A former employee of the Charleston police (South Carolina) Daniel Hiers, who was on the run for 13 years, is now in detention in Shanghai, reports Live 5 News. In the territory of China, he lived under an assumed name, David Williams.
Police in Goose Creek said that in 2005, Hiers shot his wife in their own home. For 13 years, his photos appeared regularly in television programmes and on posters, «they wanted by police.» The marshals did not lose hope to find the killer, who was in the top 15 most wanted fugitives.
In 2004, Hiers was removed from service at police headquarters in Charleston after law enforcement authorities of the County Dorchester and charged him with assaulting a 10-year-old girl.
Service of the fugitive to the police ended in 2005. In March of the same year, Hyers had to surrender according to the indictments, but disappeared. His mother went to the ex-COP’s home, but there he was gone. In the bedroom police found the body of his wife Lyudmila Hayers shot in the head.
Neighbors reported that they saw a man left the house several hours before there was raided by officers. A few days after the murder of Ludmila Hiers captured surveillance cameras in the supermarket the Colleton: he took cash from an ATM. The runaway murderer showed a story on «America’s Most Wanted».
For many years, the authorities received numerous reports regarding his alleged whereabouts, but none had panned out. And here Sep 10, Live 5 News received Facebook information about the real whereabouts Hiers. The witness said that in one of marshals most wanted US criminals found out his former teacher of English in China. According to her, Hiers was a very popular teacher «among the women was tall and beautiful.» At the same time, the woman told, she had about a former police is not very positive opinion, as he was leading a «messy love life» and one day tried to follow her friend.
In the service of the Marshal stated that to date (including that local authorities detained Hayers) and work closely with international counterparts on this issue. Yet no one said, how long will it take to issue Hayers American authorities so he can finally stand trial for the murder of his wife.
