Valerie Bauerlein
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Hannah connected with Williams after she got off work at a Halloween store.
This sounded so familiar to me.
I heard that same shock and confusion from Scott Spivey's family when they learned his killing wasn't a crime.
Families don't understand how a homicide case could be closed without a judge or jury involved.
And there's anger that the killer gets to walk free.
Here's Williams on the phone with Hannah a few weeks later.
Before we go, there's an update on the Scott Spivey case.
When we left off in Episode 4 of Camp Swamp Road, South Carolina's Attorney General Alan Wilson had issued a public statement.
That statement reaffirmed his decision to close the Scott Spivey case, despite the evidence that had surfaced through Jennifer's civil suit against Weldon Boyd and Bradley Williams.
Jennifer was devastated.
When I asked Alan Wilson about the statement, he doubled down.
Jennifer thought her campaign to reopen a criminal investigation into her brother's killing was over.
But then, just days after my interview with Alan Wilson was released, a letter hit the news.
Publicly, at least, it didn't appear that anything had changed about the facts of the case.
I asked Wilson's office what was behind the decision to appoint a special prosecutor.
A spokeswoman said that it was because a related investigation into misconduct at the Horry County Police Department was wrapping up.
The AG's letter asked the special prosecutor to review that alleged misconduct.
But it did something else, too.