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Carolina Crimes

EPISODE 59: "Love During Lockup": The Perry Prison Break of 1985

Carolina Crimes

Matt Hiers and Danielle Myers

True Crime

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

It's been said that love can make you do crazy things. Well that is an understatement in this week's episode, as an upstate woman would stop at nothing to be with her incarcerated lover....and he brought some friends from the inside along for the ride.

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Sources:
LA Times Archives 12-20-1985
DarkHeartedWomen.wordpress.com
Spartanburg Herald-Journal 9-21-1989
UPI- 12-19-1985
www.goupstate.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

For over 350 years, the state of South Carolina has been the setting for some of the most

0:12.5

horrendous crimes ever committed.

0:15.7

Some have gained global notoriety.

0:18.6

Some have been forgotten, and others have been swept under the rug completely.

0:23.8

Now, two South Carolina natives and two crime enthusiasts have teamed up to examine these

0:29.8

heinous acts in detail, giving their perspective of the evil that has resided in the Palmetto

0:35.9

state.

0:36.9

You're listening to Carolina Crimes.

0:44.0

And welcome, welcome to this week's edition of Carolina Crimes.

0:48.0

We're so glad that you joined us.

0:50.1

I'm one of your host, Matt Hires, along with...

0:52.8

Danielle Meyers.

0:54.2

And we're so happy you're here.

0:56.0

Thank you so much.

0:57.0

I've gotten a lot of nice feedback last week.

1:00.8

Probably the smallest town we've ever covered in South Carolina Reevesville.

1:04.2

You know, you said it was what, 1.6 square miles, and oh, the tale of the murder of Presley

1:13.8

Reeves, the state's first game warden.

1:16.8

And the most notable person to come from that town?

1:19.7

It is.

1:20.7

Certainly.

1:21.7

And still an open-ended mystery that's over a century old.

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