
The last thing the family of two sisters slain in a tiny South Carolina town had heard about their killer was that he was headed to a mental hospital in 2012 to be treated for schizophrenia so he could later be tried for murder.
For 10 years, they heard nothing. Then, a few months ago, friends started to call a son of one of the women with the news that they had seen Joseph Jermaine Brand around Kingstree, family attorney Lori Murray said.