Found Deceased SC - David Oakley, 37, Anderson, 31 May 2017

[tulips0312]

FWIW, if I'm not mistaken, David's brother owned or ran a cell phone and / or some type of home security business several years ago. Not sure if he still does as I've not lived in the area in a long time. It might explain the whole SIM card thing. It might have been a working phone without a SIM or David might have pulled the SIM card and was going to sell it to someone who had their own SIM card...? Just theories, I have no inside info as I have not been in contact in 10 years or more.

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[Gardener1850]

Unidentified body found in Spartanburg County: http://www.wyff4.com/article/body-found-in-wooded-area-in-spartanburg-county-coroner-says/12051227

This is about an hours drive from Anderson.

 

[FlossyMay]

Unidentified body found in Spartanburg County: http://www.wyff4.com/article/body-found-in-wooded-area-in-spartanburg-county-coroner-says/12051227

This is about an hours drive from Anderson.

Clevenger identified the man as Ronald Michael Caporino, 52, of Ivey Glen Road in Pelzer who was reported missing to Greenville County officials after he was last seen on July 27.

 

[bostonslikk]

Clevenger identified the man as Ronald Michael Caporino, 52, of Ivey Glen Road in Pelzer who was reported missing to Greenville County officials after he was last seen on July 27.

Was a thread made for him too? I couldn't find one.

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[LisaWL7TR]

Was a thread made for him too? I couldn't find one.

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Maybe not. Sometimes msm doesnt pick up the missing person case.

 

[FlossyMay]

This guy is still missing? I couldn't find him in Namus.

 

[FlossyMay]

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/david.oakley.31?lst=1325086739:100003003618783:1507403516

 

[Gardener1850]

Bump. Anything new in this case? I doubt this is David, but a body has been found in the woods in neighboring Spartanburg CO (about 60 miles from his girlfriends house): http://wspa.com/2017/10/31/body-found-in-woods-in-spartanburg-co-coroners-office-says/

 

[Whiskers16]

Bump. Anything new in this case? I doubt this is David, but a body has been found in the woods in neighboring Spartanburg CO (about 60 miles from his girlfriends house): http://wspa.com/2017/10/31/body-found-in-woods-in-spartanburg-co-coroners-office-says/

Article now states body identified as Gerald Francis Griffin III, 32, of Atlanta, GA.

 

[Whiskers16]

Bump. What happened to David?

 

[LisaWL7TR]

Bumping again for David! I can't find any info past Aug. 2017.
Who said David was heading to NC and why was he?

 

[Tjk2201]

I have never heard of this case. I live 40-45 min east of Anderson. I'm familiar with Townville since it's by Lake Hartwell. I-85 is extremely busy with people traveling to Georgia and Alabama. Or traveling to NC. The crime in Anderson County has been high there in the last few years. IMO if someone was trying to rob him they definitely would've taken his BMW. Majority of people robbed in that area are shot and wounded/killed. I don't believe anyone put his body in Lake Hartwell. Typically when that happens the body is found within a couple months.

 

[FlossyMay]

I can't find anything about this guy anywhere and he's still not in Namus.

 

[SouthernMom]

It’s odd that there is no more information about this case. I haven’t heard anything in the local news.
The red flag for me was the location of his car. I couldn’t imagine why it would be left on the interstate about 15-20 miles in the opposite direction from where it should have been.

 

[Gardener1850]

Unidentified remains found in Piedmont:
SC - SC - Piedmont, possible human remains at White and River roads, 1 Oct 2019

Location is about 20 miles from Anderson and in the direction of where David's car was found on I-85:
Google Maps

The UID is about 8 to 10 miles from where David's car was found: Google Maps

 

[hblunt]

Found deceased today. Seems to have been located about a mile (mile marker 29 to 30) from where his car was abandoned.

The Anderson County Coroner's Office said the skeletal remains found on Tuesday afternoon belonged to an Anderson man who went missing in 2017.

The remains were found on Interstate 85 near mile marker 29 by workers with the South Carolina Department of Transportation.

Chief Deputy Coroner Don McCown identified the victim as 37-year-old David Wayne Oakley from Anderson. Oakley was reported missing on June 4, 2017 after his vehicle had been found on I-85 north bound near mile marker 30 on June 1.

Oakley's remains were found in a wooded area while Department of Transportation crews were working to clear brush and trees near the interstate.

Coroner identifies human remains as Upstate man who went missing in 2017

 

[Sy_justanother]

I just read through the thread. I used to live here but moved away in 2015. I find it incredibly odd that in this thread there were 4(?) male bodies found near I-85 before finding David’s. This whole case is so strange. I really hope his family get answers.

 

[SouthernMom]

I saw this on the local news and remember when he first went missing. The area between mile marker 29-30 on either side of I-85 is not as developed as some other areas. It’s just north of Anderson and I would say it’s more rural.
If recall correctly there may be 2 or 3 lanes on both the Southbound and Northbound sides.
There is possibility a concrete divider there.
If his car broke down and he started walking at night, it would be dark in that stretch.

There is exit 34 (Hwy 29 and closest store is about a mile I think)
exit 27 (Hwy 81 and a few gas stations & Waffle House)