In Lancaster, South Carolina, 18-year-old Austin Tyler Steele was murdered in February 2018. Steele, who was on the autism spectrum, had moved in two months earlier with Christopher Allen Holford, 30, and Holford’s wife Brandy Nicole Faye Duncan, 19. Deputies were tipped to a possible homicide at a High Point Circle mobile home on March 1, 2018 and discovered Steele’s dismembered remains across the property: his torso buried, his skull left outside, and other bones found in a burn barrel and a box beneath the mobile home.

Investigators reported Holford shot Steele in the neck weeks earlier; Steele survived briefly and died the next morning. Holford then dismembered Steele’s body. The discovery followed a domestic violence incident in which Holford was arrested and a hospital nurse heard Duncan repeatedly call Holford a killer, prompting law enforcement to investigate. Holford was charged with murder and a weapons offense; Duncan was charged as an accessory for helping conceal body parts.

Does anyone have information about Steele’s life in Lancaster or contacts who might help fill gaps in the timeline leading up to February 2018?