MISSING: Zelig Williams
The Murder Diaries
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4.5 • 792 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Murder Diaries. I'm Natalie. And I'm Paige. Make sure if you want to listen to ad-free, |
| 0:06.1 | head over to patreon.com slash the Murder Diaries pod. And you can also catch us on YouTube now. |
| 0:12.7 | On October 3rd, 2024, 28-year-old Broadway dancer Zellig Williams left his mother's house in |
| 0:19.1 | Columbia, South Carolina to print some headshots, |
| 0:21.7 | and he disappeared into thin air. The next day, his phone pinged 87 miles away, and his car was |
| 0:28.6 | found perfectly parked at a remote trailhead. His clothes were folded neatly in place on the |
| 0:33.8 | floorboard of his empty Ford SUV. No one has seen him since. |
| 0:39.3 | This is his story. |
| 0:42.3 | You still think it's in my head, but I'm walking with the day. |
| 0:55.5 | Zellig Williams was born on January 31st, 1996 in Columbia, South Carolina. |
| 1:01.9 | He was one of three siblings, but both of his sisters tragically passed in a motor vehicle |
| 1:06.9 | accident in 2004 when Zellig was just eight years old. He grew up in a home with family |
| 1:13.0 | that were huge advocates for creativity. While he was really close with his mother, Kathy, it was his |
| 1:18.7 | sisters that inspired him to pursue dance. As his sisters passed and time went on, dance was a way |
| 1:24.7 | that Selig was able to stay connected to them and their memory. |
| 1:28.8 | Dance wasn't just a thing to do for Zellig. It was deeply personal and emotional for him. |
| 1:34.9 | Zellig began dancing and performing in the Irmo and Columbia area as a boy, and he was so precise |
| 1:40.7 | and technically gifted and had such an inspired work ethic that people began to take notice of him. |
| 1:47.0 | He first caught the acting bug as a fourth grader when he played the mayor of Munchkin City in a school performance of the Wizard of Oz. |
| 1:54.5 | When he was 12 years old, Zellig began taking technical dance classes at Columbia's southern strut dance studio, |
| 2:00.3 | where he participated in competitions. |
| 2:03.1 | And during middle school, Jennifer Bourne, the theater teacher at Creighton Middle School, |
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