217: The Murder of Charlotte Childs

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In May of 1993, 18-year-old student Charlotte Childs was eagerly anticipating her high school graduation in Holly Hill, South Carolina. She was busy attending all sorts of pre-graduation celebrations in the lead-up to the big day, including a get-together for her fellow high school seniors the evening before. But after dropping her best friend home in the early hours of graduation day, Charlotte never made it home. Instead, her parents were woken by a call in the dark early hours that their daughter was in the hospital, fighting for her life.

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0:00.0	Southern Fried True Crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners, and there may also be some explicit language used.
0:08.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	Graduating from high school is one of those pivotal milestones that brings with it a
0:17.8	mix of competing emotions excitement for what's coming next, uncertainty for the future,
0:24.0	sadness at leaving some things behind,
0:26.0	or perhaps relief to be moving on to adulthood.
0:30.0	Most of all, to use a well-worn cliche, there's the knowledge that the world is your
0:35.2	oyster.
0:36.2	Whether you're straight off to college, heading into the workforce, or traveling to see a bit of the
0:40.8	world, knowing the rest of your life is ahead of you is incredibly liberating,
0:46.0	if a little scary.
0:48.0	And that sounds like such a long time,
0:50.0	the rest of your life.
0:52.0	At that age, the decades yawned before you. It felt like it
0:56.8	took forever to grow up, so you have no idea how fast the next years will fly.
1:01.4	In late May of 1993, 18 years ago. how fast the next years will fly.
1:02.7	In late May of 1993, 18-year-old Charlotte Childs
1:06.5	was standing at this great starting line of life.
1:10.8	As the eldest of her siblings, she was the first to graduate high school and was already a mature young woman,
1:17.0	juggling her studies with a busy social life and her job at a bank.
1:21.0	She was also a young woman who was probably feeling some relief to leave
1:25.8	part of her life behind. She had just made a big change, breaking up with her toxic boyfriend.
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