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Long unsolved SC triple homicide case featured on true crime site. How to watch
A triple homicide at a Greer bank unsolved for 21 years this month is getting a new look on True Crime News.
The website, a division of Warner Brothers, posted a video depicting the events of May 16, 2004 when Sylvia Holtzclaw, a teller at Blue Ridge Savings Bank; Eb Barnes, a physics professor at the University of South Carolina Upstate and his wife Maggie, who worked for the National Beta Club in Spartanburg were shot to death with a 40-caliber Glock.
David Holtzclaw, son of Sylvia, said he is grateful that after so many years the case is still being publicized.
'We will never quit searching for the person or people responsible for this heinous crime!' he said on Facebook.
Over the years, law enforcement officers from local, state and federal agencies thought they were close to solving the case.
Some 700 tips were received.
The investigation was hampered by little physical evidence. No sign of a struggle. None of the small amount of money the killer got away with was marked.
NASA technology was used to identify a car seen on surveillance video going toward the bank and leaving minutes later around the time police received an alert that a bank robbery was in progress.
General Motors engineers determined the car was an Oldsmobile Alero, a car used primarily by car rental companies that was made for four years in the late 1990s-early 2000s.
A year after the murders, Greer police learned a man had been pulled over in Georgia driving a red Alero that had been stolen from a rental car company at the Columbia airport not long before the murders.
The man was Emerson Wright, wanted for arson and robbery by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. A Glock was his weapon of choice.
He was able to flee.
Wright was pulled over again in 2005 but shot himself when officers approached.
Chief Matt Hamby, who was one of the first officers on the scene that day, told True Crime News they were never able to interview Wright and they have no other suspects.
David Holtzclaw told The Greenville News in 2015 he has used every tactic he can to keep the murders in the public eye, Facebook, YouTube video, a billboard near the now-closed bank.
'Somebody knows,' he said.
