Tyesha Rena Williams was 26 and a mother of three when she was reported missing from Orangeburg, South Carolina on April 7, 2016. Her remains were found in an abandoned home on Whittaker Street; an autopsy determined she died of a gunshot wound.

Investigators identified 33-year-old Robert Lee Randolph Jr. as a person of interest and located him. He led officers to Williams’ body and ultimately admitted that an argument in his car on Clarendon Street escalated and that he shot her.

Randolph was arrested on murder and weapons charges, and additional drug charges followed after a search of his home. At an October 2017 trial the jury convicted him of involuntary manslaughter; the judge imposed the maximum five-year term with credit for time served. Was anyone in Orangeburg aware of tension between Tyesha Williams and her boyfriend before April 2016?