Her abductor and killer was Coty Scott Taylor, 30, a neighbor of Faye’s who himself was found dead minutes after Faye’s body was discovered, Cayce Director of Public Safety Byron Snelgrove said at the press conference.
Officials did not address Taylor’s cause of death at the press conference and didn’t disclose a motive. Snelgrove said Taylor didn’t leave a message or note of any kind and said he was “the sole perpetrator of this crime.”
Snelgrove said law enforcement got its first break in the investigation when they searched garbage cans on Thursday and discovered a polka-dot boot and a soup-ladle with dirt on it in the garbage can belonging to Taylor’s address. In Faye’s missing person’s bulletin, she was described as wearing polka-dot boots.
Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher said Faye was killed just a few hours after she was abducted. Snelgrove said that in the early morning hours on Thursday, Taylor moved Faye’s body into the woods.
Faye, a first grader at Springdale Elementary School,went missing from her family’s front yardafter school on Monday.
On Saturday, Faye’s body was transported to the funeral home after her autopsy at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, according toWLTX.
Faye Swetlik.Cayce Department of Public Safety
At Tuesday’s press conference, Snelgrove said, “Faye Swetlik quickly grabbed all of our hearts. This case became and will always remain very personal for us. Faye will never be forgotten.”
Fisher said, “To Faye’s mother and father, my heart, like so many others, breaks for you.”
She added, “No parent should ever have to know such pain.”
source: people.com
