Introducing: Camp Swamp Road

介绍:沼泽营地路

The Journal.

2025-09-11

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On September 9, 2023, in rural South Carolina, a man was killed in a shootout on Camp Swamp Road. Police said that it was a clear case of self defense, but secret recordings tell a different story. In a new true crime podcast series from The Journal, WSJ reporter Valerie Bauerlein unspools a shooting that might have gone unnoticed, if not for a grieving sister’s quest to find the truth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Hey, I've got a guy pulling a gun at me driving.

  • We're armed as well.

  • He keeps throwing the gun in our faces.

  • A man is calling 911 about a reckless driver.

  • A reckless driver with a gun.

  • All right, so he's turning on to Camp Swap Road.

  • What road?

  • Camp Swap Road.

  • Seconds later, a man is shot dead.

  • No, I want to address the emergency.

  • Uh, yeah, something doesn't look right over on Camp Swamp Road.

  • I'm Valerie Borline, and I've covered the South for the Wall Street Journal for more than 20 years.

  • This shooting was deemed a justifiable homicide under South Carolina's standard ground law.

  • The police determined that the shooters acted in self-defense.

  • When I turned in here, he got out of that truck, had his pistol, he ragged it, and he was shocked.

  • Most self-defense shootings in the United States fly under the radar, but not this one.

  • because of a few key factors.

  • A police cover-up.

  • I was in the shadows last night.

  • I weren't there, but I was in the shadows.