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Hello friends. This time we bring you another episode in our Land of the Lost series, spotlighting

the strange disappearance of Dale Dinwitty. Join us.

I'd like to preface this episode by saying the case was suggested to us by my friend and

fan of the channel Samantha Phyps. Samantha writes, I'm an avid fan of your shows who

never forgot Dale's disappearance and hope to see it solved for Dale's family.

Even though I've lived away from the area since 1996, I'm a Columbia native and graduated

from the University of South Carolina in 85 and was in grad school there around the time

of Dale's disappearance.

My college friends and I spent lots of time in five points then.

It has haunted so many of my old friends and myself because we can all relate to Dale.

It could have been any one of us, but here we are.

We got to live our adult lives and Dale did.

Sad memory, indeed.

On September 24, 1992, 24-year-old Dale Dinwitty was attending a YouTube concert in the five

points region of downtown Columbia, South Carolina with some friends.

As the concert wound down and people were leaving, Dinwitty became separated from her

friends that had left a few minutes prior to go to a bar.

She went to the club and one of the club's bouncers helped her look for her friends before

she left the establishment and headed north on Harden Street.

She hasn't been seen since, launching one of the longest searches and the oldest night

of missing person case in Columbia's history.

Dale Dinwitty was just 24 years old when she went missing, having just graduated with

her bachelor's degree in art history, Dinwitty was making plans to attend the University

of South Carolina to get her graduate degree.

After returning from college, Dinwitty moved in with her parents while waiting to attend

USC.

Friends were anxious to spend time with the social butterfly, and this was one of the first

outings she had gone on since being home.

Arriving at the Williams-Brice Stadium, the group enjoyed the band and conversation

and just being with one another.

Dinwitty was said to be in good spirits and had a great time.

After the U-2 concert was over, around 11-15, the group made their way to a bar called

Jungle Gems.

This is where things would go terribly wrong.

Everyone made it to the bar and at first was having a great time, but as the night progressed,

the group became separated from Dinwitty.

It's been about 15 minutes looking for, but decided that she must have gotten a ride

from someone she met at the establishment, or maybe even called her parents to come

and pick her up.

Neither of these were true, though.

When she arrived at the club, she asked a bouncer of hit senior friends, and upon learning

he had, and she left that establishment and was on foot walking north through the five

points area toward the intersection of Harden and Green streets, and was never seen

again.

The initial search for Dinwitty was extensive, and police followed over a thousand leads.

There was no crime scene, and that makes investigations all the more difficult.

Many suspects were questioned, including Renaldo, Javier Ray Rivera, who at the time of questioning

was on death row for the multiple murders of four other women, one of whom was a police

officer.

Major leads were followed, but none of them led to any solid answers nor suspects.

The longer the case lingered, the more rumors and theories arose from those following

the case.

One theory was one that we've all heard that Dinwitty ran off to start a new life.

This theory has investigated often in a lot of missing person cases, and often leads

to important details being overlooked early on in cases.

Dale Dinwitty was a very responsible 24-year-old that had major plans to attend graduate school.

If her plan was indeed to run away and start a new, many family members and friends dismissed

this idea because she would never make her loved ones worry.

In the beginning, Dale's case was treated as a kidnapping.

The authorities told the media at that time, there was nothing in her background to indicate

that she would deliberately go away.

Her family and friends agreed, even going as far as to state that she was a cautious

person who did not like to be out alone.

Suffering from severe asthma and needing an inhaler to control the symptoms along with

bi-weekly allergy injections, her medication was not taken with her the night she went

out with her friends.

This fact alone was enough to lead investigators to dismiss Dinwitty having left by her own

volition.

The next and most probable theory is that Dinwitty was kidnapped and murdered.

The question is, though, by whom?

Was it a stranger from the bar where she was inadvertently left behind by her friends?

Or maybe a stranger that saw the young woman walking alone a crime of opportunity?

Or was it someone she knew?

This last suggestion has been the most popular by the people that were closest to Dale.

The two main sub-theories from this suggestion is that it was either someone she knew or

someone that perhaps had been stalking for a long period of time, learning her habits

and waiting to see an opportunity where she would be alone.

The area where Dale was visiting when she disappeared was very busy with party goers, students,

bar patrons, and others, all mangling before having to return to campus or home at night's

in.

This is one of many reasons of stranger abduction would have been hard for someone to pull off

unnoticed.

However, it's unknown how far Dinwitty made it before she disappeared or even where

she was going.

There was only a general direction given by the last person that saw her, which was north,

towards the intersection of hardened and green streets.

Having directly dismissed the idea that Dinwitty would have willingly gotten into the stranger's

car no matter how desperate she was to get home, her family and friends cling to the

idea that it was a person she knew as the most likely theory.

This theory, however, comes with its own issues.

If she accepted a ride from a friend or even an acquaintance, someone would have most

likely recounted seeing her get into a car as the area was so busy.

But with all the people questioned and they came forward with tips, no one saw anything.

Has also been suggested that an acquaintance abduction would have been inconspicuous because

there wouldn't have been a struggle or seen caused by Dinwitty and her would-be a doctor.

An investigator close to the case stated, I'm leaning more towards a stranger abduction

in Dale's case, regardless of how rarely are.

I'm wondering how the perpetrator got around the busy area without being seen.

Suspects in the disappearance of Dale Dinwitty were all questioned, but the best suspect

was the one previously mentioned, Ronaldo Javier Rey Rivera.

Because he was a known serial killer, he had admitted to killing four women in Georgia

and was living in the area at the time of Dinwitty's disappearance.

Rivera was a student at the University of South Carolina in 1992.

These facts alone made Rivera a strong suspect, but there were no clues, no evidence, and

obviously no confession.

Rivera was sentenced to death for the killing of a police officer and three life sentences

for the subsequent killings of three other women.

Some have suggested that Rivera was merely an easy suspect as he was already in prison

and was a known serial killer.

Of the hundreds of tips that flowed into the police related to the Dinwitty case, none

have led to any useful clues to break this cold case.

Investigators have even taken directives from a psychic that led them to a pond where a

car was indeed pulled from its murky water, but it had no connection to the case.

Other tips have seen deer bones excavated and search teams even used ground penetrating

radar to look for abnormalities underground.

Another call that reported a foul odor coming from a home near the area where Dinwitty

was last seen led to an entire floor of a home being torn out, but frustratingly nothing

was found.

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Then in 2019, approximately 27 years after the disappearance of Dale Dinwitty, the disappearance

and subsequent murder of another USC student would open back up those painful wounds and

memories of Dinwitty's case and bring it back into the spotlight.

On March 29, 2019, 21 year old Samantha Josephson was in the five points area in downtown

Columbia.

The same area Dale Dinwitty went missing from.

When she was last seen getting into a black Chevy Impala, thinking the car was her override.

Josephson entered the car and never returned home that night.

When she did arrive home by 2 a.m., her roommates knew something was wrong and filed a missing

person's report the following day, Friday, March 30.

Later that same day, the county sheriff's deputies received report of a woman's body found

by turkey hunters in her remote forest outside a town.

The body was identified as the missing USC student Samantha Josephson.

She had been stabbed over 120 times and left in the field where she was found.

On Sunday, March 31, her killer was caught and arrested.

Nathaniel Rowan was charged with kidnapping and murder.

He was subsequently convicted on both charges and sentenced to life in prison.

This case was a painful reminder of the still unsolved case of Dale Dinwitty to the many

friends and family members that deserve answers.

Then in September of 2020, another rumor about Dinwitty's case made its way through the

area of her disappearance like wildfire.

This she had been found and the almost 30-year-old case would finally come to an end.

There were whispers in the community that a man was questioned and arrested in connection

with the case.

Suddenly, dozens of calls flooded the state and local police agencies asking about the

arrest.

After examining the tips provided and calls made, however, these rumors were laid to rest

and Richland's Police Department released a statement saying that there is no new information

on this missing person case.

They also added the investigation action will not change until she is found.

Leon Lott is close to the family and keeps him surprised of any new tips that come in.

He says, I can see the pain in their eyes and hear it in their voices, but they are still

focused and that has fueled us.

The Police Department has tracked every lead, even traveling as far as Las Vegas and Minnesota

to speak with people that claim to know something about the Dinwitty disappearance.

These tips were either criminals trying to cut a deal for themselves or people just

lying for unknown reasons.

I want to insert a disclaimer here.

This section that I'm about to go into isn't no way an accusation against South Carolina

lawyer Harry Gregory.

This video is intended to state the facts as we know them and as they've been reported

by law enforcement, investigators, media, family, news outlets and other online articles

and videos.

They are not responsible for the opinions of the reporting parties.

Please do not harass anyone named in this video, not the victim, anybody accused, family

or otherwise.

And please be respectful of the comments section regarding the parties involved, especially

victims and their family members because they do occasionally watch the stories reported

on this channel.

In the fall of 2020, a case of forced intimate contact was reported to the South Carolina

Sled.

That's the state law enforcement division.

The female that reported the case told the detective when the assault happened that the

man who assaulted her told her, you remind me of Dale Dinwitty.

Now, this chilled the victim's blood.

The man that allegedly made that remark, none other than Columbia, South Carolina lawyer,

that was just arrested in connection to a forced intimate contact with minor's investigation,

Harry Gregory.

Now, Gregory has since been charged with multiple counts of committing lood acts on a minor in

2002 and again in 2004.

This case has been turned over to Attorney General Alan Wilson.

This tip was never referred to investigators of the Dinwitty case because the investigators

taking the victim's statement didn't believe this one piece of statement to be credible,

even though the rest of her statement was believed to be true.

The news outlet that published this update was supposedly given the reasons why police

reached this decision but declined to share them along with the name of the victim as

this customary.

Several community members of Midlands area were asked what they thought caused the raid

on the attorney's house on March 18, 2021 and unequivocally it was said the Dinwitty

case comment made by the new victim.

Harry Gregory's home was served to the search warrant on the early morning hours of March

18, 2021.

Police were reluctant to say exactly what they were looking for.

Other females have accused Gregory from being demanding all the way to allegations of

sadism.

When asked if they thought he was capable of these actions against Dale Dinwitty, a resounding

yes was heard by those interviewed.

Gregory was also accused of marital physical assault and has been divorced for years.

The facts of this pertaining to this accusation regarding Dale Dinwitty are follows.

Number one, Gregory was in the Columbia South Carolina area at the time of the Dinwitty

disappearance.

Number two, his residence is just a few blocks away from where Dinwitty lived at the

time.

Number three, it's been stated by witnesses that Gregory was known to frequent the five

points district looking for younger women.

Just want to point out again here, there is nothing connecting South Carolina turning

Harry Gregory to the Dale Dinwitty case other than the statement reported to law enforcement

by the new victim as stated previously.

However, sources close to this case state that police do not typically raid homes of

accused defendants over 20 year old forced intimate contact cases.

Therefore, people are speculating that the comment made by the victim about Dale Dinwitty

had something to do with the raid on Harry Gregory's home on March 18, 2021.

This currently a $20,000 reward offered for information leading to Dinwitty squareabouts.

Dale Dinwitty was five feet tall, had brown hair brown eyes and weighed 96 pounds.

She was last seen wearing a green pull over shirt, a blue nylon LL bean jacket tied around

her waist, faded jeans and tennis shoes.

One finger on each of her hands has a noticeable curve.

She was last seen leaving Jungle Jim's bar, which is now closed, in the five points

area of downtown Columbia, South Carolina.

Her mother, Gene Dinwitty, has asked for people to rethink anything you saw that didn't

seem that unusual to time, but may now looking back on it be a little unusual.

Would you please talk to your friends and friends of friends who were there on that night?

Maybe someone who remembers something that could help us find Dale.

If you have any information no matter how insignificant it may seem on either of these

cases we mentioned here, please contact the Columbia Police Department at 803-545-3500 or

Crime Stoppers at 888-274-6372 or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.

There you have it friends, I look forward to reading your comments about this strange

disappearance and let me remind you again, please keep it friendly and respectful.

It's most likely the family will be listening to this.

In the meanwhile, be good to yourselves and each other, stay safe out there and I'll

see you just a little farther on down the trail.

I'm Steve Stockton and I'll talk to you next time.

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