Investigators have developed a timeline that accounts for where Tiffany Marie Souers was up until 12:03 a.m. Friday, about an hour and a half before they believe the Clemson University student was strangled, 13th Circuit Solicitor Bob Ariail said Wednesday.
Results from an exam to determine if there had been a sexual assault are expected back soon, perhaps today, and said officers have seized items they hope will produce a DNA profile. Investigators have collected DNA samples from other people which could be compared to a DNA profile that officers hope will contain more than just Souers' DNA.
Investigators are focusing on the "immediate area" around Clemson, Ariail said. "We have good reason to look at some evidence that may indicate that" the attacker is still in the area, he said. He declined to give a specific number of people who have been interviewed, but said they were "numerous."
Souers, 20, from Ladue, Mo., had stayed at her apartment at The Reserve in Central after the end of the spring semester to take summer classes and help an Easley charity, according to her mother, Bren Souers. Ariail's office had said that Souers' body was found at about 1:45 p.m. Friday on the floor of her bedroom at the apartment by a former roommate and her boyfriend who had come by to return a key. Ariail said Wednesday it was his understanding that two women found the body.
There are "persons of interest" but no suspects, Ariail said. He said he didn't know if the incident was random or if Souers knew her attacker and wouldn't comment on whether the doors to the apartment were unlocked. Ariail said he is "comfortable with the way the case is going" and described the investigation and dissemination of information as "exemplary."
"The priority was crime scene processing," Ariail said. "The second was to identify the way the investigation should go." Investigators "may have been led to certain areas that they thought were more promising than talking to someone who may have seen her 12 hours before, because as it has been pointed out, time is always on the side of the perpetrator," Arial said. "The longer it goes, the more difficult it can be."
Results from an exam to determine if there had been a sexual assault are expected back soon, perhaps today, and said officers have seized items they hope will produce a DNA profile. Investigators have collected DNA samples from other people which could be compared to a DNA profile that officers hope will contain more than just Souers' DNA.
Investigators are focusing on the "immediate area" around Clemson, Ariail said. "We have good reason to look at some evidence that may indicate that" the attacker is still in the area, he said. He declined to give a specific number of people who have been interviewed, but said they were "numerous."
Souers, 20, from Ladue, Mo., had stayed at her apartment at The Reserve in Central after the end of the spring semester to take summer classes and help an Easley charity, according to her mother, Bren Souers. Ariail's office had said that Souers' body was found at about 1:45 p.m. Friday on the floor of her bedroom at the apartment by a former roommate and her boyfriend who had come by to return a key. Ariail said Wednesday it was his understanding that two women found the body.
There are "persons of interest" but no suspects, Ariail said. He said he didn't know if the incident was random or if Souers knew her attacker and wouldn't comment on whether the doors to the apartment were unlocked. Ariail said he is "comfortable with the way the case is going" and described the investigation and dissemination of information as "exemplary."
"The priority was crime scene processing," Ariail said. "The second was to identify the way the investigation should go." Investigators "may have been led to certain areas that they thought were more promising than talking to someone who may have seen her 12 hours before, because as it has been pointed out, time is always on the side of the perpetrator," Arial said. "The longer it goes, the more difficult it can be."
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More Clemson Mayhem--COLD CASES
CLEMSON -- While police sought clues Tuesday in the strangulation death of Clemson University junior Tiffany Marie Souers, the killings of two other female Clemson students remain open cases.
The body of Clemson freshman Stacy Brooke Holsonback was found floating in a Lake Hartwell cove near the campus on Feb. 20, 1997. Holsonback had gone four-wheeling the night before with two young men who said their vehicle got stuck in the mud and she decided to walk back to campus alone. An autopsy showed she had been strangled.
Clemson University graduate student Norsaadah Husain was abducted from a Central coin laundry -- about a mile from Souers' apartment -- on June 8, 1992. Three months later a hunter discovered her remains on a wooded hillside near Oconee Nuclear Station. (But HOW did she die? Is the media holding back that information so the community doesn't erupt into a frenzy?)
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