FOX Carolina Investigates

"Integrity is one of my main priorities." Chuck Wright said that on the witness stand in 2019 — under oath — during the corruption trial of a different sheriff. He was there to show how a lawman should conduct himself in office. What nobody in that courtroom knew: Wright was already stealing from the very fund meant to help his own deputies. In the seventh and final episode of FOX Caro...

It was a cold, rainy October morning when Chuck Wright walked into federal court for the first time — and for the first time in two decades, he had nothing to say.   In Episode 6 of FOX Carolina Investigates: Chuck Wright, senior investigative reporter Grace Runkel takes you inside the federal courtroom where Wright was arraigned , pleaded guilty, and began to reckon with the consequenc...

For seven weeks, Chuck Wright was nowhere to be found. No interviews. No public appearances. Just silence from the man who never said no to a camera. Then, just as suddenly as he disappeared, he was back. In Episode 5, FOX Carolina investigative reporter Grace Runkel takes you behind the scenes of the stakeout that led to Chuck Wright’s final on-camera interview — and the stunning resi...

April 1, 2025. The tip came in on the worst possible day in news — April Fools' Day. Chuck Wright was going on leave. And there might be an investigation. In Episode 4 of FOX Carolina Investigates: Chuck Wright, we pull back the curtain on how the story broke. Senior investigative reporter Grace Runkel and special projects executive producer Catie Bussmann walk you through the editorial deci...

Summer 2024. Chuck Wright had just won his sixth election with 87% of the vote. But the victory lap wouldn’t last long. In Episode 3 of FOX Carolina Investigates: Chuck Wright, the walls start closing in. It begins with a family hire — Wright’s son joins the sheriff’s office, and complaints start flooding the State Ethics Commission. Three people file grievances, including...

Before the FBI came knocking, Chuck Wright was one of the most colorful sheriffs in South Carolina history. In this episode, we pull back the curtain on what made Wright such a larger-than-life figure in Spartanburg County — and why reporters couldn't get enough of him. FOX Carolina photographer Mindy Cecil spent 17 of Wright's 20 years in office by his side, and she's got the stories to pro...

For twenty years, Chuck Wright was the law in Spartanburg County. Then the law came for him. In Season 1, Episode 1 of FOX Carolina Investigates: Chuck Wright, we go back to the very beginning — rewinding the tape to 2004, when a deputy from a small mill town pulled off a stunning political upset and became one of the most powerful men in Upstate South Carolina. He won six elections. He laun...