Katherine Waring 28-missing 6/12/09-Charleston, SC BODY FOUND/Arrest made

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http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/oct/24/authorities-think-men-moved-body/

Authorities think men moved body
By David MacDougall
The Post and Courier
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Terry Keith Williams, who was arrested Thursday and charged with obstruction of justice in the Katherine Waring case, was given her iPod as a token of gratitude for helping Ethan Mack move her body, according to a Charleston police affidavit.

Williams, 31, of North Charleston, was in bond court Friday, accused of hindering police in the investigation into Waring's disappearance and death. He denied the charges, and county Magistrate Linda Lombard set Williams' bail at $200,000.

Police on Oct. 7 charged Mack, 29, of Johns Island and Heather Angelica Kamp, 30, of James Island with obstruction of justice and forgery.

Waring lived with her parents on Murray Boulevard in Charleston. She disappeared June 12 after going to a West Ashley gym, a downtown drugstore and Wasabi Japanese Steakhouse. Her parents filed a missing persons report several days later when someone tried to cash one of her checks at a local bank.

The search went on for nearly four months. Her parents hired a team of private investigators and offered a $25,000 reward for information that would help find their daughter. The search ended Oct. 10 when the private investigators located Waring's skeletal remains on Wadmalaw Island and called police.

When Mack and Kamp were arrested several days before the body was found, the affidavits filed by police allege that both gave false statements about events on the night Waring last was seen and that they forged a check drawn on Waring's account. The affidavits also said it was Kamp who had come forward and told police that her earlier statements, as well as Mack's, were false.

But nothing in those affidavits indicated foul play. Police still were calling it a missing person's case.

The affidavit filed for Williams' arrest is the first public record in which police allege that anyone had any contact with Waring's body after her death.

The affidavit states that a witness, whose identity was withheld, gave a statement Monday saying, "Ethan Mack and Terry Williams put Waring's deceased body in the trunk of a vehicle. As payment or gratitude for Williams' help in moving Waring's body, Mack took the iPod from Waring's body and instructed Kamp to give the iPod to Williams after the body was moved and Kamp did (so)."

Police spoke with Williams on Thursday and he stuck with the same story he'd told them Oct. 8, when he was first questioned about the iPod, the affidavit states. He said he got the iPod from Kamp in exchange for providing her cigarettes and food whenever she wanted and that he didn't know the iPod was Waring's until two months after he had received it, when he saw Waring's name on it.

Asked why more serious charges weren't filed against Mack and Williams for allegedly moving Waring's body, police Public Information Officer Charles Francis said a judge's gag order prohibits police from talking about the case.

During the bond hearing Friday, Williams told Lombard that he was from New York and had been living in Charleston for six years. He said he owns a start-up business called Prepaid Legal Services and works as a painter on the side.

Lombard read from his rap sheet, which includes convictions in 2007 for strong-arm robbery and in 2008 for forgery. He served 245 days out of a 10-year sentence for the robbery conviction and got a two-year suspended sentence and probation for the forgery conviction.

His wife, Kimberly, asked Lombard for a low bond. "He's trying to change his life. He really is," she said. "We have a daughter. I want him to come home so he can be with us."

Williams vociferously denied the charges against him. "I have talked to the police from the beginning," he said. "I've never lied to them. ... I don't understand why they are trumping up this charge."

Reach David W. MacDougall at 937-5655 or macdougd@postandcourier.com

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The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) 
November 19, 2009 Thursday
 
Attorneys waive rights to preliminary hearings
 
More than a month after Katherine Waring's remains were found on Wadmalaw Island, the investigation into her death remains shrouded in mystery with no clear indication as to how she met her fate.

More details were expected to emerge Tuesday during preliminary hearings for three suspects accused of hindering the police investigation into her disappearance and death. The proceedings, however, were canceled after defense attorneys waived their right to the hearings, which are held to determine probable cause in criminal cases, authorities said.

Police, prosecutors, defense attorneys and the Charleston County Coroner's Office will not discuss the case, citing an Oct. 13 gag order issued by Circuit Judge Markley Dennis.

It remains unclear how Waring died, whether her death involved foul play and whether additional charges are anticipated.

The gag order applies to everyone involved in the case, including witnesses and the victim's family. Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson requested the gag order with the consent of defense attorneys, citing the potential for the case to receive "substantial local media coverage and additional national media coverage." Statements made outside of court could jeopardize "the fair administration of justice," attorneys asserted.

Such sweeping gag orders are somewhat rare in local criminal cases, and one open-records law expert questioned whether the order would hold up on appeal.

Jay Bender, an attorney for the South Carolina Press Association, said the judge likely has the authority to impose restrictions on lawyers involved in the case, but he is on rockier legal ground in trying to muzzle the coroner, police and the family. "It's extremely unusual," he said.

Dennis imposed the gag order the same day Charleston police and private detectives investigating Waring's death reached a detente, avoiding a messy legal battle over evidence seized in the case.

The squabble erupted Oct. 10 after a team of private detectives discovered Waring's remains deep in the woods of a secluded, gated community. She had been missing nearly four months at the time. Police seized the investigators' vehicle and the evidence inside. Lawyer Andy Savage, who hired the team on behalf of the Waring family, sued police and the Charleston County Sheriff's Office, saying they had violated attorney-client privilege. The lawsuit was later postponed indefinitely after both sides agreed to continue working with one another.

Little has been said since Charleston police arrested a third suspect in the case on Oct. 22. Police wouldn't discuss why Terry Keith Williams, 31, of James Island is charged with obstruction of justice. But a police affidavit stated Williams is accused of helping to move Waring's body and then lying to police about how he ended up with her iPod. A witness told police Williams received the iPod for helping fellow suspect Ethan Mack with the body, the affidavit stated.

Mack, 29, of Johns Island and Heather Angelica Kamp, 30, of James Island were charged Oct. 7 with obstruction of justice and forgery in the case. They remain in jail with bail set at $200,000 each. The pair applied for a marriage license on Sept. 25, county records show. There is no record of the marriage taking place.

Mack has a pending concealed weapons charge from 2007, while Kamp has criminal records in four states, as well as a fugitive warrant for failing to appear on a charge in Myrtle Beach earlier this year, authorities said.

The Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer Journal reported that Kamp also was involved in a bizarre case in Ephrata, Pa., earlier this year. She was accused of passing herself off as a pediatrician and drawing blood from a 6-year-old girl she was baby-sitting. She allegedly gave the girl's parents medical advice and told them the blood test results revealed the child was bipolar and had low calcium levels, the newspaper reported.

When the parents couldn't verify her medical credentials, Kamp reportedly told them she was in the federal Witness Protection Program, the Intelligencer Journal reported. Ephrata police were looking to arrest Kamp when she vanished from the area, the newspaper reported.
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The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) 
December 16, 2009 Wednesday
 
Copy of 'Savage Report' sought;
Objection expected after prosecutors issue subpoena
 
Prosecutors in the Kate Waring case have issued a subpoena for a copy of "The Savage Report" cable news show, a move that a First Amendment attorney said Tuesday will likely be resisted.

Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson issued the subpoena Dec. 11 to Comcast Cable Channel 2, requiring the company to produce a copy of a previously aired show that "references the incident involving Kate Waring and her found body."

Wilson said Tuesday she could not comment on why she issued the subpoena because of a judge's gag order on the Waring case, but she said, "it is not unusual for us to subpoena newsreels or news tapes that have information

about a case."

Charleston attorney Andy Savage hosts the Comcast news show "The Savage Report," and did a report on missing-persons cases that included an interview with one of Savage's private investigators.

Savage also was hired by the Waring family to help with the search after Waring, 28, vanished the night of June 12, triggering a statewide search. Savage's team of private detectives eventually found Waring's remains Oct. 10 in a wooded area on Wadmalaw Island.

Police arrived soon after and seized the investigators' vehicle and evidence inside, triggering a war of words between Savage and Charleston police. Three days later, Circuit Judge Markley Dennis issued a gag order "prohibiting extrajudicial statements to the media."

Savage's attorney, First Amendment expert Jay Bender, said the fact that the show has already been aired on cable television does not entitle the solicitor to get it from either Comcast or Savage.

"Any material gathered in connection with the preparation and dissemination of news is protected against subpoenas from prosecutors, defendants and civil litigants," Bender said. "I would anticipate in this situation there will be an objection to the subpoena."

Wilson said a motion to quash the subpoena would be met with a counter-motion to compel the defendant to comply with the subpoena.

"I've never had that arise, particularly with something that has aired," she said.

Savage isn't sure why the show is being subpoenaed.

"My desire is not to comment on facts of the case but on the problems in the community of missing women and the failure of law enforcement to give the priority these cases deserve," Savage said, adding that he would have given police a copy of the show without a subpoena. "I'm kind of mad they didn't watch it."

He said he isn't a witness in the case. "I am an ******* who saw how the investigation was mishandled by the (Charleston) Police Department, and I think the public has the right to know how these cases are being handled."

No one has been charged with Waring's death. Ethan Mack, 29, of Johns Island and Heather Angelica Kamp, 30, of James Island were charged Oct. 7 with obstruction of justice and forgery in the case. Terry Keith Williams, 31, of James Island also has been charged with obstruction of justice.
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[Edward]

WTF are the police doing ?
Savage and his team are the good guys.
It show the ineptness of police departments nation wide.



 

[tbivens]

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/feb/03/2-indicted-on-murder-charges/

Word is that she suffered a slow demise, as she was assaulted numerous times.

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http://www.live5news.com/Global/story.asp?S=13294184

Ex-boyfriend says he tried to warn Waring about Kamp

Posted: Oct 08, 2010 5:53 PM EDT Updated: Oct 08, 2010 5:53 PM EDT
CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - The trial of Ethan Mack, accused of killing Kate Waring moved into its fifth day Friday. The defense finished its cross examination of the prosecution's key witness, Heather Kamp.

Kamp was testifying against Ethan Mack who is on trial for Waring's 2009 murder. Prosecutors say Mack tortured Waring with a taser, knocked her out by hitting her in the head with a wine bottle and then with help from Kamp, put an unconscious Waring in a bathtub to drown.

A bit of courtroom controversy came just before noon when Solicitor Scarlett Wilson complained to Judge J.C. Nicholson Jr. about a juror who is continually sleeping. The judge ushered out the jury and then he pointed out two jurors that had been sleeping. Judge Nicholson said he would have the jury stand if it happened again.

Waring's married ex-boyfriend, Howard Gatch, then took the stand. He said that Waring had introduced him to Kamp, and he had reservations about her. Her sent a text message to Waring the night she died warning her to stay away from Kamp.

Gatch also testified that he had spoken to Waring the night she was killed. He and Waring spoke while she was with Mack and Kamp, and Gatch said he told her to be careful, and he says Waring told him she would no longer be hanging out with Kamp.

Gatch testified that he had gotten that call from Waring at 10:15 p.m., and he called her back 12 minutes later because the call had dropped. According to phone records, the next call from Gatch to Waring came at 12:30 a.m. on June 13, and then another a minute later. Gatch says that was the last time he ever spoke to Waring.

Another friend of Waring's, Jason Luck, testified that he had gotten a voice mail from Waring on June 12. Luck says Waring was agitated and was ranting that someone had stolen her identity and took out credit accounts in her name. Luck did not get that message until the next day after Waring's father called him.

Luck says he tried texting Kate twice that day but never got a response.
Charleston Police Department Investigator Barry Goldstien testified that Mack had pawned several item of jewelry that police believe belonged to Waring.

Later in the day, a Charleston County Detention Center inmate that Mack met in jail took the stand. Antione Green confirmed Kamp's testimony that she and Mack had been passing notes while in the jail using torn up bed sheets.

Green then said Mack asked him to write a letter intended for Solicitor Scarlett Wilson. According to Green, that letter contained a version of events that said Kamp, in a fit of jealousy, acted alone in the killing of Waring. Green used drafts that Mack had written to write his false letter to Wilson.

Upon cross examination, Mack's attorneys implied Green was testifying to strike a deal with the Solicitors Office to have his 1st degree burglary charges reduced. When Wilson redirected and asked Green if he was getting anything in exchange for his testimony, he said no.

The trial will reconvene on Monday, October 11.