Disappearance of Tilwanda "Tiwana" Denise Cheatham

On August 11, 1989, 8-year-old Tilwanda Cheatham was angry with her mother because she made her come home while visiting her relatives. Tilwanda would take change from a jar in their kitchen. She then left her home on Jack Jones St. in Aiken, South Carolina. At 5:30 pm she was seen by two neighbors at the Quik Stop a few blocks from her home. However, this was the last time she was seen.

It's unknown what had happened to Tilwanda, but her Grandmother was suspected of knowing. She was arrested and charged with obstructing justice in the case. Police stated that her grandmother had lied to police many times as if trying to cover up what had happened. However, she is not suspected of causing the disappearance. It is possible that Tilwanda was living with relatives, but there were no leads in that theory. She also had a habit of running away from home. She may have been kidnapped.

Some sources have her name as Tiwana.

Tilwanda is a black female and was 8 years old at the time. She was 4'1" and 70 lbs at the time. She has black hair and brown eyes. At the time her hair was in braids. She has a dark patch of skin on either her left arm or left leg. At the time she was wearing a white top, red flower shorts, and white tennis shoes.

SOURCES:
NamUs
Missing and Exploited Children
Charley Project

Disappearance of Lisa Farmer

On July 31, 1983 18-year-old Lisa Farmer, Her Husband and their one-year-old moved into their new home in Lawton, Oklahoma. On August 2, 1983, Lisa's husband would leave for a military training exercise. This was the first night here they spent without him. At 8:30 pm that night Lisa would be last seen by her neighbor in her kitchen.

The next morning the baby could be heard screaming. They would check up on the baby to find him alone in the home. The baby was hungry and was wearing a soiled diaper. Lisa was nowhere in sight. The back door was unlocked and a window in the dining room was open. All of her belongings were still in the home and the only piece of clothing missing was a flower print nightgown she was likely wearing. There was no indications of a struggle, however.

Lisa grew up in Union, South Carolina. Her maiden name was Watkins.

Lisa is a biracial female White and Native American. She is 5'6" and 115 lbs. She has brown hair and hazel eyes. She has a scar on her hip, tongue, right ankle/instep, and under the toes on her left foot. She may wear eyeglasses and was wearing a gold chain, a floating heart necklace, and a gold wedding band with a diamond solitaire and may have been wearing a flower-patterned nightgown.

SOURCES:
NamUs
Charley Project

Disappearance of Dustin Phillip Eubanks

On June 20, 2022, 39-year-old Dustin Eubanks was last seen when he was dropped off by an acquaintance on Freys Drive in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He would be reported missing on July 7th.

Dustin is a white male and was 39 years old at the time. He's 5'9' and 140 lbs. He has brown hair and brown eyes. He has a seizure disorder and takes medicine for it.

SOURCES:

NamUs

ABC 13 News August 3, 2022

Murder of Richard Hurley

At 07:30pm on December 18, 2014, 62-year-old Richard Hurley was jogging in Simpsonville, South Carolina. When he was walking in the intersection of Davenport Rd and Foxfire Dr was hit by a Jeep Cherokee. They did not stop and check on him. Richard was unconscious when found, but later died at the hospital. 

The vehicle was described as a 1999 to 2003 Jeep Cherokee. The color is unknown and may have had a left-handed steering column, but that is unknown. Damage of the Jeep should be in the front grille area.

SOURCES:

Simpsonville, South Carolina

Uncovered

WYFF December 24, 2014

October 6, 2011 Charleston County, South Carolina Jane Doe

On October 6, 2011 left femur on unknown provenience in Charleston County, South Carolina. 

Jane Doe is a female between 20 to 60-years-old. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Disappearance of Antwon Bernito Williams

On August 24, 1998, 20-year-old Antwon Williams was last seen leaving the 3800 block of North Dame Court in Charleston, South Carolina in his father's car. The next day the car was found abandoned on Cosgrove Bridge. It was still running with the hazard light on, but no sight of Antwon around.

Antwon is a black male and was 20-years-old at the time. He's 5'9" and 140 lbs. He has black hair and brown hair. He has the tattoo "Tony" on his arm. He was wearing a Jersey with a blue and yellow "Indiana" logo, blue shorts, and white athletic shoes.

SOURCES:

NamUs

National Missing Person Directory

Doe Network

Charley Project

Disappearance of Phyllis Gilliam

On August 16, 1971, 11-year-old Phyllis Gilliam was last seen leaving her grandmother's apartment in the 2100 block of Saxon Plaza in Columbia, South Carolina. She was supposed to go to the laundromat on Read St. One witness stated that they had seen her leave the cleaners and headed towards Two Notch Rd at 2:30 pm. By September friends, neighbors, and family would place a $450 reward for information on where Phyllis was. This was however fruitless as she was never seen again.

Her family said that Phyllis would not had gotten into a car with someone she did not know. It would be likely if someone did make her get into one she would have fought. 

Phyllis is a black female and was 11-years-old at the time. At the time she was 4'0" and 65 lbs. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a black and white dress at the time.

SOURCES:
NamUs
Charley Project

The Columbia Record September 2, 1971

The Columbia Record November 4, 1971 .

Murder of Myrtle Jackson

On July 16, 1977, A Volkswagon was found running on 15 Spruce St. in Greenville, South Carolina. Inside was 27-year-old Myrtle Jackson. She was slumped over in the driver's seat dead from a gunshot wound to the head. 

At the time Myrtle also used the last name Grant or went by Mrs. Kenneth Grant. 

SOURCES:

Greenville Police Department

Murder of Corine Sanders

On December 17, 2009 two men would break into 57-year-old Corine Sanders home on Wesley Grove Rd in Cordova, South Carolina. It's believed that they chose a house at random and were surprised that Corine was home. They would then beat her to death to possibly keep their identities unknown. 

SOURCES:

Orangeburg Sheriff's Office

WIS NEWS December 17, 2009

WIS NEWS December 18, 2009

Murder of Sheila Patterson Manley

Between 12:30 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. on December 11, 1996, 34-year-old Sheila Manley was last seen walking on Frontage Rd.near the Flying J Travel Plaza in Blackburg, South Carolina. Around 2:30 a.m. Sheila's body would be found on the South Bound entrance ram off I-85 at the 99-mile marker (Highway 5). 

SOURCES: 

Cherokee County Sheriff's Office

Parents of Murdered Children

Find a Grave

Murder of James Terrell Young

Around 10 p.m. on Feb. 29, 2008, James Young was killed in his apartment on Stone Creek Sr. Boiling Springs, South Carolina. He was shot and killed during a robbery in his home by 3 masked intruders. 

SOURCES:

Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office

Go Upstate

Murder of James Floyd Hindman

 

On July 12, 1988, 24-year-old James Hindman was reported missing. At the time he was living at 594 Jordan Rd. in Greer, South Carolina. On October 23, 1988, his remains were in a wooded area on Becky Gibson rd which was not far from his home. He had been shot in the head. 

SOURCES:

Spartanburg Sheriff

Group State

The Greenville News October 27, 1988

Murder of Regina Canzater

 

On September 27, 1992, Regina Canzater was found in a ditch along the railroad tracks on West Beltine Blvd in Columbia, South Carolina. She had been strangled to death. Regina would walk on the path where she was found constantly to get to and from her home to her daughter's home at the Colony Apartments from her home at the Jagers Terrace Apartments.


SOURCES:

Richland County Sheriff's Office

News 19

WIS News

Murder of Claudette Young

 

17-year-old Claudette Young was last seen on April 16, 1993, and was reported missing by her mother on May 5th. Her body would be found on July 16, 1993, in a wooded field near Clarkson Rd and Weston Rd in lower Richland County, South Carolina. 

There is little information in this case. 

SOURCES:

Richland County Sheriff's Department

Murder of Silene Eaddy

 

On April 15, 2004, around 7 to 7:30 p.m.15-year-old Silene Eaddy left her home in Hopkins, South Carolina. She was supposed to walk around the corner to the neighbors home. It was unknown where she went and what she was doing.

Fire Fighters would respond to a brush fire at a wooded area at the intersection of Pincushion and Montgomery Roads on April 17th. They would discover a girl lying face down who had been set on fire. It had been Silene. She had been beaten and her lungs had soot in them leading them to believe she was still alive when she was set on fire. Investigators believe that she knew the person or persons who killed her. It's believed that she was set on fire to destroy evidence.

She was described as a "sweet, but lost child" and seemed to have changed after her foster father died. Friends would look for advice from her. She wanted to find her biological mom and didn't feel she fit in. She had run away several times from home. She was starting to hang around the wrong people.

SOURCES:

Richland County Sheriff's Department

The State

WIS News 10

Murder of Laymond Lee Drummond

On May 8, 2000, at 1 p.m. the body of 50-year-old Laymond Drummond was found in his truck in the parking lot of the nightclub Ma & Me in Greer, South Carolina. Someone had shot Laymond in the head in the vehicle. The shooting had to of happened between 9 a.m. and 1p.m. as he was seen by his family that morning. 

SOURCES:

Spartanburg Sheriff

Greenville News May 9, 2000

Murder of Virginia Williams

On April 16, 1964, 13-year-old Virginia Williams was walking to work In Columbia, South Carolina. She never returned home and was reported missing. Three days later a man named E.D. Johnson learned of her disappearance and told the family that he saw her on the day she disappeared and hear a scream afterward, but didn't think anything of it. 

He led her two older sisters to the area he last saw Virginia. One of them was holding a jar of ice water in case Virginia was thirsty and hurt.  He took them to the woods that lined the railroad track. They would find Virginia's body.

She had been raped, strangled with a piece of her clothing, and stabbed. A ring that was given to her was taken. It's believed that while walking on the tracks she was grabbed and dragged into the woods and attacked. 

SOURCES:
Richland County Sheriff's Department
The State
The State
WIS News

March 3, 1981 Columbia, South Carolina John Doe

On March 3, 1981, the body of a man was found by SCE & G employees floating next to the Gervais St. Bridge at the SCE & G plant in downtown Columbia, South Carolina. He had been dead for days.  The man was White between 35 and 45 years-old. He was 5'5" and weight is unknown. Dark brown medium hair and light facial hair. He was missing two front teeth #7 and #8. He was wearing a t-shirt, jeans, and leather work boots.

SOURCES:
NamUs
Doe Network
Unidentified Wiki

Murder of Thomas, Mary and David Johnson

On Jan. 9, 1993 Elderly couple Mary (77) and Thomas (81)  Johnson and their son David (43) were found stabbed to death in their Clifton, South Carolina home. Their bodies were found in the downstairs bedroom where they slept. The victims were all stabbed to death with multiple wounds. It was also found that they suffered from broken ribs and died within minutes each other. There were bloodstains in several places in the home. It was found in the den around the telephone, the kitchen and on a chair. The motive of the murder seems unknown.

SOURCES:
Spartanburg Sheriffs 
Group State

Murder of Michael Andrew Hinson

On the night of September 12, 1970, 17-year-old Michael Hinson attended a Dorman High School football game. The 11th grader and his friends went to buy beer at the Ice House on Howard Street in Spartanburg, South Carolina. One of them had a fake I.D. and planned to drink the beer at a friends home on Magness Drive.

When the group was at a stoplight on Asheville Highway and California Ave. Michael leaned out of the window believing to see someone he knew at the gas station (that is now a used car lot) and yelled "Painter" at them.

The boys went on to Magness Drive to see if the friend was home. They soon realized though that a 1967 a faded chalkboard green Plymouth Fury (that may have come from the gas station) was following close behind them. They began a cat and mouse game through Hilltop. The teens pulled over at the Bethany Baptist Church and Michael got out of the car and confronted the Fury. He screamed at the driver to stop. The driver continued and the boys and Michael followed it up on Alamo St. and back down Asheville Highway.

The boys turned right into the Cleveland Park area and lost the Fury. They drove back to the Hilltop where they met the Fury again. It came up from behind them and passed them on the Hilltop. They followed the Fury again traveling at high speeds. They rode around the Hilltop area for a while and headed back to the Asheville Highway. The Fury then stopped at the red light at the Shell Station at California Ave. Michael got out of the car and confronted the driver through the passenger side window to see what they wanted.

They heard a shot and saw Michael fall back. He fell back on one hand and he started walking back to the car. The Fury ran the red light and continued towards Cleveland Park and turned right from Asheville Highway into Glenwood Estate. Michael told his friends he had been shot. They rushed him to Spartanburg General Hospital.

Michael didn't regain consciousness and died a short time after. He had been shot with a .22 caliber in the stomach and died from internal bleeding.

One night a woman called the family. Michaels mother answered the phone. The only thing the woman said was "Maybe that boy thought your son was going to harm him,"

There were two people seen in the car. The teens didn't get a good look and said that they believe that they were two men around 19 or 20. The passenger was white with long black hair. Authorities believed that it could be possible that the boys were from Spartanburg High School from the area they seemed to run off to.

SOURCES:
Spartanburg County Sheriff 
Group State