The Korean Nationals
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 Bu...