SC SC - Candra Alston, 25, & Malaysia Boykin, 3, Columbia, 9 Jan 2011

[bessie]

Mother and daughter laid to rest; killer still on loose
By Stephen Hooker

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - Candra Alston and her three-year-old daughter were found dead in their apartment eight days ago.

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Richland County Coroner Gary Watts says Candra and her three-year-old daughter, Malaysia Boykin, were murdered. "Murder" is the clinical term. The coroner expressed it another way. "I've been involved with death investigations for well over 30 years and handled thousands and thousands of cases, and this is one of the most horrific, brutal cases involving a child that I've seen," claimed Watts.

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SLED joins investigation into Columbia mother, daughter homicide
Posted: Jan 09, 2011 4:45 PM CST Updated: Jan 12, 2011 4:21 PM CST

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is helping Columbia homicide investigators figure out who killed a Columbia mother and her 3-year-old daughter. The killing happened sometime between Thursday and Sunday at the Brook Pines apartment complex on Broad River Road.

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Scott said officers went to an apartment on Brook Pines Drive around 10:00am Sunday after the victims' family had been unable to reach them since Thursday. When police entered the home, they found the woman and her child unresponsive.

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[bessie]

New details about slayings made public
January 23, 2012

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Police say that a computer, an expensive Gucci purse and children’s clothing were missing from the home where the two died. They don’t believe that robbery was the motive, though, and say neither was sexually assaulted

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Young women murdered after posting to escort site, police say
Jan 25, 2012

A handful of grisly murders in at least two states have been found to have one striking fact in common: the victims, all young women, have posted on the website Backpage.com, a classified service which accepts ads for escort services.

In January last year, a young mother and her 3-year-old daughter were found dead in their apartment in Columbia, South Carolina, in what a coroner described as one of the most horrific murder cases involving a child he had ever seen.

As police released new details they hoped might help to find the killer of Candra Alston, 25, and her little girl Malaysia Boykin this week, they confirmed for the first time that they were exploring the possibility of a link to Backpage.com.

Detectives in Columbia, who said this week that a computer and other items were missing from Alston's apartment, have never revealed how she or her daughter were killed.

However, the fact that Alston had posted to Backpage.com brought to mind four more recent killings, several states away.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/25/grisly-murders-escort-site-backpage

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Revisiting cold case murder involving mother and daughter
Posted: Dec 21, 2012 3:16 PM CST Updated: Dec 31, 2012 3:57 PM CST

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"You don't know what I'm going through," said Alston's grandmother.

Most of us will never know what the Alston family has experienced in the past two years.

"She was always my little girl," said Alston's stepfather Ray Lyerly. "Yeah, I spoiled her in certain ways. We wanted to give her the best life possible."

Police think the person who took that life away knew Candra and her daughter because there were no signs of forced entry at her Brook Pines apartment.

"It was one of the most gruesome crime scenes I've witnessed," said Columbia Police Sgt. Kevin Reese.

 

[sheshecanada]

DNA phenotyping, sounds extremely fascinating!

 

[Tulessa]

Thanks for posting bessie. Tagging.

 

[dotr]

The new DNA technology is fascinating, looking forward to seeing if it does help to narrow down a suspect.!
Crossing fingers that the cruel perp in this case is identified soon, if he/ she, could kill a mom and her very little girl, the perp could be capable of absolutely anything, imo.

 

[azshadowwalker]

Arrest made in this case. No details about the arrest, though. Press conference was supposed to have been held this afternoon. I will look for more information about it.

http://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article141650309.html

 

[azshadowwalker]

More information about arrest. Suspect was arrested in California, and is in jail in Riverside.

Causes of death also released for both. Mother was shot. Child was stabbed.

http://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article141735144.html

 

[azshadowwalker]

More information on how the arrest was finally made, as well as a bit of background about how he became a suspect.

https://wyff.relaymedia.com/amp/art...-killing-of-3-year-old-and-her-mother/9207880