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Camp Swamp Road Ep. 4: That’s What Heaven Is For

The Journal.

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, Business News, News

4.25.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

For more than two years, Jennifer Foley has been an advocate for her brother Scott Spivey. But to get the criminal investigation into his death reopened, Jennifer has to convince some of the most powerful leaders in South Carolina that this was not a Stand Your Ground case. WSJ’s Valerie Bauerlein reports. Read the Reporting: Police Say He Killed in Self-Defense. His Phone Tells Another Story. ‘You’re Taken Care of’: Did Police Promise to Shield a Killer?  Nobody Suspected Police Shielded a Killer Until the Dead Man’s Sister Dug In Follow the Story: Camp Swamp Road Playlist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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A word of warning. This series contains descriptions of violence and strong language, including

0:06.0

unbleeped curse words. Please be advised. Previously, on Camps Fomp Road.

0:14.0

And there they were. What? The 90 phone calls.

0:20.0

All these officers are saying, we're fine.

0:22.6

They're saying that they keep telling each other, this is cut and dry, this is cut and dry.

0:27.6

I was working, I was in the shadows last night.

0:30.6

I weren't there, but I was in shadows.

0:32.6

I chased him.

0:33.6

Oh, I was on his ass, and he couldn't, his truck couldn't outrun my truck.

0:38.7

And he knew it.

0:40.4

So, yeah, he was terrified.

0:45.8

No one listened to these, and they didn't want to stand in front of my family and say we looked at all the evidence.

0:47.5

And we've come to this conclusion. For more than two years, Jennifer Foley's been an advocate for her brother, Scott Spivey,

1:01.1

and she says she wants accountability for his killers, Weldon Boyd and Bradley Williams.

1:06.6

Boyd and Williams deny any wrongdoing.

1:09.2

With a discovery of 90 phone calls in the police file, Jennifer found a window into Weldon Boyd and Williams deny any wrongdoing. With the discovery of 90 phone calls in the police file,

1:12.6

Jennifer found a window into Weldon Boyd's mind,

1:15.6

but she also stumbled across evidence of corruption within the Ory County Police Department.

1:20.6

In early March 2025,

1:24.6

Jennifer's lawyer, Mark Tensley, notified Ory County police about the calls.

1:28.7

They quickly opened an internal investigation.

1:31.8

The first dominoed fall was Deputy Chief Brandon Strickland.

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