091 - The Disappearance of Dail Dinwiddie
Trace Evidence
Steven Pacheco
4.7 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Following the concert, Dail and her friends went to a local bar, Jungle Jim’s, for a few drinks and dancing. When Dail became separated from her friends, they assumed she’d gotten a ride home. She hadn’t and for the next twenty minutes she searched for them.
Finally leaving the bar at approximately 1:30am, Dail walked north on Hayden Street, last being seen at its intersection with Greene St. She has never been seen again.
What happened to Dail Dinwiddie? Was she the victim of a random crime, the target of a serial killer or perhaps was she taken by someone she knew and trusted?
UPDATED: July, 2025 - Someone has come forward with a new theory about who may have been responsible for Dail's disappearance; it is allegedly a case of mistaken identity.
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| 0:00.0 | 23-year-old Dale Dinwitty was looking forward to a concert. |
| 0:13.4 | You too were playing at the Bryce Williams Stadium, home of the University of South Carolina |
| 0:18.5 | Gamecocks, and Dale had been invited by a group of friends. |
| 0:22.9 | The concert took place on Wednesday, September 23, 1992, and would sadly be the last concert |
| 0:29.2 | Dale, whatever attend. |
| 0:31.8 | After the show, Dale and friends went to the five points area of Columbia, South Carolina, |
| 0:37.5 | dropping in at Jungle Gims, a bar popular with USC students. |
| 0:42.5 | Sometime after midnight, Dale found herself separated from her friends, and when they couldn't |
| 0:47.1 | find her, they'd assume she'd gone home. |
| 0:50.6 | Searching for her group, Dale left the bar. |
| 0:53.8 | The bouncer was the last person to see her and noted that she was heading north towards |
| 0:58.4 | a nearby intersection. |
| 1:00.6 | The next morning, her parents discovered that she hadn't come home, and after calling |
| 1:05.0 | everyone they could think of, they filed a missing persons report. |
| 1:09.1 | Over the course of the next 27 years, investigators, family, and reporters alike have been baffled |
| 1:15.5 | by the utter lack of evidence. |
| 1:17.8 | Police didn't even have a crime scene, and for the most part, we're searching in the |
| 1:21.8 | dark. |
| 1:23.1 | What happened to Dale Dinwitty? |
| 1:25.2 | Did she fall victim to a random act of violence? |
| 1:28.2 | Could a serial killer have been targeting her, or is it possible that someone she knew |
| 1:33.0 | and trusted hold the answers? |
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