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In 1975, Greenville County investigator Lt. Frank Looper and his father, Rufus Looper, were shot to death. The letter, uncovered in April of 2018, suggested that the sheriff at the time may have been involved in those murders and covered it up, according to Greenville Police Chief Ken Miller. Charles Wakefield Jr. was convicted for the murders but has maintained his innocence. He received parole in 2010 and is now living in Charlotte after 35 years in prison.
Wakefield was 20-years-old when he was arrested in Greenville County for the murders of Looper and his father.
“Why would the people do that?” Wakefield said. “Why would the people go to such great lengths to put a person who was innocent? I could not understand it.”
He was originally sentenced to death by the electric chair, but he was saved by a Supreme Court ruling.
“I was trying to understand. said, ‘Oh Lord, how did I get to be here? I wasn’t supposed to be here. But I was there. It was horrible,” he said.
In November, 7 News obtained recordings of Greenville Police Chief Ken Miller speaking at a public meeting, discussing a possible new piece of evidence in the Looper case: a letter found locked in an employee locker in the basement of the Law Enforcement Center.
Miller said the letter appeared to have been written by a mistress of the sheriff at the time, Cash Williams. Williams is no longer alive.
“We don’t know what that letter means, but there was a letter from one who said that he and some of his team members may have been involved in that murder and framed this individual,” Miller said in the recording.
The Greenville Police Department publicly announced Thursday that the case file containing the letter is missing.
Man convicted in Looper murders speaks after letter suggesting he was framed disappears
Wakefield was 20-years-old when he was arrested in Greenville County for the murders of Looper and his father.
“Why would the people do that?” Wakefield said. “Why would the people go to such great lengths to put a person who was innocent? I could not understand it.”
He was originally sentenced to death by the electric chair, but he was saved by a Supreme Court ruling.
“I was trying to understand. said, ‘Oh Lord, how did I get to be here? I wasn’t supposed to be here. But I was there. It was horrible,” he said.
In November, 7 News obtained recordings of Greenville Police Chief Ken Miller speaking at a public meeting, discussing a possible new piece of evidence in the Looper case: a letter found locked in an employee locker in the basement of the Law Enforcement Center.
Miller said the letter appeared to have been written by a mistress of the sheriff at the time, Cash Williams. Williams is no longer alive.
“We don’t know what that letter means, but there was a letter from one who said that he and some of his team members may have been involved in that murder and framed this individual,” Miller said in the recording.
The Greenville Police Department publicly announced Thursday that the case file containing the letter is missing.
Man convicted in Looper murders speaks after letter suggesting he was framed disappears
