Olga Luna
The missing 6-year-old girl in South Carolina has been found dead three days after she was last seen playing in her backyard, authorities said Thursday, investigating the case as a homicide.
“Sorry we announced that we have found the body that the coroner identified as Faye Marie Swetlik. Now we are treating this case as a homicide,” said Byron Snellgrove, director of Public Security for the city of Cayce, who clarified that there are no arrests of moment related to the death of the child, although he did specify that they found the body of a man in the same neighborhood of Churchill Heinghts where the girl disappeared.
“That investigation has only just begun,” was the only thing Snellgrove referred to about the finding of that body, but said “we feel there is no danger to the community.”
The family of Faye Marie Swetlik He never heard from the girl since he was last seen when he was playing in the front yard of his house on Londonderry Lane in Cayce while the mother was inside the house.
The father, in addition to the mother and her boyfriend were interrogated and are cooperating with the authorities.
The girl, who was in first grade at Springdale Elementary School, got off the school bus this Monday afternoon and arrived safely home, but an hour and a half later disappeared from the front yard of the house without a trace, according to the authorities.
The police were stopping the cars that entered and left the neighborhood in an attempt against the clock to find the little girl alive and they were also door to door. They also asked that those neighbors with bells with cameras to verify the videos to obtain clues about his whereabouts.
Faye Marie Swetlik, 6, disappeared Monday / Department of Public Security
Police established the 803-205-4444 telephone line so that people can provide clues, they can also call the Cayce Department of Public Safety at 803-794-0456 or Investigator W. Dougall at 803-550-9535.
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