Left, Right & Local
A fearless dive into backwater scandals, secrets, and power struggles, revealing how politics and corruption play out not just in Elloree, South Carolina — but in rural communities across America.
Each week, community advocate Krista Hassell and actor Timothy Gibbs unpack the good, bad and ugly aspects of small-town life in America.
Left, Right & Local
LRL Episode 008: The Tipping Point
Left Right & Local Episode 008 is the moment the dam cracks. What began as a civil lawsuit detonates into something far bigger when David Pascoe formally calls on SLED to investigate Elloree Town Hall, its police department, and the "string pullers". Suddenly, this isn’t rumor, gossip, or vendetta—it’s a criminal spotlight.
Tim and Krista tear into the allegations: interference with investigations, missing and mishandled evidence, illegal kickbacks, surveillance, and the now-infamous accusation that Jessica Darnell tried to torch the evidence room itself—a detail so unhinged it sounds fictional until you remember it’s in sworn filings. Names recur like a cursed chorus: Murphree, Ulmer, Fanning, Davis, Mann, Darnell.
This episode isn’t commentary—it’s collision. Power meets consequence. Paper trails glow in the dark. And Elloree finds itself standing at the edge of a reckoning it spent years daring the universe to deliver. The tipping point isn’t coming. It’s here.