Irby gets 40 years for murder

Greenville man gunned down ex-girlfriend

JANUARY 7, 2010 10:07 p.m. (0)

A Greenville man was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in prison for killing a BMW paint shop supervisor in a spray of gunfire as she tried to speed out of her garage to get away from him.

Sheila Grayson had taken out a restraining order against Robert Emory Irby two weeks before she was killed in May 2008.

Irby pleaded guilty to murder during a hearing at the Greenville County Courthouse.  Continue reading...

 

Pickens attorney was avid fisherman, Clemson fan

Coyle represented gunman's ex-wife

FEBRUARY 4, 2010 6:51 p.m. (1)

Incident Report

The man who killed J. Redmond Coyle Wednesday night was under court order to sell his house as part of a divorce settlement.  Continue reading...

 

Susan Smith wants another day in court

Solicitor says it may be 15 years too late

FEBRUARY 5, 2010 10:26 a.m. (6)

Michael Smith would have been 18 this year.

His brother Alexander 16.  Continue reading...

 

Williams loses death sentence appeal

Man shot girlfriend in 2003 at area grocery store

FEBRUARY 9, 2010 4:20 p.m. (0)

A man who gunned down his ex-girlfriend in the deli of a Greenville grocery store lost an appeal of his death sentence.

The South Carolina Supreme Court rejected the appeal of Charles Christopher Williams, who received the death penalty in connection with the shooting death of Maranda Williams in 2003.  Continue reading...

 

'I still got to live with this'

Father gets 25 years for murdering his son

APRIL 30, 2010 9:27 a.m. (0)

Christopher Lamar Wilson waited until he knew everyone in the house would be asleep.

Then as quietly as he could, sometime around 4:30 a.m. the morning of Aug. 7, 2007, he crept out of his house carrying a duffle bag that held the lifeless body of his 4-year-old son, wrapped in a blanket and stuffed into garbage bags.  Continue reading...

 

40 cold cases in Spartanburg County

Investigators say time is the trouble

JULY 21, 2010 6:34 a.m. (1)

Crystal Bradshaw was getting her life back together.

The 28-year-old mother had been separated from her husband for several months and had recently purchased a home on Northbrook Street off Highway 9 in Boiling Springs.  Continue reading...

 

Police solve cold case

Men charged in six-year-old murder investigation

JULY 21, 2010 10:05 a.m. (0)

Greenville County Sheriff’s investigators say they’ve solved a 6-year-old murder case.

Two men were charged in connection with the shooting death of Curtis Deion Harmon on Aug. 29, 2004.

Michael Edward Hockaday, 33, of 6 B Bentwood Dr., Greenville; and Garcia Zenas Wilson, 31, of 607 Emily Lane, Piedmont, were both charged with murder, according to arrest warrants.  Continue reading...

 

Mother gets eight years

Amanda Smith maintains her innocence but enters Alford plea to reduced charge

AUGUST 3, 2010 4:01 p.m. (2)

Devon Epps was 7 when he was strangled to death late one night in August 2007.

On Tuesday, his mother, Amanda Raegan Smith, was sentenced to 8 years in prison in connection with his death.  Continue reading...

 

Marine arrested in Wendy's case

Cold case squad made first arrest in March

AUGUST 9, 2010 1:25 p.m. (0)

Cold case investigators have made a second arrest in the 2007 shooting death of a Wendy’s restaurant employee.

Isaac Bass was gunned down in the parking lot as he left work on Jan. 27, 2007.  Continue reading...

 

Beating under investigation

Homeless man dies after incident, investigators have no suspects

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 10:16 a.m. (0)

One week after the death of a homeless man who was found severely beaten and unresponsive last Tuesday morning off West Blue Ridge Drive near Cedar Lane Road in Greenville County, investigators have no suspects.

Terry Steven White, 55, died last Thursday at Greenville Memorial Hospital after lingering for two days in critical condition.

He never regained consciousness.  Continue reading...

 

Looking for leads

Authorities search for answers in homeless murder case

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010 12:45 p.m. (0)

Investigators returned to the scene where a 55-year-old homeless man was found beaten the morning of Aug. 31, looking for evidence that might spark an arrest in what has become a homicide case.

Authorities have yet to be able to piece together the details of who might have attacked Terry Steven White or why.

White was found severely beaten and unresponsive three weeks ago off West Blue Ridge Drive near Cedar Lane Road in Greenville County. He died two days later at Greenville Memorial Hospital without ever regaining consciousness.  Continue reading...

 

Police crack cold case

Victim’s family: ‘We thought this day would never come’

APRIL 4, 2011 10:11 a.m. (0)

Thirty-three Thanksgivings ago, Thomas George Bikas was walking home from a bar when he was beaten to death and robbed.

He was found two doors from home.

On Monday, Greenville Police Chief Terri Wilfong announced that two men have been arrested and charged with murder and strong-arm robbery in the case.  Continue reading...

 

22 Women Gone

The Journal investigates female murder victims and the growing number of husband/boyfriend perpetrators

OCTOBER 10, 2011 11:28 a.m. (0)

Traci Grant died sitting in a kitchen chair in her Simpsonville home.

Shivani Boparai’s six-year-old son showed officers to a bathroom, where he found his mother stabbed to death.

Allison Cross died with her mother in a bedroom of her mother’s home.  Continue reading...