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

[eeyorelrn]

Bumping for Dail.... 18 years later, we still want answers....

[eeyorelrn]

Bumping for Dail... 17 years later, waiting for answers.

[theforgotten]

I was a teenager when Dail went missing and recall hearing about the case on tv. I found the case to be so scary, because she wasn't that much older than me. I can't believe that it's been 17 years. Her family needs answers. Where ever you are Dail, I hope your okay.

[s_finch]

Bumping for Dail

[theforgotten]

Bumping for Dale....

[Aphra]

I know this is unlikely, since Dail's DNA is in CODIS (as is this Doe's) and it's probably already been compared (although Dail's profile didn't get entered until 2006ish and who knows when this Doe was put into CODIS). I'm ignoring the slight age difference (Jane Doe's oldest estimated age is about 4 years younger than Dail) because Dail looked really really young.

http://www.doenetwork.org Case File 148UFAL.

Unidentified White Female

Located on October 16, 1997 in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama
The victim is believed to have been deceased for a period of up to 1 - 1 1/2 years before discovery.
Cause of Death: Homicide
Skeletal Remains


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Vital Statistics


Estimated age: 15 - 19 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 4'10"- 5'1" (147-155 cm)
Distinguishing Characteristics: Shoulder length dark blond or light brown hair with a possible reddish tint. Her eye color and weight couldn't be determined.
Clothing: She may have been wearing a white with blue broad stripes casual, sleeveless top, size unknown, which was found near the skeletal remains outside of the plastic sheeting. No jewelry was recovered.
Dentals: Up until 1-1 and 1/2 years before her death she had excellent dental care with several fillings. Her right front tooth was chipped after her remains were recovered. Dental records are available.
DNA: Available in CODIS


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Case History
On October 16, 1997, a hunter discovered the skeletal remains of this unidentified child in a remote wooded area of Madison County, Alabama, near Indian Creek Road, South of Kelly Spring Road. Indian Creek Road is near a major roadway - Alabama Highway 53. The highway is a connector that runs between Huntsville, Alabama and Interstate 65 in Ardmore, Tenn.
It is possible the killer came from another state and chose the location at random.
The body was wrapped in plastic sheeting commonly used in construction. The plastic was secured with gray duct tape.
Investigators believe that sometime in late 1996, the nude body of the teenaged girl was dumped in Madison County's Indian Creek.
The body drifted down the creek, and washed onto the bank. It was found by a hunter.

[s_finch]

Bumping for Dale

[theforgotten]

Dail has been missing for too long. Her family needs answers.

[s_finch]

Bumping for Dail

[Kat]

This month will mark 18 years since Dail went missing. Come home soon.

[Texas Mist]

A video segment about missing Columbia woman Dail Dinwiddie has been posted on a CNN blog.

The family of Dail Dinwiddie traveled to New York earlier this month to tape an interview for the Parker Spitzer television show. Their segment never aired on the national political talk show featuring former Columbia resident and Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper columnist Kathleen Parker.


more here -

http://www.thestate.com/2010/12/17/1...-cnn-blog.html

and here

http://parkerspitzer.blogs.cnn.com/c...ail-dinwiddie/

and here

http://www.thestate.com/2010/12/01/1...spurs-new.html

[Kimster]

Dail is our Featured Cold Case on the front page of Websleuths for December 19th to December 25th, 2010.

[s_finch]

Thank you for featuring Dail. Her disappearance is what lead me to websleuths many years ago. Such a sad case.

[Wagara]

Being from SC, I think of Dail often. I'm glad to have found a reputable page to check on her status. I hope there is a resolution to this mystery one day for her family's sake.

[eeyorelrn]

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13731430

Woman who disappeared 18 years ago remembered through Christmas tree

By Taylor Kearns

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - The case of Dail Dinwiddie has become one South Carolina's most famous mysteries. She disappeared from Columbia's Five Points 18 years ago after a night out with friends.

Her parents have never given up hope, and neither has the community. That hope is for all to see on Devine Street, in front of the Columbia fire station.

[shefner]

Praying for Dinwiddie and her family....may God grant them peace...

[s_finch]

Bumping for Dail

[Firefly75]

Bumping for Dail. It's been too long. I hope she is found safe, and soon.

[SCWldneart]

Hardly a day goes by that I don't think about Dail with the beautiful dimples. My oldest daughter is the same age as Dail and also attended the concert that night, so this has always hit close to home for me. My thoughts and prayers are forever with her family.

[Josephus]

Hello fellow websleuthers, I'm a long time reader and this is my first post.

Does anyone think there could be a possible connection between this case and that of Morgan Dana Harrington?

Similarities:

Both abducted the night of a major concert at a college stadium or arena.

Both got separated from there friends.

Both were last seen walking down the street away from bar/concert.

Coincidences:

Dail was studying art history.
Morgan Dana Harrington's body was hidden in Anchorage farms which is known to have some sort of art festivals from time to time. In fact her body may have been in that field lying there for up to a week while an art festival was going on a couple of hundred yards away.

Could this be the same perpetrator? If so, could this be a serial killer who started in the nineties and still active today? His MO would be the same: picking up young inebriated girls walking home after a major concert or sporting event. Could this person have ties to both Columbia, SC and Charlottesville, VA. I had a hard time finding any information on any extensive searches done to find Dail Dinwiddie (not that there wasn't any, I just don't know the locations searched)
Does anyone know if any large farms in the area of Columbia, SC were searched? Can anyone rule out the possibility of these cases being related.

TIA.

[Aphra]

There are definitely similarities. I would like to know if there are any cases in the 17 years between Dail's and Morgan's disappearances that are under the same circumstances--missing from a concert/bar scene.

[eileenhawkeye]

Through my college's newspaper archive database, I was able to find information on Dail's case that I didn't see posted here:

1. I was able to find the names of two friends who were at Jungle Jim's that night: Tim Hagood and Johnston Cox
2. The bouncer's name was Jeff Peterman
3. Peterman said that Dail didn't appear to be drunk or high. She was drinking a beer, but talking coherently. He asked her if she needed a cab, and she said no. She said that she was waiting for her friends to come back. She walked down the street to look for them, than came back to the bar, and then left again.
4. In 1993, Columbia police announced that they believe Dail left the club in the car of someone she was familiar with.
5. Interesting Connection: Dail had babysat for Kathleen Parker's son when she disappeared. Kathleen went on to become a co-host on CNN's Parker Spitzer.

Young women who have gone missing from clubs:

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/booth_kristy.html
Kristy Booth

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/...d_rebecca.html
Rebecca Beard

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/w/webb_darlene.html
Darlene Webb

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/...elizabeth.html
Elizabeth Bishop

[theforgotten]

[quote=eileenhawkeye;7497575]Through my college's newspaper archive database, I was able to find information on Dail's case that I didn't see posted here:

5. Interesting Connection: Dail had babysat for Kathleen Parker's son when she disappeared. Kathleen went on to become a co-host on CNN's Parker Spitzer.

Wow, that it is an interesting connection.

[M86]

WIS-TV out of Columbia, SC posted a story a few days ago about Dail's disappearance:
Where is Dail Dinwiddie? Revisiting a 20-year-old case

<snip>

Dail's picture, for instance, is now included on playing cards distributed to prison inmates in hopes that maybe one of them might know or hear something. Something, anything, that could close the case that was, 15 years ago, the city's oldest unsolved missing persons investigation.


"They say that losing a child or not being able to find a child is probably one of the most difficult things in life," said Jean. "And I'm sure that's true. But think how sad it is for the child not to be able to find her parents."

Shortly before we spoke with the Dinwiddies, they marked what would have been, or might have been, Dail's 43rd birthday. It's always a difficult time of year for the Dinwiddies.

[scmom]

Here's a wild shot I found today. Very little information but this girl was found in SC and approximates Dail's physical characteristics. There is a DNA profile though and only one listed exclusion.
https://identifyus.org/en/cases/605