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Post by LadyBlue on May 8, 2004 20:55:00 GMT -5
Human remains may solve 1992 disappearance AIKEN--Authorities hope the human remains found by two college students Saturday could end a 1992 disappearance case. Aiken County Deputy Coroner Tim Carlton says evidence at the scene and information from a county investigator suggested the remains could be connected to the 12-year-old case. "It's all presumptive at this point, but we're hoping to make a positive identification," Carlton said. Hitchthingy Woods is a 2,000-acre southern forest located in the middle of the city of Aiken. Carlton would not discuss the case or the person involved in that disappearance until next of kin were notified. In May 1992, a former pressman, Paul Gregory, 32, was reported missing by his parents, Bill and Betty Gregory of Queens, N.Y., The (Aiken) Standard reported. The younger man had failed to meet his parents at his Aiken home after they arrived in the city two days earlier. The newspaper report from May 16, 1992, said Gregory's wallet, money and credit cards were found in the residence, as were his clothes and luggage. news.google.com/news/
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Post by LadyBlue on Sept 23, 2004 11:24:50 GMT -5
The Greenville County Sheriff's Office says a body found in Tennessee is thought to be that of a missing businessman, 71-year-old Jim man.
Sheriff Steve Loftis says two Tennessee residents were charged with kidnapping on Thursday morning.
Sheriff Loftis says investigators think Jennifer Holloway and David Edens, both of Sevierville, Tennessee, went to the Upstate on September 14th to meet with man about a sport utility vehicle he was selling.
The sheriff says investigators think they forced man into the vehicle and drove to Tennessee. Loftis says investigators think man died during the trip. He says man's body was placed in a freezer, which was stored at a Sevierville storage facility.
The body has not been positively identified.
Greenville County Sheriff investigators were looking for a white male, 6-feet-tall, 250 pounds with shoulder length brown hair, tattooed legs, and a full beard. They were also looking for a white female, about five-feet-seven, slender with reddish brown hair in a pony tail.
The FBI has joined the investigation at the request of the sheriff's office.
Friends of man offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a suspect.
man lived in Greenville for 19 years. man came to Greenville in 1985 as chairman and CEO of Sara Lee's PYA/Monarch division, then became chairman of Sara Lee Foodservice before retiring in 1992.
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Post by LadyBlue on Nov 9, 2004 13:27:53 GMT -5
One man is dead and a person is in custody in connection with his death in Greenwood County.
Greenwood County Sheriff Sam Riley told WYFF News 4 that a missing person report was filed for Billy Ray Adams Monday afternoon.
Later in the day, deputies investigating the disappearance found Adams' body about 200 yards behind his Highway 178 home.
Riley said it appeared that Adams had been shot in the head.
Riley said a potential suspect is in custody, but the person's name has not been released. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday.
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Post by LadyBlue on Nov 17, 2004 22:14:02 GMT -5
The Greenville County Coroner's Office says a missing hiker died hours before rescuers began a four-day search for him in Jones Gap State Park.
Deputy Coroner Chris Bryan said Wednesday that Joe Mancino died of a pelvic fracture consistent with the injuries a person might suffer in a fall.
Bryan said Mancino, 75, was found at the bottom of a rock face that had water flowing over it. Bryan said the rocks were quite slippery, and may have contributed to the fall.
Mancino left his hiking group at about 10:30 a.m. Saturday to walk back to the parking lot and was reported missing when the group returned at 2:30 p.m.
Bryan said Mancino probably fell at or around noon on Saturday and died shortly afterwards. His body was found by a search team just before noon on Tuesday.
The death has been ruled accidental.
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Post by LadyBlue on Dec 18, 2004 7:52:34 GMT -5
A massive search for a Summerville teenager ends on a happy note Friday. 15-year-old Sue-Mei Sloger was found around four in the afternoon after she went missing 23 hours before. The search was centered around a five-mile area near the girl's home in Summerville Farms on Tupalo Road.
The Dorchester County sheriff said about 100 people helped in the search efforts, which involved helicopters, four-wheelers, horses and canines.
A Lowcountry Search and Rescue dog named "Blue" found the girl about a half a mile from her home. The dog's owner, Cathy Vigotty, said the girl was hiding in a hole next to a fallen tree. Vigotty said the girl was well-covered with straw and leaves, wearing a warm coat and carrying two packed bags.
Authorities questioned the girl after finding her and determined the girl had run away from home.
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Post by LadyBlue on Nov 9, 2005 11:43:17 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Body of missing man found in wooded area[/glow] CHESTER, S.C. - The body of a Rock Hill man has been discovered in a wooded area in Chester County.
Officials said they are unsure how or when 37-year-old Otis Hall Jr. died. His body was found Monday and likely had been at the site for a couple of days, Chester County Coroner Terry Tinker said.
An autopsy was planned.
"I was riding and walking the area back in the woods, and I found him," said sheriff's Maj. James McNeil. "He was lying in an open field."
Joann Hall reported her son missing Monday morning. She last saw him Oct. 23, and talked with him two days later.
"I was praying that my baby would be safe - that he would call me," Joann Hall said. "That telephone call never came, and when the call came today, it was a call I didn't want to hear."
McNeil said Hall's death didn't appear to be a crime, but the coroner disagreed. "I don't think it's suicide," Tinker said. "It doesn't look like suicide, but we can't rule it out."
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Post by LadyBlue on Jul 21, 2006 20:48:12 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Body of missing woman found by road crew [/glow] ANDERSON, S.C. - A body found by a roadside mowing crew was that of a woman who has been missing for three weeks, the Anderson County sheriff's office said Friday.
The body of Ethel Lee Martin, 37, was found Thursday and appeared to have been there for at least a couple of weeks, investigators said.
The case is being treated as a homicide, sheriff's spokeswoman Susann Griffin said in a news release.
A cause of death had not yet been determined, Griffin said.
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Post by LadyBlue on Aug 25, 2006 5:48:32 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Cold Case Mystery: Woman's body found in Fairfield County[/glow] (Fairfield County) August 24, 2006 - Last year, a woman left work in Columbia and two months later her body was found. She may be victim number two. Ernestine Surls had a hard time accepting her death, "When I viewed her bones her remains I felt every bone there was nothing there to remind me of her. So I couldn't accept it was my child. She didn't leave me like this." Tamarra Range, 20, disappeared from Columbia last September. Two months later, deer hunters discovered her body off I-77 in Fairfield County. What happened is a mystery. Chief Deputy Keith Lewis says, "We're kind of on the trail that she was kidnapped in Richland County and brought into our county." Range was last seen at Studio 54 in Richland County. She worked as an exotic dancer. People here knew her as T.T. Investigators believe Range could be their suspect's second victim. Weeks before her disappearance, another woman was found in Fairfield County. She fought off her attacker. Lewis tells WIS, "We're currently working another investigation now where there was a woman in that same area, Studio 54 and she was kidnapped brought into Fairfield County and sexually assaulted." Investigators hope someone saw Range leave Studio 54 that morning. Her mother has questions for her killer. "Wanting to know what was her last words? Why you have to do this? What's the reason for you to do this to her?" Her mother said three weeks before her daughter's disappearance she said she wanted to stop dancing. www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5324588
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