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BODIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUPLE WHO WENT MISSING EN ROUTE TO NEW YORK TO VISIT FAMILY FOUND
Fox News Channel | 12/11/2006

Posted on 12/11/2006 5:07:52 PM PST by tsmith130

Found in a NC swamp. No foul play...believe to be an auto accident. Prayers for their family. They looked like a loving, happy couple.


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To: Lancey Howard

I think it was a single car accident.


121 posted on 12/11/2006 7:45:15 PM PST by Howlin (40 days to Destin!)
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To: Howlin; surfer

Surfer is a good reporter. He/She kept us all posted during the James Kim search.

You are being harsh.


122 posted on 12/11/2006 7:46:10 PM PST by paulat
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To: Howlin

I was watching feeds from Channel 47 and 66 over the last couple of hours.

I am not sure what networks they are. You obviously haven't streamed local content over the internet - it isn't all nice and menu driven with a remote!


123 posted on 12/11/2006 7:46:16 PM PST by surfer
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To: Howlin

Actually you stated it WAS a single car accident...know you say you think...that is progress.


124 posted on 12/11/2006 7:47:21 PM PST by surfer
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To: Jrabbit
I couldn't leave with a clear conscience, without offering to help.. only thing would be if there was no traffic and no cell coverage. All of which is one good reason to have OnStar.
125 posted on 12/11/2006 7:47:34 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: surfer

Sloane Heffernon is the reporter doing the report and she didn't say what you said; I posted what she said.


126 posted on 12/11/2006 7:48:34 PM PST by Howlin (40 days to Destin!)
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To: Howlin

Doesn't "a traffic collision" infer more than one vehicle?
Of course, the reporting could be shaky. "Accident" would have been more appropriate if the incident involved one vehicle.


127 posted on 12/11/2006 7:48:40 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: surfer

Surfer...thanks for all you do.


128 posted on 12/11/2006 7:48:48 PM PST by paulat
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To: null and void

.....somethings from living there never leave you, plus we are just across the lake, and do see CHP cars here in town on holidays.


129 posted on 12/11/2006 7:49:51 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Howlin
...sanctimonious prigs...

;^)

130 posted on 12/11/2006 7:49:55 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: Lancey Howard

I believe they're doing an "autopsy" of the car. But preliminary reports seem to indicate the driver went to sleep, or had a heart attack, or some such "accident"....


131 posted on 12/11/2006 7:51:34 PM PST by Jrabbit (Scuse me??)
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To: surfer

The damage could have been caused by a deer.


132 posted on 12/11/2006 7:51:47 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: surfer

I like your report better. More meat and less attitude.


133 posted on 12/11/2006 7:52:09 PM PST by Rb ver. 2.0
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To: Lancey Howard

The fog of news...

Collision is what has been reported was said between the 911 operators and highway patrol.

Now Howling are you taking notes. I didn't say that someone called in and reported a collision.

The news piece was reported 5 hours ago in the original thread on this. That was reported by WPDE in Myrtle Beach about 5 hours ago.


134 posted on 12/11/2006 7:53:39 PM PST by surfer
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To: Howlin

I drove that stretch a couple weeks ago coming back here to Richmond from Jacksonville. I don't remember there being much swamp up along the Rocky Mount stretch of I-95, but there are numerous creeks that cut through the area. Maybe there was swamp there and I was too busy dodging morons to notice it.

It's not exactly remote, but there ain't a hell of a lot out there between exits, for sure. Rocky Mount itself is a ways off 95, of course, and if I remember that area between exits 138 and 141 correctly, it's three solid miles of nothing but trees and road signs.

}:-)4


135 posted on 12/11/2006 7:54:32 PM PST by Moose4 (Baa havoc, and let slip the sheep of war.)
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To: Jrabbit
I believe they're doing an "autopsy" of the car.

yeah, I thought that was an interesting use of that word...

136 posted on 12/11/2006 7:55:48 PM PST by null and void (I'm not a great American. I'm a grateful American ~ Morrill Worcester (Worcester Wreath Co.))
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To: Jrabbit

Hi Jr,

Where did you hear that?


137 posted on 12/11/2006 7:55:54 PM PST by surfer
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To: paulat

Surfer is WRONG, period.

There's nothing worse than bad reporting.


138 posted on 12/11/2006 7:57:53 PM PST by Howlin (40 days to Destin!)
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To: surfer
When Highway Patrol investigated I doubt they even stopped!!! Unbelievable. Is everyone understanding this? Last week a 911 call was made stating a collision had occured at the location near where the vehicle was found. Highway Patrol investigated and could not find a collision. A week later the family with their own resources hires a helicopter and searches the area...and the brother and Uncle find the bodies!!!

Likely they did look from the ground actually several agencies were likley looking. Weather may have prohibited a chopper search at that time though. A chopper may have been the only way to see it.

Close to where I live last summer a pick up truck went off the hi-way and down a bank. It was found about three weeks ago. The wreck was within a quarter mile of a VFD hall/ambulance station and a school. Thousands of cars passed the place including me several times.

I would question the 911 protocols more than I would the ones on scene. The dispatcher has the cell number of the caller and should in most areas be able to lock out the callers phone. Meaning the one who called it in can not call anyone else until the 911 center released the phone.

I've called 911 several times to report things the latest was a driver slumped over the wheel and someone outside the car waving like mad. Due to traffic I couldn't stop but I did have the mile marker down to the 10th of a mile. 911 called me back as did ambulance dispatch and the car was gone. It would be interesting to know if 911 tried to call the reporting party back.

I can understand how a car would not be visible there. A few years back I drove from Nags Head to I-40. Longest drive in my life it seemed through miles of swamp on either side. Spotting wrecked vehicles especially where no contact with another vehicle was made or skid marks left is a difficult task. I also understand hunters may use this area. Them pulling off and making tracks would add to the confusion.

139 posted on 12/11/2006 7:58:11 PM PST by cva66snipe (If it was wrong for Clinton why do some support it for Bush? Party over nation destroys the nation.)
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To: Howlin; surfer
Tar River and Stoney Creek are in that general area (highway 64 and I95, which is exit 138, my old exit)... and IIRC, lots of smaller, unnamed creeks and swampy areas along those creeks.

Sad ending to this story. Prayers for the family.

140 posted on 12/11/2006 7:58:34 PM PST by tgslTakoma
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