William Carey Black II, known as Bill, was 45 when he disappeared from east Camden, South Carolina. He was last seen on August 14, 2018. Bill had several medical conditions that required medication and was in touch with his brother at least weekly; six weeks without contact prompted a missing person report.

Bill was sometimes homeless and had been staying with a friend on Pineview Street after his brother dropped him off that summer. Accounts place him walking with that friend on McRae Road around the time he vanished; the friend later became a person of interest amid reports of a physical altercation. That friend was murdered in September 2019.

Searches of swamps and rivers over the years produced no definitive answers. In late 2024 human remains and items, including part of an Adidas shoe and a skull with a broken nose, were found in woods less than a mile from where Bill was last seen; his brother believes they could be Bill’s and DNA testing is pending. Does anyone who knew Bill or who was in east Camden in August 2018 have information that could help?