This is a trully horrifying case. I copy some of the relevant information below. I also post a link for an article about all the victims.
"On March 28th, 1982—three months after the discovery of Tanya’s remains—7 year-old Laticia (sometimes spelled Latacia) Reddick was awakened at 3am. Someone was crawling over her, and it wasn’t her sister Wanda Faye with whom she shared a bed.
A stranger sporting a large afro had broken into the Reddick home intent on abducting Wanda, age 16; in the darkness Laticia couldn’t make out the intruder’s face—only his size, which was formidable.
When he reached Wanda the faceless stranger grabbed her by the throat and swung her off the bed; her neck compressed, her screams were reduced to gurgles.
The assailant then walked out of the bedroom and out the Reddick front door, still clutching his prey by the throat.
Laticia ran to wake her mother but the family’s search was momentarily delayed—the lights in the house didn’t work. All the sockets were empty; after gaining entry via an unlocked window the abductor had entered every room in the home and removed every single lightbulb.
The law enforcement response was swift; more than 200 searchers scoured the local woodlands but no clues or evidence could be located and no trace of Wanda Faye could be found...
...Five days after her abduction a rural mail carrier spotted Wanda Faye’s body face down in a secluded creek, an area which had previously been searched. The state of her remains indicated she’d been submerged shortly after being kidnapped, leading investigators to surmise her corpse, clad only in a tee-shirt, had only recently surfaced due to decomposition.
Wanda had been wearing a tee-shirt and grey sweatpants when kidnapped, and her sweatpants had been repurposed as bindings—no wire had been utilized in her murder. Her cause of death was dissimilar as well: facial bruising indicated she’d been beaten, and the back of her skull bore a gaping wound from a hatchet or axe. Authorities have never announced whether Wanda was sexually assaulted. "
LINK TO THE ARTICLE: No More Wire Hangers: the Richland (Semi) Serial Slayings
"On March 28th, 1982—three months after the discovery of Tanya’s remains—7 year-old Laticia (sometimes spelled Latacia) Reddick was awakened at 3am. Someone was crawling over her, and it wasn’t her sister Wanda Faye with whom she shared a bed.
A stranger sporting a large afro had broken into the Reddick home intent on abducting Wanda, age 16; in the darkness Laticia couldn’t make out the intruder’s face—only his size, which was formidable.
When he reached Wanda the faceless stranger grabbed her by the throat and swung her off the bed; her neck compressed, her screams were reduced to gurgles.
The assailant then walked out of the bedroom and out the Reddick front door, still clutching his prey by the throat.
Laticia ran to wake her mother but the family’s search was momentarily delayed—the lights in the house didn’t work. All the sockets were empty; after gaining entry via an unlocked window the abductor had entered every room in the home and removed every single lightbulb.
The law enforcement response was swift; more than 200 searchers scoured the local woodlands but no clues or evidence could be located and no trace of Wanda Faye could be found...
...Five days after her abduction a rural mail carrier spotted Wanda Faye’s body face down in a secluded creek, an area which had previously been searched. The state of her remains indicated she’d been submerged shortly after being kidnapped, leading investigators to surmise her corpse, clad only in a tee-shirt, had only recently surfaced due to decomposition.
Wanda had been wearing a tee-shirt and grey sweatpants when kidnapped, and her sweatpants had been repurposed as bindings—no wire had been utilized in her murder. Her cause of death was dissimilar as well: facial bruising indicated she’d been beaten, and the back of her skull bore a gaping wound from a hatchet or axe. Authorities have never announced whether Wanda was sexually assaulted. "
LINK TO THE ARTICLE: No More Wire Hangers: the Richland (Semi) Serial Slayings
