A 16-year-old girl has now been missing from Greenville County, South Carolina, for more than two weeks, with deputies still searching for Kaliyah Imani Edwards after she was last seen on Oct. 12 at around 3:45 p.m. She was reportedly wearing black acid-washed jeans and a black shirt, carrying a bookbag, and driving a white Audi at the time she disappeared.
According to WYFF, the Greenville County Sheriff's Office first announced the search for Edwards shortly after she was last seen. Deputies describe her as 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 175 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. The station reports that officials are still asking the public for help locating her more than two weeks later, with no update on whether she has been found.
Conflicting Reports Add Confusion to the Case
A separate account from bfmg.news described a search for a girl by the same name, Kaliyah Imani Edwards, but with starkly different details. That report said deputies were looking for a 14-year-old last seen at her home on Wanda Lane around 1:50 p.m. on Nov. 21, described as 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes, and wearing a blue Michigan hoodie with white sweatpants rather than the black clothing described in the WYFF report. That account also stated that authorities believed she may have been picked up by someone driving an older-model white Ford 500 or Ford Focus. The supplied records do not explain why the two descriptions diverge, whether they stem from separate missing-person episodes, or which account reflects the most current search.
This is not the first time Edwards has been reported missing. A prior WYFF report noted that she had vanished around Christmas in a previous year and was found the same day she was reported missing, according to deputies at the time. That same report said her mother came forward on Jan. 5 to say her daughter was missing again, pointing to a pattern of repeated disappearances and returns that predates the current search.
What Deputies Are Asking of the Public
With Edwards still unaccounted for after two weeks, the Greenville County Sheriff's Office is asking anyone with information about her whereabouts to come forward. Anyone with details is urged to call the Greenville County Sheriff's Office at 864-271-5210. Residents can also visit the City of Greenville's missing persons page for updates as the search continues.
