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Vanished: The Disappearance of Alexis Ware and the Fight for Answers

Vanished: The Disappearance of Alexis Ware and the Fight for Answers

By RICHIE D. MOWREY for The Sassy Gazette’s Dicking Around With Richie A True Crime Feed


Content Warning: This article discusses a missing woman, possible stalking, mental-health speculation, and suspected foul play. Alexis Ware remains missing. No person has been charged in connection with her disappearance.
Alexis Ware pictured with her red Honda Accord, the vehicle later found abandoned in McCormick County.

The Last Moment

On the evening of January 30, 2022, twenty-nine-year-old Alexis Dysheè Ware pulled into a 7-Eleven on Highway 29 North in Anderson County, South Carolina.

It should have been ordinary.

Gasoline. A child handoff. A brief meeting between two people navigating the everyday mechanics of co-parenting.

Instead, that convenience store became the last place where anyone could publicly and confidently say:

Alexis Ware was here.

She arrived in her red 2019 Honda Accord Sport. Surveillance footage reportedly captured the vehicle at the store. Alexis met the father of her young son and transferred her two children into his care. She was reportedly wearing a black jacket over a purple shirt, blue jeans, black Crocs, and a black hair bonnet.

Minutes later, she drove away.

Then the timeline cracked open.

Her phone eventually stopped communicating. Her Honda traveled south. Days later, the car was discovered abandoned on a muddy logging road in McCormick County.

Alexis was gone.

More than four years later, her face still sits beneath the word MISSING, while her family remains trapped between hope and the terrible possibility that someone already knows exactly what happened.

Alexis Ware in photos and everyday moments before her disappearance.

Case at a Glance

Name: Alexis Dysheè Ware

Nickname: Lex

Age when missing: 29

Missing since: January 30, 2022

Last confirmed location: 7-Eleven, 2908 Highway 29 North, Anderson, South Carolina

Vehicle: Red 2019 Honda Accord Sport

Vehicle recovery location: Silcox Road, McCormick County, South Carolina

Lead agency: Anderson County Sheriff’s Office

Case number: 2022-01369

Descriptions of Alexis vary slightly among public bulletins. She has been listed as approximately 5 feet 4 inches to 5 feet 6 inches tall and between 215 and 230 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

She has cheek-dimple piercings, full dentures, and numerous distinctive tattoos.

Alexis remains listed as missing by organizations including the Black and Missing Foundation and the CUE Center for Missing Persons.

Before the Headline

Alexis Ware was more than the woman standing beside a red Honda in a missing-person flyer.

She was a mother of two.

A daughter.

A sister.

A cosmetologist and makeup artist.

A woman with a growing client base, an eye for fashion, and a business she hoped to push into a larger market.

Those closest to Alexis described her as bubbly, outgoing, outspoken, and capable of lighting up a room. She valued her appearance and had built much of her professional identity around beauty, hairstyling, makeup, modeling, and social media.

She was not fading from her life.

She was building one.

Alexis reportedly operated a beauty studio from her Greenville home and had clients willing to travel for her services. She participated in photoshoots and was expanding her online presence. Her family said she was preparing to move to Atlanta, where she hoped to grow a boutique and salon business.

According to family accounts, Alexis had already taken practical steps toward that move. She had reportedly arranged to leave her Greenville apartment, obtained business credentials, and purchased clothing racks and inventory.

That matters.

Not because future plans make someone immune to crisis. They do not.

But Alexis was not publicly known to be closing the doors of her life.

She appeared to be reaching for the next one.

The Atlanta File

Atlanta represented expansion.

A larger beauty market. More potential clients. More room for fashion, entrepreneurship, and the carefully cultivated brand Alexis was creating around herself.

It has also become tangled inside one of the case’s most persistent theories: that Alexis may have voluntarily disappeared and quietly continued with her relocation plans.

The evidence does not sit comfortably with that idea.

Alexis’s children remained behind.

Her phone was later found.

Her identification was reportedly left in the Honda.

Her purse, keys, clothing, and other belongings were also reported inside the abandoned vehicle.

No confirmed sighting has publicly placed Alexis alive in Atlanta after January 30, 2022.

Preparing to move is not the same as disappearing.

And leaving nearly every practical tool required to begin a new life makes the voluntary-disappearance theory a steep hill to climb.

The Escalation of Fear

While Alexis was planning a future, her family says something else was growing beside it.

Fear.

During the final weekend before she vanished, Alexis reportedly stayed with family in Anderson. Her mother said Alexis appeared exhausted, panicked, and unlike herself.

She cried.

She reportedly said she believed a black truck had been following her.

Family members recalled her receiving repeated calls from a blocked number. Alexis allegedly referred to the caller as “the devil.”

She also reportedly complained about disturbing messages from men online and had become uneasy about attending modeling shoots.

Then came the statement that would haunt her family after she vanished.

Alexis reportedly said she felt she would not live to see her thirtieth birthday.

These claims come primarily from family interviews. The public has not seen complete phone records identifying the blocked caller, surveillance footage verifying a black truck, or the full contents of any threatening messages.

That does not mean Alexis was imagining the danger.

It means the evidence needed to determine whether the threat was real has not been released publicly.

There are two responsible possibilities:

Alexis may have been experiencing an acute psychological, emotional, medical, or stress-related crisis.

Or Alexis may have been accurately recognizing that someone was watching, calling, threatening, or following her.

Both possibilities demand investigation.

Neither should be used as a shortcut.

Labeling her fears as paranoia without proof risks dismissing a warning. Declaring the black truck or blocked caller responsible without proof creates a suspect out of smoke.

What we can say is this:

Alexis believed something was wrong.

Friday, January 28: Exhaustion

Alexis reportedly arrived at her mother’s Anderson-area home on Friday evening and went directly to sleep.

Her family later viewed the exhaustion as part of a dramatic change in her behavior.

By itself, exhaustion proves nothing.

Placed beside the crying, blocked calls, fear of being followed, and statements about death, it becomes part of a troubling pattern.

Saturday, January 29: Dread

The following day, Alexis reportedly cried with her mother and spoke about not surviving to see thirty.

Her brother said she made unusual social-media posts that were later deleted.

The precise content of those posts has not been publicly established.

If investigators recovered them through warrants or account records, they could be critical. They might reveal threats, names, indirect pleas for help, or evidence concerning Alexis’s state of mind.

Or they may contain nothing connected to her disappearance.

The problem is that the public does not know.

That absence of information has created fertile ground for rumor, and rumor grows wild when facts stay buried.

Sunday Afternoon: The Black Truck

Alexis returned to Greenville on Sunday.

According to her mother’s account, they later spoke by video call. Alexis reportedly said a black truck was outside her apartment and believed it was watching her.

Police were reportedly contacted and responded to the area.

After officers left, Alexis departed in her Honda.

The underlying dispatch audio, incident report, body-camera footage, and patrol notes have not been widely released. Those records could clarify what Alexis reported, what officers observed, whether a vehicle was identified, and whether anyone else was present.

This is one of the sharpest gaps in the public timeline.

Alexis was frightened enough to call police.

Hours later, she vanished.

The 7-Eleven

Later that evening, Alexis contacted Travis “TJ” Patterson, the father of her young son.

According to public accounts, she said she was low on gasoline and arranged to meet him at the 7-Eleven on Highway 29 North. The meeting also involved transferring both children into his care.

Alexis arrived at approximately 7:30 p.m.

Surveillance reportedly showed her red Honda at the location. A delivery truck blocked the camera’s view of at least part of the handoff, creating an unavoidable blind spot during the final confirmed encounter.

TJ reportedly paid for gasoline.

Nothing publicly released shows an argument or physical confrontation at the store.

The exchange appeared routine.

Then Alexis and TJ left in separate vehicles.

The Turn at the Red Light

According to TJ’s account, Alexis was supposed to follow him after leaving the store.

He said that at a red light, Alexis suddenly drove around his vehicle, turned, and sped away.

He reportedly attempted to call her several times, but she did not answer.

That account is significant because it describes the first visible break from the expected plan.

It is also an account from one witness.

The red-light maneuver has not been independently confirmed through publicly available video.

There is another contradiction.

Some versions say Alexis planned to follow TJ to his mother’s house.

Other public summaries suggest she said she was going to her own mother’s home.

Alexis’s mother said she knew of no plan for Alexis to return.

The difference could be a reporting error, misunderstanding, or inconsistency in how the conversation was later summarized.

It should be clarified.

But contradiction is not proof of guilt.

The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office investigated TJ and publicly stated that several avenues of evidence indicated he was not involved in Alexis’s disappearance. No charges have been filed against him, and this article will not turn internet suspicion into a prosecution by paragraph.

Rumor is not evidence.

Statistics are not evidence against a specific person.

And a person’s unrelated past cannot be stapled onto an unsolved disappearance as though it solves the case.

8:15 P.M.: The Phone Goes Quiet

Approximately forty-five minutes after Alexis left the 7-Eleven, her cellphone reportedly registered near Abbeville, around thirty miles south of Anderson.

After that, the phone stopped actively communicating.

A cellphone ping does not necessarily provide an exact location. Depending on the records obtained, it may indicate connection to a tower or general coverage area rather than a precise address.

Still, the direction matters.

Alexis, or at least her phone, had traveled south.

The public record does not clearly establish whether the phone remained inside the Honda throughout the night, whether it was switched off, damaged, placed in airplane mode, or simply lost power.

The phone would later be found inside the abandoned vehicle.

The Honda Crosses State Lines

According to the investigative material reviewed for this article, traffic-camera or license-plate evidence reportedly captured Alexis’s red Honda crossing into the Augusta, Georgia, area before returning to South Carolina.

Alexis was reportedly scheduled to visit a lottery office in Augusta the following day to have tickets checked.

That gives the trip a possible purpose.

But it does not answer the central question:

Who was driving the Honda?

A camera can establish where a license plate traveled.

Unless the driver is visible, it cannot establish who was behind the wheel.

There is a world of difference between these two statements:

Alexis traveled into Georgia.

And:

Alexis’s Honda traveled into Georgia.

Until investigators publicly confirm the driver, only the second statement is secure.

The Appointment That Never Happened

Alexis did not attend the reported lottery appointment the following day.

Calls went unanswered.

Her phone reportedly routed directly to voicemail.

No authenticated text, telephone call, social-media post, banking transaction, or confirmed sighting has publicly established contact with Alexis after the night of January 30.

On February 1, her family officially reported her missing.

Media outlets began circulating images of Alexis and the red Honda.

Then someone recognized the car.

The Red Honda in the Woods

On February 2, a property owner in McCormick County reported a red Honda sitting on or near Silcox Road.

The owner reportedly believed the vehicle had been there for several days and initially assumed it belonged to workers in the timber area.

Silcox Road was far from the bright lights of the 7-Eleven.

It was rural.

Muddy.

Wooded.

Remote.

The Honda was reportedly covered in mud, consistent with traveling over unpaved terrain.

Inside the vehicle, investigators reportedly found Alexis’s phone, purse, identification, keys, lottery tickets, clothing, and other personal belongings.

Outside the vehicle, on the ground, was the black hair bonnet Alexis had been wearing when she was last seen.

The car was there.

Alexis was not.

Alexis Ware pictured with her red Honda Accord, the vehicle later found abandoned in McCormick County.

The Bonnet in the Dirt

The black bonnet has become one of the case’s most discussed details.

Alexis was a cosmetologist who reportedly took meticulous care of her appearance and hair. Her mother found it difficult to believe Alexis would casually throw her bonnet into the mud.

That observation matters because family members understand habits that investigators and strangers may not.

But the bonnet does not tell us how it reached the ground.

It could have been knocked off during a struggle.

It could have fallen as Alexis exited the vehicle.

It could have been dropped during panic or confusion.

It could have been moved by another person.

It might indicate violence.

It might not.

The bonnet is a red flag, not a verdict.

Silcox Road

The recovery site raises its own battery of questions.

Silcox Road has been described as a remote logging road near dense woods, water, and the broader Lake Thurmond and Hickory Knob region.

It was not an obvious route from Anderson to Greenville.

It was not a natural destination for someone returning from Augusta.

Why did the Honda leave the main road?

Was Alexis trying to hide from someone?

Did she become lost?

Was she following directions?

Was she forced there?

Did another person drive the Honda after something happened elsewhere?

A staged-vehicle theory would require planning and likely a second vehicle or accomplice to remove whoever abandoned the Honda.

A crisis theory would require Alexis to navigate the road, leave her belongings, and disappear into terrain that was later searched.

Neither scenario fits neatly.

That is why this case still bites.

Every theory explains one piece and collides with another.

The Search

Following the vehicle’s recovery, more than thirty-five law-enforcement personnel reportedly participated in the initial search.

Searchers covered approximately four square miles of wooded and logging terrain.

Tracking dogs and cadaver dogs were deployed.

SLED provided helicopter support.

Additional ground and water searches followed.

No confirmed trace of Alexis was found.

Tracking dogs reportedly failed to establish a scent trail leading away from the Honda.

That detail weakens the theory that Alexis simply walked into the woods, but it does not eliminate it. Weather, contamination, timing, terrain, starting location, and other conditions can affect tracking dogs.

A failed scent trail also leaves open another possibility:

Alexis may have left the area in a different vehicle.

No publicly released footage has shown another car following the Honda onto Silcox Road.

No public forensic report has revealed whether unidentified DNA, fingerprints, fibers, hair, soil, blood, or other evidence was recovered.

The woods gave up nothing.

Or nothing investigators have told the public.

The Evidence Board

What appears confirmed or officially reported

  • Alexis met TJ at the 7-Eleven on January 30, 2022.
  • Her children were transferred into his care.
  • Her red Honda left the location.
  • Her phone later registered in the Abbeville area.
  • The Honda traveled south and was later recovered on Silcox Road in McCormick County.
  • Her phone, purse, identification, and clothing were reportedly found with the car.
  • Her hair bonnet was found outside the vehicle.
  • Alexis remains missing.

What comes primarily from family accounts

  • Alexis believed a black truck had followed her.
  • She received repeated blocked calls.
  • She called the unknown caller “the devil.”
  • She received disturbing online messages.
  • She feared she would not live to see her thirtieth birthday.
  • She made unusual social-media posts before vanishing.

These statements deserve serious attention.

They have not all been supported publicly by released digital, surveillance, or police records.

What remains unproven

  • That Alexis voluntarily disappeared.
  • That she was experiencing psychosis.
  • That a stalker abducted her.
  • That the blocked caller was involved.
  • That the black truck followed her from the 7-Eleven.
  • That she was trafficked.
  • That a known associate harmed her.
  • That she drove the Honda onto Silcox Road.
  • That the vehicle was staged.
  • That the bonnet was knocked off during an assault.

A theory is a path for investigation.

It is not a substitute for evidence.

Case overview summarizing Alexis Ware’s disappearance, key timeline points, and major unanswered questions.

Theories, Theories & More Theories

Voluntary Disappearance

The planned Atlanta move is often used to suggest Alexis may have intentionally disappeared.

But she left behind the very things she would need to begin again.

  • Her children.
  • Her vehicle.
  • Her phone.
  • Her purse.
  • Her identification.
  • Her business connections.
  • Her digital life.

There has been no verified sighting establishing that Alexis successfully started over elsewhere.

Assessment: Possible only with substantial unknown assistance and resources. Public evidence weighs against it.

An Acute Mental-Health or Medical Crisis

Alexis’s reported fear, exhaustion, statements about death, and unusual driving could indicate an acute crisis.

In this scenario, she may have driven in panic, become stuck, abandoned the car, and wandered into the woods or water.

But there is no publicly confirmed diagnosis that explains her behavior.

Her fears may also have been based on a genuine threat.

The lack of a scent trail or remains complicates this theory.

Assessment: Plausible but unproven. It should never be used to dismiss the possibility that Alexis was truly being followed or threatened.

The Honda Was Staged

This theory argues that Alexis was harmed somewhere else and another person drove the Honda to McCormick County to shift the search.

The remote road, belongings inside, and bonnet outside support questions about staging.

But publicly available evidence does not establish that another person drove the car.

No disclosed camera footage shows a second vehicle.

No public forensic evidence has identified an unknown driver.

Assessment: A serious investigative possibility, not a proven explanation.

Stalking or Targeted Abduction

Alexis reportedly believed a black truck had been following her and that unknown men were contacting her.

If those concerns were real, the person responsible may have known her routine, apartment, business activity, or plans.

Investigators would need to connect a specific person, vehicle, device, or communication to Alexis’s movements.

Assessment: Plausible and potentially central, but unsupported by publicly released corroborating evidence.

A Stranger Encounter

Alexis could have met an unknown person along the route, at a roadside stop, in Augusta, at an apartment complex, or near the recovery site.

A random encounter on Silcox Road seems less likely because of the location’s remoteness, though not impossible.

Assessment: Possible, with major evidentiary gaps.

Human Trafficking

The trafficking theory appears frequently in online discussion because Alexis received unwanted messages and disappeared without a body.

But no publicly released evidence identifies a trafficker, recruitment process, exploitation network, controlling individual, or commercial activity connected to Alexis.

Human trafficking is real.

It is not a universal label for every unexplained disappearance.

Assessment: Unsupported in the public record.

The Contradiction Ledger

Where was Alexis going after the 7-Eleven?

One account says she planned to follow TJ to his mother’s home.

Another version suggests she was heading to her own mother’s house.

Her mother said she did not expect her.

The original interview recordings and police reports are needed to resolve the discrepancy.

When was the Honda found?

Some older reports list February 1.

Official and stronger reporting generally places the recovery on February 2, after Alexis was reported missing on February 1.

What was Alexis wearing?

The most consistently cited description lists a black jacket, purple shirt, blue jeans, black Crocs, and a black bonnet.

Other references have described gray pants or called the bonnet a bandana.

Because clothing descriptions influence sightings, this contradiction deserves a clear official answer.

How tall was Alexis?

Public posters have listed heights from approximately 5 feet 4 inches to 5 feet 6 inches.

How much did she weigh?

Flyers have listed weights between approximately 215 and 230 pounds.

Those variations may reflect estimates or different record dates, but public appeals should acknowledge the range.

Distinctive Tattoos

Alexis has numerous tattoos that could be critical to identification.

They reportedly include:

  • A rose on one hand.
  • A feather-like or leaf-like design on the other.
  • Footprints and the date 11-30-19 on her arm.
  • Flowers on her hip and thigh.
  • Paw prints on a thigh or leg.
  • A cheetah-print pattern on her shoulder.
  • A cross between her breasts.
  • Additional tattoos on both sides of her chest, her back, abdomen, forearms, wrist, and calf.

She also reportedly has her mother’s name, “Toni,” incorporated into one of her tattoos.

These details are not decorative footnotes.

They are identifiers.

Someone may recognize Alexis by a tattoo even if her hair, weight, clothing, or appearance has changed.

Distinctive tattoos and identifying marks associated with Alexis Ware.

The Paper Trail

The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office remains the lead investigative agency.

McCormick County authorities assisted after the vehicle was found.

SLED supplied resources during the search, including aerial support.

The FBI later provided assistance, but the exact scope of that involvement has not been fully detailed publicly.

Alexis’s family grew frustrated with the investigation and sought greater state-level involvement.

SLED reportedly explained that it could not simply seize control of a local investigation without being asked by the appropriate local or state authority.

That left Alexis’s family caught inside a jurisdictional knot.

The local agency said it continued working the case.

The family said the case needed new eyes.

Both can be true.

An investigation can remain active while communication fails.

Detectives can work behind the scenes while a family experiences nothing but silence.

And “active investigation” should never become a phrase that shields a case from independent review forever.

The Alexis Ware Missing Persons Act

In 2024, Alexis’s family and activist Bruce Wilson publicly unveiled a proposal commonly called the Alexis Ware Act.

The proposal was intended to create a path for SLED to take over or review long-term missing-person cases after twelve months when local investigations had reached an impasse.

The proposal highlighted a broader problem:

What can a family do when it believes a local investigation has stalled, but the larger state agency says it cannot step in without an invitation from the agency already holding the case?

A family should not be able to choose investigators based purely on dissatisfaction.

Evidence control and jurisdiction matter.

But families should have access to a formal, independent review process after years without resolution.

A review could examine:

  • Whether all digital evidence was obtained in time.
  • Whether forensic evidence should be retested.
  • Whether new databases or technology could be used.
  • Whether the original geographic strategy was complete.
  • Whether a different agency sees patterns missed by the first.

Fresh eyes are not an insult.

Sometimes they are the only light left in the room.

Related Missing-Person Legislation

The South Carolina Senate introduced S. 745, the Help Find Missing Americans Act, in January 2026.

That bill is separate from the proposed Alexis Ware Act.

S. 745 would allow the named account holder of a missing person’s wireless device to request limited location data, call-number information, and wireless-data usage after a missing-person report has been filed. It would generally cover the twelve hours preceding the disappearance through the date of the request, unless law enforcement requested a different period.

The bill would also require SLED to provide recommendations to lawmakers regarding ways to help law enforcement investigate missing-person cases.

As of July 2026, S. 745 remained in the Senate Judiciary Committee. It had not become law.

That distinction is crucial.

The Alexis Ware proposal concerns review or transfer of long-term cases.

S. 745 concerns access to wireless information and broader recommendations.

Both grew from the same truth:

Digital evidence disappears quickly, while families can wait years for answers.

The Attention Gap

Alexis’s disappearance contains nearly every element that ordinarily captures national attention.

A young mother.

A final surveillance sighting.

A sudden change in direction.

Fear expressed before vanishing.

A phone that goes silent.

A red car found abandoned in remote woods.

Personal belongings left behind.

And still, Alexis’s story did not initially receive the sustained national saturation attached to many missing white women.

Organizations such as the Black and Missing Foundation helped amplify Alexis’s case, while Dateline’s Missing in America coverage brought it to a broader audience.

But much of the work has remained with her family.

They have had to keep speaking.

Keep posting.

Keep showing photographs.

Keep answering questions.

Keep watching birthdays pass.

The media often treats awareness as though it rises naturally from the facts.

It does not.

Families manufacture it through grief, exhaustion, and persistence.

Public missing-person flyers and awareness images circulated in Alexis Ware’s case.

The Missing Pieces

Several questions may hold the power to shift this case:

  • Who was calling Alexis from a blocked number?
  • Did investigators identify the subscriber or device associated with those calls?
  • Was a black truck documented near her apartment?
  • What did Alexis say during the police call on January 30?
  • Was the dispatch audio preserved?
  • What did officers observe when they responded?
  • Were the deleted social-media posts recovered?
  • Did the Honda’s cameras, Bluetooth system, or infotainment records preserve connected devices?
  • Can footage identify the driver when the Honda entered Georgia?
  • Did another vehicle follow it?
  • Was the driver’s seat positioned for Alexis?
  • Were unidentified fingerprints or DNA recovered?
  • Was the mud on the Honda compared with soil from Silcox Road?
  • Was the bonnet tested for DNA or transfer evidence?
  • Did Alexis have friends, clients, business contacts, or former partners connected to McCormick County?
  • Were trail cameras collected from nearby properties?
  • Were all possible water-access points searched with modern sonar?
  • Has the evidence been reexamined using technology unavailable in 2022?
  • What evidence proves Alexis personally reached Silcox Road?

Her car did.

That does not mean she did.

Four Years of Ambiguous Loss

Alexis’s children have grown older without knowing why their mother did not return.

Her family has endured holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, searches, television interviews, legislative meetings, rumors, false leads, and the repeating ache of telling the same story so Alexis does not disappear twice.

First from the road.

Then from public memory.

There is a particular cruelty in ambiguous loss.

Death gives grief a terrible shape.

Disappearance keeps changing the shape every morning.

Every unknown number can become the call.

Every unidentified woman can become hope.

Every headline can reopen the wound.

Every year carries the same question into the next:

Where is Alexis?

What the Public Can Do

Do not assume investigators already know what you know.

A detail that seems ordinary may connect two parts of the timeline.

  • A vehicle seen near an apartment.
  • A conversation overheard.
  • A blocked number recognized.
  • A person suddenly familiar with Silcox Road.
  • Mud on clothing or another vehicle.
  • A comment made years ago.
  • A photograph forgotten inside an old phone.
  • A social-media message dismissed as strange.

Cases do not always break because someone discovers a perfect clue.

Sometimes they break because one person finally decides silence has lasted long enough.

Contact information for tips, records, advocacy resources, and official outreach related to Alexis Ware’s case.

Contact Information

Anyone with information concerning Alexis Ware should contact the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office.

Main office: 864-260-4400

Case tip line listed in public appeals: 864-260-4405

Emergency or immediate sighting: 911

The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office continues to list 864-260-4400 as its main public number. Recent Alexis Ware coverage continues to direct tips to 864-260-4405.

Anonymous tips may also be submitted through South Carolina Crime Stoppers.

Verify all contact numbers before republishing or printing materials.

Someone Knows Something

Alexis Ware is not a red Honda buried in mud.

She is not a bonnet on the ground.

She is not a blocked caller.

She is not a strange route across state lines.

She is not a theory matrix or a collection of clues arranged for strangers to debate.

She is a mother whose children deserve answers.

A daughter whose family still listens for the telephone.

A businesswoman whose plans stopped in the middle of becoming real.

A woman who told the people she loved that she was afraid.

Something happened after Alexis left that 7-Eleven.

Someone may know why she drove away.

Someone may know who was calling her.

Someone may know whether the black truck was real.

Someone knows how the Honda reached Silcox Road.

Someone knows why Alexis did not come back.

SOMEONE KNOWS SOMETHING.
SAY IT.

Thanks for dicking around with Richie.

Keep being a voice for the voiceless!


Sources and Further Reading

  • Anderson County Sheriff’s Office
  • Black and Missing Foundation
  • Dateline: Missing in America
  • The Charley Project
  • CUE Center for Missing Persons
  • South Carolina General Assembly
  • FOX Carolina
  • Local and regional reporting concerning the disappearance of Alexis Ware and proposed missing-person legislation


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