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Where is Deidre Reid? Family of missing Pageland mom offers $10K reward for info

Deidre Reid was last spotted leaving her Pageland residence to take the father of her children to the Greyhound bus station in Uptown Charlotte

PAGELAND, SOUTH CAROLINA: The family of a mother who went missing more than two weeks ago still has no answers as to what happened to her.

Deidre Reid, 41, was last spotted leaving her Pageland residence to take the father of her children to the Greyhound bus station in Uptown Charlotte. Her sister Jammie Avery told WCNC Charlotte that she was "planning to meet my sister here in Charlotte after she dropped her son’s father off." However, Reid's three children and her siblings never heard from her thereafter. Concerned for her safety, they started looking up recent car accidents in a bid to figure out what may have happened to her. After 24 hours of disappearance, the family was able to file a missing person report with Pageland Police.

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“We were on it, it didn’t take us long,” Avery said. “We knew right away … it’s one of those things where you have a gut feeling.” Avery explained to the station that it was not like her sister to simply disappear, considering she's always in touch with her 11 siblings and especially her children. “For one, she is always with her children," the embattled sister said. "She loves her kids. She would never just up and leave her children. Never.”

Reid was reportedly last seen on September 3 with Emanuel Bedford, who lives in Georgia. Pageland Police Capt Shane Whitley said investigators believe the pair made it to the Greyhound station in Uptown, but that's where they lost Reid's trail. The police captain said Bedford is neither a suspect nor a person of interest in the case at the time of writing. However, Reid's family has questions about the case and the investigation that followed.

“[Bedford] hasn’t called to check on his son. How do you do that? His mother is missing,” Avery noted. She said the family felt that authorities weren't doing enough to track Reid's whereabouts and that they have had to do a lot of their own research and investigation. “We came [to the bus station], we asked questions, we asked them to see the [security] footage — they told us that they couldn't show it to us, but if we got the police here, that they would,” Avery said. “Pageland [Police] should have done this. We were here doing it.”

According to Whitley, the investigation is multijurisdictional and involves Pageland Police, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, and South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. He said detectives were currently looking for the 2004 Chevrolet Tahoe involved in the case. “Locating that vehicle is going to be the most important thing right now in this case,” Whitley insisted. “Somebody knows where this vehicle is.” The police caption said he had viewed the surveillance footage from the bus station and that Pageland Police were working with CMPD to obtain other footage from the area.

Meanwhile, Reid's family members have offered a $10,000 reward for information that leads them to find her.

If you or anyone you know has information related to Deidre Reid's disappearance, you are urged to contact Pageland Police at 843-672-6437.