Byron (Low Tax) Looper
This is one of those cases that I have seen multiple episodes of different television shows and heard the story many times and yet is not one of the more than 700 cases I have blogged about. I do admit that there have been times that I have completely researched a case and put it together only to discover I have already done it and there are a few that I have done more than once on accident. I have tried to learn from those mistakes and check prior to wasting my time researching so I was a bit surprised I had not done this case. While the case itself is rather diluted and “crazy” the core motive is as old as time.... power and prestige. Byron Looper was born in Tennessee but spent much of his “growing up years” living in Georgia. At one point he entered the West Point Academy but he left before he graduated. I did not discover the reason that he left but considering later behaviors in life I wonder if this was not an early sign of things to come with him. For many years he ...