253: Faye Swetlik
Stolen Lives True Crime
Stolen Lives True Crime
4.1 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The abduction and murder of 6-year-old Faye Swetlik
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| 0:00.0 | Here on Stolen Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking crimes against children. |
| 0:05.5 | Themes may include child murder, torture, and sexual domestic and child abuse. |
| 0:10.8 | I do try to my best to remain respectful for the babies in these stories |
| 0:14.0 | and leave out unnecessary details that honestly, none of us need to know to understand the frustration |
| 0:19.5 | of why and how this ever happened. |
| 0:21.9 | However, if you find any of these themes triggering this podcast may not be for you. |
| 0:27.3 | Listen, our discretion is advised. February 2020, KC. South Carolina. |
| 0:42.2 | Six-year-old Faye Sweatleg disappeared from her front yard while she was outside playing. |
| 0:47.0 | Everyone sprung into action, and an extensive search was launched, |
| 0:51.3 | one that would last for just three days before it reached a tragic conclusion. |
| 0:56.6 | This is Faye's story. |
| 0:59.4 | This moment. Her six-year-old was in the front yard and she can't find her now. |
| 1:06.8 | This phone call to 911 on February 10th, 2020, would start a kidnapping investigation, sparking national headlines. |
| 1:14.7 | We have a unit now that has a dog just in case we need to try to track her, okay? |
| 1:19.7 | Faye Marie Sweatleg was born June 13, 2013, in Lexington, South Carolina, to parents, Selenaina Collins and Chad Sweatleg, although they would |
| 1:30.5 | unfortunately split when Fay was only a toddler. By February 2020, when our story takes place, |
| 1:37.2 | Faye lived with her mother, Selena and Selena's boyfriend in the Church Hill Heights |
| 1:41.4 | neighbourhood of KC, South Carolina, a small city just west of Columbia. |
| 1:47.2 | Monday, February 10, 2020, 3.45pm. |
| 1:52.0 | Six-year-old Faye arrived home on the bus after school, and as was normal for the little girl. |
| 1:57.6 | She was outside playing on the porch of the family home, located at 16 London Square and |
| 2:03.2 | KC, South Carolina. Faye's mother, Selena, was doing some dinner prep inside, keeping an ear out |
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