The Vanished Three

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On Friday, April 3, 1987, Sarah Boyd (32), her daughter Kimberly Boyd (2) and friend Linda McCord (31) attended a gospel concert in Walterboro, South Carolina.  After leaving the concert, they headed back to their hometown of Orangeburg, South Carolina, but they never arrived.



Phillip Boyd, Sarah’s husband and Kimberly’s father, returned home from work around midnight, but did not find it strange his wife and daughter had not arrived home yet.  He assumed that they were with friends or at the residence of Linda McCord.  When they had not arrived home by 6:00AM, Phillip Boyd contacted police.  Linda McCord’s husband also contacted police when his wife had not arrived home.  

Law enforcement was able to find witnesses who had seen McCord’s vehicle driving down highway 15 going between 30 and 40 miles per hour with another car following them, but there was no description of the other car or its occupants that I could find. 

On April 5, 1987, Linda McCord’s vehicle, a 1977 Lincoln, was found at Wells Crossroads, the intersection of highway 15 and 176 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina by the husband of one of the women and Captain William Martin with the Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Department.  Officers with the Dorchester County Sheriff’s Department determined the vehicle had been in that location for at least 10 hours or more.  They had a witness who saw the vehicle parked there on Saturday, April 4th, but thought nothing of it.  The vehicle was found by McCord’s husband on Sunday, April 5th.  


It was discovered that the vehicle had been disabled.  According to a report in The Times and Democrat, “a freeze plug had blown out on the car and it had to have been running hot.”  There was no evidence of foul play or any evidence that would tell what happened to Sarah Boyd, Kimberly Boyd and Linda McCord.








Searches were conducted, but there was no trace of them found anywhere.  However, during one of the searches for the females, three acres of marijuana fields were discovered worth $20 million.  Considering where there car was found, is it possible that the Sarah, Linda and Kimberly encountered dangerous individuals involved with the marijuana fields?



1988 
A year after their disappearance people in their community were still wondering what happened to Sarah Boyd, Kimberly Boyd and Linda McCord.


1990
Three years after the disappearance Sarah Boyd’s credit card was reportedly used in local mall.  However, law enforcement stated that the signature was illegible, but also confirmed that it was not Sarah’s writing.  They were never able to confirm who used Sarah Boyd’s credit card in the mall.

2009
While reviewing identified remains on the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s website, someone made the connection that a body found in 1988 could be that of Kimberly Boyd.  The body found was around the correct age and race.  From the artist’s sketch, it also looked incredibly similar to Kimberly Boyd.  The little girl’s body was found “in a brown baby blanket, placed in a gym bag, in a cement filled suitcase inside a TV console cabinet.”

I have not been able to find whether the body was ever tested to determine if it was Kimberly Boyd’s.  However, when the connection was made, law enforcement looked into the case once again.  They found out that in 1987, Phillip Boyd, was working with cement while building roads.  He was also working in the South Georgia area at the time the body of the little girl was discovered.  Could he be responsible?






2011
An article was written by Shirley Greene for The Post and Courier regarding the disappearance of Sarah and Kimberly Boyd and Linda McCord.  The main content of the article was an interview with Phillip Boyd, who was Sarah Boyd’s husband at the time she disappeared.  He has since remarried and has another child, although what happened to his first wife and child, according to the article, still lingers with him today. 

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/greene-column-for-years-memories-of-daddy-s-girl/article_c18cd55e-d855-5233-ba83-fa967e235774.html

Present Day
It has been 32 years since anyone last saw Sarah Boyd, Kimberly Boyd, and Linda McCord.  There is still no evidence as to what exactly happened to them.  They vanished without a trace only leaving their family and community with memories and years of wondering where they could be.

M.

Comments

  1. AnonymousNovember 28, 2022 at 5:21 PM

    Well put together and so much information that Namus or CP didn't have.

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