He Posted 693 Bodies on Facebook. Florence County Closed the Case Six Times.
About this episode
This episode discusses the case of Jason Roger Pope, who evaded justice for years while exploiting Black girls and women in Florence County.
In 1996 a South Carolina court convicted a man of promoting the prostitution of a child and sent him home with a suspended sentence. Over the next twenty-three years he filed flyers, built a DJ reputation, and accessed hundreds of Black girls and women across Florence County while law enforcement closed case after case, marked reports unfounded, and watched evidence walk in and out of their offices without making a single arrest that stuck. In 2011 a thirteen year old girl sat in a hospital and told a deputy she was afraid she had been exposed to HIV by a thirty-four year old man who paid her for sex. The case was marked unfounded. In 2018 a family member put a phone with evidence directly into a deputy's hands. The case was administratively closed. That same year six SD cards were found in a sock in his bedroom drawer while two underage girls were inside his home. He was charged with marijuana possession. He went home. His name was Jason Roger Pope. On his own Facebook page he wrote that he had six hundred and ninety-three bodies. All Black females. This is Black true crime. This is a Black women story. This is what institutional indifference looks like when it has twenty-three…
People in this episode
Host: Samant
Topics covered
- true crime
- institutional indifference
- Black women's stories
- law enforcement failures
- prostitution
- HIV exposure
- missing persons
Keywords
- Jason Roger Pope
- Florence County
- Black girls
- true crime
- law enforcement
- prostitution
- HIV
- institutional indifference
Mentioned in this episode
Places: South Carolina, Florence County
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