This is my County. Hope it is okay to share this information.
**NEW INFORMATION**READ FULLY-SHARE-HELP US-**NEW INFORMATION**NEW PICTURE**Mitchell was last seen March 12, 2016 heading toward Beer Creek Garden Landing on Lake Russell in Calhoun Falls, SC. The next morning a few personal items were found at one point UPSTREAM from the dam. We found his jacket with his cell phone, a 5 gallon gas jug, bait net, and a cast net bucket on March 13, 2016. Over 7 months later we recovered Mitchell's body downstream from these items. Therefore, I am waiting on an explanation of how items of different weights, and different sizes ended up in a cove UPSTREAM from the area where we recovered Mitchell. All of these items were found very close to one another, at the same point right near the shore. It has always bothered me that everything was upstream from where he was and I have always wanted someone to explain how that works in the law of science and how all of these items of a different weight floated that far upstream and all stayed together, but one thing I have never released is this picture. **July 9, 2016 was a day where the community stood behind us, strangers came together AGAIN to help us, to bless us and we did a land search with Volunteers. We found Mitchell's book bag at the same point we found all his other items, and I can understand us missing it originally in March, because it blended in with the rocks very well and we were obviously focusing mainly in the water because we were working off of the information that it was a boating accident. That being said, The family believes his book bag, along with all of his other items were "tossed" by someone out of Mitchell's boat for several reasons. Nothing of value was found in his book bag. EVERY pocket on his book bag was undone as if it had been gone through, but the number one thing about this book bag was this little tidbit.....Had it been in the water for all these months and later washed up, the items and labels would NOT have been still intact. The deodorant and the Cocoa Butter are water soluble items, therefore once the water came in contact with the items, they would have dissolved. The labels were still intact, the product inside the containers was still intact. Mitchell's deodorant and cocoa butter were both in his book bag and the labels had obviously not been in the water for months and just washed up, but they also hadn't been in the water even for a short amount of time because neither of these containers were sealed and had they been in the water both the deodorant and cocoa butter would have dissolved. This is just one of the many red flags that I have about my brothers case and I know someone knows something. I have had tips, I even have statements, but just missing a few small pieces and I am begging for your help. If you have heard something or know something or even think you know something, please help me get my family closure. What if this was your brother, your son, your friend. You may think you are protecting someone, being loyal, let me explain a small fact of life for you, do you realize that by protecting someone who committed a crime, you can serve the SAME amount of time, unless you become the one who tells the truth, and while you think you are protecting YOUR friend, where do you think we are getting names from? Rumors from? To the ones who are protecting and hiding information, your friends are saying you SET it up, you DID it, so once all is said and done, they are gonna walk away a hero and you WILL do the time because they SOLD you out...I am asking for anyone that knows anything to just tell someone, tell us the truth, let us find out what happened to Mitchell, because we won't stop and Law Enforcement knows more than you can ever imagine and we know more than you can ever imagine and once it is said and done...EVERYONE will know the truth.
