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Key family seeks answers as investigation
continues Edgefielddaily.com web posted September 5, 2005  MERRIWETHER
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As the reporting of the location of Mr. Marion Key’s car were
widespread headline stories on all local media outlets Friday,
Edgefield Daily.com is having a bit of uneasiness. Two weeks ago we
were approached by several individuals who stated Mr. Key’s car had
been found about two miles from Mealing Road, roughly the location that
the car was discovered.Several calls to local law enforcement agencies showed no such reports. However some stated the car was found located off Sweetwater Road and others had the car being found in the pond located behind Old MacDonald Fish Camp. Other reports to Edgefield Daily.com were more accurate saying the car was found in a field. The fact these reports were made to us, as well as family members, makes one wonder if someone was not trying to make sure the car would be found. Two weeks later the rumors were beginning to be ignored and then they became a reality. What is known Mr. Key did not drive down dirt roads, in fact, he requested family gatherings be held at their home because two of his daughters lived on dirt roads and “driving down dirt roads tears up your car,” Mrs. Key said Mr. Key would always state. Secondly, Mrs. Key stated her husband would have stopped at the last house on the paved section of the road and would not have continued down the narrow dirt road that ended at the front door of a property owner to ask directions or turn around. Mr. Key was not familiar with the particular homeowner. The turn-off to the field was hidden from an incoming direction from the driveway even in daylight, much less at near midnight. To find the area one would have to have intimate knowledge of the area, and Mr. Key did not have such knowledge. In addition, the location of the found cane would have suggested that Mr. Key, who could not walk unassisted, would have had to have ventured into the rough terrain which included a heavily wooded area layered in briars, trees, underbrush. Mr. Key could not walk from one part of Wal-Mart to the other without the assistance of a buggy to steady himself. One family member stated, “it would take him fifteen minutes to get into the house from the car,” at his own home. The grass underneath the location of the car was dying, not completely dead. Two months of no sunshine and water would certainly show in the complete death of vegetation. Standing the matted down vegetation up showed it to be roughly an equal height of the grass around the car suggesting the car could not have been there very long. The car would have been clearly visible from above and yet was missed by the many aerial searches of the area by many different agencies and volunteer pilots. Some who even took photographs of the area and found nothing when researching photographs Both mirrors on the Geo Metro were damaged; the driver’s side was basically missing but was not found at the scene we were told. In the not to distant past Mr. Key was assaulted by several young men while traveling the same route home from work which resulted in the destruction of the mirrors with baseball bats. Mrs. Key fears the same thing happened again or foul play of some sort is at the basis of her husband’s disappearance. Investigators are not ruling out that possibility, “We are treating it as a crime scene,” Deputy Robbie Harter said Friday afternoon adding the case would continue to be treated as such until evidence leads Investigators to believe otherwise. However, the fact the car was found in a location very few people would have known about, and one that miscreants would not have ventured into knowing they would have to cross the front yard of a property owner, it seems likely someone would have to have intimate knowledge of the property. Mr. Key was not familiar with the property owner and had no such knowledge of the land family members told Edgefield Daily.com. “They will never convince me that car has been there the whole time,” Mrs. Key said. Edgefield Daily.com would agree. The “false reports” that proved to be true, the location that had to be reached by driving across the front yard of a homeowner to reach, and no sign of Mr. Key just adds up to a lot of questions Edgefield County Sheriff’s Department Investigators are left to answer. Mrs. Key said she was very thankful for the hard work Sheriff Dobey and the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Department have put towards finding her husband, “They have been absolutely wonderful,” she said adding they have been very compassionate and have been in constant contact with the family since Mr. Key went missing.
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