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Bedford has been charged with the kidnapping and murder of a South Carolina Mother. 41-year old Deidre Reid was reported missing from Pageland in September last year.
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”The mindset of the last 10 months…it’s just been crazy,” says James Reid, Deidre’s brother.
For the third time this year, Deidre Reid’s family piled into the courtroom in support of their lost sister.
”Not knowing is what really kills us because she was here and now she’s not,” he says.
In court today, we heard Emmanuel Bedford advocate for himself for the first time since this happened, getting rid of his lawyer and even asking the judge if he could get bond.
A bond. It would help me obtain a lawyer,” says Bedford.
The state says the potentially big blow to his case came when prosecutor Kernard Redmond announced the state finally got the DNA evidence it had been waiting for for months. The report confirms the blood in Reid’s car is hers.
”I was devastated. And I actually had to thank God. When you have to thank God for bad news, it’s sad,” says Reid.
That bad news though confirmed what this family knew all along—their sister was dead. Prosecutors say no one would have survived that amount of blood loss.
”Right now they’re working on getting her death certificates and everything,” he says.
But closure will not truly come unless this family can find a way to get Reid’s body.
”I just hope and pray that we can give her a proper burial. Especially for those three kids. This is a nightmare,” he says.