Ga. Mysteries: Couple vanishes from Hilton Head Island
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/2015/05/01/georgia-mysteries-calverts/26569059/
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/2015/05/01/georgia-mysteries-calverts/26569059/
Human remains found in Hilton Head woods
"The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office is investigating reports of skeletal human remains found on Hilton Head Island Saturday in a wooded area on Spanish Wells Rd., according to the sheriff’s office.
The remains were found by the landowner late Christmas Eve afternoon, said Sherriff’s Office spokesman Capt. Bob Bromage. Deputies arrived at the scene and confirmed the remains were human. The identity of the deceased as well as the cause and manner of death are still not known due to the condition of the remains, Bromage said. The age of the remains is also not yet determined..."
http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/crime/article122886119.html
I thought this could be a possibility
It has been nine years since John and Elizabeth Calvert went missing on Hilton Head Island.
The couple was reported missing by Elizabeth Calverts brother on March 4, 2008, after the pair was supposed to confront their accountant who they believed had been embezzling money from the couples business interests, according to a Beaufort County Sheriffs Office news release.
The couples accountant, Dennis Gerwing, told investigators that he met with the Calverts on March 3 around 5:30 p.m., but his tale revealed major inconsistencies and substantiated suspicion of his involvement in the disappearance of the Calverts, according to the release. Investigators found out that Gerwing cut his hand on the night of the couples disappearance and also bought bandages, latex gloves and commercial grade drop cloths, according to the release.
Gerwing committed suicide on March 11 before the Calverts disappearance could be solved. In Gerwings suicide note, he admitted to the embezzlement but neither admitted to nor denied being involved in the Calverts disappearance.
The Calverts were declared dead in 2009 but their bodies were never found. The gun believed to be the murder weapon was also never recovered. The investigation is now considered a cold case and remains unsolved.
Just curious how they knew the murder weapon was a gun if both the Calvert's and murder weapon had not been foundCalvert couples case still unsolved 9 years later
http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/crime/article136469518.html
The couple, who lived part time in an Atlanta suburb and part time in Harbour Town on The Yellow Jacket, their 40-foot yacht, had discovered that money was missing from their businesses, which had been managed by The Club Group, Gerwing specifically.
They wanted to know why. If Gerwing gave them answers that day, well likely never know.
Instead we are left with this: John and Liz were never seen or heard from again and eight days after their disappearance, Gerwing killed himself in the most hideous of ways, leaving behind two notes, both of which afforded him the perfect opportunity to articulate what he had known of the Calverts fate to explain what he or what someone else had done to them.
Gerwing took a pass on that opportunity.
They wrote the book using sheriffs office reports, written statements from witnesses, photos from the scene of Gerwings suicide and interviews with key figures in the case, including Bromage, Tanner, lead investigator Angela Viens, Gerwings brother Fred, co-workers of the Calverts, and Gerwings longtime but then-estranged girlfriend Nancy Barry, who was living in his million-dollar Wilmot Avenue home in Columbia.
The book goes into great detail about the facts of the case and explores the plausibility of popular theories on the whys, the whos and the wheres.
My feeling was, if we wrote the book and got the information out there, then someone would be able to help finish this and discover the real truth, Ovens said. ... I would really be happy if we could solve this for both families.
“I lived here 39 years and I knew Dennis Gerwing, I knew John and Liz Calvert. I had worked with all of them in different ways. And so when the Calverts disappeared it was very interesting to try to figure out how to solve the mystery,” Ovens said.
Elizabeth Calvert was an attorney for UPS in Savannah. Her husband, John, handled boats in Sea Pines’ Harbour Town.
The couple disappeared the night they confronted their accountant Dennis Gerwing about stealing money from them.
“That was the last person to see them alive. And after that evening on the 3rd, the next day, Dennis was going around town saying, ‘I think I’m the last person to see them alive!'” Ovens said.
http://wsav.com/2018/03/05/hilton-head-couple-still-missing-ten-years-later/When interviewed by investigators, Gerwing’s story didn’t add up.
“There was a lot of suspicious activity on the part of Dennis Gerwing right around the time that he was supposed to meet with them on Monday, March 3 of 2008,” said Capt. Bob Bromage with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office found Gerwing cut his hand that night and bought bandages, latex gloves, and three large drop cloths. Sheriff P.J. Tanner said in a press conference at the time that the drop cloths were big enough to wrap bodies.
A week later, Gerwing committed suicide.
Thanks for the link Woofie. Self inflicted knife wounds to the chest? Why do that if you planned to make a single fatal cut to your thigh?
http://www.islandpacket.com/breaking_news/story/252868.html
An autopsy report said Gerwing had been dead about 12 hours when he was found. His body had a gash across his inner thigh, according to the Sheriff’s Office, and multiple knife wounds to the chest, a source told The State. Authorities are treating it as a self-inflicted death, though they acknowledge the circumstances of the apparent suicide are odd, The State reported.
FYI: Just now saw that the ID channel has a new documentary (this year, 2020) Called Hometown Homicide - “In Too Deep” about the Calverts.
Showing 12 - 1 AM tonight.. well actually early this Friday morning. And again 2-3 PM tomorrow (this Saturday).
I think it's from 2008? Same day as today but different year. What a strange case.
It’s for sure a strange way to commit suicide, what with the multiple knife wounds. It makes me somewhat suspicious someone else could have been involved.They basically have said it was the Calvert’s associate that is responsible but he has committed suicide
Contents of suicide notes in case of missing Hilton Head couple revealed