A 15 year old girl is found beaten and burned to death less than 5 miles from home On April 17, 2004, 15-year-old Silene "Erica" Eaddy was found murdered in a wooded area near Montgomery Lane and Pincushion Road in Richland County, South Carolina. Firefighters, responding to a small brush fire in the early morning hours, discovered her body, which had been severely beaten and set on fire. Autopsy reports indicated that Silene was still alive when the fire started, as soot was found in her lungs. Silene had gone missing two days earlier, on April 15, after leaving her home in C
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