On June 10, 2006, Portia Sumter Washington, 53, and her 7-year-old granddaughter Angelica Cassandra Livingston disappeared from their home at the Park Place Apartments on Comanchee Trail in West Columbia, South Carolina. They were last seen with Portia’s live-in boyfriend, Kenneth Andrew Lynch. Portia was described by relatives as a dependable, church-going woman devoted to her granddaughter.

Portia’s tan 2005 Ford Focus was reported missing with them. Lynch was stopped driving the car in El Paso, Texas, alone, and later found in Seattle as he attempted to board a bus to Canada; the vehicle was nearby with its license plate removed. Lynch told authorities Portia had given him the car, but family members said she never let him drive it. Police treated the apartment as a crime scene after finding Angelica’s blood, some mixed with Lynch’s, on the carpet.

Relatives said Lynch had been abusive and that Portia had described life with him as a hellhole. Two years after the disappearance, Lynch was charged with both murders. The bodies of Portia Washington and Angelica Livingston have not been found. Did anyone in West Columbia or the surrounding area have contact with Portia, Angelica, or Kenneth Lynch around June 2006?