GUILTY SC - Tiffany Souers, 20, Clemson student, found strangled, 26 May 2006

[dark_shadows]

Oh the picture of him is with two bandanas on his face. I don't know how someone could identify him from them. Oh also they are showing his facial structure. The picture was taken at an ATM he was trying to use a debit card belonging to Tiffany.

The photos were not good at all.The only way they could indentify would be the bandanas?Maybe on the myface webite?

 

[MrsMush99]

DS, I have no idea how they are going to be able to identify this guy. Pretty scary. Also, another interesting thing is that he was smart enough to hide his face from the ATM camera, but not smart enough to know that you can't guess a pin number. He tried 5 times. That's just dumb. Unless, she told him a fake number, I suppose that is possible.

 

[MrsMush99]

He's a white male. How they can tell that from the photo I have no idea. I'm looking at it now, I can't make out anything.

 

[MrsMush99]

I need to make a correction, suspect tried to use ATM card 6 different times, 2 different banks. Also, they are calling it a sexually motivated crime.

 

[kato]

DS, I have no idea how they are going to be able to identify this guy. Pretty scary. Also, another interesting thing is that he was smart enough to hide his face from the ATM camera, but not smart enough to know that you can't guess a pin number. He tried 5 times. That's just dumb. Unless, she told him a fake number, I suppose that is possible.

That's what I figured. A dumb*ss to think he could figure it out cuz they usually send out some kind of alert after so many wrong combos.

 

[dark_shadows]

DS, I have no idea how they are going to be able to identify this guy. Pretty scary. Also, another interesting thing is that he was smart enough to hide his face from the ATM camera, but not smart enough to know that you can't guess a pin number. He tried 5 times. That's just dumb. Unless, she told him a fake number, I suppose that is possible.

Hello MrsMush,
Thank-you so much for the post.
They had us waiting all this time for nothing.Why would they say that they were not worried about him being a flight risk when they first had a suspect.They had it all over the news and the web that they had a suspect,his vehicle and that he would not flee.What is wrong with this picture........Then they show a photo that you cannot see,they had to point out the things on the bandana,and they even said that those were not clear.If LE knows for a fact what a vehicle is used in a crime,a BOL should be sent not only to LE,but the public as well.Why did they wait until now to say that the original vehicle discription is wrong????

 

[indigomood]

http://www.thetandd.com/articles/2006/06/02/ap-state-sc/d8i08rso0.txt

Authorities find slain student's license

The owner of a towing business near Pendleton said he called authorities around 10 Friday morning when James Lindsey of Pendleton came in with a driver's license he had found on the side of the road.

"He wanted me to turn the license in," Dan Baker said "He was scared."

Baker turned in the license as well as a small bag Lindsey found farther down U.S. Highway 76 just inside Anderson County, Baker said.

A reporter saw authorities photographing and bagging a cell phone found in the ditch about five yards from the road, The Anderson Independent-Mail reported on its Web site Friday.

more at link

 

[dark_shadows]

That's what I figured. A dumb*ss to think he could figure it out cuz they usually send out some kind of alert after so many wrong combos.

Hi Kato,
I think that is the 3rd attempt that the bank confinscates the card or spits it back out.You would think that banks would have better camera shots instead of the poor quality video that they have.Pediphiles have better cam views on the net than the bank does on their ATM machines .

 

[MrsMush99]

That's what I figured. A dumb*ss to think he could figure it out cuz they usually send out some kind of alert after so many wrong combos.

Not only that Kato, but don't some banks take the card? You know he puts it in the ATM and it never comes back out??

 

[MrsMush99]

Hello MrsMush,
Thank-you so much for the post.
They had us waiting all this time for nothing.Why would they say that they were not worried about him being a flight risk when they first had a suspect.They had it all over the news and the web that they had a suspect,his vehicle and that he would not flee.What is wrong with this picture........Then they show a photo that you cannot see,they had to point out the things on the bandana,and they even said that those were not clear.If LE knows for a fact what a vehicle is used in a crime,a BOL should be sent not only to LE,but the public as well.Why did they wait until now to say that the original vehicle discription is wrong????

Also DS, did you hear that they said they don't think anyone is harboring him??? How in the world could they possibly know that??? They seemed very confident in that statement.

 

[LaMer]

Not only that Kato, but don't some banks take the card? You know he puts it in the ATM and it never comes back out??

I think it is not returned after two attempts. Didn't he say, he had visited several ATM machines? So maybe he was smart enough to keep moving. Then, I wonder if several attempts at one machine would effect attempting to use the card at another machine. Probably not. Just guessing tho.

However, the machine I use, I only have to 'swipe' my card. Never leaves my fingers. Unless they have some mechanism which clamps down on it lol

I fear they (he) was acting more confident than they really are, at least that was my impression.

It's possible, the guy using the bank card could have found it somewhere after it was discarded too. Not much of a time element there tho.

 

[cathieq]

What I'm wondering...in this article
http://tinyurl.com/f7r8l

"...Stephen David Kudika Jr., 25...was arrested Wednesday and was released a day later after posting a $30,000-bond, authorities said..."

LE must be pretty confident that he is NOT involved...or else they want to trap him somehow. Was he out when these transactions were taking place? Is it possible that they suspect it's him but need more evidence linking him to this particular crime? Maybe LE is using Kudika to lure someone out of hiding?

Something about these press conferences just doesn't sit right with me.

 

[indigomood]

What I'm wondering...in this article
http://tinyurl.com/f7r8l

"...Stephen David Kudika Jr., 25...was arrested Wednesday and was released a day later after posting a $30,000-bond, authorities said..."

LE must be pretty confident that he is NOT involved...or else they want to trap him somehow. Was he out when these transactions were taking place? Is it possible that they suspect it's him but need more evidence linking him to this particular crime? Maybe LE is using Kudika to lure someone out of hiding?

Something about these press conferences just doesn't sit right with me.

Is it possible that they suspect it's him but need more evidence linking him to this particular crime?

I'm wondering the same thing cathieq. Why not just come right out and dismiss the connection if there truly isn't one? Instead, I get the impression that the solicitor is making cryptic references about a potential link. It would be of interest to compare a pic of Steve Kudika to the ATM suspect, even with the bandana/disguise.

the following article also alludes to the possible connection...

Police Nab Alleged Rapist in Tiffany Souers' Apartment Complex,
Cops target suspect in co-ed's slaying, won't say if accused rapist is their man 06/02/2006

GREENVILLE, S.C. (Crime Library) — Investigators probing the death of 20-year-old Clemson University co-ed Tiffany Souers have declined to say whether a man charged Wednesday with an unrelated rape in the same apartment complex is a suspect in her slaying.

For the moment, investigators are saying little about any possible connections between the death of Souers, who was found a week ago, partially nude and strangled with her own bikini top in her off campus apartment and David Kudika, Jr., a 25-year-old who lives in the same apartment complex.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/news/original/0606/0202_police_nab_souers_alleged_rapist1.html

 

[richandfamous]

wasn't it reported that the evidence of this crime may match evidence in two other murders, one in '92 and one in '97? That would make this guy 11yrs old and 16yrs old. This whole thing doesn't make sense.

never mind...wrong case! sorry

 

[michelle]

Couldnt they get fingerprints of the machine and run them through the national database just to see if he had any priors??

 

[cathieq]

There's a web site designed by a Tiffany Souers. Nothing there, but notice the date
http://www.souers.com/

Clemson's site about Tiffany:
http://clemsonews.clemson.edu/WWW_releases/2006/May/souers/

If these have been posted before, I apologize.......

 

[indigomood]

Clemson's memo on Kudika

Interim suspension imposed
CLEMSON STUDENT FACING ASSAULT CHARGES

http://clemsonews.clemson.edu/www_releases/2006/June/kudika.html

 

[indigomood]

link to incident report...

http://web.andersonsc.com/web/2006_files/souers_case/report1.pdf

 

[Sassygerl]

He's a white male. How they can tell that from the photo I have no idea. I'm looking at it now, I can't make out anything.

His hand appears in one of the pics. Can't make out much though from the pics, but the bandanas are unusual so hopefully someone will recognize them!

 

[richandfamous]

this gives me the creeps!