workers answered. i said, can i speak to my mama, please? he said, bambi, your mama and daddy s dead. just like that? yes. and i said, what? he said, bambi, somebody s broke in here and killed them, shot them. and i just dropped the phone. and then started crying. when bambi arrived at the house, yellow caution tape blocked her way. police were everywhere. my mom was like freaking out. rick tried to comfort bambi. young cody turned to him, too. then i remember rick, he was near me, and i was crying on his shoulder. and everybody was just kind of it was a madhouse that day. in those moments it seemed the whole county had gone mad. the murders of diane and charlie came hard on the heels of two other vicious killings nearby. the suspect, a man all over the news, named steven stanko, was still at large. they were looking for steven stanko when charlie and diane were discovered.
vivian was charlie and diane s neighbor. she runs a flowershop nearby. is this the kind of thing that you could feel in the air? you could feel it in the air. i was at the flower shop. probably not too thrilled with the idea of getting in your car and driving away. i didn t even want to go home. it was pretty bad in horry county that day. when i first arrived, what i m looking at is an opportunity to get oriented to the crime scene. the man responsible for making sense of the crime scene was prosecutor fran humphries, then deputy chief solicitor for horry county. had the house been tossed, rifled? it had.
fries and oyster roasts. always people down at the barn. you call your stepfather daddy? uh-huh. easily do that. ? uh-huh. i have always called him daddy. big charlie was a deacon at church and he started a small business selling and installing glass. converting the old tobacco barn into his shop. bambi s bomb diane worked as a secretary in the public schools. they were a respected, happy couple. salt of the earth. she was the backbone of that family. bambi s cousins jessica and amy loved their aunt diane. if your car literally stopped in front of their house or broke down, she would go and make sure you had a meal or you were warm and while she was doing that big charlie would be like fixing the car. good mom? fabulous mom. outstanding. i mean, her biggest thing was she wanted to make sure her kids were protected and their hearts were protected. and her daughter bambi would need a lot of protecting. the girl was growing up in a rush. married to her high school
property. her property. most everybody called him big charlie. bambi called him daddy. daddy loved hunting and fishing and he always had fish fries and oyster roasts. always people down at the barn. you call your stepfather daddy? uh-huh. easily do that. uh-huh. i have always called him daddy. big charlie was a deacon at church and he started a small business selling and installing glass. converting the old tobacco barn into his shop. bambi s bomb diane worked as a secretary in the public schools. they were a respected, happy couple. salt of the earth. she was the backbone of that family. bambi s cousins jessica and amy loved their aunt diane. if your car literally stopped in front of their house or broke down, she would go and make sure you had a meal or you were warm and while she was doing that big charlie would be like fixing the car. good mom? fabulous mom.
he basically stated that she didn t sound like herself. at one point he called her danny, which is her husband s name. he knew something was wrong. the kids were crying in the background. he told his sister to stay put, that he d be right up there. when there is an incoherent phone call with her brother, her oldest niece is apparently on the phone to her parents saying there s something wrong with aunt diane. they re say aunt diane can t see. aunt diane can t something is wrong with aunt diane. they were pulled over at that point, and emma told her dad where they were. read me a sign, and she said tarrytown. warren races up from where he is in long island to the tappen zee bridge to try and find