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Austin Tyler Steele

Case from Lancaster, SC dated Mar 01, 2018

Victim Details

Austin Tyler Steele

Male

White / Caucasian

Lancaster

SC

2018-03-01

18

Austin

Tyler Steele

06/20/2026

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In a case that shocked the community of Lancaster, South Carolina, 18-year-old Austin Tyler Steele was brutally murdered in February 2018. Steele, a male who was on the autism spectrum, had moved in with Christopher Allen Holford, 30, and his wife, Brandy Nicole Faye Duncan, 19, just two months before his death. The grim details of his death began to surface on March 1, 2018, when authorities received a tip about a possible homicide at a residence on High Point Circle.

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