The remains of a missing South Carolina woman have been found in a wooded area, more than two years after her disappearance, according to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office.Falon Michelle Cooksey, a mother of two, went missing on June 11, 2018, according to her cousin, Jamie Cooksey.Authorities told the family that Falon’s bones were found in Gaffney. Her family said that’s in the area where they believed she was last seen. “She was going through a tough time, but she was with some friends and had been in Blacksburg,” Jamie Cooksey said. Jamie said Falon went to Gaffney with some friends who said she just walked away from a motel and they didn’t know where she went. “For almost three years, it was ‘where is she? Is she OK? Is she not? Just, where is she?'” Jamie Cooksey said. “Now that we know where she is, it’s ‘what happened?’ That’s what we want answered the most. ‘Was it an accident? Was it not an accident? Did someone do this to her?’ Those are the questions now her family wants answered.”Sheriff Steve Mueller said his office found Falon’s remains after receiving a tip. He noted that the tipster had been in a wooded area and seen skeletal remains. Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler said positive identification was made through dental records. “We will continue to work in the coroner’s office to have a forensic exam of the skeletal remains, but at this time it is our belief that she died at her own hands,” said Dennis Fowler, Cherokee County Coroner. Mueller addressed rumors and lies that were spread on social media and to law enforcement about Falon’s disappearance. “Create cruel and unusual punishment for those family members that received false information, false rumors, and the countless hours that investigators in two states had to run down that we knew from the beginning probably was not credible,” Mueller said. “But we had a duty and an obligation to run those facts down to make sure they were not credible.” Deputies said investigators searched properties in five South Carolina counties, more than 10 wells, farms, ponds and the Broad River.
The remains of a missing South Carolina woman have been found in a wooded area, more than two years after her disappearance, according to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office.
Falon Michelle Cooksey, a mother of two, went missing on June 11, 2018, according to her cousin, Jamie Cooksey.
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Authorities told the family that Falon’s bones were found in Gaffney. Her family said that’s in the area where they believed she was last seen.
“She was going through a tough time, but she was with some friends and had been in Blacksburg,” Jamie Cooksey said.
Jamie said Falon went to Gaffney with some friends who said she just walked away from a motel and they didn’t know where she went.
“For almost three years, it was ‘where is she? Is she OK? Is she not? Just, where is she?'” Jamie Cooksey said. “Now that we know where she is, it’s ‘what happened?’ That’s what we want answered the most. ‘Was it an accident? Was it not an accident? Did someone do this to her?’ Those are the questions now her family wants answered.”
Sheriff Steve Mueller said his office found Falon’s remains after receiving a tip. He noted that the tipster had been in a wooded area and seen skeletal remains. Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler said positive identification was made through dental records.
“We will continue to work in the coroner’s office to have a forensic exam of the skeletal remains, but at this time it is our belief that she died at her own hands,” said Dennis Fowler, Cherokee County Coroner.
Mueller addressed rumors and lies that were spread on social media and to law enforcement about Falon’s disappearance.
“Create cruel and unusual punishment for those family members that received false information, false rumors, and the countless hours that investigators in two states had to run down that we knew from the beginning probably was not credible,” Mueller said. “But we had a duty and an obligation to run those facts down to make sure they were not credible.”
Deputies said investigators searched properties in five South Carolina counties, more than 10 wells, farms, ponds and the Broad River.
