Jones records himself on his body cam.
1:28.8	In the video, he looks tired.
1:31.3	He had stayed up late.
1:33.3	At 2.10 a.m., Jones had filed his initial report,
1:36.8	which said that the shooting on Camp Swamp Road
1:38.8	appeared to be justified.
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