Five Points

Even though I've lived away from the area since 1996, I'm a Columbia native and graduated from the University of South Carolina in 85 and was in grad school there around the time of Dale's disappearance.

My college friends and I spent lots of time in Five Points then.

It has haunted so many of my old friends

and myself because we can all relate to Dale.

A sad memory indeed.

On September

24th, 1992, 24-year-old Dale Dinwiddie was attending a U2 concert in the Five Points region of downtown Columbia, South Carolina with some friends.

As the concert wound down and

Even though I've lived away from the area since 1996, I'm a Colombian native and graduated from the University of South Carolina in '85 and was in grad school there around the time of Dale's disappearance.

My college friends and I spent lots of time in Five Points then.

It has haunted so many of my old friends and myself because we can all relate to Dale.

It could have been any one of us, but here we are.

We got to live our adult lives, and Dale didn't." A sad memory indeed.

On September 24th, 1992, 24-year-old Dale Dinwiddie was attending a U2 concert in the Five Points region of downtown Columbia, South Carolina with some friends.

As the concert wound down and people were leaving, Dinwiddie became separated from her friends that had left a few minutes prior to go to a bar.

She went to the club and one of the club's bouncers helped her look for her friends before she left the establishment and headed north on Harden Street.

Even though I've lived away from the area since 1996, I'm a Colombian native and graduated from the University of South Carolina in '85 and was in grad school there around the time of Dale's disappearance.

My college friends and I spent lots of time in Five Points then.

It has haunted so many of my old friends and myself because we can all relate to Dale.

It could have been any one of us, but here we are.

We got to live our adult lives and Dale didn't." A sad memory indeed.

On September 24th, 1992 24-year-old Dale Dinwiddie was attending a U2 concert in the Five Points region of downtown Columbia, South Carolina with some friends.

As the concert wound down and people were leaving, Dinwiddie became separated from her friends that had left a few minutes prior to go to a bar.

She went to the club and one of the club's bouncers helped her look for her friends before she left the establishment and headed north on Harden Street.

Um, somebody asked what Five Point Social was.

Okay, so it's a, it's a bar restaurant in Five Points.

It's where the Five Point sign is, you know? Uh-

Mm-hmm

And that letter of recommendation it worked sammy was accepted to drexel university school of law in philadelphia on a full scholarship girl come through that is amazing and so a couple of weeks before our case takes place sammy had been home in new jersey and she was there to kind of celebrate that acceptance Now, Sammy also had someone else, someone very special in her life who I just want to tell you a little bit about him before we get to the night of the case.

So Sammy's boyfriend, this boy called Greg, they had met at Five Points where they were both students and they had been together since the spring of 2017.

So they've been together a couple of years at this point.

and they were, by all accounts, inseparable.

It was a normal night in the middle of a spring semester.

It seems pretty standard that at USC people just didn't take Friday classes, certainly in this group.

So a Thursday night out in Five Points pretty much was like a tradition.

I guess a bit like a student night here in the UK.

Even though I've lived away from the area since 1996, I'm a Colombian native and graduated from the University of South Carolina in '85 and was in grad school there around the time of Dale's disappearance.

My college friends and I spent lots of time in Five Points then.

It has haunted so many of my old friends and myself because we can all relate to Dale.

It could have been any one of us, but here we are.

We got to live our adult lives, and Dale didn't." A sad memory indeed.

On September 24th, 1992, 24-year-old Dale Dinwiddie was attending a U2 concert in the Five Points region of downtown Columbia, South Carolina with some friends.

As the concert wound down and people were leaving, Dinwiddie became separated from her friends that had left a few minutes prior to go to a bar.

She went to the club, and one of the club's bouncers helped her look for her friends before she left the establishment and headed north on Harden Street.

It was a huge event for a city Columbia's size, tens of thousands of people in a football stadium on a rainy midweek night, and Dale went with around a dozen friends spread across several cars.

The show wrapped up around 11.15 p.m., and from there the group headed to Five Points.

This is the bar district that sits between the university campus and the older residential streets on the east side of town.

Their last stop was Jungle Jim's, a nightclub at 724 Hardin Street that Dale and her friends went to often.

It later became a bar called The Horseshoe, sat empty for a few years after that closed in 2019.

And today it's a Chinese restaurant as far as I can tell.

The crowds that night were heavy since the bars and five points were full of people who'd just come from the stadium.

Somewhere in that press of people, sometime around 1 a.m., Dale got separated from her group.