Post by Scumhunter on Mar 14, 2016 16:04:17 GMT -5
(Pictured: Above: Left: Dinwiddie, circa 1992. Right: Age-progression to an unknown age)
Missing Person Profile as of March 14th, 2016: (Based on Charley Project profile):
Full Name: Dail Boxley Dinwiddie
Missing Since: September 24, 1992 from Columbia, South Carolina
Date Of Birth: April 12, 1969
Age (at time of disappearance): 23 years old
Height and Weight: 5'0, 96 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Light brown hair, brown eyes. Dinwiddie has pierced ears, dimples in her face and blonde highlights in her hair. One finger on each of her hands is deformed; it is slightly curved.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A long-sleeved olive green pullover shirt, a bright blue nylon L.L. Bean jacket tied around her waist, faded blue jeans and either brown boots or new white Nike sneakers with a blue stripe.
Medical Conditions: Dinwiddie has severe asthma and allergies, and requires twice-weekly injections and the use of an inhaler to control her condition. She may not have her inhaler with her.
TIPS: Anyone having information should call the Columbia Police Department (South Carolina) at 1-803-233-2474
From The Charley Project:
Dinwiddie attended concert of the band U2 in Columbia, South Carolina with friends on September 23, 1992. The concert ended at approximately 11:15 p.m.; Dinwiddie and her group then stopped at Jungle Jim's, a nightclub in the Five Points' area of Columbia. Dinwiddie was last seen at approximately 1:30 a.m. on September 24 by an employee at the club. Her friends lost track of her at the club and assumed she had a ride home; they left at approximately 1:00 a.m. Dinwiddie apparently spoke to the bouncer for 15 minutes before walking out the door between 1:15 and 1:30 a.m. Dinwiddie was last seen walking north on Harden Street. She left her purse behind and has never been seen again.
Dinwiddie was missed at 6:15 a.m. when her father saw that the lights and radio were on in her room and her bed had not been slept in. He called all of her friends and none of them knew her whereabouts, so he reported her missing at 8:30 a.m. The Columbia police treated Dinwiddie's disappearance as a kidnapping, since everyone who knew her said it would be very uncharacteristic of her to leave without warning. She is described as a cautious person who did not like to be out alone.
Investigators are probing the possibility that Reinaldo Javier "Ray" Rivera was involved in Dinwiddie's disappearance. Rivera admitted to murdering four Georgia women, but is a suspect in many more deaths. He was charged in one killing in 2000; his victim in that case was a police officer. Photos of him are posted below this case summary. A native of Puerto Rico, He was a resident of Columbia and a student at the University Of South Carolina in 1992. The university is located near the Five Points area where Dinwiddie was last seen. Investigators are also investigating as to whether he was involved in the 1999 South Carolina disappearance of Paula Merchant.
Rivera, a Navy pilot with an exemplary military record, was convicted of the police officer's murder in 2004 and sentenced to death, plus seven life terms for related crimes. Authorities are uncertain if Rivera is connected to either Dinwiddie or Merchant's cases and no charges have been filed against him in connection with their cases. Interviews with him on the subject have not been fruitful.
Dinwiddie's case remains open and unsolved. She is an graduate of Heathwood Hall Episcopal School and has an art history degree from Randolph-Macon Women's College (now coeducational and called Randolph College). She was planning on enrolling at the University of South Carolina for graduate school at the time of her disappearance. Her case remains unsolved.
charleyproject.org/cases/d/dinwiddie_dail.html
Thoughts? According to my internet searches, America's Most Wanted profiled Dinwiddie pretty much within a week of her initial disappearance in 1992. Unfortunately, as stated above, her case remains unsolved.
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