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Sunday, January 08, 2023

Boxed!

Donation bins can be deadly. Once inside if there's no exit, its death.

When people donate their clothes to those charity bins, sometimes folks raid them for the clothes. A woman was found dead in a donation bin. The police have not determined a cause of death, folks are shocked to find out how such a death occurred.

Clothing bins can be deadly if someone attempts to grab bin items out and get stuck in the box. It has been a very serious matter.

This isn't the last time someone was found dead inside a donation bin.

The victim was reported missing in March and the circumstances of her death remain a mystery.

Leslie Lemoine's daughter Hannah Gates said she drove by the Camden West Inn for nine months during the search for her mother not knowing that her body was just a few feet away.

Gates said she and her family had been searching for her mother since March.

"I feel like we're getting some closure that we've needed for nine months and it's hard, but we're all processing it in our own ways and we know it's still a journey you know, to get justice for her," Gates said.
South Carolina woman found inside a bin.

That journey begins with finding out how her mother died and how she ended up in a donation bin that was left unchecked for months.

A South Carolina woman's body was found in a donation bin after having been missing for months.

"We're assuming that the location we found her in was just where her body was dumped at," said Kershaw County Sheriff Lee Boan. "So, it's a dump location. Not necessarily the location of where she passed away at."

Boan said that now with a positive id on the body they can move forward in the investigation.

"We'll start tracking from there and figure out what happened to her and who put her in the clothes bin," Boan said.

Coroner David West initially believed it would take up to six months to get a positive id, but he says a tattoo on Lemoine's calf that her daughter recognized on the body sped up the process, but with the condition in which the body was found will make it a little more difficult to find out how she died.

"We go next to toxicology," West said. "Try to pull some kind of tissue and stuff like that. They were lucky enough to pull some of that. So, we go in there try and pull something from there and that will be sent off for testing."

That will show if Lemoine had drugs in her system. They're also planning to send her bones to an anthropologist to look for trauma.

The next step for Gates and her family is to gain legal custody of Lemoine's 10-year-old daughter, Haven, and while she said she now has a sense of peace, she was hopeful that her mother would one day return.

Certain bins are places where bodies are dumped.

"I played the conversation so many times in my mind," Gates said. "At first I thought I'd still be mad. First I was yelling, you know, where have you been? Why did you just leave and as time went it just got to the point where I just wanted to hug her and tell her that I forgive her."

Gates said she'll remember her mother as a kind and generous woman. At this stage, investigators are gathering statements from the community and surveillance video from behind the hotel.

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