Man committed after slayings shows up free in small SC town

In this undated photo released by the Mitchum Family in May 2020 shows Thelma Haddock, left, and her sister, Naomi Johnson. Authorities said they were killed in Kingstree, S.C., in October 2010 and the man charged in their killing was sent for mental treatment and disappeared until the family saw him back in their small town in 2020 and realized his charges were gone. COLUMBIA, S.C.

Murray and the families of Naomi Johnson, 65, and her 74-year-old sister Thelma Haddock, planned to hold a news conference Monday afternoon in Kingstree to discuss the case. They gave the sparse court records they could find and other information to The Associated Press in advance. Prosecutors have promised to reinstate the charges and said they will ask a grand jury to indict Brand again at the end of the month, Murray said. Solicitor Chip Finney didn’t return a phone message or email from the AP. Neither did the assistant prosecutor who signed off on dropping the charges because of the competency problem or Brand's public defender at the time.

Brand lived a few doors down from Johnson and Haddock in 2010. He had moved to Kingstree to live with his father after a stint in a Nevada prison on charges of robbery, drugs and firing a gun out of a vehicle, according to legal records.

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