Found Deceased SC - Faye Marie Swetlik, 6, Cayce, 10 Feb 2020 #4

[Dmk71]

I'm curious if the woods where Faye was located are public property or who they belong to? Do they belong to the owner of those apartments/the place where CT lived? Do they belong to Napa?

I don't know that it really matters at all now, but just curious if LE would have even needed a search warrant to search them or if they were public property.

No they did not need a search Warrant fur woods . It was right at the opening of the neighborhood were LE was giving the first few news conference before moving to the church . It was right across from where a cop car sat 24 hours day. That's why it's so strange.

 

[Henry2326]

This report from Thursday before Faye's body discovered and reported deceased.
Interesting comments and how close LE was to finding her. MOO

Search effort to 'bring Faye home' continues, 1 of 2 vehicles sought located

Thursday, February 13th 2020

Antley addressed Thursday vehicles that had been previously reported being towed from the Swetlik residence.

"We can't share details of what may or may not have been found," Antley said. "We have to keep some parts of this investigation under wraps."

Investigators have been observed at a nearby landfill, and stopping trash collection trucks in the neighborhood.

"In an investigation like this, we are leaving no stone unturned," Antley said. " We are looking for even the smallest piece of evidence that could point us in the direction of bringing Faye home. Whether we find that in back yard of residence, whether we find that in trash truck, or whether we find that at a (garbage) collection center ... we just want to get it."

"We want to get it and provide it to our investigators and let them do what they do," Antley continued. "The FBI has a systematic way of doing things and it is proven to work, and that is what we're using. Our goal is still and remains to bring Faye home." ^^bbm

I honestly think this references the significant number of vicims, especially children, in the recent past that have been found or indicated that they were placed in trash cans/Dumpsters, later possibly searched or found in landfills. Thanks to the FBI in getting ahead of this trend in their processes....I don't think they really knew how close until it happened....Or they would have postponed/delayed the 11 am press conference.....which they didn't. Doesn't take away from their fabulous effort.....

 

[CarolinaAsh]

@boomburger said: ↑
Faye was a minor so according to SC law the details will be made private. Apart from the police, only her family will be told the details and its up to them to reveal them.





To be clear -- the 2014 state Supreme Court ruling cited and/or linked in the post had nothing to do with minors and more about allowing coroners to talk about results of blood tests without releasing toxicology report. In the case cited about a car crash involving college students and parent's objection to release of toxicology results, the results were released despite the parent's objection (minors or not).

From the link provided:

The opinion issued last week relies on a 2014 state Supreme Court ruling that found autopsy reports are medical records exempt from public release under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act.

“A toxicology report, similar to an autopsy, is a diagnostic test yielding medical information,” assistant attorney general Brenden McDonald wrote in the opinion.

Nearly two years after the Supreme Court’s ruling, there remains little guidance on what, if anything, coroners may release to the public about suspicious deaths in their counties. But the state attorney general’s opinion does appear to allow coroners to talk about the results of blood tests without releasing the toxicology report, saying coroners do not appear to be medical providers under the health privacy act known as HIPPA.

[..]

Toxicology reports from autopsies are medical records that cannot be released to the public, but coroners may talk publically about the results of blood screenings for alcohol and drugs without violating federal health privacy law, according to an opinion released by the state Attorney General’s Office.

The opinion was requested by Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger as he investigated the deaths of four USC Upstate students in an Oct. 11 car crash near campus. Clevenger usually releases toxicology reports in cases with a lot of public interest, but some family members of the students objected to him releasing the results.

After reading the opinion, Clevenger released the results from the reports Monday. The driver and two of the three passengers killed had blood-alcohol levels above the 0.08 percent where a jury can consider someone legally drunk in South Carolina, he said.

This is very interesting. Thank you for sharing. I may have to do further research into the topic.

OK on this day her mother picked her up at the bus stop. We don’t know for sure that she ever walked by his house from the bus stop.

Well the same neighbor who went on record as seeing her get off the bus also said her mom was waiting there like she did every day. And where the bus stop is she would have to go out of her way to pass his house. There is literally one duplex between the bus stop and her house. That's why that other map is wrong. I'll attach the correct one again to this post. Data obtained from numerous sources but I visually confirmed the pertinent data from the WIS news video I believe Tuesday and from the last press conference.



That's not to say he couldn't have seen her at other times in the neighborhood.

 

[seebonesell]

No they did not need a search Warrant fur woods . It was right at the opening of the neighborhood were LE was giving the first few news conference before moving to the church . It was right across from where a cop car sat 24 hours day. That's why it's so strange.

Whomever put her there wanted her to be found.

 

[seebonesell]

From what I seen talking with neighbors they all told their kids to stay away from him. CT I think imo was not out to harm her, I think imo that he was a little like minded like a child didn't get along with adults and was lonely and just wanted a friend I don't think he did anything nasty or vial to her, Think he thought if he let her go he would get in trouble cause she knew his address and his face and if he kept her he'd eventually get caught he had no 8ther way out in his mind . Imo

Hope you are right that he didn’t sexually violate her. Whatever he did to her, he was remorseful about it to kill himself. Sounds like a truly sad situation all the way around that just should not have happened. An innocent child is gone unnecessarily :-(

 

[ddnsc]

LE seems to have this wrapped up since there is no person of interest.......

Because there's no person of interest doesn't mean the case is wrapped up. You don't know if they are still searching for someone unknown who will become a person of interest.

 

[jdglove]

Yes you are correct they said no abduction also ,well what do you call this?

They said "no evidence of an abduction" when there was none on that first day. I wish people would pay closer attention before carelessly discrediting law enforcement.

 

[Seattle1]

What we know about Coty Taylor, man linked to Faye Swetlik

Friday, February 14th 2020

Sgt. Antley is talking about Coty Taylor. The 30-year-old has been linked to 6-year-old Faye Swetlik. Police said Taylor was found dead in his Churchill Heights apartment on Thursday about 150 yards away from the little girl's body.

“He was a neighbor. He was not a relative. He was not a friend. He was merely a neighbor that lived in Chruchill Heights,” said Sgt. Antley.

ETA: For those that prefer to visualize -- 150 yards is .08522 miles

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/how-far-do-average-golfers-really-hit-it-new-distance-data-will-surprise-you

 

[Hoosier952]

JMO, how could they have known with such certainty that she was still in the neighborhood from the beginning, one thought is that police dogs may have followed her scent which ended at the block of townhomes of CT. They may have strongly suspected that she was somewhere in those 6-8 townhouses and they searched those homes under threat of getting a search warrant but didn’t find her. Somehow CT had her hidden right there under their nose. In talking to him and realizing he was a single weird guy he was probably under suspicion already. They were not letting anything come and go from those townhomes including trash

My gut says there is a lot of evidence that wasn't made public. Possibly security footage that shows Faye walking with someone far enough away to not be ID'd or possibly Faye walking towards CT's home/area she was found. Combine that with limited entrances and exits and enough security footage to basically ID every vehicle in and out, it's possible they were able to rule out all or all but the silver car. Since we don't know where the silver car ended up after being spotted, it's possible it was not connected at all, it was connected, but parked outside of the community, or was connected and someone didn't want to come forward even though it was parked in the community all along. LE may have had plenty of reasons to suspect one person all along, as well. I've mentioned this before, but I think LE had really good reason to believe she never left the immediate area, but not enough evidence to prove without a doubt who was responsible.

 

[Marysmith]

Hope you are right that he didn’t sexually violate her. Whatever he did to her, he was remorseful about it to kill himself. Sounds like a truly sad situation all the way around that just should not have happened. An innocent child is gone unnecessarily :-(

I’m sorry but I have to respond. If he committed suicide which seems the most plausible explanation to me, to say that he was remorseful is a huge give IMO. Sorry but unless he left a signed confession expressing remorse for the death and the autopsy backed up his note, I would think he was more than likely watching the police hone in on him and knew it was over and took the easy way out for himself.

 

[Sweetsbeach]

Hope you are right that he didn’t sexually violate her. Whatever he did to her, he was remorseful about it to kill himself. Sounds like a truly sad situation all the way around that just should not have happened. An innocent child is gone unnecessarily :-(

We don't know that he felt remorseful. He could have killed himself trying to maintain control over his own fate, knowing that it was only a matter of time before he was apprehended.

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[Deleted member 278]

Whomever put her there wanted her to be found.

I think the killer put her there because he couldn't chance taking her body out of the neighborhood due to LE presence.

 

[PommyMommy]

FEB 15, 2020
Motorcade brings body of Faye Swetlik back to Lexington County - West Metro News

Members of the Sandy Run Calhoun Fire Department wait for Faye Swetlik
Motorcade to pass on I-26. Sandy Run Calhoun Fire Department images.

[...]

Faye was taken to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston for an autopsy.

Faye’s body was brought back to Lexington for her funeral. The Charleston County Sheriff’s Department provided an escort, Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher said in a press release.

[...]

 

[oceanblueeyes]

I think the killer put her there because he couldn't chance taking her body out of the neighborhood due to LE presence.

Ita!

He didn't want her found in his home so he took her little body, and threw it away like she was trash in the woods.

Imo he was hoping they wouldnt connect his suicide to her murder, but if they did he knew he wouldnt be here to see it exposed to all.

This was nothing about him wanting them to find her as if he had a conscience, which imo, he had none. No one with a conscience can kidnap, rape, imo, and murder anyone much less do it to a small totally innocent child.

He offed himself because he wanted to control even how he died. Perhaps he was a sociopath, IRDK. But they hate more than anything to have their dark deviant secrets exposed.

Jmho

 

[Sillybilly]

Link to and subsequent discussion of the Fit News article has been removed as it does not appear to be a reliable source. IMO, looks like pretty cookie-cutter type journalism.

Let's wait for more "mainstream" MSM.

 

[24Roses]

IMO-when LE left MUSC with Faye, they also brought the autopsy report along with them. ETA-Not that I think wer are going to hear anything about her report. Because of the Faye's escort to the funeral home, LE has not yet had an opporunity for an official press conference or press report to MSM. Also, maybe CT wasn't done yet when LE left with Faye.
Also, thanks to the poster who posted the yardage visual. Her body was found so close to CT's apartments. I thought it was farther away and much closer to the NAPA store. Also, I had thought earlier that there was a fence right behind the apartments , but the crime scene tape photos don't show that. However, there is a fence right behind the NAPA store, so it doesn't look like that wooded area belongs to the NAPA. Just some of my random thoughts at the moment from reading posts.

 

[Dmk71]

Because there's no person of interest doesn't mean the case is wrapped up. You don't know if they are still searching for someone unknown who will become a person of interest.

They are still asking for anyone that has information or video from the day she went missing untill 12 on the day they found her to contact CPS, I am guessing because there is little known about CT and we're she was found, and they had been in contact with him and been in his house. This whole thing is strange the ball was dropped some place and No the deflection will start. Sad real sad.

 

[Night Watcher]

I mentioned before that a 6 year old is not the same as a 17 year old teen. How many teens wander off and get lost? There should be exceptions to infants, toddlers and children below the age of 10. Why must an abduction be witnessed to be confirmed before issuing an Amber Alert? JMO
An Amber Alert was not issued for Faye because it did not meet the criteria. Law enforcement said they were not certain she had been abducted. In fact, at the first press conference, Cayce officials said it was possible the little girl wandered off and got lost.

We don’t know whether or not an alert could have helped in the case, but we do know that every second matters when a child goes missing. Should Amber Alert criteria be tweaked?

 

[Dmk71]

Hope you are right that he didn’t sexually violate her. Whatever he did to her, he was remorseful about it to kill himself. Sounds like a truly sad situation all the way around that just should not have happened. An innocent child is gone unnecessarily :-(

It's just so unimaginable to me how she could have been do close but so far away. I had that motherly instinct kick in the first press conference o seen at 12 a.m. Tuesday morning right if the bat Zi said to myself She's in the neighborhood very close. Sad

 

[Dmk71]

I mentioned before that a 6 year old is not the same as a 17 year old teen. How many teens wander off and get lost? There should be exceptions to infants, toddlers and children below the age of 10. Why must an abduction be witnessed to be confirmed before issuing an Amber Alert? JMO
An Amber Alert was not issued for Faye because it did not meet the criteria. Law enforcement said they were not certain she had been abducted. In fact, at the first press conference, Cayce officials said it was possible the little girl wandered off and got lost.

We don’t know whether or not an alert could have helped in the case, but we do know that every second matters when a child goes missing. Should Amber Alert criteria be tweaked?

I think there should be a different alert system for a list child, only because the Amber alert was for a child that was abducted and killed. Do y'all now whatca BLUE ALERT is??