2 NC boys missing since Friday when they left a late night party to drive to Myrtle Beach. Last cellphone contact bounced off a Rock Hill, SC tower at 2:30am.

I fear these kids ran off the road somewhere on a remote stretch of highway and are trapped in a crashed car. A hunter green pontiac G6 is what they were driving, almost impossible to spot from an aerial vantage point.

http://www.wbtv.com/story/19819379/fbi-involved-in-search-for-missing-teens-from-catawba-county

10/17/2012 4:55:27 PM

I doubt the chassis is hunter green

10/17/2012 5:11:11 PM

lesson learned: don't buy a green car

10/17/2012 5:27:36 PM

I77 between 45 and 48? jesus there's nowhere to 'crash to' along that stretch without being seen from the road

10/17/2012 10:44:44 PM

other lesson learned: don't take I77 to I20 to get to Myrtle Beach from Catawba County... 74 is good enough, lol

10/17/2012 11:53:27 PM

Strange that neither of their cell phones have pinged since the weekend. That would tell me they crashed into water but I don't know of any bodies of water there. Maybe swamps?

[Edited on October 18, 2012 at 12:12 AM. Reason : .]

10/18/2012 12:12:14 AM

Yeah 2 cell phones do not go dead at the same time unless they are wet.

10/18/2012 1:41:06 AM

Damn

10/18/2012 7:30:50 AM

missing persons cases freak me out more than anything. just to disappear without a trace

10/18/2012 8:06:32 AM

I feel horrible for what the families are going through right now...
They know the statistics - but still don't have answers.... Sheessshhhh.... Makes my skin crawl (After two personal connections to this type thing, neither ending positively).

10/18/2012 8:10:00 AM

That whole stretch of I-77 south of Rock Hill is pretty wooded & desolate until you get to the outer fringes of Columbia. With that said, I can't recall any swampy areas or bodies of water along that stretch unless there are some small creeks.

That stretch is also near where I saw the aftermath of a bike crash and the dude was trying to walk off some serious road rash.

10/18/2012 8:16:54 AM

10/18/2012 1:39:04 PM

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""My son doesn't have much longer, if he's alive. I believe he is," said Zig Ziegler."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zig_Ziglar

Same Zig? Probably not since the last name is spelled slightly different, but what are the odds?

[Edited on October 18, 2012 at 1:46 PM. Reason : l]

10/18/2012 1:45:26 PM

If your last name is Ziegler, I can't imagine Zig is going to be that hard of a nickname for your friends to come up with.

10/18/2012 2:04:00 PM

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"missing persons cases freak me out more than anything. just to disappear without a trace "

I agree but not because of that reason but more because of this:

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"They know the statistics - but still don't have answers.... Sheessshhhh.... "

thats what freaks me out about missing persons, hell my little brother went missing for about 2 days and thats exactly what i was thinkin the whole time. Luckily the little niglet just decided to up n stay at a friends house without telling anyone.

[Edited on October 18, 2012 at 3:31 PM. Reason : k]

10/18/2012 3:31:25 PM

so apparently a store clerk at a Belk on Kings Highway near Myrtle Beach swears that she sold the two boys clothing on Saturday. The police are now pulling security footage to verify.

10/18/2012 4:02:04 PM

The family is also asking volunteers to search areas based on clues from "psychics". I can't imagine what they are going through right now, but they are being taken advantage of by frauds. And wasting a lot of volunteers' time on these wild goose chases.

10/18/2012 11:55:50 PM

^yeah.....

10/19/2012 8:12:02 AM

i hope we learn if the Belk clerk was right about seeing the boys on Saturday. If so, this adds a new level of strange to the case. Are they hiding out on purpose? Were they abducted in Myrtle Beach? Did they continue south into GA/FL?

10/19/2012 8:30:23 AM

Two whites go missing in comes the FBI

10/19/2012 8:48:58 AM

http://bit.ly/TOLKUj

Car and bodies found submerged in water off I-20.

10/28/2012 8:46:17 PM

Man, I've driven over that spot several times over the past couple of weeks. Creepy.

Also, I can't help but wonder if the driver just fell asleep at the wheel, considering it was around 4am.

10/28/2012 9:30:04 PM

10/28/2012 9:37:15 PM

10/28/2012 9:40:57 PM

man that sucks, poor kids



On a tangentially-related note, when I played football for WIHS we used to get our asses handed to us by Bandy's...but we got'em in wrasslin'.

10/28/2012 10:04:20 PM

I know/knew those kids...

10/29/2012 1:12:41 AM

^sorry man. It's an unfortunate conclusion to the story.

10/29/2012 8:36:28 AM

10/29/2012 8:49:50 AM

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"On a tangentially-related note, when I played football for WIHS we used to get our asses handed to us by Bandy's...but we got'em in wrasslin'. "

no shit, I wrassled for NIHS

10/29/2012 1:41:11 PM

10/29/2012 2:06:38 PM

"state Highway Patrol also was involved in the investigation, because the wreckage appears to be the result of a traffic accident, Matthews said."

That would really suck if they were that close and then someone hit their car and left them there.

10/29/2012 2:30:17 PM

Quote :

"The last known communication came at 2:44 a.m. on Oct. 13 when Pierce sent a text message to his girlfriend. It said, “We’re almost at the beach.”"

wow...

10/29/2012 4:26:22 PM