First time killer had a history of sex crimes

Almost from the beginning of the investigation, there had been a great deal of speculation about the man who strangled Tiffany Souers on May 26, 2006, in her apartment at The Reserve in Central, S.C., not far from the Clemson campus.

In the end, much of it turned out to be wrong.

A behavioral profile, compiled by the South Carolina State Division of Law Enforcement hypothesized that Tiffany's killer might well be a young man, perhaps between 18 and 25, and that Souers' was his first murder, though in all likelihood, he'd acted out in a violent, sexual manner in the past.

But there was other evidence as well; haunting black-and-white photos from ATM surveillance cameras taken the night Tiffany was murdered. They showed a white male, his head wrapped in bandannas with a distinctive cross design, attempting to use Souers' ATM card at more than one machine near Clemson University. Around the same time these photos were given to the media on June 3, 2006, it was also revealed that investigators had found Tiffany's I.D. and other effects scattered on the roadside along U.S. Highway 76, traveling out of Clemson towards Anderson, S.C.

But the phantom images in the surveillance photos could not provide authorities with what they needed most — a name.

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