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The Woman in the Suitcase

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On April 25, 1972, two fishermen found the body of a young woman in a suitcase floating in the North Edisto River near Rowesville. It was investigated by the Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Department. The body of the woman was sent to the Medical University of South Carolina for an autopsy. This autopsy determined that the woman was actually of Asian/Oriental descent and was around 20 years old and was 5ft 4inches tall. She also had two distinguishing tattoos. One tattoo was of the name “Judy” on the upper under part of her left arm. The other tattoo was a rabbit’s head with a bowtie at the base, possibly a Playboy Bunny. From the autopsy, they were able to obtain fingerprints from the body, which were sent to the FBI for analysis. They also sent the fingerprints to the Korean and Japanese governments, due to her determined ethnicity.  The initial reports printed in the newspaper articles stated that the woman had been in the water for 15-20 days and she had died due to
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The Little Girl from Woodland

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Phyllis Powell was born August 10, 1957.   She was only five years old when she disappeared on January 11, 1963 from her neighborhood in Woodland, North Carolina.   She and her older sister had gone to a neighbor’s house to do laundry.   According to her sister, Joyce Powell Parker, it was an unusually warm day for January, so when her little sister asked if she could play outside, she didn’t see a problem with it.   It was around noon.   They lived on Ashe Street in Woodland, North Carolina and in 1963 they were only a few houses on the street, occupied mostly by family.   Phyllis Powell was last seen walking down Ashe Street in the direction of NC35.   Law enforcement, family and volunteers helped search for Phyllis.   The only trace of her ever found was a set of small footprints one mile from where she went missing.   The area where the footprints were found was bordered by thick woods.   There are no photographs of Phyllis.   Every image of her is a composite sketch based
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The Korean Nationals

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Sook Hi Lee, Jung Sol Byun, and Sook Ja Cho, Korean nationals, who had been in the United States and living in Savannah, Georgia for more than a year, went missing in October of 1974.   Their bodies were found in December of 1974.    They became the subject of a search when an automobile was found abandoned off of US 17 in a rest area.   The Colleton County Sheriff’s office became involved in the search when the car was reported by a trucker who had stopped at the same rest area, noticed the vehicle and items on a picnic table.   When the Sheriff’s office arrived to investigate they found further evidence that something was wrong.   Besides the abandoned car, the rest area picnic table had three nearly full bottles of soda, food, and keys to the abandoned car.   There were also three sets of chopsticks and boiled eggs on the ground, one seemingly crushed into the concrete around the picnic table.      The 1973 Buick La Sabre belonged to Jung Sol Byun, fiancé of
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