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Murder, etc.

Murder, etc.

Resolver Media

True Crime

5 • 858 Ratings

Overview

Investigative true crime podcast set in the Dixie Mafia's South. An honest cop is about to break the biggest case of his career. What happens next is a four-decade murder mystery haunting one of the South's most celebrated cities.

44 Episodes

Murder, etc. Live #3: Julia Mann, Pamela Vaughn, Duck Finley with Leonard brown Jr.

Leonard Brown Jr. joins host Brad Willis to talk about three haunting mysteries. You’ll hear things you’ve never heard before and learn about an active case with a $20,000 reward.

Transcribed - Published: 1 May 2020

Murder, etc. Live #2: Frank Eppes

As the COVID-19 quarantine continues, host Brad Willis has an in-depth conversation with Frank Eppes, Jr., the son of the trial judge who sent Charles Wakefield, Jr. to prison. Willis and Eppes talk about the podcast, how Eppes felt it reflected on his father, and some stories about the judge you haven’t heard.

Transcribed - Published: 16 April 2020

Murder, etc Live #1: Mr. X

Producers Brad Willis and Andy Ethridge adhere to the pandemic social distancing requirements and tell the story of Greenville, South Carolina’s first murder of 1975 and the man still known today as Mr. X.

Transcribed - Published: 7 April 2020

Amazing Grace

The season finale of Murder, etc. chronicles Charles Wakefield, Jr.'s 35-year effort to get out of prison and the time afterward as he tries to prove his innocence.

Transcribed - Published: 27 February 2020

2020 Hindsight

When attorneys gave their closing arguments in Charles Wakefield, Jr.'s 1976 trial, they lacked the context offered by 40 years of history and re-investigation. This is a closing argument for 2020.

Transcribed - Published: 30 January 2020

Special Report: Fresh Eyes

Updates on the missing file, the FBI, the gun, and a new team of attorneys

Transcribed - Published: 14 January 2020

Bonus: Captain Courageous & the Blizzard of ’78

Buddy Parnell represented Charles Wakefield, Jr. and while he was preparing the case, his son Sefton was awaiting the first of five kidney transplants. In this short bonus episode, Sefton's mother, Mary Jane Parnell, explains how Sefton affected their lives.

Transcribed - Published: 13 January 2020

Playing by the Rules

How did prosecutors convict Charles Wakefield Jr.? They played by the rules...just not the rules you know.

Transcribed - Published: 11 January 2020

Bonus: Brad Willis Live at Endeavor

Murder, etc. producer Brad Willis speaks in front of a live audience at Greenville's Endeavor

Transcribed - Published: 24 December 2019

Peerless

What is a "jury of your peers?"

Transcribed - Published: 18 December 2019

Special Report: Found & Lost

State police, FBI to investigate Greenville Police Department and the Looper murder evidence that police now admit has disappeared.

Transcribed - Published: 6 December 2019

Special Report: Gone

After the discovery of potential new evidence in the Looper murders case, a startling report of what's happening inside the Greenville Police Department.

Transcribed - Published: 29 November 2019

The Closer

If you had nothing to lose, would you help kill a man?

Transcribed - Published: 16 November 2019

Special Report: Cutting the Lock

Bombshell admission of new evidence accusing a law man of the Looper murders

Transcribed - Published: 7 November 2019

Miss Mae

We found a man with a secret that he didn't know he had...

Transcribed - Published: 2 November 2019

Special report: October Surprise

Breaking developments in the case

Transcribed - Published: 28 October 2019

Greenville's Summer Sons

With friends like these...

Transcribed - Published: 11 October 2019

Behind the Scenes with Brad Willis

Producer Brad Willis speaks at a live event in Greenville, SC hosted by the Emrys Foundation and discusses the challenges of putting together Murder, etc.

Transcribed - Published: 27 September 2019

Dead End Country Road

Retired cops finally talk about who they suspect killed the Loopers.

Transcribed - Published: 20 September 2019

Bonus Interview: Danny Jones

Retired narcotics officer Danny Jones appeared in Episode 19. In this extended edit of the interview, Jones explains more about how he came to know Frank Looper and the impact it had on his life.

Transcribed - Published: 10 September 2019

True Believer

The price of being a True Believer in America's War on Drugs...could be...your life.

Transcribed - Published: 1 September 2019

Bonus: Interview with Max Courson, Foster Sellers’ biographer

In Episode 18: The Road to Six Mile, you heard about how Fast Eddie Williamson hooked up with Foster Sellers in Greenville in the early 1970s. In this extended bonus interview, hear how Sellers ended up in Greenville in the first place. To read his book, click here. https://amzn.to/2ZpuWfV

Transcribed - Published: 24 August 2019

Road to Six Mile

Meet Fast Eddie Williamson, one of the south's most notorious gangsters

Transcribed - Published: 18 August 2019

Bonus: He's coming to kill me!

Bonus episode featuring Leonard Brown...and Leonard Brown's tapes

Transcribed - Published: 6 August 2019

Greenville, We Have a Problem

In 2019, it's #yeahThatgreenville. In 1975, it was the murder capital of South Carolina.

Transcribed - Published: 3 August 2019

Behind the Wall

Charles Wakefield, Jr. survived Death Row...and ended up in hell

Transcribed - Published: 19 July 2019

The Difference between A & THE

Sometimes innocent...doesn't mean 100% innocent...

Transcribed - Published: 30 June 2019

Spotters

The investigation team grows and begins answering important questions

Transcribed - Published: 22 June 2019

The Other Word on the Street

Police counted on the word on the street...they just didn't tell you about all the words they heard.

Transcribed - Published: 6 June 2019

Dare me to come

You don't have to re-write history...when somebody recorded it.

Transcribed - Published: 29 May 2019

Love & Hate

Fast Eddie was one of the most notorious southern gangsters of all time, and now, he's ready to tell what he knows.

Transcribed - Published: 22 May 2019

Good Ol' Boys

Master bank robber Foster Sellers knew his destiny, but he didn't now how it would change Greenville, SC.

Transcribed - Published: 15 May 2019

St. Christopher

What does it mean to be a good cop?

Transcribed - Published: 8 May 2019

A Bunch of Amateurs

Greenville, S.C. gets a wake-up call from an unlikely source.

Transcribed - Published: 30 April 2019

Bonus Episode: Homeplace

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

Transcribed - Published: 23 April 2019

Bonus Episode: Andy Ethridge

How did a railroad conductor become obsessed with a murder that happened before he was born?

Transcribed - Published: 16 April 2019

Southern Railroad

Where was Charles Wakefield, Jr. on the day of January 31, 1975.

Transcribed - Published: 9 April 2019

Unexpected Company

Inside the Greenville County Sheriff's Office...and Frank Looper's Garage with the last people to ever speak to Frank Looper.

Transcribed - Published: 2 April 2019

Bub

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

Transcribed - Published: 26 March 2019

Motherless Child

South Carolina never expected Charles Wakefield to tell his story...because South Carolina expected him to be dead.

Transcribed - Published: 19 March 2019

Ghost Bridge

Contract killings, missing witnesses, and the other ghosts of Greenville, South Carolina

Transcribed - Published: 12 March 2019

Finding Frank Looper

The warning shots weren't enough to scare the county's top drug cop. The next shots scared a community for another four decades. Frank Looper's family looks back at a compassionate hunter and the warnings he ignored in a fight against organized crime.

Transcribed - Published: 5 March 2019

January 31, 1975

Lt. Frank Looper might have changed Greenville, South Carolina forever. An honest cop surrounded by corruption and crime, he was on the verge of something big that might have shocked the southern mill city he called home. One day in January 1975 made sure Looper never had that chance.

Transcribed - Published: 26 February 2019

Murder, etc. Trailer

After four decades of secrets, a celebrated Southern city is reckoning with its dark past.

Transcribed - Published: 28 January 2019

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