Town note
The area was first settled by the Cherokee, who sided with the British during the American Revolution; after the war their land was acquired as war reparations.
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FILE 124 / 20 June 2019 / 147 MIN / full
We're going down into Townville, South Carolina ... This town is in Anderson County. about 0:05:34
The area was first settled by the Cherokee, who sided with the British during the American Revolution; after the war their land was acquired as war reparations.
about 0:07:21In 1791 the South Carolina legislature created the Washington District out of Greenville, Anderson, Oconee and Pickens counties, but Townville was never incorporated.
about 0:09:00Anderson is named after Robert Anderson, a Revolutionary War soldier who explored the region in the mid-eighteenth century.
about 0:09:42The Johnson Female Seminary was founded in 1851 and named after William Johnson.
about 0:10:13The area was first settled by the Cherokee, who sided with the British during the American Revolution; after the war their land was acquired as war reparations.
about 0:07:21In 1791 the South Carolina legislature created the Washington District out of Greenville, Anderson, Oconee and Pickens counties, but Townville was never incorporated.
about 0:09:00Anderson is named after Robert Anderson, a Revolutionary War soldier who explored the region in the mid-eighteenth century.
about 0:09:42The Johnson Female Seminary was founded in 1851 and named after William Johnson.
about 0:10:13During the Civil War the seminary, by then Johnson University, was closed and converted into a Confederate treasury.
about 0:11:32A Union garrison was stationed in the area after the Civil War.
about 0:12:02Anderson became one of the first cities in the South-East to have electricity and called itself the Electric City.
about 0:12:11William Whitner established electricity in the town in 1889 with a hydroelectric plant on the Rocky River.
about 0:12:44Anderson was the first city in the world to supply a cotton gin with electricity.
about 0:13:33In 1897 the power plant was upgraded with a large generating station, and Portman Shoals became the first hydroelectric plant in the United States to generate high voltage without step-up transformers.
about 0:14:14The Portman Dam was swept away in 1901 and Anderson was in darkness until it was rebuilt in 1902.
about 0:15:06Anderson College was established in 1911 by the Anderson Chamber of Commerce as a successor to the Johnson Female Seminary and was affiliated with the South Carolina Baptist Convention.
about 0:15:53Anderson College became co-educational in 1930 and was renamed Anderson University in 2006.
about 0:16:39A 1925-26 assessment of Anderson County recorded twelve accredited high schools and public school enrolment of 14,838 white children and 6,395 coloured children.
about 0:17:11Eight car loads of poultry were shipped from the county during the autumn and winter of 1925-26.
about 0:18:33Jim Rice, the Boston Red Sox power hitter and Hall of Famer, is from the area.
about 0:19:06Larry Nance, the sportscaster, is also from the area.
about 0:19:20A 14-year-old carried out a school shooting in Townville, killing his father and a first grader, after writing in his diary that he hoped to kill fifty or sixty people.
about 0:19:5866%
Biggest faith: Baptist, 45%
about 0:24:25White 96% · Black 1.84% · Asian 0.0% · Hispanic 0.14%
Ethnicity can overlap race.Property crime
slightly high, but pretty much at average
Violent crime
right at average
Three-bedroom, two-bath house, 1,500 square feet
about 0:27:23New three-bedroom, three-bath house, 2,800 square feet
about 0:27:35Three-bedroom, three-bath lake house, 3,765 square feet
about 0:28:05"slightly high, but pretty much at average"
Comparison: "average". Direction: about the same.
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"right at average"
Comparison: "average". Direction: about the same.
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"4,177"
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"up 62% since 1990"
Comparison: "1990". Direction: above.
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"47.8"
Comparison: "ten years older than normal". Direction: above.
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"96%"
Comparison: "normally about 62%". No direction stated.
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"1.84%"
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"0.0%"
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"0.14%"
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"26%"
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"70%"
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"66%"
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"45%"
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"0.0%"
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"0.0%"
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"$54,000"
Comparison: "$57,500 is normal". No direction stated.
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"twice as many manufacturing jobs as normal"
Comparison: "average town". Direction: above.
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"106"
Comparison: "100 being the regular average". Direction: above.
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"121"
Comparison: "100 being the regular average". Direction: above.
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"$233,800"
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"10%"
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"$880"
Comparison: "$400 below the national average". Direction: below.
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"$192,900"
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"$329,000"
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"$535,000"
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4.1 / 5 · average of 1
“The main thing to do in Townville and the place to buy party supplies.”about 0:29:09
He married Michelle in early 1993.
That same day Clemson students rented Traditions for a private weekend party, and the bar's septic tank was blocked. Zastro suggested that the Walters brothers, who set up mobile homes for a living, could repair it. That Friday night the brothers and a dozen other people gathered at Traditions, built a bonfire and spent the night drinking beer, smoking marijuana and using methamphetamine. The tank was never fixed. The same group partied at the bar again on Saturday, 15 November.
On Sunday, 16 November, Shane Walters and his wife Vicky had friends at their trailer to watch a car race on television. They drove to the house of Tammy Steele, where the party continued. Tammy later said that she and Stacy had sex while the others were away and that the condom broke and could not be found. The party at Tammy Steele's house went on until after five in the morning.
What happened in the field is disputed. He said Stacy then handed Shane a cassette case holding four lines of powder and passed it to him.
The forensic evidence told a different story. All three had been shot in the head at close range inside the cab. Shane Walters had six gunshot wounds, including a fatal shot to the back of the head. Stacy Walters was shot in the right temple and the right cheek, either of which was fatal. Sonya Khan was shot three times, including through the right temple and through the left eye. The state's pathologist, Brett Woodard, found that the wounds that killed Shane and Sonya, and at least one of Sonya's head wounds, were inflicted after they were lying on the ground outside the truck, and that Shane and Stacy had been kicked and stamped on. Shane's unloaded hunting rifle was under the back seat. Sonya's purse held two unopened pocket knives and Shane had an unopened folding knife in his pocket.
Stacy Walters' autopsy also showed that he was wearing a condom when he died.
Wade Khan testified that the truck had returned to his family's house about half an hour after collecting his sister and then left again.
At the retrial in March 2004 the defence ran the same case. Sheriff Taylor testified that Ronnie had been an international drug smuggler dealing in cocaine and marijuana with connections to violent drug lords, but on cross-examination he said that Ronnie had been careful, had left the drug business by 1991 and had never dealt in methamphetamine, and that there was no evidence the Walters brothers knew him.
His sister Lorie and his wife Michelle continued to proclaim his innocence. Sonya Khan's mother, Deborah Burnham, and the Walters brothers' father, Lawrence Walters, spoke of their grief and of the photographs and hospital memories they could not forget.
In 2009 vandals damaged Sonya Khan's grave at a church cemetery, breaking a cement angel and a solar-powered cross; her mother believed the damage was a message to her.
November 1997 / a kudzu field overlooking Lake Hartwell, Anderson County, South Carolina
As told in the episode, on 20 June 2019.
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