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The views and opinions expressed in Cold and Missing are exclusively those of the hosts.
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All parties mentioned are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Cold and Missing also contains adult themes and languages.
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Listener discretion is advised.
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I'm your host, Ali McLaughlin-Sulkowski.
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And I'm your co-host, Eli Sulkowski.
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And this is Cold and Missing, where we cover cold cases and missing person cases.
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Cold and Missing.
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I'm your host, Ali McLaughlin-Sulkowski.
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And just like last week, it'll just be me bringing you the podcast this week.
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If you listened to last week's episode or have been following our Instagram, you may
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remember or know that Eli's mother recently passed away.
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So he's taking some time to just mourn and take care of himself.
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Once he's ready to come back, he will be welcomed back with open arms and I miss doing
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this podcast with him.
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But I want to continue to bring you cases and today on episode 56, we have a cold case.
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And just as a content warning at the top, this case does involve a young person.
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And while all the cases we cover are horrible, this case is especially heinous.
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Today we are talking about Silene Erica Eaddy.
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And this takes place in April of 2004 in Columbia, South Carolina.
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But first a little bit about Silene.
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Silene often introduced herself as Erica and that's what she wanted family and friends
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to call her.
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So for this podcast, I'll refer to her as Erica.
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Erica is 15 years old in 2004.
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She was born August 14th, 1988 and she would be 35 years old today.
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Erica had lived a lot of life by the age of 15.
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She was put into the foster care system as a baby.
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When she was three years old, she went to live with Fred and Brenda McCoy, who would
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go on to adopt her.
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In her new home, Erics quickly developed a close relationship with her family and especially
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her father, Fred.
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Sadly though, Fred passed away when Erica was only five years old and according to her
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mother Brenda, the loss affected Erica tremendously.
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Erica is a freshman in 2004.
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She did attend Dreher High School, where she was involved in ROTC and dance.
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Unfortunately she was transferred to alternative school in February of 2004 because she cussed
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a girl out, which when I was in high school was such a common occurrence, it just seems
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wild to me that a high school would essentially expel a student for cursing at another student.
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Erica was well known around her neighborhood.
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Others would often see the tall 15-year-old taking walks with her friends.
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Erica was always dressed up and always had her hair done.
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She took great pride in her appearance and when she grew up she wanted to be an artist
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or a hairstylist.
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A neighborhood friend, Tahyah, said Erica was quote, really sweet.
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I used to play with her a lot.
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We played hopscotch and jumped on my friend's trampoline.
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End quote.
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Erica was starting to push the boundaries more and more at home.
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Brenda McCoy said quote, Erica was a sweet child, but a lost child.
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She was trying to find her family.
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She always wanted to know where they were.
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We couldn't find them.
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We didn't know where to look.
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End quote.
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Erica had started sneaking out of the house more and more to roam the neighborhood with
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her friends.
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And at 15 older men started to take notice of Erica and offer her rides places from time
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to time and Erica would sometimes accept them.
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A mother of one of Erica's friends said quote, she had a wonderful spirit about her,
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but she was just searching for something.
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End quote.
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And now a timeline of events.
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On Thursday, April 15th, 2004, at around 730 in the evening, Erica snuck out of her house.
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She had plans to head to a friend's house on the corner.
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However, an eagle-eyed neighbor spotted Erica sneaking out and called Brenda to let her
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know.
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Brenda began searching for Erica.
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This disappearing act was starting to become a routine.
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Erica would sneak off for a few days while Brenda would look for her.
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Then eventually Erica would return home.
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In fact, at this time, there was already an active missing child case with the police
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department.
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Erica had run away a few weeks earlier but had returned home and Brenda forgot to call
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the police to let them know.
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So the alert was still active.
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When Brenda couldn't track Erica down, she returned home.
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She did not call police since there was already an active alert and Erica had always returned
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home.
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The next day, Friday, April 16th, there is still no sign of Erica.
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There are no details about what efforts were made or were not made to locate her on this
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day.
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The next day, Saturday, April 17th, at around 5 a.m., someone driving early in the morning
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spotted a brush fire in a wooded area near Montgomery Lane and Pincushion Road on the
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outskirts of Columbia.
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The fire department responds to the call and get to work putting out the brush fire.
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At around 5 30 that morning, a firefighter discovered a body in the flames.
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The body is face down in a ditch with the left arm outstretched.
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Firefighters immediately call police and stop spraying the area.
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Police arrive at the scene and begin to process.
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When police see the body, even though she had been badly burnt in the fire, it was obvious
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that there had been an extremely violent attack before the fire started.
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The fire destroyed a lot of the area, but police are able to collect evidence at the
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scene including tire tracks found near the body.
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As far as providing an identity, the only clue that police had at this time to go on
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was a necklace with a shoe or boot charm on it.
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Police get to work to ID the victim.
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It's here that they pull the missing person reports and they come across Erica's case.
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After obtaining her dental records on Monday, August 19th, the police are able to confirm
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that the body found on fire was Erica Eaddy.
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Brenda is called in to make a positive ID and once they show her the necklace, she knows
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it's her daughter.
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She wore that necklace every day.
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Police start contacting the media with Erica's picture in hopes of piecing together the 34
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hours before she was found in the wooded area.
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An autopsy was conducted and on top of the violent attack, it was determined that Erica
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had soot in her lungs, meaning that she was still alive and breathing when she was set
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on fire.
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Erica's family is distraught over the loss.
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Erica had two younger siblings who deeply felt the absence of her.
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Brenda McCoy told local media quote, right now I'm in turmoil.
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I'm still trying to figure out who would do this.
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End quote.
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On Friday, April 23rd, just six days after Erica's body was found, her memorial service
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is held.
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Brenda, Erica's mom, chose to keep her ashes with her until Erica's 18th birthday, at
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which time she would be placed next to her father.
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Erica's friend, Tahyah, says quote, I think she's in a happy place now.
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And I'm going to miss her for a very long time.
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I hope God takes care of her.
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End quote.
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Police continue to work behind the scenes.
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They run driver's licenses, go door to door, and even go through church memberships to
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find the killer.
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But the next big update we get comes May 31st, 2005, so it's been over a year since Erica
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was murdered.
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Police believe that they are close to cracking the case and bringing justice.
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Investigator Eric Barnes says quote, this thing is still solvable.
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We need bits of information that's going to push it over the top.
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End quote.
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Investigators, along with Erica's family, believe that she knew her attacker and this
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was not a crime committed by a stranger.
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Tips are still coming in to police, but they continue to plead with the community to come
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forward.
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Investigator Barnes says quote, if they can get over that silence that undermines the
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moral fabric of our community, if you will, but also undermines the investigation, we
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can bring these suspects to justice.
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We're pretty confident we're close.
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We just need those people to step forward now.
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End quote.
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I thought it was interesting here the use of the word suspects.
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This leads me to believe that the police are looking for multiple people in this case.
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However, late summer 2005, so that same year, the case is turned over to the Richland County
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Cold Case Unit to work.
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Police still maintain that they are close and that the answer lies with someone in the
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community.
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Sheriff Leon Lott says quote, we believe that there are people in the lower Richland community
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that have yet to come forward and share their knowledge about her death.
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End quote.
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Even though it seems like an arrest was near, the case appears to go cold.
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In September of 2008, it's been four years since Erica's murder, police create a deck
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of cards with cold cases and missing person cases on it.
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We've talked about this in other cases as well.
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When police create these, they will put them into the commissary for folks in jail to buy
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and the hope is that a jailhouse informant will come forward with information.
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It's unclear if any tips are generated by this deck, but if they were, it didn't lead
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to any arrests.
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After 13 years with no resolution, in May of 2017, Brenda speaks with local media asking
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for answers.
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She says quote, it's never going to be easier because I don't know what happened.
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Now if I could find out what happened, then I can kind of rest my mind.
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End quote.
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The cold case unit is still investigating Erica's murder.
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They believe the fire was set to try to conceal evidence, but also to be quote, cruel.
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I would say evil.
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What happened to Erica was evil.
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Unfortunately, in April of 2020, just a few days after the 16th anniversary of Erica's
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murder, her mom, Brenda McCoy, passed away.
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Erica still has siblings who are looking for answers.
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So with that, if you know anything about the murder of Silene Erica Eaddy or her whereabouts
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from April 15th through April 17th of 2004, please call the Richland County Sheriff's
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Department at 803-576-3000.
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And the sources for the timeline today come from The State, The Greenville News, The Index
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Journal, ABC 13 News, WLS 10, WLTX TV.
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So that is the case of Silene Erica Eaddy.
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And again, I'm going to refer to her as Erica since that was the name that she liked for
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herself.
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When I found this case, I saw her picture first, which we are going to be putting on
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our Instagram and on our website as well.
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So definitely check those out there so you know what I'm talking about.
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But her picture instantly drew me in.
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She looks so magnetic and funny, which is something that a lot of people in her life
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said she was.
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And to see this like very charming picture juxtaposed with these awful, evil actions,
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this death was so violent.
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It's really heartbreaking.
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I mean, I was kind of overwhelmed by this case.
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But the people who did this need to answer and bring answers for her siblings and just
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pay for what they've done because this was evil.
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This really feels evil to me.
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So there's a lot of questions, obviously, in this case.
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There's a lot unknown and there's not a lot of details out there that can be confirmed,
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right, like through the media and stuff.
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It's the first question is obviously like who would do this.
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And so reading kind of between the lines and just from everything that I gathered, you
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know, I pointed out in the timeline, the use of the word suspects.
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So it does sound like there are multiple people involved in this and that when justice is
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brought there will probably be several people who have to answer for what happened to Erica.
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The police talk about running driver's licenses.
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So to me, that's like a small clue that this person is of driving age.
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Like they have a driver's license.
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So they're probably at least 17, 16, perhaps.
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And where her body was found from her home, it's not that far.
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It's about five miles, but it is like a really wooded starts to turn into like rural area
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on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina there.
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So it's about a 10 minute car ride.
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And because they did find tire tracks at the scene, you know, that all I think that's all
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supported and makes sense that she was driven there.
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And the police and family also believe that the suspect or suspects, as they say, were
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known to her.
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So these were people that she did know.
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So to me, that would mean that other people saw them hanging out at some point.
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Other people know that they knew each other.
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So these connections really need to be made.
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And anyone with information, please come forward in this case.
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Another thing that I found interesting that seemed connected to the suspects is a church
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connection of some sort.
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So if I could ask police anything, I would ask, is this still something that you're looking
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for?
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Are you looking for like a member of a church, some kind of church connection, perhaps?
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Erica was part of a gospel choir and, you know, attended church activity.
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So is that still a connection that police are looking into?
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Or has that been eliminated?
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That was something that they were chasing down pretty hard in the first year after her
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murder.
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So I wonder, has that been rolled out completely?
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Or is that still a suspect pool?
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But other than those small little bits of information, and again, it's not very much
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to go on, and it might not be anything, but that's all we really know about what police
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know.
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It did sound like they were close or they had an idea, but maybe just didn't have those
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final pieces of evidence.
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You know, as a true crime person and somebody who watches a lot of true crime from a lot
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of different angles, you always have to wonder why couldn't they get that information?
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Is it because those people just genuinely did not do it and are not guilty?
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Or is it because somebody just needs to come forward with information?
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Like, would love to also know that, but I'm sure the police don't even know that.
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So they wouldn't tell me because they don't know.
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In the more recent reporting, so 2017 and on, it always says, you know, if you know
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any information about the murder or about those 34 hours, so this would be from 730
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on April 15th, 2004 until about 530 on Saturday, April 17th, 2004.
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So those 34-ish hours in there, police are trying to piece together the last hours of
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Erica's life.
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It is my sincere hope that those missing hours were not all torturous, but no matter what,
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it wasn't good.
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Erica was missing from her home.
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She was with people that had nefarious intent or was with people that left her in the company
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of people with nefarious intent.
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Whatever happened in those 34 hours?
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Wow, I just, it seems like such a long time for her.
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Yeah, I mean, there's nothing else to say except that it's evil.
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Those 34 hours are evil.
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But I do wonder if police have any touchstones within those 34 hours.
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So from the early reportings, we know that Erica was headed to a friend's house that
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lived on the corner.
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I presume that police talked with this friend to see if Erica made it there and if she did,
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what time did she leave?
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Who did she leave with?
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What did she say?
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Where was she going?
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So I wonder if those details are there because Erica did in fact make it to the friend's
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house on the corner and then, you know, just kind of duck and hid from her mom while her
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mom was out looking for her and then left the friend's house to go somewhere else.
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Or did Erica never even make it to the friend's house?
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We know she was well known in the neighborhood and men would often offer her rides and it
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sounds like she had accepted them in the past and had returned home afterwards.
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That is all we know about those car rides.
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So I wonder if there are any of those small bits of information in those 34 hours that
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police do have.
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Is she seen on surveillance camera anywhere?
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You know, any fast food places, any convenience stores, gas stations, any places like that
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that would have cameras or surveillance or anything like that?
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Or just people who would recognize her?
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Did she do that or what time did they truly lose track of her?
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But for all we know, those 34 hours police are still seeking to know where she was, who
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she was with, and what she was doing.
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So again, if you know anything about the murder of Silene Erica Eaddyor her whereabouts from
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April 15th starting from 730 p.m. through April 17th ending at 530 a.m. of 2004, please
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call the Richland County Sheriff Department at 803-576-3000.
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And as I mentioned before, on our website, coldandmissing.com, on our Instagram, at coldandmissing,
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we'll be posting pictures of Erica and you'll see what I'm talking about when I just saw
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her picture and I was instantly drawn into her and into the charm and charisma that she
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clearly had and the confidence.
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People said she was super confident and I totally see that in this picture.
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