Search for missing Edisto man continues one year later
Rumors have led detectives from Edisto Island to Walterboro and beyond in the search for a man who disappeared under murky circumstances last year.
But nothing so far has given Charleston County sheriff's investigators any solid clues about where Theodore Watson Jr. might be. They've had colleagues in Florida check into reports that he was living down there. Some tipsters have suggested that he met a sinister end somewhere in southern Charleston County.
"There's always a lot of rumors, but we're trying to stay away from that," Detective Eugene Magwood said this week. "We can't say (what happened) because we really don't know. So we're following up on every little lead that we get."
Deputies found Watson's car abandoned along the right shoulder of S.C. Highway 174 near Russell Creek Bridge about half past midnight on Aug. 30, 2007.
The car's marker lights were on and the trunk was open. The key was in the ignition and a small amount of blood stained the driver's seat.
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