Posted: 6:12 a.m. Friday, Feb. 17, 2012
Friends will hold a vigil for a missing woman from Boone on Friday night at the Watsonatta Western World clothing store.
Divers found Dara Watson’s cellphone in the bottom of a pond near Mount Pleasant on Thursday.
They spent hours searching her home and the Francis Marion National Forest where her SUV was found burned last week.
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On Wednesday, investigators tested a shovel for DNA evidence to see if it's related to Watson's disappearance.
Watson’s fiancé, David Hedrick, was spotted in those woods hours before he killed himself at their home.
Friends say Watson, 30, and David Hedrick argued about their upcoming marriage and had recently broken up.
Channel 9 received a 911 recording on Thursday of a friend who found Hedrick after he committed suicide in his home.
“Is he still breathing?” the 911 operator said.
“I don’t think so man. Wow, this is awful. Why did he shoot himself?” the friend said.
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Hedrick did not leave a suicide note or any type of information about where Watson might have gone.
Police think Hedrick sent text messages from Watson’s phone to her sister two days after her disappearance.
They are asking for anyone with information about Watson’s disappearance to come forward so they can find her.
Watson was last seen on Feb. 6.