S.C. family continues search for missing Broadway dancer
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - It’s been 68 days since former Broadway dancer Zelig Williams was last seen or heard from.
The family of Broadway dancer Zelig Williams continues to search for him after he was last seen in Richland County on Oct. 3.
Richland County investigators said Williams was last seen leaving his family home on Longwood Road on Oct. 3.
The next day Williams’ car was found by a deputy in the parking lot of the Palmetto Trail Parking Lott off Bluff Road near McCord’s Ferry Road.
On Tuesday, family, friends, and community went back out to the trail for four hours to search for the 28-year-old again.
Volunteers combed through the thick woods walking for miles, but unfortunately didn’t find any new answers.
With no sign of Zelig Williams yet, the Williams family remains hopeful.
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“We’re going to always have hope but time is ing,” said Meioki Corbett Jacobs, Zelig’s cousin.
Family, friends and community embarked on the first of a series of organized searches scheduled for this week.
Corbett Jacobs reflected on what they’re hoping to find.
“Anything. Literally anything, that would lead us to Zelig,” she said. “You know the water was pretty high before when he was missing and even before Helene the water was high so really anything.”
More than 20 people showed up for the search on Tuesday and split into two groups.
One group searched by foot while the other group searched by boat.
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“I think it went very well and I felt at peace on the trail and everything and that’s a good thing,” said Kathy Williams, Zelig’s mother. “I just trust God. I have faith in him, and I believe and that’s all I need.”
But, this wasn’t the first time the family searched the trail.
WIS was there in early October just days after Zelig didn’t come home.
Now the family has extra help.
We Are the Essentials, a nonprofit out of Florida, has teamed up with the family to help search.
Their team is made up of retired investigators.
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“Our team was actually out here a month ago and did some searching today we’re doing a follow up,” Nico Tusconi, the president of We Are the Essentials.
Tusconi said weather conditions last month made their search more difficult.
“It was different water levels stuff like that and now that the waters have receded we’re out here just making sure we didn’t miss anything.”
Investigators with the Richland County Sheriff’s Department were there Tuesday morning helping with the search.
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They said they are conducting their own searches, but could not say how they’ve been searching because of the ongoing investigation.
Another search is scheduled for Zelig on Thursday.
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