2001 Cold Case Blown Open by Victim's Mother

Parrish Reeves's mother KNEW he wasn't simply "missing" in 2001. After all, his dog remained in the house in Cordesville; blood was spattered around, and a comforter had disappeared. Not so the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office, which treated the case as a missing person without further investigation.


According to today's P & C, "The case dried up until late 2006, when [his mother] presented the Sheriff's Office with new information regarding his disappearance." We don't know where she got it, but obviously the case lay dormant until that point.


Now it turns out that the authorities needn't have looked far--in fact, Reeves's stepchildren, ages 18 and 21 at the time of the murder, have been charged, along with two others; items belonging to the victim in a Monck's Corner pawnshop database [for how long, we ask?] were traced to his stepdaughter.


If Reeves's mother had given up, this cold case would still be unsolved, and the body still undiscovered.


Six years of wondering and trying to get the right people to pay attention. No thanks to the Sheriff's Office except for following through when the answers became obvious. Not encouraging.