“We look in the woods all the time;” Michael Still missing from Barnwell, South Carolina for a month
BARNWELL COUNTY, S.C. (WJBF) — It’s been a month since Michael Still has vanished from his Barnwell County home.
“We look in the woods all the time. You know, just looking, asking what happened? How, where?,” his sister, Melissa Still Chavis, said.
The last time Melissa saw Michael was on February 3, when he left her Williston home for his apartment at Colony West in Barnwell.
“We know he left that Tuesday on the sixth sometime in the night because the house was lit up,” she recalled. “And these doors you have to lock from the outside with a key. So he didn’t lock that back door when he left. So he had to left in a hurry.”
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Despite personal items found in his apartment, his car still in the parking lot, and extensive search efforts, there’s uncertainty about his well-being.
“Did he have any shoes on? Because the shoes that he normally wears was in the room. His glasses are there, his watch is there. He never went anywhere without those two things,” she said.
The apartments appear to have no cameras, adding to the case’s complexity.
“If they had cameras, it would definitely solve, saw a lot of issues that we are, or questions that we have. They, I heard that they had cameras, but they weren’t working. It’s time to get cameras.”
The Barnwell County Sheriff’s Office and other agencies are involved in the investigation.
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“They’ve had DNR on four-wheelers. They’ve had the cadaver dogs. They’ve had, somebody fly a drone over it,” Chavis recalled.
BCSO explained in a statement that there was no concrete evidence connecting Still’s disappearance to the later discovery of 17-year-old Maylashia Hogg.
“People have asked to do a community search and I would love to do that, but I just need to know where to start,” she said.
There’s a more than $3,700 reward from the family, and $300 from the sheriff’s office for information leading to his discovery. The family seeks answers, justice, and closure.
“He deserves to be found. And then I’ll work on why and the answers to why somebody did this. But I just wanna put him to rest,” she added.
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