An assistant coroner in a South Carolina county has been charged with the murder of man whose body was found last week after he’d been missing for more than a month, the Horry County Police Department said. Assistant Horry County Coroner Christopher Allen Dontell, 37, and Meagan Marie Jackson, 35, were arrested Wednesday in connectino …
A 32-year-old South Carolina man who called 911 in September to say he’d found his 16-year-old girlfriend dead was charged this week with killing her, the Island Packet reports. Cypress Noonan was found fatally shot in a room at the Forest Motel in Ridgeland on September 6 after Brian Jemal Redding called in tears to …
A 6-year-old South Carolina boy was killed early Sunday morning when he was hit by a car while he was walking alone along an east Columbia road. Kayden Valdez was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead, The State reported. An autopsy revealed he died from multiple trauma from the collision. The …
An alleged trespasser held South Carolina police at bay for nearly five hours on Saturday — only for detectives to find a body in the backyard after the suspect surrendered. York County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a home on Tom Barber Road south of Rock Hill. The trespasser was identified as Prince Demario Barber, …
A South Carolina woman skipped her murder trial this week, but a jury found her guilty anyway of killing her two newborn babies in 2017 and 2018 and dumping their bodies into the trash. Alyssa Anne Dayvault, 32, turned herself in to North Myrtle Beach Police on Friday, a day after the trial was completed, …
A 15-year-old girl returned from the women’s restroom at a South Carolina Cracker Barrel Sunday morning and told her father a man was looking at her from beneath a bathroom stall, WSPA reports. The man hadn’t exited when the girl did, so her father asked a female employee to get him out — and met …
On Tuesday, a South Carolina judge denied bond for a man accused of stabbing a police chief in the face with an ice pick in front of his home. According to WCIV, Bonneau police chief Franco Fuda said he was at home Monday when he heard a knock at the door. Fuda reportedly went outside …
Three teens charged in a crime spree that ended with the killing of a recently retired college provost last month should be tried as adults, a Charleston, South Carolina, solicitor argued Monday in court, the Charleston Post and Courier said. Tom DiLorenzo, 63, was walking with his wife, recently appointed College of Charleston provost Suzanne …
A South Carolina man has been arrested in Alabama and charged with unlawful imprisonment for forcing his 17-year-old nephew to drive him there, and he faces a murder charge back home after police found the body of his wife buried in a shallow grave. Dionicia Nava Abarca, 42, was arrested in Baldwin County, Alabama, according …
On Wednesday, authorities in South Carolina arrested a man in connection with the ongoing disappearance of a 15-year-old girl. According to the Lexington County Police Department, family members said Lilith Currier was last seen leaving her grandmother’s home in Gaston on June 26. Deputies said they believe Currier was picked up by Korraye Ford, 39, …
A 17-year-old girl is missing from her South Carolina home, and North Charleston police have asked for help finding her, WCSC reports. Amari Grant suffers from depression and a heart and lung condition, the station said, quoting a police report. Amari was last seen by her mother on June 17 at about 8:40 p.m., police …
A 22-year-old South Carolina woman has been charged with killing her father after he died 12 days after she allegedly stabbed him at their Lexington home. Deputies told WIS that Gerald Oswald died over the weekend. Geri Oswald was arrested on June 1 after she allegedly stabbed her father multiple times in the chest with …
