Missing Atlanta Couple, Elizabeth and John Calvert car Found in Hilton Head, SC
John Calvert, 47, and his wife, 45-year-old Elizabeth, have been missing since Monday night, March 3, 2008. David White, Elizabeth Calvert’s brother, reported the part-time Atlanta couple missing Tuesday when his sister did not show up for a meeting at her Savannah law office.
“This is suspicious because no one has had any contact with them in the past couple of days, which is in unlike the Calverts because they’re active in the community,” Beaufort County Sheriff P.J. Tanner told The (Hilton Head) Island Packet. “Right now, the only thing we can say are there are definitely suspicions here.”
Any one with any information is urged to call the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office at 843-842-4111.
In a statement released Thursday, Sally Nielsen, an attorney who works with Elizabeth Calvert at Savannah’s Hunter Maclean law firm, said: “This is so unlike Liz and John to be out of touch with business colleagues and friends.
“We are most concerned for their safety.”
Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office used evidence-sniffing dogs Thursday to search the couple’s yacht and surrounding waters, but found no evidence to suggest their whereabouts, Baxley said Thursday.
Baxley would not comment on the search, other than to say it was ongoing. He said the investigation was not criminal in nature.
“At this point, it’s still a missing persons case,” he said. (AJC)
Couple Missing on SC Resort Island
John Calvert, who with his wife co-owns the Harbour Town Yacht Basin in Hilton Head Island among other local businesses, failed to meet his employees for morning meetings Tuesday. Elizabeth Calvert, a tax attorney at Hunter McClean in Savannah, also never arrived at work, according to Tony Gibbus, general manager of the Mariner’s Club at Harbour Town, a business run by the Calverts. (Corbis/Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office)
Missing Couple’s Car Found Near Hilton Head
Beaufort County Sheriff’s Lieutenant Colonel Neil Baxley said Friday that a silver 2006 Mercedes owned by John and Elizabeth Calvert was found at around 3 a.m. at a resort a few miles from the Harbour Town Yacht Basin.
Baxley says deputies didn’t find anything in the car to help authorities locate the Calverts.
UPDATE I: Dennis Ray Gerwing, Person of Interest in Missing S.C. Couple Case Found Dead
The case of missing John and Elizabeth Calvert is getting more and more strange. Dennis Ray Gerwing, the man named as a person of interest in the disappearance of John and Elizabeth Calvert was found dead of an apparent suicide.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — The man named as a person of interest in the disappearance of a Hilton Head Island couple appears to have committed suicide, authorities said Tuesday.
The body of Dennis Ray Gerwing was found by his lawyer around 4 p.m. in the bathroom of a resort condominium unit his company manages, according to a news release from the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office.
Gerwing left behind two notes that are being examined by state agents, said deputies, who refused to release the contents of the notes.
An autopsy has been schedule for Wednesday. Authorities called the death an apparent suicide, but would not disclose any other details. (FOX NEWS)
UPDATE II: Hilton Head Couple Vanishes Between Work Meetings
Police in Hilton Head, S.C. are looking for a couple that disappeared, seemingly between meetings. Police say John and Elizabeth Calvert were last since Monday, March 3, around 5:30 p.m., leaving a community meeting near the Harbour Town Basin resort on Hilton Head Island, S.C. The Calverts live part of the year on a yacht in the resort. Friends and family called police when the pair didn’t show up for work and scheduled appointments the next day. (Americas Most Wanted)
UPDATE III: A Note from Harbour Town-Updated
Here is another bizarre twist in the case of missing Elizabeth and John Calvert.
After getting that information at the condo complex, Candace McCowan and Nathanial Nauert went to a candlelight vigil for the Calverts. After shooting some video and talking to some of the people there, our crew heads back to the news vehicle to return to Savannah. This is where things took an interesting turn. Nathanial finds a rain-soaked note on the windshield. The hand printed note read “This goes deeper than Dennis. Stay on it. Their (sic) are more people involved.” No signature. No phone number. Nothing. Just those 13 words.
Needless to say, that note created quite the buzz in the newsroom. As our crew left Beaufort, Candace called investigators to make them aware of the note.
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