June 5, 2006

TIFFANY'S KILLER STILL LURKS



No News is NOT Good News



Excerpts from Fox News


GREENVILLE, S.C. — Tiffany Souers did not have any defensive wounds, but her attacker might, the Pickens County coroner said Monday. Dr. Jim Mahanes told The Greenville News that Tiffany Marie Souers might have struck her killer as she was strangled, leaving wounds.


Authorities are searching for a young white man who may have acted in a sexually aggressive manner in connection with Souers' death. In addition to the possible suspect, who was photographed wearing a bandanna while trying to use Souers' bank card at two cash machines within hours of her death, police are searching for a light- to medium-colored 2-door GMC or Chevrolet SUV. Investigators say they think the man is still in the area around the university.


The Greenville News reported Monday that police have interviewed 50 people in connection with Souers' death, which Ariail described as a sexually motivated crime, but he has not said that she was raped.


Faith Clark, the director of Sharing Inc. in Easley, S.C., where Souers volunteered said Tiffany was approached in Clark's consignment and resale shop at least twice by a man who spent time "hanging out, trying to get names, addresses and phone numbers and e-mails of women, trying to get hugs" over the course of a year-and-a-half.


Sheriff David Stone said many calls coming in to the tip line were from people who had been involved in domestic violence cases. "A lot of times, you have a person that's had a domestic call and they've separated or divorced or whatever, and they'll call and give this name that I got beat up by him or her," Stone told The Greenville News Saturday. "It's things like that right now."


Ariail said a profile of a possible suspect leads investigators to believe the man would likely begin to withdraw from family and friends and shy away from regular activities. While the prosecutor described the suspect as someone who may have made inappropriate sexual advances in the past, investigators don't think he was specifically waiting for Souers, who was dropped off at her apartment by friends just hours before police think she was killed.


Investigators say Souers sent a text message shortly after midnight on the morning she was killed, but would not reveal the contents of that message.



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