[SC] "Resigned" Officer Hiers still at-large 3 years later - with a little HELP from his FRIENDS

On America's Most Wanted:
http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=30956

On U.S. Marshals, Department of Justice
http://www.usdoj.gov/marshals/investigations/most_wanted/hiers/poster.htm

On Myspace: Daniel Hiers FUGITIVE
http://www.myspace.com/danielhiers

U. S. MARSHALS BELIEVE HIS "ASSOCIATES" HELPED DANIEL HIERS TO ESCAPE

March 15, 2005 Ludimila CoHoe de Hiers was shot in the head as she slept. Her husband Daniel Hiers "resigned" from his cop job shortly before killing Ludimila - due to an investigation being launched into his alleged sexual crimes with a minor. He has been in the top America's most Wanted for too long now... Feds think he had help from "associates" escaping...



Previous entries on Behind The Blue Wall

Thursday, March 24, 2005
Ludimila Hiers found murdered. Officer Hiers flees - ...A week ago she was found dead, shot in the back of the head, and her husband abscounded or ridded of himself some other way...

Thursday, March 23, 2006
US Marshal: Officer Hier's "associates" helped him abscound? - ...In announcing the increased reward, United States Marshal Johnny Mack Brown said, “Our investigation has developed information that Hiers received assistance from associates in the days following the murder of his wife...

Sunday, April 15, 2007
[SC] Abscounded Officer Daniel Hiers still 'Most Wanted' - ...Despite an intensive manhunt, South Carolina authorities have been unable to locate Hiers, and requested the assistance of “Operation Intercept”, a U.S. Marshals-led fugitive task force...

News

Candlelight service set for Saturday
Goose Creek Gazette
March 12, 2008 8:13 PM
Goose Creek will remember Ludimila Hiers Saturday with a Candlelight Memorial Service at the Municipal Center. The service is set for 7 p.m. Hiers was found shot to death in her Goose Creek home on March 15, 2005. Her husband, former City of Charleston Police Officer Dan Hiers Jr., is wanted for murder. Friends and family will gather to remember “Mila” and remind the public that help is still needed in locating Dan Hiers. [Link]
Slain woman's mother in townBy Nita Birmingham
The Post and Courier
Saturday, March 15, 2008
[Excerpts] The mother of homicide victim Ludimila "Mila" Hiers has made the 12-hour trip from her native Brazil for an anniversary she never expected to observe. Mila Hiers, 24, was shot in the head three years ago today in the Severn Street home she shared with her husband, Dan Hiers Jr., a former Charleston police officer. He disappeared and is wanted on a charge of murder. He is now 35. "I never imagined something like this could happen. It never crossed my mind because they were so happy together," Sueli Cohe de Araujo said through a translator Friday outside the Goose Creek Police Department. She plans to attend a candlelight memorial for her daughter tonight. Mila and Dan Hiers had been married seven years when North Charleston police arrested him in November 2004 on a charge of committing a lewd act on a minor... Hiers was supposed to surrender to Dorchester County sheriff's investigators the morning of March 15, 2005, on charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor and committing a lewd act on a minor... Hiers never showed up at the Sheriff's Office, which led to the discovery of Mila's body later that day. The last confirmed sighting of Hiers was also that day at a Walterboro convenience store. Hiers' car was found in June 2005 in Laredo, Texas, but it had been wiped clean and the odometer indicated it likely had been driven straight to the border city... Araujo said Mila's death is a pain in her heart that doesn't go away. Though she is in Goose Creek for a sad occasion, she said she is happy "because you haven't forgotten my daughter," and she has confidence in the justice system... [Full article here]


A murder in Goose Creek
Part 1: Fateful decisions
Goose Greek Gazette
By Jared Goyette
March 12, 2008 8:14 PM
[Excerpts] ...[Investigator Karen] Nix, then a seven-year veteran of law enforcement, was the lead investigator on the case for the Goose Creek PD, but she was making this trip [to Brazil] on her own accord. It was time, she thought, to finally meet Ludimila's family... She also hoped to learn more about Ludimila's relationship with her husband, and how this crime could have come to pass... The plane descended through the clouds and touched down with a thud. An hour later, Nix was being embraced by Ludimila's sister, Alessandra Cohe de Salles... Ludimila first met Dan Hiers during a trip to Disney World. She was only 15, he was 22. Her father had paid for the vacation as a birthday gift, to reward her for her good grades in school... For two years, they kept in contact... He visited her and stayed with her family. He sent her flowers. In 1996, he came bearing a diamond ring. At first, her father said no, he was too old. But, as Mila pleaded, and gained weight, and grew depressed, he relented on one condition: her family had to meet his family. And so it happened: Ludimila, her mother, and her sister all traveled to Hampton, South Carolina. The Cohes, Ludimila's family, were impressed. Dan Hiers was Baptist, and played piano with the choir. His family seemed kind; they liked Mila. He seemed in love and promised her the world. Ludimila's mother, Sueli, was reluctant, though. Did her daughter really want to live so far away from her home, her friends and her family? She was still so young. “This is what I want for me,” Mila said. “He loves me”... She had never dated another man. They moved from Hampton to Goose Creek when Dan took a job with the Charleston Police Department... Through the years, Dan seemed to grow distant... At one point in 2001, Mila decided to return to Brazil, but Dan Hiers followed her. He begged and pleaded, cried, promised to change, and she took him back. She was building a life for herself in Goose Creek. She obtained an associates degree, and was enrolled at the College of Charleston, where she studied Spanish. Her plan was to become a Spanish teacher, and open up a language school with her sister, Alessandra, who taught English... Next Week: Part 2 of A Murder in Goose Creek. [Full article here]


Memorial set for '05 slaying victim
By Schuyler Kropf (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Thursday, March 6, 2008
[Excerpts] ...Pastor Ted Wright of Igreja Brasilerirade Crowfield Church said the vigil is designed to keep the woman's memory in the public eye and let people know "it is not a closed case, not a forgotten case." The town of Goose Creek and its police department are also behind the event... Officials are at a loss as to how the blond, fair-skinned Hampton County native, who speaks with a thick Southern accent, has been able to elude detection. Deputy U.S. Marshal Tim Stec said Hiers' case is one of the longest-running fugitive hunts South Carolina officials have followed. Leads have been pursued all over North America, Stec said, not just in Mexico. "In Canada as well" he said, but declined to elaborate. "He's done well for three years now, so he's got something working for him"... [Full article here]


Older --

Police still hunt for Hiers
The Post and Courier
BY NITA BIRMINGHAM
March 15, 2006
[Excerpts] A year after Ludimila Hiers was shot in the head as she slept, the question remains: Where is her husband, former Charleston police officer Dan Hiers Jr.? Hiers, 33, is wanted on charges he pulled the trigger on his 24-year-old wife and molested a girl he had befriended in karate classes. He is among the heavy hitters on "America's Most Wanted," having been selected as a member of the "Dirty Dozen" and the No. 1 fugitive of 2005. The U.S. Marshals Service named Hiers one of its top 15 most wanted fugitives... He was the subject of Fox News' Geraldo Rivera and crime bloggers such as Mugshots.com, which claims to have the largest collection of mug shots on the Internet... Soderberg remains convinced that Hiers had help disappearing. "You can't walk away like that and not have money," he said. As more time passes, it becomes increasingly likely that Hiers has changed identities and is working somewhere or living with someone to help support him... Mila Hiers' family in Brazil marked the sad anniversary with an open letter to Goose Creek police. "We miss Mila every single day and we struggle against our memories, sadness, feelings and depression. We are very sad. It is horrible to be unable to do anything and to be so far away," wrote Mila's sister, Alessandra Cohe de Araujo Salles. The family asked that the public remember them in prayer and pleaded for anyone with information on Dan Hiers to notify police... [Full article here]

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Update: I moved the excerpts from my old notes from news that were here into the comment section.