South Carolina Teacher Ann Fox Smith’s Murder Still Unsolved, 14 Years Later
Unsolved
Missing
December 28, 2022
Police Ask for Help Finding Missing 14-Year-Old Charleston Girl
Police in Charleston, South Carolina, are looking for a 14-year-old girl who left her home on Tuesday and hasn’t been seen since. Sophie Benton frequents the Carolina Bay area in west Charleston, investigators say, according to WCSC. Police didn’t have a description of what Benton was wearing when she was last seen. Anyone with information …
Police
December 25, 2022
South Carolina Officers Catch Criminal After 8 1/2 Hour Pursuit
This may be one of the longest pursuits county sheriff’s deputies have ever conducted. Officers pulled over a driver at 8 a.m. Sunday morning in North Augusta, South Carolina. But when one requested the driver’s license, he pulled a 9 mm handgun and sped off. The officers pursued for about five or six miles, when …
Custody interference
December 20, 2022
Troopers Make Traffic Stop in Missing Child Case, Find 2nd Child Missing Since May
North Carolina state troopers on Monday rescued a 5-year-old girl who had been abducted from her school earlier in the day, only to discover a second child in the vehicle who had been abducted six months earlier. Jovan Orlando Bradshaw, 38, faces two counts of custodial interference in Rock Hill, South Carolina, WRAL reports, and …
Missing
December 1, 2022
Little Girl Missing After Mom Found Dead Spotted in North Carolina With Father
Investigators believe that a 5-year-old South Carolina girl whose mother was found dead on Thanksgiving Day has been taken by her father to North Carolina. The Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office says that 46-year-old Crystal Jumper, little Aspen Jeter’s mother, was shot to death, the Charleston Post and Courier reported. While police have not named her …
Missing
November 29, 2022
5-Year-Old Girl, Missing Since Mother Was Found Dead, Needs Medical Care
South Carolina authorities are still searching for a 5-year-old girl who is missing after her mother was found dead in her home on Thanksgiving Day. Family members have identified the little girl’s mother as Crystal Jumper, who was found in bed with a gunshot wound, WIS reported. What’s more, the station reported, the little girl …
Missing
November 25, 2022
5-Year-Old South Carolina Girl Missing After Mother Found Dead
A 5-year-old girl is missing after South Carolina deputies conducting a welfare check on Thursday found the girl’s mother dead. Orangeburg County deputies said the woman, who has not been named, hadn’t been heard from since November 1, WCSC reported. They later learned that the woman had a daughter, Aspen Jeter, who was not found …
Child Abuse
November 24, 2022
South Carolina Parents Leave Toddler Son Home Alone While They’re in New York
A South Carolina couple was arrested this week after they reportedly left their 2-year-old son home alone while they went to New York. Charleston Police said they were called to an apartment complex on Folly Road at about 2 p.m. on November 17 by someone who reported a toddler alone in an apartment, WCBD reported. …
Fraud
November 23, 2022
Alex Murdaugh’s Banker Found Guilty of Wire and Bank Fraud
A South Carolina banker has been found guilty for his part in disgraced South Carolina legal scion Alex Murdaugh’s schemes to defraud clients of parts of their legal settlements. A federal jury convicted former Palmetto State Bank CEO Russell Laffitte on wire and bank fraud charges. Each of the six charges carries a maximum sentence …
Family Crime
November 6, 2022
Prosecutors Shift Timeline of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh’s Murders
New court documents filed earlier this week change the timeline of the deaths of Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and her 22-year-old son Paul Murdaugh, whose bodies were found on the legal scion family’s hunting property in Colleton County, South Carolina, on June 7, 2021. Alex Murdaugh, Maggie’s husband and Paul’s father, has been charged with their …
Murder
October 12, 2022
Suspect in 5 South Carolina Murders Caught in Georgia
The suspect in the shooting deaths of five people in a South Carolina home on Sunday was arrested early Monday in Georgia. As CrimeOnline previously reported, investigators found four people dead at the Inman home early Sunday evening. A fifth person was taken to a hospital, where he died from his injuries. All of the …
Murder
October 11, 2022
South Carolina Man Charged in Shooting Deaths of His Parents and a Cousin
Three members of a South Carolina family were shot to death over the weekend, one of them a council member in the historic African American community of Atlantic Beach. James DeWitt II and Gloria DeWitt, both 52, were found dead at their home in Columbia. The third victim was Natasha Stevens, also 52, of Conway, …