The Cold Ones

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

Gary Locklear disappeared from North Charleston, South Carolina on September 6, 1974, the day before his 16 th birthday.    On September 6, 1974, Gary Locklear went to visit a friend’s house.   He started his walk back home between 10:00PM and 11:00PM down Remount Road.   The last time he was seen was by the friend who he had visited that night.   That friend stated he saw Gary Locklear walk down Remount Road toward a fast food restaurant, stop and look down the street.   The friend then went back into his house.   And Gary Locklear has not been seen since.    Leon and Elsie Locklear, Gary’s parents, denied their son was a runaway.   He left behind his wallet the night he went to visit his friend, as well as his other possessions and he was barefoot.   It was the day before his 16 th birthday and he had a new motorcycle waiting on him at home.   And he had just joined the junior varsity football team at his school.    Gary’s parents followed leads to other stat