Andrew “Drew” Ramey Cato IV was a 28-year-old White male from Augusta, Georgia, a young father whose disappearance turned into a murder case that shook people on both sides of the Savannah River. According to contemporaneous reports and later coverage that traced the case through its outcome, he was last seen on May 5, 2018, after leaving home and then finishing work, but he never made it back.
In the days that followed, his family and the community searched for him, holding onto hope while investigators tried to piece together where he had gone and why he had vanished so suddenly.
As the missing-person investigation deepened, suspicion settled on people who had been close to him. Reports identified Blaeke Wolfe, the mother of one of Cato’s children, and Devin Stringfield as the central suspects. Investigators said the case began to break when their stories did not hold together under scrutiny. Later accounts of the investigation said Wolfe eventually admitted that she and Stringfield had planned the killing, with the motive tied to Cato’s intention to seek custody of their son and confront concerns about the child’s treatment. Those accounts said Stringfield shot Cato, and that the body was then moved and hidden across state lines in McCormick County, South Carolina, while Cato’s car was abandoned elsewhere to make the trail harder to follow.
Before Cato’s remains were even recovered, authorities had already moved in with arrests. Reporting from May 2018 said Wolfe and Stringfield were taken into custody and charged with his murder, and Stringfield was also reported to face a firearm charge connected to the crime. The case had by then shifted from a worried search for a missing man to a homicide investigation with named suspects, formal charges, and a grim picture of what prosecutors believed had happened. The body later found in McCormick County was identified as Cato, and an autopsy concluded he died from gunshot wounds.
The case did not end with the arrests. Later reporting said Wolfe and Stringfield were indicted on murder-related charges and eventually resolved the case with guilty pleas in 2019. According to those reports, both received life sentences for malice murder, along with additional consecutive time on the firearm count, ending the criminal case with convictions rather than a full trial. Coverage that followed also reported that Virginia Wolfe Reynolds, Wolfe’s mother, later pleaded guilty to concealing Cato’s death and was sentenced to probation and a fine, extending the case beyond the two principal killers and underscoring how much effort had gone into hiding what had happened to him.
The online record leaves the story with a particularly bitter shape: a man who left home expecting to return, a family thrown into weeks of fear, and a death that prosecutors said was not spontaneous but planned. The reporting consistently points to Blaeke Wolfe and Devin Stringfield as the only identified killers, with no indication in the sources reviewed of other principal suspects being charged in the murder itself. What began as a disappearance in Augusta ended as a convicted murder case, with Cato remembered not just as a victim, but as a father whose life was cut short in an act investigators came to believe had been set in motion before he ever arrived for that final meeting.
