South Carolina authorities are investigating after a “virtually mummified” body was found a clothing donation bin in Lugoff Saturday morning. Kershaw County Coroner David West said the body was that of a woman and that there were no signs of how she died. She likely had been there for months, WIS reported. An autopsy is …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
