Found Deceased SC - Faye Marie Swetlik, 6, Cayce, 10 Feb 2020 #3

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Ginny said:
I'm sorry everyone. I'm not trying to be dense here but I can't wrap my head around what they could have found in a trash can for CT's address that lead them to finding FS. They had already searched the area several times as stated in this morning's presser. I know he said the item was on the missing person flyer and it must be an article of clothing but how did that lead them to Faye's location?

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I don't think that was what LE meant. I think the evidence in the garbage led them to Coty and linked him with Faye's dissapearance.
 
Damarna said:
Many many years ago a child in my neighborhood disappeared. Once the body was found they realized he'd been hit by a car. The person who was driving had been drinking and (obviously IMO) made the horrible choice to hide his body rather than call 911. What if something like this happened? Not sure it wouldn't have been witnessed in the neighborhood. Just thinking about scenarios. MOO
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Excellent point. We still know next to NOTHING.
 
Updated Feb 14, 2020 at 4:45pm
Faye Marie Swetlik Dead: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com
Here’s what you need to know about the disappearance and death of Faye Swetlik:

1. Police Have Released the 911 Call Made After Faye Swetlik Vanished From Her Front Yard

2. Faye Swetlik’s Body Was Found In Her Neighborhood; Police Did Not Immediately Share How She Died

3. Coty Taylor’s Body Was Also Found During the Search & Police Say His Death Is Linked to the Faye Swetlik Case

4. Faye Swetlik’s Family Says She Was a ‘Bubbly’ Little Girl Who Would Not Have Just Wandered Away

5. An Amber Alert Was Never Issued Because Police Said The Case Did Not Meet Federal Guidelines
 
No, the garbage truck was picking up residential garbage in large bins provided by the county, it wasn't picking up garbage from dumpsters. LE was walking behind the truck, going through the contents of every Herbie Curbie, tearing open bags and dumping them into the back of the garbage truck.
 
Thank you, Seattle1, for your reply about the autopsy. And thank you to you and Gingergina for explaining how kids play freely in your neighborhoods. It's the secondary or maybe tertiary tragedy that children cannot play and travel about as freely as when I was young, and the parents cannot take even a one-second breather.

My building is a 23-story high rise in a neighborhood full of them. We as parents did switch around with each other to supervise the kids if they were on a play date, but we would escort them in the elevators and to the other apartments. Almost all students in NYC walk to school, at least in elementary and middle school, and often one of us would walk our friends' kids back and forth and thereby switch off that way, but always one of us had to be there. My daughter went to the same grade school as I did, and I was allowed to walk there and back with just my sister and friends. By the time my daughter went there, that had already become unthinkable.

I know tragedies happened when I was young and that we are all just blessed it didn't happen to us. It's just that we are so aware now. As a teenager I occasionally hitchhiked around the neighborhood with my friends because we thought it was fun, until my high school acquaintances went missing while hiking upstate. They're still missing since 1973 and there is a forum on WS dedicated to them, Mitch and Bonnie. That tragedy sobered us up right away and never did we hitchhike again.
 
Irmese said:
No, the garbage truck was picking up residential garbage in large bins provided by the county, it wasn't picking up garbage from dumpsters. LE was walking behind the truck, going through the contents of every Herbie Curbie, tearing open bags and dumping them into the back of the garbage truck.
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I call them "bins" or "totes", the ones in that complex are identical to what I had in the city of Columbia some years ago.

Yeah looks like it was all residential trash they picked up.
 
Ginny said:
I'm sorry everyone. I'm not trying to be dense here but I can't wrap my head around what they could have found in a trash can for CT's address that lead them to finding FS. They had already searched the area several times as stated in this morning's presser. I know he said the item was on the missing person flyer and it must be an article of clothing but how did that lead them to Faye's location?

LIVE: Update on 6-year-old Faye Swetlik who was found dead Thursday
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The FBI produced a missing person bulletin for Faye and provided details for the child on the poster that if found in a rubbish bin would likely be recognizable at first sight. There also may have been fresh foot tracks leading to the woods not previously seen.

Greg Suskin‏Verified account @GSuskinWSOC9
The latest missing person poster from the FBI in the disappearance of Faye Swetlik.

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1:15 PM - 12 Feb 2020
 
kiki2020 said:
It just seems very odd that someone would jump from having no criminal activity to possibly being a murder suspect. That just doesn't normally happen. Even though everything so far is pointing at a single man, it seems weird.
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Those kind of suspects scares me the most, and absconded sex offenders.

At least LE knows who the RSOs are that live in their jurisdiction, and their location.

Many suspects have become murderers even who are much older who never had any criminal history...not even a traffic ticket before.

Just because they haven't been caught before doesn't mean they haven't abused children before, but just hasn't ever been caught. Many start out abusing family members like David Westerfield before he abducted, raped, and murdered little Danielle Van Dam. He was never reported by his family. That only came out at his death penalty trial. He was also addicted to kiddie *advertiser censored*. He was known as a highly respected engineer with no criminal past.

It will be interesting to see if the suspect winds up being from this town or has moved around from state to state.

DNA comparison takes time. I believe that is what LE is waiting on.

Imo, this was a sexually motivated crime so the suspect, whoever they turnout to be, most likely left his DNA on his little defenseless victim.

We will know soon, and it's going to be just like most already suspect.

Jmho
 
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Falling Down said:
I call them "bins" or "totes", the ones in that complex are identical to what I had in the city of Columbia some years ago.

Yeah looks like it was all residential trash they picked up.
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Kudos again to LE for proactively looking at the rubbish without having to backtrack to a landfill site. From other cases, we know this is a costly and all time-consuming endeavor.
 
PommyMommy said:
It appears that the Lexington County Sheriff PIO has clarified the matter:

Adam Myrick on Twitter
The man found dead in Churchill Heights, Coty Taylor, was interviewed by law enforcement officers during the search for Faye Swetlik, according to @Cayce_DPS @antleyevan. Officers also searched Taylor’s home as part of their work inside the subdivision earlier this week.
2:35 PM - 14 Feb 2020
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Wow. (So much for my earlier pedantic post - imagine embarrassed emoji here that won’t seem to load.) I’m amazed they searched his home earlier. I wonder how many homes they searched, and how it was done. Meaning did they just ask to look around and permission was given? Surely that wasn’t the only home they searched “earlier this week”.
 
Daisy Chain said:
As far as the court system goes, wouldnt LE need more than just the trash can being corrolated to his house number, to press charges? I mean, anyone can put their trash into anyones bin...
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SpanishInquisition said:
Yes, here's pictures out by his complex showing multiple trash cans where anyone in the complex - or for that matter anyone living in the area - could plant stuff in them, which you can see the trash cans in pictures 3-5 if you click through them at the very top:
Homicide investigation underway after missing SC 6-year-old, Faye Swetlik, found dead
The reason why I think it's important to not be definitive is I remember the Ingrid Lynn case where the murderer put body parts in various people's trash cans, which the murderer wasn't the one whose trash can had her body parts in it. There's just a whole range of scenarios where you need more than just a piece of evidence found in a trash accessible to dozens of people in the neighborhood and a dead body where in addition to being sure you have the right person, you also want to make sure you capture any accomplices.
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Of course, we can't say anything definitively at this point, not even that CT was a suspect, but it's a pretty strong connection of evidence being found in his trash and he is found dead.
 
insearchoflight said:
They found critical evidence in the trash bin. A wooded area is near the trash bin, seems logical to me that you would search that area. I don’t think you need a flashing red sign pointing to the wooded area to make a connection. LE went ahead and checked the wooded area after finding evidence in nearby trash bin.
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Exactly and that is what I gathered happened from the PC.

It sounded to me that once they found the evidence in the Trash bin, they began to plan out a way to extensively re-search the wooded area nearby the residence, and while that planning stage had started, I am assuming a LE officer went ahead and took a walk and just started searching it and he found her.

They were probably in the process of planning to do a formal grid search technique using multiple officers but because the other officer found her so quickly, there was no need.
 
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