SC SC - Dail Dinwiddie, 23, Columbia, 24 Sep 1992

[StarryStarryNight]

First-time poster here! I'm a native South Carolinian, and this case has never left my mind. Not too long ago, I searched for info about Dail on Reddit and came across a very recent, and very curious post from someone naming a suspect. I'm unsure if I can link it here or even mention the name, but he's a convicted murderer already serving a life sentence (not Renaldo Rivera). If you search Dail's name on Reddit, you'll see the thread from 3 months ago. I forwarded the post along to the Richland County Sheriff's Office and received an email back from Sheriff Lott confirming receipt of my tip. Likely a theory they've heard before and investigated, but I'd never heard that name mentioned, so worth a shot!

Welcome!
Someone alerted me to that info on Reddit about a month ago. I’m glad you tipped it in to the sheriff’s department.
It was certainly a different story and scenario from what we usually hear. I checked a little into it and one of the names mentioned is incorrect in one of the peripheral stories. It’s unclear whether that would blow their whole story up or it’s just an honest mistake.
It certainly would explain why the investigation went nowhere.

 

[StarryStarryNight]

OK. This is out there, but we’re all friends here, so here goes. A food for thought post. I’m just interested in y’all’s thoughts.
Today, I saw a post about a girl from Indiana that went missing in 1993 and is a cold case. Her name was Tricia Lynn Reitler. I had never heard of the case. It included a stylized portrait of the victim and my first thought was that she looked a lot like Dail Dinwiddie.
I searched around for information and it was interesting to find that Larry DeWayne Hall had been suspected in her disappearance, actually confessing to it and then recanting. This is Larry Hall, the Civil War reenactor that was a serial killer who roamed around kidnapping and killing young women. He’s the guy I looked into at some point concerning DD but only found there was a reenactment near Atlanta at the time of DD’s disappearance and not much more.
I found out today that Hall made a statement to LE about his victims saying “they all looked alike”. I sure think DD looks like this possible victim. Hall is only in jail for killing one girl though LE suspects he’s probably killed 20 or 30.
I don’t know if Hall ever came this far south.
Just thinking out loud, mostly just because I think DD looks like the victim.

 

[StarryStarryNight]

New from an approved source.
Could be behind a paywall for some.

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