SC Mom Sues Snapchat After 13-Year-Old Son Commits Suicide Over Sextortion Attempt
Sextortion
Human trafficking
May 26, 2024
South Carolina Parents Sell 14-Year-Old Daughter For Sex to 67-Year-Old Man for $20
A South Carolina couple have been charged with trafficking their 14-year-old daughter to a 67-year-old man for sex for $20 every time he called for her. James Wilson and April Lawrence were charged with human trafficking of a victim under 18, according to jail records. They’re being held without bond The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office …
Homicide
May 18, 2024
Deputies Investigate Murders of 2 Adults, 1 Child in Rural South Carolina
Two adults and a child were found dead in Walterboro, South Carolina in “the early morning hours of Saturday.” “At this time we can confirm this incident is being treated as a triple homicide,” the Colleton County Sheriff’s Office said. “It has been determined that this was a targeted act and is a very active investigation,” …
Murder
May 17, 2024
SC Woman Shot Dead as She Arrives at Work; Suspect Caught Hours Later in Georgia
A man suspected of gunning down a South Carolina woman as she arrived at her job Friday morning was arrested hours later in Georgia. The Anderson County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as Katy Brooke Jones, 36, an employee at NRTC Automation in Piedmont, South Carolina. Investigators say Jones arrived at work and Derek Snyder, …
Murder
May 14, 2024
Missing South Carolina Woman Died From Gunshot to the Head
A South Carolina woman found dead last week after she was reported missing in December was shot to death. Aiken County Coroner Darryl Ables said that Jamilla “Millie” Smith died from a gunshot to the head, WLTX reported. Smith and her ex-boyfriend, Daniel Gabriel Harmon, were reported missing on December 3, 2023, a day after …
Murder
May 14, 2024
Pregnant Mom of 2 Found Shot Dead in South Carolina Home
A pregnant mother of two was found shot to death in her South Carolina home Monday morning. The Sumter Police Department said family members called police shortly before 8 a.m. after finding the body of 25-year-old Keyirra Tatyana Walker. Investigators say they believe the murder was carried out in the early hours Monday morning “by …
Suicide
May 14, 2024
Investigators Call in Feds to Look Into Circumstances Surrounding Mica Miller’s Suicide
North Carolina investigators asked the FBI and the US Attorney’s Office to assist their probe into the suicide of a South Carolina woman who had previously claimed her pastor husband was abusive and manipulative. In a statement released Monday, the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office said it had been in contact with both agencies from “the …
Suicide
May 13, 2024
Mica Miller: Estranged Husband Delivers ‘Eulogy,’ Claims He Tried to Raise Her From the Dead
The pastor husband of a South Carolina woman who committed suicide after what she said were years of abuse and even grooming when she was a child delivered an emotional “eulogy” for her in which he said he tried to raise her from the dead. In a 20 minutes speech at his Solid Rock Church …
Suicide
May 10, 2024
Pastor Whose Wife Committed Suicide Threatens Legal Action Against Media Reporting
The South Carolina pastor whose wife’s suicide generated national interest released a statement through his attorney denying her accusations that he “groomed” her from the time she was 10 years old until they married 14 years later. Mica Miller, 30, made those accusations in a report to police earlier this year after John Paul Miller, …
Kidnapping
May 8, 2024
Kidnapped Toddler Injured in Fiery Crash After High-Speed Chase Across State Lines
A South Carolina dad assaulted his toddler’s mother and then took the 3-year-old child south into Georgia before crashing his car during a high-speed chase with deputies on Interstate 85. Anderson County, South Carolina, deputies pulled the toddler from the car after it burst into flames following the crash about 14 miles inside Georgia in …
child endangerment
May 8, 2024
SC Woman Arrested After She Dumped Child At Park Alone While She Went Shopping
A South Carolina woman has been charged with unlawful conduct toward a child after she left her under age 10 child alone at a park while she went grocery shopping. Irmo Police said they were called to the scene at about 7:40 p.m. on Saturday by the grandparent of another child who reporting seeing no …
Murder
April 28, 2024
Ex-Boyfriend Gets 60 Years After Woman He Killed Posts SnapChat of Him Approaching Her Car Before Murder
Donasia Holloway-Epps posted a SnapChat of her ex-boyfriend approaching her car — despite a no contact order — just moments before she was shot to death in 2021. This week, Justin Cole Carroll, 24, was found guilty of her murder and sentenced to 60 years in prison, South Carolina’s 14th Circuit Solitor’s Office reports.