Harold Whitfield - "SC's Forgotten Murder"

Upon arriving at Terrie LuAnn Johnson Upchurch's residence, a deputy sheriff got out of the car and walked around to the back of the house. The deputy sheriff's partner went to the front door. They both immediately noticed that Harold Whitfield’s white Pontiac Trans Am was not on the premises. As the deputy sheriff crept toward the rear of the house, he observed that the porch door was open on the back porch area. As he started up to the porch door, he noticed what appeared to be bloodstains on the ground. He walked on up to the porch door and gently pushed it open wider. He stepped up on the porch. He could now see what appeared to be even more bloodstains on the floor of the porch and on the inside of the rear porch door. He observed bloodstains on the doorknob going into the house as well. The back door was standing open. He could clearly see inside the house directly into the kitchen. He was now convinced that he was walking into a potential crime scene. He backed off of the porch slowly and called for detectives to converge on the house. Thus began the shocking story of a local businessman murdered by his young teenage mistress. A crime so shocking that it gripped the entire state of South Carolina during the spring of 1978 but was also as quickly forgotten due to the many trials of a serial killer, Pee Wee Gaskins, that pushed the crime off newspaper headlines. This is the shocking backstory of how a young teenage girl came to murder a businessman in the 1970s. #HaroldWhitfield #SouthCarolinaCrime #TrueCrime #ForgottenMurder #ColdCase #CrimeHistory #TrueCrimeCommunity #CrimeDocumentary