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Monday, June 03, 2013  Berkeley County sheriff's deputies are investigating the death of a 79-year-old man whose body was found beside a road.

Friday, April 12, 2013  Authorities say a man and a wife found dead in the backyard of a Greer home each committed suicide.

Thursday, April 11, 2013  Authorities say a body found in woods in Spartanburg County was an 18-year-old man killed in a robbery almost five months ago because he had $1,000 in his pocket as he went looking to buy a car.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013  Authorities are working to identify skeletal remains found along a creek bed near Pauline.

Thursday, March 28, 2013  Greenville County authorities say the body of a woman has been found under a bridge.

Friday, March 15, 2013  Laurens County sheriff's deputies are investigating the discovery of a man's body on the edge of a creek.

Thursday, March 07, 2013  A man accused of murdering a pregnant woman is now also charged with one count of woods arson.

Monday, March 04, 2013  Richland County investigators have arrested a man in connection with a body found burning in a wooded area last Thursday.

Thursday, February 28, 2013  Firefighters responding to a fire in a wooded area near Screaming Eagle Road found a body, according to Columbia Fire Department spokesman Brick Lewis.

Friday, February 01, 2013  Investigators say a Chester teen offered to pay his friends $5,000 to kill the grandparents who raised him because they were too strict.

Friday, February 01, 2013  A third teenager has been arrested in the death of a grandmother killed in her Chester home.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013  Investigators say a 17-year-old man was part of a plot to attack his grandmother in their Chester home.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012  Two people are charged in the shooting death of a Sumter man whose body was found alongside a street.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012  The Chester County grand jury has indicted a Richburg man in the July shooting death of another man.

Monday, October 15, 2012  Charleston police are investigating the death of a woman who was shot in her home.