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Shelton Sanders, a USC-Columbia student, vanished 23 years ago. His sister Wilveria has never stopped looking — working as a volunteer at CrimeCon last year, pictured top right at the missing person’s wall, and then having a booth at this year’s event, bottom right, to tell her brother’s story
Wilveria was only 11 when her brother, a USC-Columbia student, went missing in 2001 but she has vowed to find out what happened to him.
“He was my whole world,” she said. “And he still is. I have dedicated my entire life to my brother and giving him a voice.”
Earlier this month, Wilveria returned to CrimeCon, this year in Nashville, but this time she was there as an exhibitor – with a booth where she could tell Shelton’s story.
“The more information we put out there and the more public awareness there is, the closer I feel to getting justice for Shelton,” she said. “Our fight for Shelton is not over.”
Shelton Sanders, a USC-Columbia student, has been missing since June 19, 2001. But his sister Wilveria Sanders has never stopped looking for him
At the booth next to hers was the family of Gabby Petitio, the 22-year-old who was killed by fiancé Brian Laundrie in 2021 while they were on a cross-country road trip.
The Petitio family told Wilveria they remember seeing Shelton’s picture at the previous event and asked for fliers and other material to hand out from their booth.
‘He was my world:’ Missing Shelton Sanders’s sister has spent decades looking for him
More than two decades ago, Shelton Sanders disappeared while scouting out bachelor venues with his friend. His sister tells Andrea Cavallier she’s never given up hope that they’ll learn what happened next
www.independent.co.uk
