This week’s episode of the Expired Podcast is on Bryon “Low Tax” Looper, who was a politician who legally changed his middle name to win an election. He was a dirty "public servant” and would do anything for a senate seat. Byron Looper was a democrat turned republican running against Tommy Burk. Senator Burk had been a public servant for almost 3 decades. Just before the 1978 election, Tommy was found shot in the head. His wife took his place on the ballot and won! Byron would be charged and ...

Byron "Low Tax" Looper

A Chattanooga Based Crime Cast by Maci Bookout and Natalie Gard

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The day before the coronavirus pandemic hit, on March 12th, 2020, a couple was found on the side of the road in an apparent car crash. When the police arrived at 497 Hickory BLVD, they found the bodies of Holly Williams and Bill Lanway. A call for a car crash quickly turned into a double murder when police discovered both people had multiple gunshot wounds. The bodies were both found in the floorboard of the car. Bill in front and Holly in the back. Who would want this beautiful Nashville cou...

Holly Williams and Bill Lanway

Heather Maples was a Texas transplant to Tennessee. She moved to Murfreesboro in January of 2015 to go to MTSU. Heather moved in with her friend Chaz and got a job at their apartment complex. She and Chaz quickly became more than friends and a relationship began. Heather would complain that Chaz was abusive and always yelling. She even said there was a physical altercation and ultimately, they broke up. She stayed at the apartment mostly because she worked there, and he moved out. In the Summ...

Heather Maples

Rose was a free spirted, hitchhiker who spent most of her time with truck drivers in the 1990’s. She loved the energy she got from the open road, seeing new places and things and being free. Originally from Grand Rapids Iowa, she loved it when she found a trucker going south. In 1991 she was 32 years old and 24 weeks pregnant. Her body was found on Saturn Parkway at the off ramp for Port Royal Road in Spring Hill, Tennessee. It would take 30 days for the police to identify the body and 30 yea...

Justice After Three Decades- The Pamela Rose Aldridge McCall Story

In February of 1992 a woman went into the Knoxville Police station, claiming she had been raped, tied up and robbed. The woman was a sex worker, and she said the night before she had met a john, and he took her into his Buick Le Sabre to a secluded area of Cahaba Lane which runs parrel with I-40. The secluded area was used by sex workers and johns. There was trash everywhere, old mattresses and used condoms all over the ground. The police officer asked the woman to take him there and when the...

Byron "Low Tax" Looper

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