Hope Marie Gibson was an 18-year-old White woman who left home in Columbia, South Carolina, on November 12, 1990, saying she was going to buy cigarettes and then to the Triangle Lane Bowling Center. She never returned. Ten days later, on November 22, 1990, investigators found her body in woods off Lower Richland Boulevard near Bluff Road; the Richland County Sheriff’s Department classified her death as a homicide. Reports indicate she was found in a manner suggesting concealment, covered or hidden in brush rather than left in the open.

Her case remains listed as a cold case with the sheriff’s office, which has published a case number and continued to seek tips. If anyone knew Hope, saw her that day, or has information about that wooded area near Lower Richland Boulevard, please share what you know with investigators.