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The Deck

Silene Eaddy (3 of Diamonds, South Carolina)

The Deck

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True Crime

4.69.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Silene Eaddy, who sometimes asked people to call her Erica, was known for her sharp wit. She was last seen walking away from her adoptive mother’s home in Columbia, South Carolina in 2004. Her body was found later, having been beaten and burned and left in the woods.

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0:00.0

Our card this week is Selene Edie, the three of diamonds from South Carolina.

0:09.3

Selene Edie was a friendly 15 year old girl whose budding teenage years were cut horrifically

0:14.0

short in the spring of 2004.

0:16.5

Law enforcement investigators in Columbia, South Carolina have been trying to solve this

0:20.8

case for 18 years.

0:23.1

So to help us understand the ins and outs of this story and learn more about what happened

0:27.5

to Selene.

0:28.5

The activists took our reporter Emily to the scene of the crime, which means we're taking

0:33.0

you there in this episode as well.

0:36.0

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.

1:06.0

It was still light outside at 730 at night on Thursday April 15, 2004 in Columbia, South

1:18.2

Carolina when Brenda McCoy heard her neighbor Veronica yell from across the street, your

1:23.7

child is trying to sneak out again.

1:26.4

Veronica was having a cook out across the road when she saw Brenda's teenage daughter Selene

1:30.4

Edie leave the house.

1:32.0

So to help keep Brenda in the loop, Veronica shouted across the road to inform her what

1:35.9

was going on.

1:36.9

At the time, Veronica knew Brenda had been having some trouble with Selene.

1:41.0

Brenda had mentioned a few times that Selene had been acting out, not coming home on time,

1:45.9

leaving without permission, things like that.

1:48.0

Spring of 2004 was just a tough time overall for everyone in the family.

1:52.7

Brenda was a widow whose husband Fred had died 10 years earlier and she'd been trying her

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