Sarah W. Boyd, Kimberly Boyd, and Linda McCord mysteriously disappeared together in the Lowcountry of South Carolina without a trace on April 3, 1987. The two women and a young child attended a gospel concert in Walterboro, South Carolina, in a blue Lincoln Continental belonging to McCord’s husband, which began at 7:30 p.m. in the Hampton Street Auditorium.
The three traveled from Harleyville to the show, with Boyd’s two-year-old daughter, Kimberly Boyd. Reportedly, when McCord’s husband arrived home from work around midnight, his wife had not yet made it home. When he awoke the next morning at 6:00 a.m. and discovered that she still wasn’t at the residence, he called the Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office to file a report for the missing woman.
The three were last seen in Dorchester County, presumably on their way home to Harleyville.
On April 5, 1987, the blue Lincoln was discovered at Wells Crossroad in the Holly Hill area of Orangeburg County.
Then-Dorchester County sheriff Carl Knight stated the vehicle’s location was approximately ten miles beyond where the women should have turned off to return to Harleyville. It was determined that a freeze plug had blown off, which resulted in the Lincoln running hot.
A search soon ensued, but yielded no clues for the missing three as to their whereabouts.
In 1990, a potential break came in the case when Sarah Boyd’s credit card was used at a local mall, but the signature on the receipt was barely legible and didn’t match the missing woman’s handwriting. And, the person who used the credit card on that day has never been identified.
Decades later, the disappearances of Sarah W. Boyd, Kimberly Boyd, and Linda McCord, known as the gospel trio, remain a mystery.