South Carolina

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In 2022, 491 violent crime incidents per 100,000 residents were reported to police in South Carolina. This is 12 percent lower than the violent crime rate in 2012.

The crime rate in South Carolina in 2022 was 29 percent higher than the United States average.

In 2022, 52 percent of violent crimes reported to police in South Carolina were not solved. This is 3 percentage points higher than the unsolved rate in 2012.

  • Capital:  Columbia
  • Population:  5,148,714
  • Area:  32,020 sq mi
  • Violent Crime Rank:  8th
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Featured South Carolina Missing Cases

Matthew McCaskey

Missing: Feb 09, 2009
Matthew Steven McCaskey, a 22-year-old from Sumter, South Carolina, was last seen on the morning of ...Read More

Carlo Pfaff

Missing: Mar 06, 1999
Carlo Pfaff, a 54-year-old man from Columbia, South Carolina, was last seen on March 6, 1999. He liv ...Read More

Gertrude Keene

Missing: May 23, 2006


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Gertrude Keene, a 79-year-old woman from Columbia, South Carolin ...Read More

Sean Foster

Missing: Aug 06, 1983
Sean Robert Foster, a 17-year-old from Summerville, South Carolina, was last seen on August 6, 1983. ...Read More

Brandon Graves

Missing: Jan 30, 2010
Brandon "Peanut" Graves, 24, was last seen on January 30, 2010, in Sumter, South Carolina. A residen ...Read More

Selina Barfield

Missing: Jul 14, 2003
Selina Ruth Barfield, a 32-year-old woman from North Charleston, South Carolina, was last seen by he ...Read More

Teresa Taber

Missing: Aug 07, 2002
Teresa Taber, a 42-year-old woman from Spartanburg, South Carolina, was last seen on August 7, 2002. ...Read More

Silas Sessions Jr.

Missing: Jul 09, 1999
Silas Sessions Jr., a 55-year-old man from Charleston, South Carolina, went missing on July 9, 1999, ...Read More

Garrett Hughes

Missing: Nov 27, 2003
Garrett Thomas Hughes, a 44-year-old man, disappeared on November 27, 2003, from Georgetown, South C ...Read More

William Ponder

Missing: Aug 28, 1993
William Dean Ponder, aged 41, went missing on August 28, 1993, from Chesnee, South Carolina. That ev ...Read More
Featured South Carolina Murder Cases

Hubert Vaughn

Murdered: Oct 10, 1974
On October 10, 1974, 64-year-old Hubert Vaughn was found severely beaten inside Sloan’s Liquor Sto ...Read More

Silene Eaddy

Murdered: Apr 17, 2004
On April 17, 2004, 15-year-old Silene "Erica" Eaddy was found murdered in a wooded area near Montgom ...Read More

Ivory Henry III

Murdered: May 09, 2015
On May 9, 2015, 28-year-old Ivory Henry III, a night manager at a Zaxby’s restaurant in Florence, ...Read More

James Bunk Carver

Murdered: May 13, 2010
On May 13, 2010, James "Bunk" Carver, a 92-year-old resident of Seneca, South Carolina, was found br ...Read More

Marcus Lee

Murdered: Dec 08, 1986
On December 8, 1986, Marcus "Mark" Lee, a 55-year-old resident of Westminster, South Carolina, was f ...Read More

Cleveland Richardson

Murdered: Jan 12, 2012
On January 12, 2012, Cleveland Richardson was shot and killed in Charleston, South Carolina. Police ...Read More

Cassandra Johnson

Murdered: Sep 22, 1984
On September 22, 1984, Cassandra Johnson, a 20-year-old college student from Simpsonville, South Car ...Read More

Paula Thomason

Murdered: May 08, 1997
On May 8, 1997, the body of 34-year-old Paula Thomason was discovered in a remote area along Old Bel ...Read More

Barbara Scott

Murdered: Nov 02, 2015
On November 2, 2015, Barbara Scott, 80, was found brutally murdered alongside her son Mike Scott, hi ...Read More

Cathy Scott

Murdered: Nov 02, 2015
On November 2, 2015, the bodies of Cathy Scott, 60, her husband Mike Scott, 59, and their mothers, V ...Read More

James Maxwell

Murdered: Sep 24, 2018
James D. Maxwell, a 61-year-old cemetery caretaker, was shot and killed on September 21, 2018, in Ai ...Read More