Slain woman's mother here from Brazil

  • Nita Birmingham
  • Posted: Friday, March 14, 2008 12:01 a.m.
    UPDATED: Saturday, March 17, 2012 7:39 p.m.
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GOOSE CREEK — The mother of homicide victim Ludimila "Mila" Hiers has made the 12-hour trip from her native Brazil for an anniversary she never expected to observe.

Mila Hiers, 24, was shot in the head three years ago today in the Severn Street home she shared with her husband, Dan Hiers Jr., a former Charleston police officer. He disappeared and is wanted on a charge of murder. He is now 35.

"I never imagined something like this could happen. It never crossed my mind because they were so happy together," Sueli Cohe de Araujo said Friday through a translator outside the Goose Creek Police Department.

A candlelight memorial for homicide victim Ludimila Hiers will be at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Marguerite H. Brown Municipal Center at 519 N. Goose Creek Blvd.


Read more in Saturday's edition of The Post and Courier.