Unsolved Carolinas: Lawsuit Brings Renewed Hope To Family of Daniel Reed Smith

Here are three unsolved deaths for you, all related to one man, Larry Wayne Mason (“LWM”) of Elgin, SC, and his lawyer, William Tetterton, of Camden, SC.
FITSNews should be specially interested in Tetterton because he is the PERMANENT chair of the Midlands “Citizens” Committee which advises South Carolina’s (“SC”) Judicial Merit Selection Commission (“JMSC”) on judicial candidates.
LWM was born in 1945 and joined the U.S. Army without a high school diploma. Depending on the day, LWM will pretend he studied law, studied business at the University of Maryland, is a car mechanic, is a golf champion, is a DEA agent, is a chief warrant officer, is a decorated war hero, is an army CID, is a SLED-licensed private investigator, is one who “three times” “turned down” offers to be county magistrate, etc., etc., etc.
What is certain from public records is that LWM was prosecuted in the early 1990s for embezzling from the U.S. Army and for impersonating a chief warrant officer and had at least one felony conviction which carries ten years but was reversed on a technicality and not retried again.
Sometime in the 1960s, LWM married Mary Ann Loop (“MAL”) who already had a daughter, Angela, whom LWM adopted. LWM and MAP in 1968 had a son, Richard Wayne Mason (“RWM”), then divorced.
After dating some army women then retiring EXACTLY 20 years after enlisting, LWM married an Ella Faye Kizer and in 1986 had with her one son, Christopher James (“CJM”).
LWM made Ella Faye borrow money for him; then, when she was sued by at least three different creditors, Ella Faye died in May 1993 by a gunshot wound to the head fired from LWM’s gun, in LWM’s sole presence in the couple’s Richland County (“RC”) home.
Though the ballistics and GSR tests indicated the fatal shot was fired from over 18 inches, LWM insisted Ella Faye committed suicide in his presence; and SLED bought that strange story.
RWM, too, apparently never went beyond high school and never held down a job for long but, in April 2016, died like his stepmother from a single gunshot wound to the head fired from LWM’s gun in LWM’s residence in the sole presence of LWM’s concubine, Dinah Gail Steele, the owner of the home in Elgin, SC.
RWM death was again ruled a suicide without an autopsy, without ballistics, without anything and quickly cremated.
Why? Because Tetterton represented LWM in a wrongful death suit against RWM’s psychiatrist who, according to the suit, should have kept RWM as an in-patient indefinitely instead of discharging him after two weeks of inpatient treatment.
LWM and Tetterton got $250K from that psychiatrist but apparently gave none of that money to MAL who is one of RWM’s heirs.
Christopher James Mason (“CJM”) has no better history than his father or half-brother in eduction, employment, or fatherhood. CJM fathered three children out of wedlock, had several traffic and drug and alcohol arrests and at least one cocaine conviction, and hit the vehicle of a driver whose driving record was excellent.
In the middle of the motor vehicle accident lawsuit against him, CJM, like his mother Ella Faye, was said to have died.
So, two people killed by the same owner’s gun, two people dying in the middle of lawsuits against them, and no investigation, no anything, and no one (apparently other than the author of this comment) thinks all of that is strange.
For the nth time, the real power behind the throne of SC JMSC is, not lawyer legislators, but the lawyers PERMANENTLY on the “citizens” screening committees, of which William Tetterton is chair.
Will FITSNews finally look at those three deaths around one man and his lawyer?

BTW, being the grammar police, I enthusiastically applaud the lady who constantly corrects your confusing “jail” with “prison.” Jail is short-term and typically pre-trial. Prison is longer term and typically punitive after trial.
Some jails are also used for punitive short-term mis-demeanor sentences.
I also want to correct the use of “double murder,” “triple murder,” etc., which is as physically impossible as two or more consecutive life sentences. “Double murder” means murdering the same person twice, which is physically impossible because murder is the taking of a human life, which you cannot do to a person already murdered once.
The correct English is to refer, for example, to Alex Murdaugh’s (“AM”) wrongful two-murder convictions, NOT “double murder” convictions.