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	Byron Looper, bizarre Tennessee political assassin, murdered his opponent to win election --- The Crime Library - The ...
		Looper confessed that he was looking for a gun, something that was concealable in a crowd and was accurate, Bond said.
		Looper told her that wasn't what he meant.
		Whether it was Looper's abrasive personality or some Machiavellian scheme whose ultimate goal was known only to him that caused him to run through six attorneys in his murder case, the high turnover came back to haunt him on the day his defense attorneys opened their case.
	www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/classics/byron_looper/14.html (3986 words)

	Byron Looper at AllExperts
		Byron (Low Tax) Looper (born 1964), a former politician, is an inmate in the Tennessee state penal system.
		Looper was born Byron Anthony Looper in Putnam County, Tennessee.
		Looper made a court appearance on October 12, 2004 in which he requested a new trial, but the request was denied.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/by/byron_looper.htm (1461 words)

	Byron Looper (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Byron "Low Tax" Looper (born 1964), a former politician, is an inmate in the Tennessee state penal system.
		Looper was born Byron Anthony Looper in Putnam County, Tennessee.
		Looper, for his part, holed up with Bond for a brief while, talking a great deal about how he had murdered his Senate opponent and how he needed to, among other things, change the tires on the car he had used in the murder, and stash the car (which he had just purchased) someplace.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Byron_Looper.html (1308 words)

	Byron Looper (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In March of 1998, Looper was indicted on 14 counts of official misconduct, theft of services and official oppression.
		In 1998, Looper sought the Republican nominations for United States House of Representatives and Tennessee State Senate in the same primary.
		Looper made a court appearance on October 12, 2004 in which he requested a new trial, but observers see little reason to expect that this request will be granted.
	www.mywiseowl.com /articles/Byron_Looper (1268 words)

	Republican candidate arrested for murdering opponent
		Byron Looper, 34, was arrested without incident as he returned to his home in Cookeville early Friday morning.
		Byron Looper returned to Tennessee in 1992, ran for the state legislature and lost in 1994, then won his bid to become Putnam County tax assessor in 1996.
		Looper sought the Republican nominations for US House of Representatives and state senate in the same primary, losing the House nomination to a rival candidate backed by the state party, but winning the state senate nomination by default.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/oct1998/rep-o24.shtml (644 words)

	Niagara Falls Reporter Opinion
		In 1996, Looper had his middle name legally changed to "Low Tax" and ran against the county assessor, who he claimed was illegally rigging assessments to favor his friends, a group Looper dubbed a "good ol' boys" network and which he said controlled the county and, indeed, the rest of the state.
		By 1998, even Looper's strongest supporters were abandoning him, but in his disturbed mind, the county assessor's office was simply a stepping stone for a spectacular political career that would one day see him elected governor, or maybe even take him to Washington as a member of Congress.
		From behind bars, Looper continued to direct his political campaign, placing ads in the local newspapers and claiming the murder charge against him was yet another attempt by the "good ol' boys" to derail his crusade for better government.
	www.niagarafallsreporter.com /column263.html (1777 words)

	Looper Trial
		Meanwhile, Looper's lawyer, Ron Cordova, told jurors that Looper could not have won the election by default by killing Burks, against whom he was running for senate, because state law at that time stated that when a candidate dies or is disqualified, the election goes to the write in candidate with the most votes.
		If Looper is acquitted, Gibson, Abston, Coomer and the rest of the power abusers will have faced opposition that may destroy their racketeering efforts to steal, cheat and lie to further their criminal acts.
		Byron Looper, left, listens to prosecutors' opening statements in his murder trial with his attorneys McCracken Poston, background, and Ron Cordova.
	www.putnampit.com /looper/loopertrial.html (1596 words)

	Cabbage Looper, Trichoplusia ni (Hübner) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
		The forewings of the cabbage looper moth are mottled gray-brown in color; the hind wings are light brown at the base, with the distal portions dark brown.
		Cabbage loopers are leaf feeders, and in the first three instars they confine their feeding to the lower leaf surface, leaving the upper surface intact.
		Hofmaster (1961) reported that looper populations in Virginia were highest during dry weather because rainfall assisted the spread of NPV, and that this virus greatly suppressed loopers.
	edis.ifas.ufl.edu /IN273 (2815 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Byron (Low Tax) Looper (Born Byron Anthony Looper on September 15, 1964 in Putnam County, Tennessee), is a former politician, who is currently an inmate in the Tennessee state penal system.
		Looper attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for three years, but was given an honorable discharge following a serious knee injury.
		To counter Looper's potential election on a technicality, Burks' widow, Charlotte, ran a write-in campaign for the seat.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Byron_Looper (1364 words)

	Ballot to bullet - November 2, 1998
		Looper was a perennial also-ran in local politics.
		This time Looper was running as a Republican, trying to attract attention by legally changing his middle name from Anthony to (Low Tax).
		Looper is already under indictment on charges of misuse of office and, in June, had been slapped with a $1.2 million paternity suit by his live-in girlfriend.
	edition.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/time/1998/10/26/tn.gop.html (357 words)

	Question: Looper (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And so Looper did what was only logical: he changed his middle name to "(Low Tax)," and shot Burks in the head.
		looper' at the 1966 Nationals and came back to the water to win the overall title." "At Moomba in the mid-1980s Mike Hazelwood hit a sitting duck during his counter-cut - at over 60 mph.
		loopers, flea beetles, leafhoppers and leaf miners are some of the insects that attack lettuce, but slug are the most notorious for loving lettuce.
	www.answer.co.za /looper (276 words)

	Court TV Online - T R I A L S
		After returning the guilty verdict on first-degree murder, Looper, 34, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
		According to prosecutors, Looper so desired the seat that he went to Burks' hog and tobacco farm and shot him once in the head.
		Relying on testimony from Looper's mother, Reba, and her neighbors, they tried to prove that Looper was at his mother's home when Burks was shot.
	www.courttv.com /archive/trials/news/0800/24_lowtax_ap.html (527 words)

	Byron Looper stargate Byron Looper
		On election day, Charlotte Burks, as a write-in candidate, won 30,252 votes to Looper's 1,531, and also received several write-in votes for governor and the House of Representatives.
		By this time, inmate road crews had found the weapon apparently used by Looper to commit the murder.
		When Looper was the Putnam County Tax Assessor, Kyanka had almost taken a summer job with him.
	www.find-ask.com /Encyclopedia/Byron_Looper/Byron_Looper.html (1378 words)

	Who is Byron Looper? - Blurtit
		Byron Anthony Looper was born on the 15th of September in the year 1964, in Putnam County, Tennessee.
		Looper was in the U.S Military academy but was honorably discharged because of a knee injury that he received.
		Byron or ‘Low Tax’ Looper was born as Byron Anthony Looper on the 15th of September, 1964, in Tennessee.
	www.blurtit.com /q496576.html (583 words)

	Doc's DIS-Patch
		Looper was also involved in a fistfight between one of his employees and a taxpayer.
		The misuse of office charges involve allegations that Looper asked a local developer for a campaign contribution, saying he would be able to reduce property taxes, and then jacking up the tax assessment on property owned by the developer's parents not long after the developer declined to make a contribution.
		Face it -- Looper would seem to be the poster child for so many conservative positions -- his alleged conduct presumes support of less regulation of campaign finance, a return to the good old days when women were chattel and not voters, and, of course, the right to bear arms.
	www.americanpolitics.com /102298DISpatch.html (870 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Opponent Charged With Tenn. Lawmaker's Murder
		Looper, who was last seen Sunday night, has not shown up all week for work at the courthouse and telephone calls to his Cooke-ville home have gone unanswered.
		In his political ambitions, Looper, who is in his late thirties, did not appear to seek the blessings of the political power structure.
		Looper earlier this year launched an unsuccessful campaign for the Republican nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives seat held by Democrat Bart Gordon, at the same time putting his name on the ballot to challenge Burks for the state Senate seat.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/campaigns/keyraces98/stories/candidate102398.htm (926 words)

	John Montgomery Presents - The Creep of the Week - 10/24/98 - Byron Looper (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This week, Byron Looper, the Tax Assessor in Putnam County, Tennessee and Republican candidate for State Senator, was arrested for murdering his opponent, incumbent Senator Tommy Burks.
		Byron is accused of blowing Tommy's head off while Tommy sat in his pickup truck getting ready to give some children a tour of the pumpkin patch on his hog farm.
		Byron was seen driving from the scene, and then disappeared for three days while his lawyer had to tell the press that no, Byron had nothing to do with the killing, but yes, it was mighty peculiar that he happened to pick this particular time to drop from sight.
	www.johnmonty.com /cotw/cw981024.htm (614 words)

	CNN.com - Election opponent found guilty in murder of state senator - August 23, 2000
		Byron (Low Tax) Looper, 35, was sentenced to life in prison without parole by the same jury that convicted him in the death of state Sen. Tommy Burks, the clear favorite to win the 1998 election.
		Defense attorneys relied on the testimony of Looper's mother and her neighbors to try to prove Looper's innocence.
		Looper, who legally changed his middle name from Anthony to (Low Tax), was the Putnam County property assessor when he was charged with Burks' murder.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/US/08/23/senator.killed.ap (423 words)

	Chile steps up efforts to secure Pinochet release, but wants him to leave politics Russia, China criticize NATO ...
		Byron Looper, 34, was jailed without bail in the slaying of Sen. Tommy Burks, who was shot at close range in the head Monday in a pickup truck on his hog farm.
		Looper's lawyer, Lionel Barrett, told WHBQ-TV in Memphis that the case is bizarre and "almost has the elements of a made-for-movie-type situation." Looper, the property assessor in neighboring Putnam County, already faces a December trial on charges of theft and misusing his office.
		The other would delete the requirement that state prisons be "comfortable." Looper got the Republican nomination for the state Senate because nobody else ran for it.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=9449 (1878 words)

	Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - Political murder case goes to trial
		Looper, who at the time was the property assessor in Putnam County, was challenging longtime incumbent Burks for his Senate seat when Burks was shot and killed on his farm.
		"Byron Looper is a man obsessed with the burning desire for power and public office," District Attorney Bill Gibson said.
		He also contended Looper, 35, had no reason to kill Burks because he knew Burks' widow would get the seat if Burks died, which happened when Charlotte Burks overwhelmingly won a write-in campaign that November.
	www.caller2.com /2000/august/15/today/national/2001.html (180 words)

	Houston - News - Letters - houstonpress.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Byron Looper is not the only Republican official in the county.
		Looper apparently decided he was a Republican after getting into a dispute with his family over the mishandling of his late father's estate.
		After Looper was ordered by the court to pay back some of the money he had misappropriated from the estate, Looper turned Republican to run against the Democrat.
	www.houston-press.com /Issues/1998-11-26/news/letters_2.html (1209 words)

	Tommy Burks
		Burks opposed evolution science (twice introducing legislation to restrict its teaching), legal abortion, gambling, and a state lottery.
		He was murdered by his Republican party opponent Byron Looper less than a month before his likely re-election, in which his wife Charlotte Burks became the first Tennessee State Senator to win as a write-in candidate.
		Interstate 40 through Putnam and Cumberland counties is named the "Tommy Burks Memorial Highway".
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/t/to/tommy_burks.html (129 words)

	CNN.com - Election opponent found guilty in murder of state senator - August 24, 2000
		A jury convicted Byron (Low Tax) Looper, in the murder of state Sen. Tommy Burks, who was the clear favorite to win the 1998 election.
		Defense attorneys relied on the testimony of Looper's mother and her neighbors to try to prove Looper's innocence.
		Looper, who legally changed his middle name from Anthony to (Low Tax), was the Putnam County property assessor when he was charged with Burks' murder.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/24/senatorkilled.ap/index.html (489 words)

	Murdering Your Opponent Poor Campaign Strategy, Republicans Concede! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Byron "Low Tax" Looper, a GOP candidate for the Tennessee state senate, is being asked to withdraw his bid to unseat Sen. Tommy Burks, a four-term incumbent first elected in 1978.
		Looper's longshot bid to defeat Burks was seemingly helped by the shooting death of the senator at his Upper Cumberland hog farm on Oct. 19, since it leaves him as the only candidate on the ballot.
		Looper suffered a setback on Friday when the Cumberland County Sheriff's Department charged him with first-degree murder in the Burks killing.
	www.drudge.com /1998/19981026.htm (423 words)

	Dalton Roberts
		Be suspicious of any politician who reaches inside your bile ducts and plays with your prejudices or tells you nothing but the good stuff -- one who has studied what you want and put together a platform to give it all to you.
		He legally changed his name to “Low Tax” when he was running for tax assessor and under Tennessee law tax assessors have nothing at all to do with setting tax rates.
		Someone asked a voter how he felt about ignorance and apathy and he said, “I don’t know and I don’t care.” It’s just a joke but it is not a joke that only a healthy regard for honesty and political skills in candidates can save us from our own lethargy.
	www.daltonroberts.com /Archivestimesfreepress/2004/1-9-04canwebesavedfromourselves.htm (624 words)

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