Infamous ‘Girl in the Bunker’ kidnapper Vinson Filyaw dies in prison David Matthews
A South Carolina man convicted of an infamous kidnapping that was later dramatized in a TV movie has died in prison.
WLTX reports that Vinson Filyaw, a former construction worker, died recently of an unknown cause at McCormick Correctional Institute, about 75 miles west of Columbia, near the state’s border with Georgia.
Filyaw, 51, was sentenced to 421 years in prison after kidnapping and sexually assaulting Elizabeth Shoaf, a 14-year-old girl, in September 2006 in Lugoff, about 30 miles northeast of Columbia, while posing as a police officer. After Shoaf got off a school bus, Filyaw walked her into the woods and to a bunker he had built near his trailer home.
“Massive sources of liquidity” on Wall Street could prompt more companies to think about going public.
Sun Country Airlines picked a very opportune time for an initial public offering (IPO) of stock. Despite the pandemic and its economic fallout, 2020 was a record year on Wall Street.
“From the standpoint of a capital markets environment, this is as strong as we’ve seen it,” said Neil Riley, global head of equity syndicate at Minneapolis-based Piper Sandler Cos.
Hedge funds, growth investors, and other funds are “creating massive sources of liquidity and buyer pools,” said Riley.
Riley had no comment on Sun Country’s filing but notes that it has picked an ideal time to go public.
From Christmas trees to snowflakes, there are many images emblematic of the holiday season.
Among the sweetest, however, are surely the fun and festive drawings of wrapped candy by artist Lowell Tolstedt.
In colored-pencil drawings currently on view at Keny Galleries, Tolstedt offers striking close-up views of the sort of treats that many of us the artist included have sitting around the house at this time of year.
“Subject matter like that can sit there forever,” said Tolstedt, 81, the former fine arts dean at the Columbus College of Art & Design who relocated several years ago to New Bern, North Carolina.
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