Identified! SC - Clarendon Co., Skeletal remains in woods, Jun'14 - Clartha McLeod

[cluciano63]

http://www.clarendoncitizen.com/article/human-bones-found-clarendon
There were clothes found with the female remains. They are looking at the possibility that it is an older missing woman.

But, having said that, I continue to remember TCM describing, on her TammysMagicaltravels blog site, a stretch of that road, 378, as "Roadkill HWY." You can't even access the cached page now without having a google account.

Do they mean older in age, or length of time missing, I wonder? Just a poor way to state either, IMO.

 

[margarita25]

Sharron Haley/Clarendon Citizen - Jorja, a 15-month-old Dutch Shepherd, located additional skeletal remains less than 48 seconds after she was released on the scene.

"Maj. Kipp Coker said his office has also notified investigators with the Florence County Sheriff’s Office asking for DNA samples and dental records for a 75-year-old Florence woman, Clartha Epps McLeod, who was last seen on Jan. 30, 2009."

http://www.clarendoncitizen.com/article/human-bones-found-clarendon

 

[Just K]

Maybe the clothes they found with the remains led them to believe the remains were those of an older female.

 

[Ghostwheel]

Maybe the clothes they found with the remains led them to believe the remains were those of an older female.

Or they simply found clothing remains of Red (her jacket was red), Khaki (her pants were listed as khaki) or Black Shoes, so that would lead them to at least check on her DNA.

The location is only 16 miles from the last place she was seen (Hickory Grove Church on Old Manning Road-although that shows it as being Sumter, not Turbeville as shown on the missing poster), but it was the direction she would be going to get home in Olanta.

Unless LE knows what Heather was wearing, they wouldn't be able to suspect any remains are hers by clothing.

 

[Hatfield]

There would be a lot of obstacles for using the ocean as a dumping ground. The biggest I can think of right now is just OWNING a boat. If you are one of the lucky ones who do, it would be awfully hard to avoid cameras, towing a boat, in the middle of the night. And it's not like you just pull up to the beach and put your boat in the waves. You'd have to go to a boat ramp somewhere and that body of water would have to lead to the ocean. The easiest would be Murrells Inlet, but their closest would be PTL or the Swing Bridge. You would have to be an avid boater to get from either of those, to the ocean, without getting lost, especially in the dark of night.

Say they didn't have a boat, which I don't recall any mention of them owning one. What then? Who do you call in the middle of the night to borrow a boat? I don't know anyone who would lend out their boat, for any reason to anyone, but especially not in the middle of the night.

You can rent a boat. I would have hoped LE would have went to all the boat rental places to ask if they remember any of them renting a boat for a day shortly after she went missing.

Usually boat rentals require drivers license + Credit Card so documentation should be available if a boat was rented.

Now if they had help and someone else used their ID to rent the boat then it becomes harder to make a tie to them although it doesnt seem too hard for LE to check with all the boat rentals that occurred in the couple days after she went missing to see if anybody they would have known rented a boat.

I keep thinking back to the amazing arrogance that TM showed by her nasty posts. She felt they would never get caught. That is 1 clue we have. If they dumped Heather in the ocean, that is one of the ways I could see where it would give TM confidence to be so arrogant.

 

[mikkismom]

Human remains found in June identified as Florence woman missing since 2009

http://www.wistv.com/story/27695058...entified-as-florence-woman-missing-since-2009

R.I.P. Clartha McLeod

 

[Hatfield]

Human remains found in June identified as Florence woman missing since 2009

http://www.wistv.com/story/27695058...entified-as-florence-woman-missing-since-2009

R.I.P. Clartha McLeod

Thanks for the followup on this. It is much appreciated. We can now eliminate this possible.

RIP Clartha McLeod